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Joseph Prince - Where to Find Hope When You Feel Empty

May 7, 2026 | 27:29

Joseph Prince - Where to Find Hope When You Feel Empty
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Where to Find Hope When You Feel Empty | May 7, 2026
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  • Joseph prince: the bible preaches hope, amen.
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  • When you read the bible, it gives you hope.
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  • The bible says that "through the comfort of scriptures,
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  • We might find hope and consolation."
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  • There's a verse that says, "through the scriptures,
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  • We find hope."
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  • Now the god of hope-- god is called the god of hope.
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  • Now the god of hope fill you with all peace
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  • And believing-- in believing, amen,
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  • So that you can have hope.
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  • It tells us that.
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  • The god of hope gives you hope. you have a god.
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  • It's not just--"i hope it will happen one day,"
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  • But you're without any power to see it come to pass.
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  • No, the god of hope is behind your hope.
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  • Faith is the substance of what?
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  • Things hoped for. you gotta have hope.
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  • Male announcer: imagine living a life
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  • Without fear and waking up every morning
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  • Full of hope, full of peace, full of god's perfect love.
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  • In today's message, joseph will show you
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  • How to uproot fear, worry, and anxiety in your life
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  • So you can live boldly and fearlessly today.
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  • Discover how you can live boldly and fearlessly every day.
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  • Request joseph's book "no more fear"
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  • For your gift of any amount today.
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  • Your gift powers our mission to reach more lives
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  • With the gospel of grace.
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  • Call now, text "offer" to 71239, or visit josephprince.org
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  • To request your copy now.
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  • And now here's pastor joseph prince
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  • With today's program.
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  • Joseph prince: we need to find god's plan, amen?
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  • And god wants you to know his plan.
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  • He loves you.
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  • And all the people said...amen.
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  • So now that we are safe-- all right, i'm speaking
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  • To people that have put their trust in christ.
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  • Christ died for our sins and rose again from the dead
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  • Without our sins.
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  • He effectively put them all away through his blood, amen?
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  • And when he rose from the dead,
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  • From then on, your identity is now in him.
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  • So romans 5 tells us, "therefore, since we
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  • Have been justified through faith,
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  • We have peace with god," not trying to look for it,
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  • "through our lord jesus christ, through whom also
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  • We have gained access by faith into this grace,
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  • Into this favor in which we now stand."
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  • Folks, once you are justified by faith, you have access.
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  • It's like speaking to this generation.
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  • Everything, you must have access, amen?
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  • So we have access by faith into this grace.
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  • So now we have access by faith into this favor.
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  • Grace can be favor.
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  • It's favor, this place of favor with god,
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  • Favored ground.
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  • We're both in the hope of the glory of god.
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  • That means we-- hope is always future.
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  • Hope is a positive expectation of good.
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  • In fact, vine defines "hope"--
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  • The greek word for "hope" is-- think of elvis, okay?
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  • Then you'll understand this. you can memorize this: "elpis."
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  • Say "elpis."
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  • So, not elvis. elpis.
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  • Shouldn't mention elvis, then.
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  • Instead of v, p, okay, elpis.
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  • Elpis is a positive expectation of good.
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  • Vine--this great scholar, he says that elpis
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  • Is a favorable and confident expectation.
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  • He also said it's a happy expectation of good.
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  • In fact, the most frequently used
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  • Is "the happy expectation of good."
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  • That's hope, amen.
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  • And the bible says we boast-- literally, the word is "boast"--
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  • In positive expectation of good in our future,
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  • And this good is the glory of god,
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  • The glory of god manifested in our lives, amen,
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  • In our person.
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  • For "sin" is defined as coming short,
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  • Or forfeiting the glory of god.
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  • We are back, amen.
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  • And the glory will manifest in your marriage,
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  • It will manifest in your body,
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  • It will manifest in your relationships,
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  • It will manifest in everything you touch,
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  • Think, say, and do.
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  • Life should be happier than just every time there's a thing,
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  • You gotta look at your phone.
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  • I like life gotta be--come on, life gotta be simpler
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  • Than that, happier and peaceful.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • No, i'm not knocking this phone and all that.
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  • I have a handphone, and i carry it everywhere i go, okay?
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  • Not now, amen?
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  • But it's a function, it's a tool.
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  • I do not serve it.
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  • It serves me.
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  • When it calls, i don't kowtow and obey all the time
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  • And say, "yes, master, here i am.
