Joseph Prince - When You’re Christ-Occupied, Grace Is Multiplied

January 25, 2026 | 27:29

Come discover the secret to success without striving: God’s unmerited favor!

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  • Joseph prince: looking at jesus and resting in him
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  • And seeing his pattern, delighting in the vision of--
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  • The holy spirit's giving you of jesus,
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  • And whatever it is
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  • That you want to see jesus in, he's got to be center.
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  • When he's center and you're occupied with him, you are
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  • Obsessed with him, amen, he captivates your heart
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  • And mind and soul, you don't have to worry about a holy life.
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  • You don't have to worry about behavior going wrong.
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  • This is where the church is lacking, my friend.
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  • They have left their first love, amen?
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  • And how do you restore the first love?
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  • By coming back to the first love.
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  • To know that he loves me, amen?
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • So our role is to exalt jesus christ, right?
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  • Just like we are so excited about our play and all that.
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  • We put him high on our shoulders to lift him up.
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  • The idea is what? all right.
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  • Lift him up, amen? lift him high.
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  • Exalt him.
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  • May this be the theme of your life this year.
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  • Then all that you do, even in your career
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  • Or your pursuing of any other dream
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  • That god is showing you to walk in, all right,
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  • Make sure that jesus is there in the center of it.
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  • God has given us the wonderful, holy privilege
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  • Of exalting his son in our lives.
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  • And the more we focus on his son,
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  • And not on our selfish, you know, occupation,
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  • But more on his son, making sure
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  • That everything we do is to glorify him,
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  • Not to exalt ourselves, but to exalt him.
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  • Male announcer: let's kickstart the year
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  • With the right attitude: the attitude of rest.
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  • In today's message, joseph shares how life
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  • Isn't about fighting to survive.
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  • It's about living under god's unstoppable favor for you
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  • And your loved ones.
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  • People say that in life, you've got to want it,
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  • You've got to earn it, you've got to deserve it.
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  • But what if there's a better way?
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  • In joseph's book, "unmerited favor,"
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  • Learn to let go of what the world says
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  • About success and discover the kind of victory
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  • Your heavenly father wants you to enjoy.
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  • Request your copy now for a gift of any amount to the ministry
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  • And we'll also include joseph's book,
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  • "thoughts for let-go living."
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  • In the favor that's already yours in christ.
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  • To request your copy today.
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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: i believe that this year, as you rest more
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  • And more in him and in his finished work,
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  • You will see the accomplishment, the harvest,
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  • Of that finished work in your life,
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  • Manifesting in an accelerated way this year.
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  • Praise the lord, hallelujah.
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  • Thank you, lord jesus.
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  • Amos 9, verse 11, 9-1-1, it is addressing, i believe,
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  • The generation that went through 9-11
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  • And the generation that came after 9-11.
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  • Amos 9-1-1 tells us this.
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  • And also, during this time, god has brought to our attention
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  • Psalms 9-1-1, which is: "he who dwells in the secret place
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  • Of the most high shall abide under the shadow
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  • Of the almighty."
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  • And the call number in america is 9-1-1, amen?
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  • It's the number for rescue and deliverance, amen.
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  • 9-1-1.
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  • God is telling us, abide there, abide in the secret place
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  • Of the most high.
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  • But during this time also, 9-1-1, amos 9-1-1, it says:
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  • "in that day will i raise up the tabernacle of david
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  • That is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof;
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  • And i will raise up his ruins,
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  • And i will build it as in the days of old."
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  • So, god is saying that he's going to rebuild
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  • The tabernacle of david.
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  • You need to understand that there are other tabernacles.
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  • Prior to the tabernacle of david,
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  • There is a tabernacle of moses.
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  • And god gave the tabernacle, even the plans for it,
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  • And they built it where?
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  • At mount sinai, amen.
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  • They built it at the foot of mount sinai.
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  • And that's the tabernacle of moses.
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  • It's just as important, amen.
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  • In fact, when you study every part of the tabernacle,
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  • Its various furnitures, its offerings and all that,
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  • It all depicts our lord jesus christ.
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  • The bible is all about his son, amen.
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  • And that's how jesus expounded the scriptures.
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  • When he rose again from the dead,
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  • On the same day he rose from the dead.
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  • He rose from the dead in the morning.
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  • On the same day, he walked with two of his disciples.
