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Joseph Prince - When Your Limited Self Meets an Unlimited God

August 1, 2025 | 29:45

Joseph Prince - When Your Limited Self Meets an Unlimited God
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - When Your Limited Self Meets an Unlimited God | August 1, 2025
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  • Joseph prince: if god gives you something
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  • That you can do yourself, naturally,
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  • You will not depend on him.
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  • No, you're given something sometimes that you find that
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  • "man, i need god for this.
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  • I don't think i'm enough."
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  • It's not about you.
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  • The sufficiency doesn't come from you.
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  • Your sufficiency comes from him.
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  • Male announcer: what if the answers you need to live well
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  • And make the right decisions are already in front of you?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince shares
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  • How to make good choices that bring peace
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  • And prosperity in every area of your life.
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  • We all make hundreds of choices every day, and deep down,
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  • We're all asking the same thing.
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  • In his book "god's way to making good choices,"
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  • Joseph takes you on a 31-day journey
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  • Through the book of proverbs, helping you discover
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  • The clarity, peace, and confidence
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  • God wants you to have as you make good choices every day.
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  • Learn how to make strong, confident decisions,
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  • Not based on fear or pressure, but on god's timeless truths.
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  • And now, here is pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: why are we so easily conscious of ourselves,
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  • Shy, angry, bitter, feel that we have a sense of entitlement?
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  • Why do we--you know why?
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  • We are too self-occupied.
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  • We get hurt because we are too self-occupied.
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  • We don't know how to set ourselves free.
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  • We think about ourselves all the time.
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  • Every little pain, every little discomfort in our mind,
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  • In our thoughts, and all that
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  • Shows that we are very self-occupied.
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  • And the whole purpose of the bible is to free you
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  • From that and to keep you occupied with christ,
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  • His beauty and glory, amen?
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  • Like the woman at the well, she was self-occupied.
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  • Why she came in the afternoon, in the mid-afternoon
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  • When the sun is so hot?
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  • Many of you have been to israel, all right,
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  • Especially during the summer days.
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  • Wow, i'm telling you, it's very hot during noon time.
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  • And the bible gave the timing.
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  • So she came there when it's really hot.
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  • Most women would go draw water from the well
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  • Early in the morning or late in the evening,
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  • But she went in the noontime,
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  • And jesus was there sitting down after a long journey.
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  • And you count the words jesus spoke,
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  • Only seven words to her, all right?
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  • Only seven words.
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  • One of them is--the woman says, "we know that
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  • When the messiah comes, he will tell us all things."
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  • Jesus says, "i who speak unto you, i am he."
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  • Okay, now, he sat down, and the bible says he was tired.
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  • Don't forget, he came as a man, amen?
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  • In this man is the whole godhead, okay?
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  • In him are hidden all the treasures of godhead.
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  • But then, he didn't come to manifest himself as god.
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  • The word became flesh.
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  • The word was god, and the word became flesh.
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  • So he came fully as a man without sin.
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  • So the woman came in the afternoon,
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  • And you know the story, how he asked her for a favor,
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  • Amen, and she says,
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  • "how come you are a jew, you asked me," and all that.
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  • And then, finally, he says, "the water that i'll give,
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  • You will drink of it, you will never thirst again."
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  • Then she says-- "call your husband here."
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  • "i have no husband."
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  • And jesus says, "you are right.
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  • You had five husbands, and the one that you're living with
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  • Is not your husband."
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  • You see, jesus had to tell her, "i know all about you,"
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  • In order to make her really feel loved,
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  • Because when people think that you love them
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  • But they think in their heart, "you don't know who i am
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  • And what i'm hiding," they don't really feel loved.
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  • They think that you love the facade.
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  • But jesus needs to tell her, "i know all about you,
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  • And i'm still here.
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  • I love you."
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  • That is love.
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  • And then you read, do you know something?
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  • He revealed himself to her as the messiah.
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  • "i who speak unto you, i am he."
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  • Then she knows, "the messiah is talking to me.
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  • Jesus, the anointed one, the promised one
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  • Down through the pages of the bible,
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  • Is now here and telling me he knows all about me
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  • And he loves me."