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  • What is thy message?" "open the gate first!"
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  • "yes, master." "release me!"
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  • Access code, your thumbprint or whatever.
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  • "yes, master."
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  • You know, i'm sorry, i'm trying to make you feel--
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  • To see that the whole thing is bondage.
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  • Whether it's james bondage or jane bondage,
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  • I mean, it's bondage.
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  • "pastor, you're so corny." i know.
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  • Perseverance will produce character; character, hope.
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  • See, what produces hope? positive expectation of good?
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  • Suffering produces perseverance, perseverance produces character.
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  • Character, that's what i'm looking for
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  • When i think of leaders to govern these great people,
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  • To provide oversight for these great people
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  • Here in new creation church.
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  • I look for a proven character.
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  • I don't just go for "oh, you know, i mean--"
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  • I look for proven character, character of people
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  • Who know that they are weak depending on his strength.
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  • People have gone through hell and come out the other side,
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  • Knowing that only the lord,
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  • His strength, amen, his love that matters,
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  • Not human effort.
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  • These are the ones: proven character.
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  • Then it'll produce hope, hope for your future,
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  • And hope does not-- listen carefully:
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  • Hope does not put us to shame.
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  • When you have hope, it will not put you to shame.
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  • Today, the world says what?
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  • Don't raise your... can i tell you something?
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  • This is your pastor talking to you.
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  • Don't raise your hopelessness.
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  • It's already there already.
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  • Don't raise it anymore.
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  • You don't need help to raise your hopelessness.
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  • Every time you look at the news, it's raised.
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  • Every time you hear someone say something, it's raised.
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  • The world by default mode is negative, amen.
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  • You don't hear,
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  • And you know, news does not thrive on good news.
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  • Today, 3,500,000345 planes landed safely,
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  • Which is true.
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  • Maybe not 3 million, but i'm just rounding off figures
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  • Somewhere from my head.
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  • I'm just saying that there are thousands
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  • And thousands of planes that landed safely.
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  • But they will not announce that.
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  • They will announce the one that has the engine trouble, right?
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  • That's how news work.
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  • But then what do you focus on? that one.
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  • So you take the plane, guess what?
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  • "maybe mine is the one."
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  • You are the one.
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  • Instead of being powered by one,
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  • You are being disempowered by that one bad news, huh?
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  • That's not hope. it's the opposite of hope.
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  • It's no positive expectation of good.
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  • The bible says god wants us to have hope, amen.
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  • God wants us to have hope,
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  • And this hope will not put you to shame.
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  • And the world says you raise your hope,
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  • You'll be disappointed.
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  • You raise your hope, you'll be disappointed
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  • Because once upon a time, when we were younger,
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  • Without christ, yes, we raised our hopes,
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  • We were people that--
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  • Young people are very optimistic,
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  • You know what i'm saying?
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  • They have a positive expectation of good.
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  • They believe they can become the president,
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  • They can become the-- a doctor, they believe
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  • They can become an astronaut, you know?
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  • They have hope.
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  • But then, without christ, hope has no power, amen.
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  • The reason you can believe for a good in your future,
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  • For a confident expectation of good,
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  • For a happy anticipation of good in your future
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  • Is because, at the cross,
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  • Jesus bore all your sins and cancel out
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  • All the effects of those sins and the harvest of those sins.
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  • There's no bad things that will come back to haunt you.
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  • We need people to give hope, and the bible--
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  • The bible preaches hope, amen.
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  • When you read the bible, it gives you hope.
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  • The bible says that "through the comfort of scriptures,
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  • We might find hope and consolation."
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  • There's a verse that says, "through the scriptures,
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  • We find hope."
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  • Now the god of hope-- god is called the god of hope.
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  • Now the god of hope fill you with all peace and believing--
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  • In believing, amen, so that you can have hope.
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  • It tells us that. the god of hope gives you hope.
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  • You have a god.
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  • It's not just "i hope it will happen one day,"
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  • But you're without any power to see it come to pass.
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  • No, the god of hope is behind your hope.
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  • So if you're oppressed, yes, you can be free,
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  • But you can't imagine how is-- how does freedom look like.
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  • Amen, how does a peaceful night of rest look like?
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  • How is freedom from bitterness and unforgiveness look like?
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  • How is life like without being negative towards people
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  • All the time,
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  • Fault finding with people all the time, you know?