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  • It seems so ordinary.
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  • It seems so mundane, amen, walking with two disciples.
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  • Isn't there more important things that you would think that
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  • The lord might want to do on the day
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  • He rose from the dead?
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  • But he was demonstrating something.
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  • You see, they were cast down and they were
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  • In despondency and he drew near to them
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  • Because they were talking about him.
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  • You see, when you talk about jesus,
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  • He draws near, amen?
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  • But nonetheless, they were looking
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  • At the dark side of it, "oh, he was crucified.
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  • We thought it was he who should redeem israel."
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  • Notice they are using jesus as a means to an end.
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  • The centrality of their heart is not jesus.
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  • The centrality of their heart is actually israel.
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  • "we thought," they both said to jesus when he came.
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  • And by the way, jesus restrained their eyes from seeing him
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  • In person, okay?
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  • So, they talked to him like a stranger,
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  • And he drew near.
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  • And this is what they said: "we thought it was he
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  • That should redeem israel," referring to jesus.
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  • So israel was center in their hearts, not jesus.
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  • Jesus is just a means to an end.
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  • Perhaps for you, you know, you might be embarking
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  • On a career and you're trying to focus
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  • On your career and things like that.
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  • But that's fine.
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  • That's part of the divine responsibilities that god
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  • Has given us, you know, this side of heaven, amen.
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  • God says, "work as unto the lord,"
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  • Even serve your boss and your employer
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  • As unto the lord, "knowing that of the lord,
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  • You shall receive the reward of the inheritance:
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  • Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers,
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  • But as unto the lord."
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  • So your eye is on the lord.
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  • And if your boss is not treating you right,
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  • God is able to change his heart
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  • Or else god can change bosses
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  • Or god can change places for you, amen?
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  • Praise the lord. thank you, jesus.
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  • So amos 9:11: "in that day
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  • Will i raise up the tabernacle of david
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  • That is fallen, and close up
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  • The breaches thereof."
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  • So there are breaches, there are breaks.
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  • So of all the tabernacles, we are talking
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  • About the tabernacle of moses,
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  • God did not promise to raise the tabernacle of moses
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  • Or to repair it or to rebuild it.
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  • God did not promise to rebuild, you know,
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  • The temples that followed after the temple of solomon,
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  • The temple of herod.
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  • God only promised that in the last days,
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  • He's going to restore
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  • The tabernacle of david, which actually
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  • Was a temporal tabernacle.
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  • Because later on, when solomon came along,
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  • David's son, he would bring the ark,
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  • Rightly so, to mount moriah, which is just higher up
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  • From the city of david.
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  • The city of david is on the south side of jerusalem
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  • And he would bring up the mount moriah
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  • Where the temple of solomon will be built.
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  • And it's supposed to be a permanent fixture
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  • And that brought forth the golden era of prosperity
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  • And peace for israel, right?
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  • So we are not there yet.
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  • God is saying that while we are on earth,
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  • What is god doing?
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  • He is rebuilding the tabernacle of david
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  • And it's all about the church of jesus christ.
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  • And its main characteristic is praise and worship,
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  • Amen, before an unveiled ark.
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  • Hallelujah!
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  • Just think of it.
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  • David's tabernacle.
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  • All the people can come right before the ark.
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  • It's a picture of the church of jesus christ
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  • Where all of us can come to god, amen, boldly.
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  • Praise the lord.
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  • The word "having therefore boldness" is made up
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  • Of two greek words, which means to say freely.
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  • There's a freedom. there's a freedom.
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  • There's no more that fear.
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  • Even if we call god father, we are no more
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  • Under the sphere of slavery where, you know,
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  • People can say "god" in a way that implies
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  • Distance and fear.
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  • That's not the fear of the lord.
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  • The true fear of the lord is worship.
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  • Jesus translated that verse in deuteronomy
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  • In the wilderness temptation
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  • To the devil by saying, "it is written,
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  • 'you shall fear the lord your god.'"
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  • But actually, you see what that verse was saying?
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  • In the old testament, it says,
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  • "you shall fear the lord your god."
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  • So jesus translated the fear of god as worship of god.
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  • It is not this fear of god where you stay away from him.
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  • You don't want to be near him, okay?
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  • That's not the fear of the lord, amen?
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  • And that's the fear that the bible says
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  • You have not received again.