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  • This is john chapter 4.
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  • John chapter 3, a ruler of the synagogue came to jesus.
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  • Jesus never said, "i am the messiah," to him.
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  • With all his erudite learning and his name
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  • Is in the who is who in the jerusalem pages
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  • Of the vips-- the vvips.
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  • Jesus tells him, "you know, with all your knowledge,
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  • You have to be born again."
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  • [laughs]
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  • To her, he never used the word "born again."
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  • He revealed himself to her.
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  • He didn't reveal himself to the master of israel,
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  • Someone who is a theologian of theologians.
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  • Do you get it?
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  • He loves the lowly hearted.
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  • Recently, i'm reminded again of pride, you know?
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  • I find that god hates pride.
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  • I think it's the mother of all sin because,
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  • "if you take this fruit, you'll become like god."
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  • Actually, they were already godly, made in the image of god.
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  • But then they tried by their works
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  • To become like what they already are.
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  • That's pride.
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  • Amen.
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  • I mean, the devil, who was tempting them,
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  • He himself fell because of pride.
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  • He looked himself in the mirror every day and said,
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  • "mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"
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  • Okay, and he's the most beautiful of all the archangels,
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  • All right?
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  • At least the bible talks about his beauty.
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  • It doesn't talk about the beauty of the rest.
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  • I'm sure that all of them are glorious and beautiful,
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  • But he was obsessed with his beauty.
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  • Ladies, certain level of vanity is not what i'm talking about,
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  • All right?
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  • But it's like pride, you know?
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  • It's like, "i don't need god.
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  • I can do it myself."
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  • It's pride.
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  • The reason why marriages break down is because of pride,
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  • Selfishness, amen?
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  • I'm looking out for number one.
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  • Hey, when you--your joy, you should find your joy
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  • In sacrifice.
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  • You should find your joy in loving.
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  • You should find your joy in serving.
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  • Love--1 corinthians 13, "love believes the best
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  • Of every person."
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  • Our natural tendency is to believe the worst.
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  • Something happens, the person is involved, "i know it's you."
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  • And it's very unfair.
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  • Recently, my son had a conference with his father,
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  • Mother, sister.
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  • Twelve years old.
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  • And he says, "i just want to share," you know,
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  • "that you all tend to blame me first
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  • When something goes wrong."
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  • He's the youngest, right?
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  • So, you know, wow, he's come to the age
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  • Where he can speak for himself.
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  • And i said, "when did i do that?"
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  • "yeah, you know that day we went out together,
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  • We bought soya bean, right?
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  • You carried one packet of soya bean, right,
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  • And i carried another packet.
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  • Remember that?
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  • We went to the toilet together, okay?"
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  • And then later on in the car, i realized,
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  • "hey, how come there's only one soya bean?
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  • Justin, where's yours?"
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  • Actually, i put mine in the toilet
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  • To wash my hands, all right?
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  • He was still holding his, but i was quick to say--
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  • "remember, all right, it was yours, but you pointed to me,
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  • And you said that, you know, 'justin, justin, justin.'"
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  • And then told the sister something else.
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  • "you also--" you know, it's like all of us
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  • Are very quick to find him.
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  • Of course, in our mind, it's that you are the youngest and
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  • Most subject to making mistakes and things like that, right?
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  • Which has some track record before, right?
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  • But then even then, i think to myself,
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  • You know, the verse in 1 corinthians 13 says,
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  • "love believes the best of every person," all right?
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  • I think it's important that they see that in our lives.
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  • It's not so much our sermons, you know?
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  • It's not all our preaching to them that makes an impact.
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  • It's what they are saying.
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  • If you preach one thing and you're living another way,
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  • They are observing.
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  • Every day, you know, it's a living example, huh?
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  • Are you with me so far?
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  • You understand?
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  • Okay, that's what the bible says,
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  • "you are letters read of all men."
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  • I'm going to show you this in 2 corinthians 3.
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  • It says, "do we begin again to command ourselves?"
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  • Paul is writing this.
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  • "or do we need, as some other people, epistles of commendation
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  • To you or letters of commendation from you?"