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  • "how can--how does it look like, pastor prince?"
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  • Amen, you gotta have hope first before you can see it.
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  • "no, pastor, the bible says that faith is more important.
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  • The bible says that jesus turned to the woman
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  • Who touched his-- the hem of his garment
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  • And she was healed.
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  • Jesus says, 'your faith made you well.'
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  • The bible says, 'without faith, it's impossible to please god.'"
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  • You're right.
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  • Faith is like the currency of heaven.
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  • Show god your faith, he shows you what you want.
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  • Yes, and faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of god.
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  • That's why you're hearing now, amen?
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  • But, friend, have you ever read this verse?
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  • Hebrews 11:1, "faith--now faith is
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  • The substance of things hoped for."
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  • Which one comes first?
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  • If english is your language,
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  • Tell me now, which one comes first?
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  • "faith is the substance of things hoped for."
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  • Which one comes first?
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  • If there's no hope, faith has no substance,
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  • Because faith is the substance of what?
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  • Things hoped for.
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  • You gotta have hope, hope your body will be well.
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  • And some people are taught, you know, some--
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  • Your background, you are taught
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  • That you gotta have faith.
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  • Faith is what heals, not hope.
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  • I understand that, but listen carefully.
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  • Without hope, there's-- there can be no faith.
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  • You gotta believe that your child will be well.
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  • You gotta have that hope.
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  • You're gotta pray, like, you know,
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  • Thanking god for that, amen.
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  • Then your faith will work because faith is a substance.
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  • "hupostasis," which is under--"hupo."
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  • "stasis" is stand.
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  • Faith is the thing that makes you stand
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  • In the things that you hope for.
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  • Faith undergirds you, amen, for the things
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  • That you hope for.
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  • So faith is actually under your feet in this verse,
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  • Hupostasis, which is the greek word "substance."
  • 00:10:57.532 --> 00:11:01.436
  • "hope for" is in front of you, your goal, your destination.
  • 00:11:01.436 --> 00:11:04.773
  • So that pain in your body, you gotta hope for a future
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  • Where you are free from it.
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  • It can happen in one fell swoop,
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  • It can happen gradually as you partake of
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  • The lord's supper, communion.
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  • There's a lot of sick people, you know?
  • 00:11:15.650 --> 00:11:17.619
  • There's a lot of people-- physically sick, i meant.
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  • There's a lot of sick people in the world.
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  • Someone knows someone very close who is sick.
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  • And that's why the lord has provided
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  • The lord's supper, amen,
  • 00:11:27.762 --> 00:11:29.931
  • And it's called the lord's supper,
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  • Not the lord's breakfast,
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  • Because it is for the night seasons of your life.
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  • It is--the bible says the passover was instituted--
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  • Amen?--between two evenings.
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  • And the bible says "twilighttime,"
  • 00:11:46.347 --> 00:11:48.249
  • But they actually partook of it nighttime--the passover.
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  • Jesus in the last supper, he instituted the lord's supper,
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  • Amen, for us believers.
  • 00:11:57.192 --> 00:12:01.029
  • After they took the passover, he instituted the lord's supper.
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  • The lord in the night, in the night that he was betrayed,
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  • He took bread.
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  • Maybe it's a night season as well.
  • 00:12:10.004 --> 00:12:11.573
  • Maybe you have been betrayed. what do you do?
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  • Take the lord's supper. remember him.
  • 00:12:14.142 --> 00:12:17.078
  • Maybe right now you feel like all your exercise,
  • 00:12:17.078 --> 00:12:20.582
  • All your observing good diet and all that has betrayed you.
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  • All of a sudden you're stunned.
  • 00:12:25.620 --> 00:12:26.955
  • The doctors give you this diagnosis,
  • 00:12:26.955 --> 00:12:29.123
  • This prognosis, and you do not know what to say
  • 00:12:29.123 --> 00:12:31.626
  • Because you have eaten well.
  • 00:12:31.626 --> 00:12:32.961
  • I mean, you observe all that.
  • 00:12:32.961 --> 00:12:34.662
  • You feel betrayed, don't you?
  • 00:12:34.662 --> 00:12:37.065
  • Or you do a lot of things for someone
  • 00:12:37.065 --> 00:12:39.167
  • And then the person turns around
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  • And pause the love of favor on somebody else instead.
  • 00:12:41.736 --> 00:12:44.672
  • You feel betrayed, don't you?