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  • Notice the word "again"?
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  • You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear.
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  • Slavish fear.
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  • The fear there is implying the fear of god.
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  • The wrong kind of old testament fear of god.
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  • You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear,
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  • But you have received the spirit of sonship whereby we cry,
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  • "abba father," amen?
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  • So we come before the tabernacle of david,
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  • Today the church of jesus christ.
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  • We all can come freely.
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  • And what is the main characteristic
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  • Of the tabernacle of david?
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  • It is praise and worship.
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  • There's a singing.
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  • There's dancing even because david danced
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  • With all his might, hallelujah!
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  • There's a lot of praising.
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  • There's a lot of instruments.
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  • The main characteristic of the tabernacle of david
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  • Is the praise and worship.
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  • And that's what god is restoring all over the world today.
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  • You see god restoring the tabernacle of david.
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  • You see praise and worship propping up everywhere.
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  • Right after he says about repairing
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  • The tabernacle of david,
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  • The bible goes on to say, "behold, the days come."
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  • What days?
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  • The days when he is rebuilding the tabernacle of david.
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  • "the days come, saith the lord, that the plowman
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  • Shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes
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  • Him that soweth seed."
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  • Because the harvest is so abundant
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  • And it comes up so fast that both the reaper
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  • And the plowman meet.
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  • The treader of grapes and he who sows seed meet.
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  • Usually in the normal circumstance, right,
  • 00:10:16.525 --> 00:10:19.628
  • In the normal scheme of things, in terms of sowing
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  • And harvesting, both don't meet.
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  • They are at the tail end, amen?
  • 00:10:24.300 --> 00:10:26.402
  • But because of this acceleration and this abundance of harvest,
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  • They see each other.
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  • I want to read to you from the message translation
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  • Of this verse.
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  • "'yes indeed, it won't be long now.'
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  • God's decree.
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  • 'things are going to happen so fast your head will swim,
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  • One thing fast on the heels of the other.
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  • You won't be able to keep up.
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  • Everything will be happening at once--
  • 00:10:50.359 --> 00:10:53.329
  • And everywhere you look, blessings!
  • 00:10:53.329 --> 00:10:56.365
  • Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains
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  • And hills," hallelujah.
  • 00:10:59.401 --> 00:11:01.871
  • Everywhere you look,
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  • Things are happening so fast.
  • 00:11:03.272 --> 00:11:04.607
  • And everywhere you look, blessings, blessings,
  • 00:11:04.607 --> 00:11:07.309
  • And more blessings.
  • 00:11:07.309 --> 00:11:08.744
  • So the writer here brings out the spirit in paraphrase
  • 00:11:08.744 --> 00:11:13.783
  • Of what amos 9:13 is talking about:
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  • The swiftness and the blessing.
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  • Because all that's happening right now
  • 00:11:19.421 --> 00:11:20.823
  • Is blessings, abundance.
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  • Even the mountains will drop sweet wine.
  • 00:11:22.258 --> 00:11:24.660
  • And also the hills will flow.
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  • Here it says melt.
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  • It's from the same word, hebrew word
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  • For flow with milk in joel.
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  • It will flow with milk.
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  • The idea there is that it will provide
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  • Such plenty of rich feeding
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  • That all the cows will give off an abundance of milk, amen.
  • 00:11:37.873 --> 00:11:42.812
  • So all the mountains will drop sweet wine
  • 00:11:42.812 --> 00:11:45.181
  • And all the hills will flow with milk.
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  • Abundance, abundance, blessings everywhere.
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  • You look up the mountain: blessings, amen?
  • 00:11:50.820 --> 00:11:54.256
  • You look at the hills lower, amen: blessings.
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  • Everywhere you look: abundance, blessing.
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  • This year, for you and your family, amen,
  • 00:12:00.262 --> 00:12:03.465
  • Praise the lord.
  • 00:12:03.465 --> 00:12:04.800
  • Things will happen so fast,
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  • You will see blessings everywhere.
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  • Amen and amen, praise the lord.
  • 00:12:07.469 --> 00:12:09.738
  • Now, to return to david.
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  • So this coming year, as you look
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  • At how david brings back the ark,
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  • There's one point here i just want you
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  • To always remember is that the ark
  • 00:12:16.979 --> 00:12:19.982
  • --always hold this in your heart--
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  • The ark is a picture of our lord jesus christ.