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  • "you see, when i want to go to a certain location,
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  • Do i need you all to send me letters
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  • Of commendation about me?
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  • So i come to you with letters of commendation from this vip,
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  • From this roman centurion, from this person, from that person,
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  • Do i need that from other pastors or churches?
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  • I must gather all this before you welcome me?"
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  • Paul says.
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  • "do i need letters of commendation from you or to you?
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  • Even you are our epistle written in our hearts,
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  • Known and read by all men."
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  • I love this!
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  • You know what he's saying?
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  • Guys, you know what commands my ministry to people?
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  • When they look at you.
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  • Paul is saying, "you are our epistle written in our hearts
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  • Known and read by all men."
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  • He's saying, "my recommendation for my ministry
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  • Comes from people reading you."
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  • They look at your lives, they look at you,
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  • And they see that "this is a love letter.
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  • I know this guy.
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  • He's now transformed.
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  • Look at his family," when they look at your life, okay?
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  • Amen?
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  • You are the bible that people read.
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  • You read your bible, people read you.
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  • Amen, it's gotta reflect.
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  • They gotta look at you and-- one thing you cannot take away--
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  • I always tell the pastors this also.
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  • When we choose people and all that for certain roles
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  • And all that, we always tell-- i always say this:
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  • "look for people who are radiant.
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  • I don't care their age.
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  • I don't care their sex.
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  • I don't care whether male, female, young, old.
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  • I don't care about all that.
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  • I want to see, even if they are gray and all that,
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  • But there's a twinkle in their eye.
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  • There's a shine.
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  • Even if they are young, they seem inexperienced and all that,
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  • But when they lead worship, there's a shine."
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  • I'll tell you this: that's something
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  • That you cannot hide, amen.
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  • Because if there's no shine, he could be practicing
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  • Some sin behind closed doors,
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  • Or he has some wrong affairs, or she might be involved
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  • In some depressive thoughts and all that, but on sunday,
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  • They just come here and just sing and smile,
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  • But then there's no shine.
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  • They can smile but there's no shine.
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  • I'm not talking about handsome.
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  • I'm not talking about beautiful.
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  • Nothing to do with the physical.
  • 00:11:33.469 --> 00:11:34.870
  • I'm talking about the shine,
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  • And that's something you cannot hide.
  • 00:11:37.173 --> 00:11:39.108
  • Ecclesiastes says, "a man's wisdom
  • 00:11:39.108 --> 00:11:41.110
  • Maketh his face to shine."
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  • Amen, they look to the lord, the psalmist says,
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  • And they are radiant.
  • 00:11:46.649 --> 00:11:48.517
  • You know what's radiant?
  • 00:11:48.517 --> 00:11:49.852
  • It's amazing, i've seen people who are radiant,
  • 00:11:49.852 --> 00:11:51.287
  • It's like their face is shining.
  • 00:11:51.287 --> 00:11:54.356
  • And many of you do not know, you know?
  • 00:11:54.356 --> 00:11:56.258
  • You don't realize, many times i'm preaching, i'm preaching,
  • 00:11:56.258 --> 00:11:58.460
  • I want to stop and take a picture of all of you.
  • 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:00.763
  • Because as god's word is being opened,
  • 00:12:00.763 --> 00:12:03.165
  • You don't realize your face is shining, you know?
  • 00:12:03.165 --> 00:12:06.435
  • And all of you look beautiful, i'm telling you.
  • 00:12:06.435 --> 00:12:08.871
  • Have you seen ladies, you know,
  • 00:12:08.871 --> 00:12:11.340
  • That are involved in things that are--
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  • They're not supposed to be, or they call it
  • 00:12:13.142 --> 00:12:14.476
  • Ladies of the night and all that?
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  • They want you for the money.
  • 00:12:15.811 --> 00:12:19.114
  • And you're reminded of the woman at the well,
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  • How jesus loves people like this.
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  • And they need the lord, amen?
  • 00:12:24.086 --> 00:12:27.623
  • You know, i really believe every time i preach
  • 00:12:27.623 --> 00:12:30.159
  • God is writing on your heart.