  • 00:12:44.672 --> 00:12:46.307
  • Well, jesus in the night that he was betrayed,
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  • 1 corinthians 11, took bread.
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  • I think it's an example for all of us.
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  • In the night season, take bread, remember him.
  • 00:12:54.983 --> 00:12:59.053
  • And by the way, the bread is not just
  • 00:12:59.053 --> 00:13:01.089
  • For physical healing, right?
  • 00:13:01.089 --> 00:13:02.724
  • The broken body of jesus also for your deliverance
  • 00:13:02.724 --> 00:13:05.326
  • From oppression, your mind, your mind.
  • 00:13:05.326 --> 00:13:08.229
  • Your mind is full of worry and care.
  • 00:13:08.229 --> 00:13:10.164
  • You know, the old english word for "worry"
  • 00:13:10.164 --> 00:13:14.135
  • Is a word that means strangle.
  • 00:13:14.135 --> 00:13:16.504
  • And sometimes worry does that, doesn't it?
  • 00:13:16.504 --> 00:13:18.506
  • It strangles you like you can't breathe.
  • 00:13:18.506 --> 00:13:20.275
  • When you worry about something, it's like you gotta wake up
  • 00:13:20.275 --> 00:13:22.510
  • Because you are so full of worry.
  • 00:13:22.510 --> 00:13:23.845
  • Worry is from the word strangle,
  • 00:13:23.845 --> 00:13:25.380
  • And old english for the word strangle.
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  • That's where worry comes from.
  • 00:13:27.782 --> 00:13:29.784
  • Fear, anxiety--it's the same. oppression.
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  • I'll tell you this: it's got to do with your mind.
  • 00:13:32.687 --> 00:13:34.522
  • The lord's supper, when jesus on the road to emmaus
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  • At the end of the journey, the 7-mile journey,
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  • He went into the house of the two,
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  • And then he took bread, amen.
  • 00:13:41.462 --> 00:13:43.298
  • The guest became the host.
  • 00:13:43.298 --> 00:13:45.066
  • And when he took the bread, the bible says
  • 00:13:45.066 --> 00:13:47.335
  • He broke the bread, their eyes were open.
  • 00:13:47.335 --> 00:13:50.805
  • Their mind was beginning to comprehend.
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  • The understanding returned.
  • 00:13:55.944 --> 00:13:57.712
  • There's another verse where he appeared
  • 00:13:57.712 --> 00:13:59.781
  • In the upper room,
  • 00:13:59.781 --> 00:14:01.115
  • Then opened he their understanding.
  • 00:14:01.115 --> 00:14:03.217
  • So the lord's supper is to open your understanding
  • 00:14:03.217 --> 00:14:06.154
  • To the wisdom of god.
  • 00:14:06.154 --> 00:14:08.122
  • Now, here's the word of deliverance.
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  • When a bad thought comes-- listen carefully.
  • 00:14:09.791 --> 00:14:12.460
  • When an evil thought comes, a blasphemous thought comes,
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  • Don't own it.
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  • It's a bird flying. that's all.
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  • It does not define you.
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  • Yeah, including the bad thought you had about me
  • 00:14:24.005 --> 00:14:25.707
  • When i came out just now.
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  • It's not you. you love me.
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • And i love you, amen?
  • 00:14:31.579 --> 00:14:34.482
  • [congregation cheering, applauding]
  • 00:14:34.482 --> 00:14:35.817
  • 1 thessalonians 5, it says, "now let us who are of the day
  • 00:14:35.817 --> 00:14:38.619
  • Be sober," all right?
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  • We don't belong to the night season,
  • 00:14:40.521 --> 00:14:42.357
  • But we go through the night season.
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  • One day there'll be no more night,
  • 00:14:44.125 --> 00:14:45.460
  • The bible tells us, but we are children of the day,
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  • We are children of the light.
  • 00:14:47.795 --> 00:14:49.163
  • "let us put on the breastplate, putting on the breastplate
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  • Of faith and love."
  • 00:14:51.532 --> 00:14:53.234
  • So the breastplate protects you, your heart.
  • 00:14:53.234 --> 00:14:56.104
  • Your heart is where the accusation comes in.
  • 00:14:56.104 --> 00:14:58.740
  • The devil accuses you on your heart.
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  • Your conscience is always this realm.
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  • Faith and love will protect your heart.