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  • The king before david, saul, he has no heart for the ark.
  • 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:28.624
  • In other words, he typifies the leadership that has no heart
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  • For the lord jesus christ.
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  • Jesus is a means to an end.
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  • But jesus is not central in his life or in the church.
  • 00:12:35.364 --> 00:12:41.036
  • So jesus needs to be central in our lives, in our marriages.
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  • "husbands, love your wives," it doesn't stop there:
  • 00:12:45.474 --> 00:12:48.277
  • "as christ loves the church," amen.
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  • "wives, submit to your husband, as unto jesus," amen?
  • 00:12:50.713 --> 00:12:55.117
  • You see jesus behind your husband.
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  • So your husband is not perfect but you see jesus.
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  • I can submit to jesus, amen.
  • 00:12:59.321 --> 00:13:02.057
  • And husbands, love your wife as christ loves the church.
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  • Wow, that's a tall order.
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  • You know how christ loves the church?
  • 00:13:07.162 --> 00:13:08.597
  • With open arms on the cross.
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  • And i'm supposed to love my wife like that.
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  • But unless i see jesus, i will not be able
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  • To love my wife like that.
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  • It's all about jesus.
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  • It's all about jesus, amen.
  • 00:13:17.206 --> 00:13:18.674
  • "children, obey your parents in the lord," amen.
  • 00:13:18.674 --> 00:13:21.744
  • You see the lord, amen.
  • 00:13:21.744 --> 00:13:23.312
  • It is in the lord that you're able to obey your parents
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  • And honor them.
  • 00:13:25.748 --> 00:13:27.082
  • So again, in all our relationships,
  • 00:13:27.082 --> 00:13:28.417
  • We bring jesus into the center.
  • 00:13:28.417 --> 00:13:29.752
  • That's christian relationships.
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  • It is not a matter of reading books on how to be more
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  • Successful in your communication and how to be--all that is fine.
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  • It has its place.
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  • But listen, you can do all those things and be an uzzah.
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  • Stretch forth human effort instead of looking at jesus
  • 00:13:41.230 --> 00:13:44.800
  • And resting in him and seeing his pattern,
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  • Delighting in the vision of--that the holy spirit
  • 00:13:47.836 --> 00:13:50.239
  • Is giving you of jesus
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  • In the area of a marriage,
  • 00:13:51.640 --> 00:13:53.208
  • In the area of your ministry, in the area of your career,
  • 00:13:53.208 --> 00:13:56.545
  • And whatever it is that you want to see jesus in,
  • 00:13:56.545 --> 00:13:59.882
  • He's gotta be center.
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  • When he's center and you're occupied with him,
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  • You are obsessed with him, amen,
  • 00:14:03.886 --> 00:14:06.655
  • He captivates your heart and mind and soul,
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  • You don't have to worry about a holy life.
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  • You don't have to worry about behavior going wrong.
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  • This is where the church is lacking, my friend.
  • 00:14:14.296 --> 00:14:16.665
  • They have left their first love, amen?
  • 00:14:16.665 --> 00:14:20.836
  • And how do you restore the first love?
  • 00:14:20.836 --> 00:14:22.404
  • By coming back to the first love to know that he loves me, amen?
  • 00:14:22.404 --> 00:14:27.109
  • Praise the lord. praise the lord.
  • 00:14:27.109 --> 00:14:29.545
  • And i believe that just like david,
  • 00:14:29.545 --> 00:14:31.747
  • Finally he learned his lesson.
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  • After uzzah's death, david says, "this is how you bring the ark."
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  • And he's going to bring the ark back to, where?
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  • Zion.
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  • He's going to bring the ark from a place of dishonor
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  • And neglect to a place of honor and exaltation, amen,
  • 00:14:42.725 --> 00:14:47.529
  • On a mountain, zion.
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  • And he's going to bring the ark back.
  • 00:14:48.998 --> 00:14:51.033
  • But he made a mistake.
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  • He had a right motive, wrong action, right?
  • 00:14:52.368 --> 00:14:55.371
  • Because god wants the ark on the shoulders of the priests.
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  • God wants the ark on the shoulders
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  • Of the priests.
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  • You know, i don't know why they put it on an ox cart.
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  • Maybe because the philistines brought it back on an ox cart.