  • 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:31.794
  • Every time i preach something, if i preach about the glory
  • 00:12:31.794 --> 00:12:33.996
  • Of the lord, it will be reflected in your heart.
  • 00:12:33.996 --> 00:12:36.098
  • I just preached just now about the radiance of christ
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  • Manifesting through your life.
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  • Guess what? he's written it on your heart.
  • 00:12:40.636 --> 00:12:42.605
  • You will reflect it, amen.
  • 00:12:42.605 --> 00:12:44.106
  • Whatever you preach,
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  • God will write it in their hearts.
  • 00:12:45.541 --> 00:12:47.076
  • And this is not by-- with physical ink,
  • 00:12:47.076 --> 00:12:49.845
  • Not on tablets of stone that cannot respond,
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  • But with the spirit of the living god.
  • 00:12:52.314 --> 00:12:54.516
  • The heavenly ink is the spirit of the living god writing
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  • On tablets of flesh, and then the world can read you.
  • 00:12:57.052 --> 00:13:02.057
  • The world says, "i don't know what is it,
  • 00:13:02.057 --> 00:13:03.859
  • But there's something about you all.
  • 00:13:03.859 --> 00:13:05.694
  • Every time you all come to my boutique, i don't know what
  • 00:13:05.694 --> 00:13:10.366
  • Is it, you all must keep coming here because people--
  • 00:13:10.366 --> 00:13:12.001
  • After that, a lot of people come in.
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  • The day in the morning you come in,
  • 00:13:14.103 --> 00:13:15.938
  • The whole day people are coming in.
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  • I don't know what is it, but please come."
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  • You go to a restaurant, very quiet, all of a sudden,
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  • People start coming in.
  • 00:13:23.012 --> 00:13:24.413
  • Wake up and realize this is happening,
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  • And it's because you walked in.
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  • Do you know you carry the blessing, people?
  • 00:13:29.184 --> 00:13:31.787
  • You are a blessing everywhere you go.
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  • You are a blessing!
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  • Amen.
  • 00:13:41.730 --> 00:13:43.065
  • So he says--but you say, "pastor prince,
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  • I'm not too sure.
  • 00:13:45.100 --> 00:13:46.502
  • Sometimes i share the word of god,
  • 00:13:46.502 --> 00:13:47.903
  • I'm not too sure whether the people get it or not."
  • 00:13:47.903 --> 00:13:49.571
  • We must have such trust through christ towards god.
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  • He will write it on their hearts, amen?
  • 00:13:52.541 --> 00:13:54.944
  • Drop down.
  • 00:13:54.944 --> 00:13:56.278
  • He says, "not that we are sufficient of ourselves
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  • To think of anything as being from ourselves,
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  • But our sufficiency is from god."
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  • Whenever you are serving the lord,
  • 00:14:01.817 --> 00:14:03.218
  • Always remember this: your sufficiency.
  • 00:14:03.218 --> 00:14:05.821
  • You say that "i'm not enough."
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  • That's the word "sufficiency."
  • 00:14:07.156 --> 00:14:08.490
  • "i don't think i'm enough for this task.
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  • I don't think i'm enough."
  • 00:14:09.858 --> 00:14:11.193
  • It's not about you.
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  • The sufficiency doesn't come from you,
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  • Doesn't come from your limited knowledge,
  • 00:14:15.798 --> 00:14:17.299
  • Your limited experience.
  • 00:14:17.299 --> 00:14:18.667
  • Your sufficiency comes from him.
  • 00:14:18.667 --> 00:14:24.306
  • If god gives you something that you can do yourself naturally,
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  • You will not depend on him.
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  • No, he will give you something sometimes that you find that
  • 00:14:30.212 --> 00:14:34.483
  • "man, i need god for this."
  • 00:14:34.483 --> 00:14:36.952
  • He loves it.
  • 00:14:36.952 --> 00:14:38.587
  • He loves it, okay?
  • 00:14:38.587 --> 00:14:40.756
  • God--our sufficiency is from god.
  • 00:14:40.756 --> 00:14:42.925
  • Say, "it's from god."