  • 00:15:02.810 --> 00:15:04.679
  • And that's why regardless of what you hear--
  • 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:06.914
  • A sermon, whatever it is-- if you live with fear,
  • 00:15:06.914 --> 00:15:10.118
  • If you live with an attitude of "holier than thou,"
  • 00:15:10.118 --> 00:15:13.821
  • Bitter towards other christians and all that,
  • 00:15:13.821 --> 00:15:15.823
  • You have not heard the word of god.
  • 00:15:15.823 --> 00:15:18.126
  • Because the word of god will always cause
  • 00:15:18.126 --> 00:15:20.361
  • The breastplate of faith and love to be on your heart,
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  • On your conscience.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:15:24.866 --> 00:15:26.200
  • And then it says, "and as a helmet
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  • The hope of salvation," the hope of "soteria."
  • 00:15:28.169 --> 00:15:32.173
  • Salvation is an all-encompassing word,
  • 00:15:32.173 --> 00:15:36.077
  • All-inclusive word.
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  • It includes not just salvation from eternal destruction,
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  • Salvation from hell but salvation from sickness.
  • 00:15:41.649 --> 00:15:45.686
  • Look it up.
  • 00:15:45.686 --> 00:15:47.021
  • The word "salvation" is a noun, feminine noun,
  • 00:15:47.021 --> 00:15:49.357
  • But the word soteria is a feminine noun,
  • 00:15:49.357 --> 00:15:51.192
  • But it comes from the verb "sozo,"
  • 00:15:51.192 --> 00:15:53.528
  • Where jesus told the woman-- just now we talked about
  • 00:15:53.528 --> 00:15:55.797
  • The woman who came behind and received healing.
  • 00:15:55.797 --> 00:15:57.799
  • Jesus says, "your faith has sozo you."
  • 00:15:57.799 --> 00:16:00.568
  • So sozo is-- soteria is also healing
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  • Because sozo is in it.
  • 00:16:04.005 --> 00:16:05.606
  • It's a verb form of soteria, amen?
  • 00:16:05.606 --> 00:16:08.509
  • Healing.
  • 00:16:08.509 --> 00:16:09.844
  • It's rescue, rescue from danger, deliverance, protection.
  • 00:16:09.844 --> 00:16:15.349
  • Wow, it's--so when the angel was sent and said,
  • 00:16:15.349 --> 00:16:19.754
  • "and you shall call his name jesus,"
  • 00:16:19.754 --> 00:16:22.557
  • In the greek it will be "you'll call his name soteria,
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  • Salvation."
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  • His name, it is all-inclusive name.
  • 00:16:27.128 --> 00:16:29.464
  • And he demonstrated his name everywhere he went.
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  • He set people free-- the--legion--
  • 00:16:32.133 --> 00:16:35.336
  • The guy who was possessed with the--so many demons--
  • 00:16:35.336 --> 00:16:37.872
  • He set him free,
  • 00:16:37.872 --> 00:16:39.474
  • So much so the man wants to be with jesus, amen.
  • 00:16:39.474 --> 00:16:42.743
  • He healed.
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  • Everywhere he went, he healed all those who were oppressed
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  • Of the devil.
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  • God was with him.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:16:48.749 --> 00:16:51.319
  • Hope is an anchor for your soul.
  • 00:16:51.319 --> 00:16:54.255
  • It's an anchor for your soul.
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  • In those days, when paul wrote this--
  • 00:16:55.823 --> 00:16:57.859
  • And i believe paul is the author of hebrews--
  • 00:16:57.859 --> 00:16:59.961
  • And by the holy spirit-- the picture, then,
  • 00:16:59.961 --> 00:17:02.063
  • Was that they traveled by ship, they traveled by boats,
  • 00:17:02.063 --> 00:17:06.167
  • Okay, vessels in those days.
  • 00:17:06.167 --> 00:17:08.202
  • They don't fly in those days.
  • 00:17:08.202 --> 00:17:10.605
  • But there is a promise that god says,
  • 00:17:10.605 --> 00:17:12.240
  • "i will cause you to ride the high places
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  • Of the earth."
  • 00:17:14.275 --> 00:17:15.610
  • I think it's referring to our times, amen?
  • 00:17:15.610 --> 00:17:17.211
  • But during that time, they go by boats,
  • 00:17:17.211 --> 00:17:19.213
  • They go by vessels, amen.