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  • But no philistines died.
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  • Because god knew that for the philistines,
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  • They are ignorant of god's ways,
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  • So god was merciful to them.
  • 00:15:14.256 --> 00:15:16.425
  • They brought back the ark the only way they know how,
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  • On an ox cart.
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  • But david should not adopt the ox cart.
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  • And the levites that were with him should have told him.
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  • And the levites just ignored that.
  • 00:15:25.334 --> 00:15:28.670
  • And this is what david said.
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  • After 3 months, you know, uzzah died
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  • Because the ark shook.
  • 00:15:32.408 --> 00:15:34.309
  • Of course, the ark shook.
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  • Think about it, my friend.
  • 00:15:35.644 --> 00:15:37.146
  • For 40 years, from sinai all the way,
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  • Crossing the river jordan
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  • To the promised land, and then
  • 00:15:43.352 --> 00:15:45.320
  • Around the walls of jericho, 7 days with the ark
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  • On their shoulders.
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  • These 40 years, there's not one account that a levite
  • 00:15:50.692 --> 00:15:55.998
  • Stumbled carrying the ark.
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  • No account of that. no account of death in 40 years.
  • 00:15:58.167 --> 00:16:01.670
  • But in this short distance, kiriath jearim to zion
  • 00:16:01.670 --> 00:16:05.474
  • Is about 9 miles, there is a death.
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  • Why?
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  • Because they didn't do it god's way.
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  • They did not do it god's way.
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  • The proper way for the ark to be carried
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  • Is on the shoulders of the levites,
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  • Amen, from the priestly family, the levites.
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  • And you and i today, we are a kingdom of priests, amen?
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  • Kings and priests.
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  • This is our priestly ministry.
  • 00:16:27.396 --> 00:16:28.964
  • Today, the priestly ministry is not selected few
  • 00:16:28.964 --> 00:16:31.867
  • Who are pastors, leaders, deacons.
  • 00:16:31.867 --> 00:16:33.635
  • No, no, all of us who are born again,
  • 00:16:33.635 --> 00:16:35.737
  • We are a family of priests unto god.
  • 00:16:35.737 --> 00:16:39.041
  • A family of kings unto god.
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  • Praise the lord, amen.
  • 00:16:41.510 --> 00:16:43.312
  • So our role is to exalt jesus christ, right?
  • 00:16:43.312 --> 00:16:46.782
  • Just like we are so excited about our play and all that,
  • 00:16:46.782 --> 00:16:49.017
  • We put him high on our shoulders to lift him up.
  • 00:16:49.017 --> 00:16:51.186
  • The idea is what, right?
  • 00:16:51.186 --> 00:16:52.554
  • Lift him up, amen. lift him high.
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  • Exalt him.
  • 00:16:54.623 --> 00:16:56.325
  • And the word that is used there is that the levites bore the ark
  • 00:16:56.325 --> 00:17:00.796
  • On their shoulders.
  • 00:17:00.796 --> 00:17:02.131
  • And the word "bore" is very interesting because
  • 00:17:02.131 --> 00:17:04.066
  • It's the word "nasa," to lift up, amen?
  • 00:17:04.066 --> 00:17:07.202
  • Nasa.
  • 00:17:07.202 --> 00:17:08.537
  • And nasa is used in isaiah 53, verse 4,
  • 00:17:08.537 --> 00:17:12.407
  • Talking about the work of jesus.
  • 00:17:12.407 --> 00:17:13.876
  • It says: "however, it was our sicknesses
  • 00:17:13.876 --> 00:17:18.113
  • That he himself bore," nasa,
  • 00:17:18.113 --> 00:17:21.150
  • "and our pains that he carried."
  • 00:17:21.150 --> 00:17:24.753
  • Now it's a different word.
  • 00:17:24.753 --> 00:17:26.088
  • It is saval.
  • 00:17:26.088 --> 00:17:27.623
  • "yet we ourselves assumed that he had been afflicted,
  • 00:17:27.623 --> 00:17:30.959
  • Struck down by god, and humiliated."
  • 00:17:30.959 --> 00:17:32.628
  • So we're talking about jesus here at the cross.
  • 00:17:32.628 --> 00:17:34.563
  • "it was our sicknesses that he himself bore," nasa.