  • 00:14:42.925 --> 00:14:44.793
  • "who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant,
  • 00:14:44.793 --> 00:14:49.665
  • Not of the letter but of the spirit; for the letter kills,
  • 00:14:49.665 --> 00:14:54.136
  • But the spirit gives life."
  • 00:14:54.136 --> 00:14:57.072
  • The letter kills, but now here's where it's very interesting.
  • 00:14:57.072 --> 00:15:00.576
  • He says that "my ministry is the ministry of the new covenant."
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  • Do you know why?
  • 00:15:03.912 --> 00:15:05.247
  • God can write on your heart, all right, not on tablets of stone.
  • 00:15:05.247 --> 00:15:09.585
  • You know why?
  • 00:15:09.585 --> 00:15:10.919
  • "because my ministry is ministry of the holy spirit
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  • And not the letter."
  • 00:15:13.088 --> 00:15:15.357
  • You know, god has his portions for every day, just like manna
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  • Has a portion that can-- you can eat and feel strong
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  • And fulfilled and satisfied for a long time.
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  • I believe that's going to happen to you.
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  • Make sure that the church you are in
  • 00:15:28.370 --> 00:15:30.506
  • Is a church that's fully under the new covenant,
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  • Not like one time, new covenant,
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  • Another time, old covenant.
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  • Sometimes you have grace.
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  • Sometimes you have law.
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  • Sometimes you have the importance of what god has done.
  • 00:15:40.616 --> 00:15:43.685
  • Sometimes the importance of what you are needed to do
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  • Is all god and you.
  • 00:15:46.622 --> 00:15:49.691
  • And, you know, it's like there's a mixture.
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  • You cannot put grace into old wineskin.
  • 00:15:53.996 --> 00:15:58.300
  • The wine will ferment, and the old goatskin,
  • 00:15:58.300 --> 00:16:02.604
  • Which is brittle, will break!
  • 00:16:02.604 --> 00:16:04.239
  • Now you lose both grace and the law.
  • 00:16:04.239 --> 00:16:08.577
  • That's the context that jesus talked about.
  • 00:16:08.577 --> 00:16:10.512
  • It's law and grace, amen.
  • 00:16:10.512 --> 00:16:14.116
  • So make sure that this radiant life,
  • 00:16:14.116 --> 00:16:17.986
  • This epistle that's read by all men,
  • 00:16:17.986 --> 00:16:20.722
  • Your life transform and all that,
  • 00:16:20.722 --> 00:16:22.357
  • Is when you are under the new covenant.
  • 00:16:22.357 --> 00:16:24.693
  • Remember when god put them under the old covenant,
  • 00:16:24.693 --> 00:16:28.831
  • That was the sinaitic covenant,
  • 00:16:28.831 --> 00:16:30.799
  • And god gave the ten commandments?
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  • Do you know what happened?
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  • Three thousand people died.
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  • Now, another mountain, mount zion, god gave--
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  • Not on mount zion anymore-- no, sorry, not on mount sinai,
  • 00:16:41.210 --> 00:16:44.179
  • But mount zion.
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  • God gave the holy spirit, and 3,000 people were saved.
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  • The letter kills.
  • 00:16:50.552 --> 00:16:52.354
  • What's the letter?
  • 00:16:52.354 --> 00:16:53.989
  • The law.
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  • The spirit gives life.
  • 00:16:55.824 --> 00:16:59.027
  • Make sure that the ministry that we have here, the pulpit,
  • 00:16:59.027 --> 00:17:02.698
  • And all that, is on the right mountain.
  • 00:17:02.698 --> 00:17:07.636
  • If you are preaching from mount sinai,
  • 00:17:07.636 --> 00:17:09.004
  • You are killing people.
  • 00:17:09.004 --> 00:17:11.039
  • ♪ killing them softly with the law ♪
  • 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:18.780
  • ♪ every sunday, killing them slowly ♪♪
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  • Now, we laugh, but it's true.
  • 00:17:25.187 --> 00:17:27.856
  • The letter kills.
  • 00:17:27.856 --> 00:17:29.191
  • It's not a joke, you know?
  • 00:17:29.191 --> 00:17:30.526
  • The letter kills.
  • 00:17:30.526 --> 00:17:31.860
  • Sit under the old covenant and chances are death will set in.