  • 00:17:19.213 --> 00:17:21.048
  • So, if they stop somewhere in the middle of the sea
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  • Or somewhere near a port or whatever,
  • 00:17:25.253 --> 00:17:26.921
  • They can't go in yet or whatever,
  • 00:17:26.921 --> 00:17:28.389
  • What they need to do, not in the middle of the sea,
  • 00:17:28.389 --> 00:17:30.658
  • Usually, but where there is--
  • 00:17:30.658 --> 00:17:32.426
  • Even though it's very deep but there's ground,
  • 00:17:32.426 --> 00:17:35.196
  • They will lower the anchor, lower the anchor.
  • 00:17:35.196 --> 00:17:40.034
  • Now, once the anchor takes hold, the heavy anchor,
  • 00:17:40.034 --> 00:17:43.671
  • It drops bottom.
  • 00:17:43.671 --> 00:17:45.573
  • Once it takes hold, listen carefully,
  • 00:17:45.573 --> 00:17:47.375
  • The heavy anchor will stabilize the boat.
  • 00:17:47.375 --> 00:17:50.811
  • Get the picture? let's read the verse first.
  • 00:17:50.811 --> 00:17:53.447
  • It says that by two things which cannot--
  • 00:17:53.447 --> 00:17:55.349
  • "it's impossible for god to lie, we might have
  • 00:17:55.349 --> 00:17:57.552
  • Strong consolation, who have fled for refuge
  • 00:17:57.552 --> 00:18:01.155
  • To lay hold of the hope set before us."
  • 00:18:01.155 --> 00:18:03.724
  • Church, this is a language to the hebrews.
  • 00:18:03.724 --> 00:18:07.228
  • They understand the city of refuge.
  • 00:18:07.228 --> 00:18:10.298
  • Paul is using their analogy from the old testament,
  • 00:18:10.298 --> 00:18:13.568
  • Amen, from their law, where someone who commit manslaughter,
  • 00:18:13.568 --> 00:18:17.238
  • He kills someone,
  • 00:18:17.238 --> 00:18:18.573
  • Albeit it's not intentional, he can flee to a place
  • 00:18:18.573 --> 00:18:22.076
  • Called a city of refuge, amen.
  • 00:18:22.076 --> 00:18:25.146
  • Are you listening?
  • 00:18:25.146 --> 00:18:26.681
  • And there are cities of refuge all over israel,
  • 00:18:26.681 --> 00:18:29.550
  • But he must run in before the avenger of blood--
  • 00:18:29.550 --> 00:18:32.320
  • That person's brother or cousin or whatever,
  • 00:18:32.320 --> 00:18:34.622
  • Who wanna avenge his dead brother.
  • 00:18:34.622 --> 00:18:36.457
  • He's gonna find you.
  • 00:18:36.457 --> 00:18:37.892
  • If he finds you before you reach the city,
  • 00:18:37.892 --> 00:18:39.527
  • He can kill you.
  • 00:18:39.527 --> 00:18:41.329
  • He can kill you legitimately, amen?
  • 00:18:41.329 --> 00:18:43.598
  • It's a picture of sinners,
  • 00:18:43.598 --> 00:18:46.100
  • And there's the avenger of blood, amen,
  • 00:18:46.100 --> 00:18:49.270
  • And he's after you
  • 00:18:49.270 --> 00:18:50.938
  • Because he has a right to destroy you
  • 00:18:50.938 --> 00:18:52.340
  • Because you have sinned, and the wages of sin is death.
  • 00:18:52.340 --> 00:18:55.209
  • So it's coming after you,
  • 00:18:55.209 --> 00:18:56.711
  • But jesus came as a city of refuge, amen.
  • 00:18:56.711 --> 00:18:59.247
  • And when you enter the city of refuge,
  • 00:18:59.247 --> 00:19:00.848
  • Listen carefully, your identity is
  • 00:19:00.848 --> 00:19:02.750
  • No more that of a sinner because the city of refuge
  • 00:19:02.750 --> 00:19:05.286
  • Is inhabited by priests, and the priests,
  • 00:19:05.286 --> 00:19:08.923
  • They eat the best, they drink the best,
  • 00:19:08.923 --> 00:19:12.159
  • They have to be the best state because they are--
  • 00:19:12.159 --> 00:19:14.028
  • They come close to god to offer the offerings of the people
  • 00:19:14.028 --> 00:19:16.731
  • And the priests are never neglected.