  • 00:17:34.563 --> 00:17:39.601
  • "and our pains that he carried," saval actually means
  • 00:17:39.601 --> 00:17:43.539
  • A heavy load.
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  • A heavy load.
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  • My friend, listen.
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  • As i was preparing this for you, the lord said this to me:
  • 00:17:50.946 --> 00:17:54.349
  • "if you will bear my son,
  • 00:17:54.349 --> 00:17:57.419
  • My son will bear your sicknesses.
  • 00:17:57.419 --> 00:18:00.789
  • If you exalt my son, my son will carry your sicknesses away,
  • 00:18:00.789 --> 00:18:05.561
  • Carry your pains away.
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  • You bear my son, and my son will bear your sicknesses.
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  • You carry the load of my son, and he will carry
  • 00:18:11.800 --> 00:18:16.338
  • Your pains away."
  • 00:18:16.338 --> 00:18:18.407
  • Oh hallelujah!
  • 00:18:18.407 --> 00:18:20.075
  • May this be the theme of your life this year.
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  • Then all that you do, even in your career
  • 00:18:23.278 --> 00:18:25.814
  • Or your pursuing of any other dream
  • 00:18:25.814 --> 00:18:28.150
  • That god is showing you to walk in, all right,
  • 00:18:28.150 --> 00:18:31.053
  • Make sure that jesus is there in the center of it,
  • 00:18:31.053 --> 00:18:35.090
  • Amen, friend?
  • 00:18:35.090 --> 00:18:36.425
  • So david told the levites, you guys forgot.
  • 00:18:36.425 --> 00:18:39.361
  • Okay, this is what he told them: "he said to them,
  • 00:18:39.361 --> 00:18:41.863
  • 'you are the heads of the fathers' houses
  • 00:18:41.863 --> 00:18:43.232
  • Of the levites; sanctify yourselves,
  • 00:18:43.232 --> 00:18:45.067
  • You and your brethren, that you may bring up
  • 00:18:45.067 --> 00:18:46.935
  • The ark of the lord god of israel to the place
  • 00:18:46.935 --> 00:18:49.137
  • I have prepared for it.
  • 00:18:49.137 --> 00:18:50.505
  • For because you did not do it the first time,
  • 00:18:50.505 --> 00:18:53.242
  • The lord our god broke out against us,
  • 00:18:53.242 --> 00:18:55.711
  • Because we did not consult him
  • 00:18:55.711 --> 00:18:58.180
  • About the proper order."
  • 00:18:58.180 --> 00:18:59.848
  • You see?
  • 00:18:59.848 --> 00:19:01.183
  • The proper order which is on the shoulders
  • 00:19:01.183 --> 00:19:03.252
  • Of the priests, amen?
  • 00:19:03.252 --> 00:19:05.420
  • On your shoulders and my shoulders.
  • 00:19:05.420 --> 00:19:07.389
  • God has given us the wonderful, holy privilege
  • 00:19:07.389 --> 00:19:11.693
  • Of exalting his son in our lives.
  • 00:19:11.693 --> 00:19:14.496
  • And the more we focus on his son,
  • 00:19:14.496 --> 00:19:16.498
  • And not on our selfish, you know, occupation,
  • 00:19:16.498 --> 00:19:20.569
  • But more on his son, making sure
  • 00:19:20.569 --> 00:19:23.272
  • That everything we do is to glorify him,
  • 00:19:23.272 --> 00:19:26.408
  • Not to exalt ourselves, but to exalt him, amen.
  • 00:19:26.408 --> 00:19:30.612
  • This is what god says: you nasa my son,
  • 00:19:30.612 --> 00:19:33.749
  • My son will nasa your sicknesses,
  • 00:19:33.749 --> 00:19:36.385
  • Your depression, your infirmities.
  • 00:19:36.385 --> 00:19:38.920
  • You carry the load of my son in the area of, like,
  • 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:42.157
  • Exalting jesus, and later you see,
  • 00:19:42.157 --> 00:19:43.925
  • It's not even a load for us, all right?
  • 00:19:43.925 --> 00:19:46.228
  • What he did, he carried, saval, is a heavy load
  • 00:19:46.228 --> 00:19:50.799
  • Of all our pains.
  • 00:19:50.799 --> 00:19:52.167
  • He carried our pains. but you know what?
  • 00:19:52.167 --> 00:19:53.969
  • Our yoke is easy and our burden is light, amen.