  • 00:17:31.860 --> 00:17:36.131
  • Death is not just physical death.
  • 00:17:36.131 --> 00:17:38.800
  • Ultimately, it comes to death, okay?
  • 00:17:38.800 --> 00:17:42.070
  • It's death in depression, death in your relationships,
  • 00:17:42.070 --> 00:17:45.407
  • Death to your brain cells, death to your body
  • 00:17:45.407 --> 00:17:47.609
  • In terms of disease, death in every area.
  • 00:17:47.609 --> 00:17:50.913
  • What kills?
  • 00:17:50.913 --> 00:17:52.247
  • The letter kills.
  • 00:17:52.247 --> 00:17:54.383
  • "the letter kills, but the spirit gives life."
  • 00:17:54.383 --> 00:17:58.720
  • Drop down.
  • 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:00.055
  • "the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones."
  • 00:18:00.055 --> 00:18:03.759
  • Killing of animals was never engraved on stones.
  • 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:06.762
  • They were written on scrolls, that part of the law, okay?
  • 00:18:06.762 --> 00:18:12.067
  • Those that--you talk about observing the feast days
  • 00:18:12.067 --> 00:18:15.070
  • And all that, circumcision, were never engraved on stones.
  • 00:18:15.070 --> 00:18:19.308
  • The only part of the law that's engraved on stones
  • 00:18:19.308 --> 00:18:22.244
  • Are the ten commandments,
  • 00:18:22.244 --> 00:18:25.147
  • And it was never designed to give you life.
  • 00:18:25.147 --> 00:18:27.516
  • It was never designed for-- to empower you to keep it.
  • 00:18:27.516 --> 00:18:31.353
  • By the law, no flesh can be justified.
  • 00:18:31.353 --> 00:18:34.089
  • It was designed to show you that you are a sinner.
  • 00:18:34.089 --> 00:18:37.793
  • And every time you try to keep it, your sin will come out.
  • 00:18:37.793 --> 00:18:40.929
  • Every time you try to keep it, your sin will come out, okay?
  • 00:18:40.929 --> 00:18:44.166
  • Here it says, "the ministry of death,
  • 00:18:44.166 --> 00:18:46.468
  • Written and engraved on stones."
  • 00:18:46.468 --> 00:18:48.036
  • Don't forget this.
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  • If anyone tells you it's not referring to this part
  • 00:18:49.571 --> 00:18:51.106
  • Of the law, tell them it is the only part
  • 00:18:51.106 --> 00:18:53.275
  • Of the law that is the ministry of death,
  • 00:18:53.275 --> 00:18:56.712
  • Written and engraved on stones, okay?
  • 00:18:56.712 --> 00:19:01.483
  • Back then, it was glorious.
  • 00:19:01.483 --> 00:19:03.218
  • Even then, it was glorious back then,
  • 00:19:03.218 --> 00:19:05.153
  • "so that the children of israel
  • 00:19:05.153 --> 00:19:06.488
  • Could not look steadily at the face of moses
  • 00:19:06.488 --> 00:19:08.257
  • Because of the glory of his countenance,
  • 00:19:08.257 --> 00:19:10.225
  • Which glory was passing away."
  • 00:19:10.225 --> 00:19:13.362
  • If you're under the condemnation law, the ministry of death,
  • 00:19:13.362 --> 00:19:16.365
  • There is glory there, but the glory is passing away.
  • 00:19:16.365 --> 00:19:19.668
  • That kind of revival where you use the law, all right,
  • 00:19:19.668 --> 00:19:22.704
  • To condemn people, amen, to make them feel
  • 00:19:22.704 --> 00:19:27.242
  • That they are sinners--
  • 00:19:27.242 --> 00:19:28.577
  • Listen carefully: the law was designed
  • 00:19:28.577 --> 00:19:29.911
  • To make you feel like a sinner, yes,
  • 00:19:29.911 --> 00:19:31.380
  • But the law is until christ came,
  • 00:19:31.380 --> 00:19:33.382
  • The book of galatians tells us.
  • 00:19:33.382 --> 00:19:35.317
  • And now the holy spirit does the job, amen?