  • 00:19:16.731 --> 00:19:19.367
  • The priests-- i'm saying never neglected
  • 00:19:19.367 --> 00:19:21.269
  • In a generic way.
  • 00:19:21.269 --> 00:19:22.603
  • In the bible, old testament,
  • 00:19:22.603 --> 00:19:23.938
  • There was a time even nehemiah knew it,
  • 00:19:23.938 --> 00:19:25.273
  • They were neglected and all that.
  • 00:19:25.273 --> 00:19:26.607
  • I'm speaking that god's plan for them
  • 00:19:26.607 --> 00:19:28.009
  • Is never to be neglected.
  • 00:19:28.009 --> 00:19:29.343
  • So the city is a refuge, is a place where there's abundance.
  • 00:19:29.343 --> 00:19:31.679
  • So the sinner lives as if he is one of the chosen ones
  • 00:19:31.679 --> 00:19:37.852
  • To come close to god.
  • 00:19:37.852 --> 00:19:39.186
  • Priests are close to god.
  • 00:19:39.186 --> 00:19:42.323
  • So it's a picture of us going to jesus as our refuge.
  • 00:19:42.323 --> 00:19:44.992
  • You understand that so far?
  • 00:19:44.992 --> 00:19:46.327
  • "so we have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope."
  • 00:19:46.327 --> 00:19:50.665
  • Remember, it's impossible for god to lie.
  • 00:19:50.665 --> 00:19:52.900
  • There are some things that's impossible for god to do.
  • 00:19:52.900 --> 00:19:56.704
  • One is "impossible for god to lie"--
  • 00:19:56.704 --> 00:19:59.640
  • Impossible, impossible, impossible--
  • 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:04.378
  • So that we can have a strong consolation.
  • 00:20:04.378 --> 00:20:07.214
  • In fact, it's very interesting.
  • 00:20:07.214 --> 00:20:08.549
  • It goes on to say that "this hope we have
  • 00:20:08.549 --> 00:20:10.251
  • As an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast,
  • 00:20:10.251 --> 00:20:13.387
  • And which enters the presence within the veil,
  • 00:20:13.387 --> 00:20:16.857
  • Or behind the veil," drop down, "where the forerunner
  • 00:20:16.857 --> 00:20:20.594
  • Has entered for us, even jesus,
  • 00:20:20.594 --> 00:20:22.963
  • Having become high priest forever
  • 00:20:22.963 --> 00:20:24.965
  • According to the order of melchizedek,"
  • 00:20:24.965 --> 00:20:26.434
  • Which is the highest order, which is the new covenant order.
  • 00:20:26.434 --> 00:20:29.070
  • Listen carefully, it's telling us--
  • 00:20:29.070 --> 00:20:30.471
  • You know what he's saying?
  • 00:20:30.471 --> 00:20:31.806
  • This anchor has gone-- it's like an anchor--
  • 00:20:31.806 --> 00:20:33.841
  • First of all, anchor is for a boat, right, amen?
  • 00:20:33.841 --> 00:20:36.744
  • It's amazing how paul uses this picture.
  • 00:20:36.744 --> 00:20:38.879
  • When i realized what he's saying,
  • 00:20:38.879 --> 00:20:40.815
  • It blew me away.
  • 00:20:40.815 --> 00:20:42.149
  • Listen. i'm still here, anchored.
  • 00:20:42.149 --> 00:20:43.984
  • "blew me away" is an expression.
  • 00:20:43.984 --> 00:20:45.619
  • All right, so, when i saw that--
  • 00:20:45.619 --> 00:20:47.722
  • It's amazing: it's like an anchor
  • 00:20:47.722 --> 00:20:49.623
  • That goes into the holy of holies,
  • 00:20:49.623 --> 00:20:51.125
  • Where god's presence is, amen.
  • 00:20:51.125 --> 00:20:53.160
  • It stabilizes me.
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  • I'm outside here, but there's a--
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  • Like, a rope, you know, a strong tied-to-the-anchor,
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  • And no matter how i sway, no matter how i move
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  • And all that, i'll lose my salvation,
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  • I'll never lose my righteousness with god.
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  • I may stray for a while.
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  • I may go here, go there, but the anchor holds steady,
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  • Sure and steadfast inside.
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  • You know why?