  • 00:19:53.969 --> 00:19:58.607
  • So even this wonderful privilege given to us to exalt
  • 00:19:58.607 --> 00:20:02.811
  • Jesus christ in and through our lives,
  • 00:20:02.811 --> 00:20:06.148
  • In and through our person,
  • 00:20:06.148 --> 00:20:07.482
  • In and through our families, in and through our ministry,
  • 00:20:07.482 --> 00:20:10.218
  • Our careers, in our relationships,
  • 00:20:10.218 --> 00:20:14.456
  • It's not something hard.
  • 00:20:14.456 --> 00:20:16.992
  • And let's see what happened when they did it god's way.
  • 00:20:16.992 --> 00:20:19.695
  • "so david, the elders of israel, and the captains over thousands
  • 00:20:19.695 --> 00:20:22.097
  • Went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the lord
  • 00:20:22.097 --> 00:20:24.466
  • From the house of obed-edom with joy.
  • 00:20:24.466 --> 00:20:27.069
  • And so it was, when god helped the levites
  • 00:20:27.069 --> 00:20:30.339
  • Who bore the ark of the covenant of the lord,
  • 00:20:30.339 --> 00:20:32.374
  • That they offered seven bulls and seven rams."
  • 00:20:32.374 --> 00:20:34.743
  • "so it was when god helped the levites who bore the ark."
  • 00:20:34.743 --> 00:20:37.612
  • Notice god never helped uzzah or the cows.
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  • God helped the levites.
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  • And based on my studies, i found that
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  • The weight of the gold and the wood
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  • And also the contents of the ark weigh about 288 pounds.
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  • Now that's quite heavy for four men to carry.
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  • Each of them will carry about 72 pounds.
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  • Now there's a lot of pounds to carry per person.
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  • But here it says, god helped them.
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  • So the jewish writings, some of their writings,
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  • Tell us about how god helped them.
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  • They will say things like when they carry the ark,
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  • The moment they carry the ark, it's as if the tables turned.
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  • The ark was now lifting them.
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  • Isn't that--that bares with my spirit, amen.
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  • It says: "jesus says, 'take my burden on you
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  • For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.'"
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  • Let's read that.
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  • Jesus said, "come unto me," remember?
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  • "come unto me," not to a formula,
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  • Not to any other person.
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  • "come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden."
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  • You can put saval there, amen?
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  • Jesus carried the heavy load of our sins
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  • And also our diseases and our pains.
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  • Saval and nasa.
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  • He nasa, he saval.
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  • But here it says, "come unto me, all you that labor
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  • And are heavy laden."
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  • He's telling you he doesn't want you heavy laden with your sins,
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  • Heavy laden with your depression,
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  • Heavy laden with your sickness, heavy laden
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  • With what is wrong in your life, amen.
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  • He wants you to come to him.
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  • What's going to happen when you come to him?
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  • He says, "and i will give you rest,"
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  • On my very person.
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  • My very person will rest you.
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  • Then he says this: "take my yoke upon you
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  • And learn from me, for i am gentle
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  • And lowly in heart, and you will find rest
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  • For your souls.
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  • For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
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  • Remember, child of god,
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  • Whenever you serve the lord jesus,
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  • His yoke, whatever yoke it is that he has put you on,
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  • My yoke is to preach every week.
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  • I need to prepare a message and all that.
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  • And sometimes the devil wants to give me a saval mentality:
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  • It's a heavy load.
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  • It's a heavy load. it's a heavy load for preaching.
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  • It's a heavy load.
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  • I need to learn that if it's truly from jesus,
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  • It's going to be easy yoke, light burden,
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  • Or else it's not of jesus.
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  • Everywhere you look: blessings, overabundance, praise the lord,
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  • Supply, amen, in every area of your life.
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  • Praise the name of jesus.
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  • Do not have a sense that you are alone, you are without help.
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  • Have a sense, "jesus loves me.
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  • This i know and he is with me.
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  • And i am on mount zion."
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  • And mount zion, god says, "i have chosen zion;
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  • I have desired it," for what?
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  • "my resting place."
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  • And god will never change his mind to go back to sinai.
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  • No, all right, sinai is not antiquated.
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  • God has moved mountains.
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  • Make sure you do. make sure you do.
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  • Praise the name of jesus.
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