  • 00:19:35.317 --> 00:19:39.288
  • "how will the ministry of the spirit,"
  • 00:19:39.288 --> 00:19:41.123
  • That's the ministry of all of us,
  • 00:19:41.123 --> 00:19:42.624
  • Compete with ministry of death?
  • 00:19:42.624 --> 00:19:44.893
  • That's right, different colors.
  • 00:19:44.893 --> 00:19:46.528
  • You see, in the bible, you can put different colors.
  • 00:19:46.528 --> 00:19:48.563
  • "ministry of death," we put blue.
  • 00:19:48.563 --> 00:19:50.799
  • "a ministry of spirit," we put whatever color that is, brown.
  • 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:56.371
  • Okay, "how will the ministry of spirit not be more glorious?"
  • 00:19:56.371 --> 00:19:58.807
  • Can you see "the ministry of the spirit"
  • 00:19:58.807 --> 00:20:00.642
  • Contrast with "the ministry of death,
  • 00:20:00.642 --> 00:20:02.477
  • Written and engraved on stones?"
  • 00:20:02.477 --> 00:20:05.013
  • Okay, can you see it?
  • 00:20:05.013 --> 00:20:06.348
  • It's more glorious.
  • 00:20:06.348 --> 00:20:07.916
  • If that is not enough, the next verse, it says,
  • 00:20:07.916 --> 00:20:10.252
  • "if the ministry of condemnation had glory."
  • 00:20:10.252 --> 00:20:13.021
  • Now he calls the ministry of death condemnation.
  • 00:20:13.021 --> 00:20:15.957
  • What you feel all the time if you sit
  • 00:20:15.957 --> 00:20:17.292
  • Under this kind of ministry will be you feel condemned,
  • 00:20:17.292 --> 00:20:19.628
  • You feel condemned, you feel guilty,
  • 00:20:19.628 --> 00:20:21.330
  • You feel condemned, you feel condemned,
  • 00:20:21.330 --> 00:20:22.998
  • You feel condemned.
  • 00:20:22.998 --> 00:20:24.333
  • Condemnation kills, my friend!
  • 00:20:24.333 --> 00:20:29.571
  • Condemnation kills.
  • 00:20:29.571 --> 00:20:33.842
  • "if the ministry of condemnation had glory."
  • 00:20:33.842 --> 00:20:35.711
  • Now, there are some revivals in the past that used condemnation
  • 00:20:35.711 --> 00:20:38.814
  • A lot, and still, there was some glory.
  • 00:20:38.814 --> 00:20:41.850
  • But we haven't seen a revival of the new covenant
  • 00:20:41.850 --> 00:20:44.820
  • Kind of revival, amen?
  • 00:20:44.820 --> 00:20:47.222
  • You ain't seen nothing yet.
  • 00:20:47.222 --> 00:20:48.890
  • All right, "if the ministry of condemnation had glory,
  • 00:20:48.890 --> 00:20:52.194
  • The ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory."
  • 00:20:52.194 --> 00:20:59.334
  • We have not seen anything yet!
  • 00:20:59.334 --> 00:21:02.404
  • Imagine telling the people, "sinners, listen,
  • 00:21:02.404 --> 00:21:05.741
  • God is not counting your sins against you, repent!
  • 00:21:05.741 --> 00:21:09.211
  • Change your mind about god!
  • 00:21:09.211 --> 00:21:11.213
  • Come to him, not go away from him!
  • 00:21:11.213 --> 00:21:14.082
  • He's not counting your sins against you!"
  • 00:21:14.082 --> 00:21:16.485
  • "to wit, god was in christ, reconciling the world
  • 00:21:16.485 --> 00:21:19.287
  • Unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.
  • 00:21:19.287 --> 00:21:23.992
  • So we, the apostles, we beseech you by the grace of god.
  • 00:21:23.992 --> 00:21:29.164
  • Be ye reconciled to god."
  • 00:21:29.164 --> 00:21:35.337
  • It's your move.
  • 00:21:35.337 --> 00:21:37.139
  • God is not holding anything against you.
  • 00:21:37.139 --> 00:21:38.907
  • All your sins are paid for in the body of his son.