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  • The forerunner, jesus, my elder brother,
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  • My lord and savior, he has gone in, amen.
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  • He's where the anchor is.
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  • Let me tell you this.
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  • The word "forerunner," when paul used it during his time,
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  • During that time and the culture,
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  • The forerunner is someone who comes
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  • Ahead of an important personage.
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  • Let's say an important king or an important high noblemen,
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  • Or whatever it is,
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  • During that time--okay?-- he will send his forerunner.
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  • The forerunner will come to the presence
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  • Of the other king and say, "he's on his way now,"
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  • All right?
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  • And he just passed by this place.
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  • His presence in the presence of the other king
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  • Is a guarantee that important personage
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  • Is coming.
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  • What blew my mind is this.
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  • This is the part that blew my mind.
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  • When i realized that paul was using
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  • The analogy of his day and age,
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  • The forerunner usually is a person of no reputation.
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  • It is who he represents.
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  • The important person is coming.
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  • And the bible says jesus took the place of the forerunner.
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  • He took the place of the forerunner.
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  • We are all the after-runners.
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  • But a forerunner is the one that god is looking at.
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  • If the forerunner is good, god says you are good.
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  • If the forerunner comes in, rude,
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  • God rejects the important personage
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  • Even before he comes, amen, but jesus is accepted with god.
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  • He's the son in whom god is well-pleased.
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  • Therefore, it doesn't matter who you are in the natural,
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  • Right?
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  • You are accepted in your forerunner, amen?
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  • And for sure you'll make it because the bible says
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  • That it's an anchor behind the veil, amen.
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  • Are you all blessed?
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  • Joseph prince: lift your hands all across this place.
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  • Father in heaven, this coming week
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  • Is all the eagles gathered together, lord,
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  • As they gather together in this wonderful nest,
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  • Lord, called the church.
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  • Father, they are releasing their faith
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  • For a wonderful future,
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  • Even the future of this week, father.
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  • This coming week, we look at this week with hope.
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  • We ask in jesus's name that they will run smack dab
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  • In the middle of a great blessing,
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  • A surprise blessing that you have in store.
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  • And i pray that when they experience that,
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  • They will remember this prayer that they prayed, father.
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  • And throughout this week, in the name of jesus,
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  • Be thou their shield, be thou their defense,
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  • Their protection from every evil,
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  • From every infection, from even the dengue mosquitoes,
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  • Lord, from all the powers of darkness.
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  • In the name of the lord jesus christ.
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  • Be thou their favor in their workplace,
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  • In their ministry, wherever they are.
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  • Be thou their favor with one another
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  • In their marriage, in their family relationships, lord.
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  • Be thou their peace, wonderful peace, shalom peace,
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  • Shalom well-being, that they wake up
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  • Every morning with a wonderful expectation of good
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  • For that day.
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  • Thank you, father.
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  • Thank you for the discernment to know
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  • That evil thoughts flying through our heads,
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  • They may come, but they're not from us.
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  • Give us the gift of ignoring them.
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  • Give us the gift of knowing your thoughts,
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  • Which are good for us and never evil.
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  • In jesus's name.
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  • All the people said amen.
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  • God bless you. love you all, amen.
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  • See you again.
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  • Female: i had been a smoker since i was in college.
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  • It's one of those habits that you picked up,
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  • And you know, i really liked it.
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  • For me it was so hard because i didn't want to let it go.
  • 00:25:27.334 --> 00:25:31.372
  • Sitting under pastor's teaching so much,
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  • I understood i needed a rhema word
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  • For my particular situation.
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  • So, he led me to "the battle is the lord's."
  • 00:25:38.679 --> 00:25:43.884
  • I listened to that for probably about two weeks.
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  • That was the only thing i was listening to,
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  • And then i started memorizing some of the scriptures.
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  • I knew there's no success without that just coming up
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  • Inside of me.
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  • Pastor's so good in teaching us the identity of the old man
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  • And the new man.
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  • That new man does not want to smoke.
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  • Now after this, did i still have the habit of, like, doing that?
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  • Because it was like a regular ritual.
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  • Yes, but every time i remembered, "that's not me.
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  • I'm created in true righteousness
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  • And holiness in christ."
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  • I went to bed that night, slept like a baby.
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  • The next morning, i had no desire
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  • For cigarettes again.
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  • It was such the lord, the power of his love.
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  • What a beautiful work that jesus did,
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  • And it's all him alone.
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