  • 00:21:38.907 --> 00:21:43.111
  • Who is he that condemns?
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  • Amen.
  • 00:21:46.148 --> 00:21:48.617
  • So, ministry of condemnation contrasts with--
  • 00:21:48.617 --> 00:21:50.919
  • Different color again, all right--
  • 00:21:50.919 --> 00:21:53.422
  • The ministry of righteousness.
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  • "the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory.
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  • For even what was made glorious," the old covenant,
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  • "had no glory in this respect," it cannot compare
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  • With the new covenant, "because of the glory that excels."
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  • We'll stop here.
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  • And i just want to tell you this: this whole thing
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  • Has got to do with making sure you understand
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  • What is law and what is grace.
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  • Martin luther says it like this.
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  • Martin luther: "therefore whoever knows well
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  • How to distinguish the gospel from the law," or grace.
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  • In some places, they put "grace" from "the law,"
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  • "should give thanks to god and know
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  • That he is a true theologian."
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  • Martin luther, who started the reformation,
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  • Of which we just celebrated a few days ago, he said this:
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  • "if someone knows how to contrast law and grace,
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  • He knows where law belongs, where grace belongs,
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  • He's a true theologian."
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  • And you can go to bible school and spend years there
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  • And not be a true theologian.
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  • You can't differentiate both, or you try to,
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  • "let's have all together in one bag."
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  • No, you cannot, amen?
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  • Does that mean that we are not under the
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  • Law that's license to sin?
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  • That's always the fear, right?
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  • That's why they accused paul of.
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  • No, no license, no power of sin.
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  • Why?
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  • The strength of sin is the law.
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  • In fact, when you're not under the law, there's no--
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  • You find that sin becomes unattractive
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  • And grace becomes attractive
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  • And you are drawn more and more to the lord.
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  • And the more you are drawn to the lord,
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  • The more you love the lord,
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  • You will fall out of love with all these things
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  • Supernaturally natural, amen.
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  • When you are truly under grace,
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  • You are conscious of his love for you,
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  • Sin will lose its power.
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  • That woman at the well left jesus, right,
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  • And she became so bold.
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  • She come, "come and see the man who told me everything
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  • About myself."
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  • She didn't realize she became an evangelist.
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  • Amen, amen.
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  • She was now bold.
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  • You know why?
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  • Because, "he knows all about me.
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  • He still loves me.
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  • He unveiled himself as the messiah to me."
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  • And another thing: she's no more self-occupied,
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  • Going there quietly, looking around.
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  • She's now bold.
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  • Why?
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  • She's occupied with the one, the object of beauty
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  • That is lovelier than anything else on earth,
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  • And even in heaven.
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  • He is our object of beauty, amen?
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  • Father, in the name of jesus, i pray, lord,
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  • That you impart an anointing and a wisdom
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  • For your people, lord, in all the areas that we have
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  • Heard from your spirit today, lord, for husbands and wives,
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  • Lord, to have that wisdom and the anointing, lord,
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  • To flow with your spirit, not to be fault-finding all the time,
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  • To have a default mode of always murmuring
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  • But to have a default mode by your spirit, lord,
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  • To look for the good, to call out the good,
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  • To be patient when there is a manifestation of weakness
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  • In our loved ones, that you will grant us lord, that,
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  • We'll shine in front of them, lord,
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  • That they will see jesus and be transformed.
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  • Even with our children, lord, give us the grace
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  • And the wisdom to live life, lord,
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  • That they can read and see jesus.
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  • Even if they don't read the bible, lord, they will read us,
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  • Lord, and be inspired to live like us.
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  • Thank you, father, grant that, lord.
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  • I pray to primarily every leader of the house, lord,
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  • And then to all the wives, lord,
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  • And the spouses and all parents and also their children, lord,
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  • In the aspects of being radiant for your glory.
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  • The lord protect every one of you throughout this week
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  • From every harm and danger, from all the powers of darkness,
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  • And from all the power of the evil one.
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  • May you always be christ-occupied
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  • And find yourself only in him,
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  • The fullness of all in all.
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  • In jesus's name and all the people said amen.
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