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Joseph Prince - Why The Enemy Fights Grace So Hard

February 19, 2026 | 27:29

Discover how grace unlocks your inheritance and why victory is already yours in Christ.

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Why The Enemy Fights Grace So Hard | February 19, 2026

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Joseph prince: inheritance is what this grace message
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Is all about.
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Why is there such an attack on grace?
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Because only grace can give you the inheritance.
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You know it's one thing to have your inheritance,
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It's another thing to inherit it.
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It's one thing to have your possessions,
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It's another thing to possess it.
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It's about inheritance.
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That's why this--you must understand this, people,
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Why the devil is fighting the message of grace so much,
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The message of righteousness of faith.
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Why?
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Because the promise that abraham would be the heir of the world
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Was not to abraham or to his seed
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Through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
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This promise is not via the law.
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It is via the righteousness of faith.
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It only comes, this promise, to the righteousness of faith.
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In other words, people, we got to burn this truth
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In our spirit man, i'm telling you.
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Seek you first his kingdom and his, not yours.
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His righteousness which is a gift
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And all these things will be added to you.
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Male announcer: have you ever asked yourself, "who am i?"
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What about "whose am i?"
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In today's message, joseph prince opens the scriptures
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To reveal your true identity in christ
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And the blessed inheritance that comes with belonging to him.
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Dear overcomer, yes, you.
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Did you know you've been given power to rise above sin,
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Authority to speak healing over sickness?
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Even the grip of addiction has no hold
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Over who you are in christ.
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You may not always feel victorious,
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But your identity isn't based on feelings.
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It's based on what god says about you,
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And he says you are more than a conqueror in christ jesus.
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In joseph prince's book, "reign in life,"
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Let the truths of god's grace and the inspiring stories
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Announcer: and now, here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: are you ready for the word?
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All right, let's go right into the word.
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Today i'm gonna talk about inheritance.
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Charles spurgeon, a great preacher,
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He's called the prince of preachers.
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And he was the first pastor ever to have a mega church in london.
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And i've been to that church, all right, the great church.
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One of the times when i was in england,
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I took a bus all the way to where--
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It's near elephant and castle.
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The building is still there, the structure,
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They have renovated the inside,
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But this building is still there.
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Just to be in that church service
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And i really enjoyed myself.
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Just to know that this man of god preached in this place.
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Prince of preachers they call him.
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He said this: once upon a time when he was visiting
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One of his members, an elderly lady
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Whom he considered very precious and dear.
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She was now flat on her back, elderly.
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Went to her little cottage.
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And spurgeon says that he was talking to her
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And visiting with her for a while.
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And he noticed something that, you know, they have small frames
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And pictures and all that.
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This is in the 1800s, so you don't have many pictures
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Like the photographs we have but you have pictures
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That she would frame beautiful pictures of flowers
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And things like that and he noticed
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A little piece of paper that drew his attention
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And he went right to it and looked at it real close,
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All right.
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His glasses, he looked at it and it says, all right,
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"this is a will written by so and so and so and so."
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And he says, "do you know that this is a will?"
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He said to the lady.
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The lady said, "oh, i used to work for this man," she says.
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"he has a large house and acres and acres.
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He has a large house like-- it was almost like a palace,
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You know, but he has no children and he lived a lonely life.
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I was probably the only one that he knew and i would work
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For him, clean his house and all that,"
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And she says that "he had other helpers as well,
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But before he died," and he has acres and acres of land,
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"he gave me this piece of paper
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Because i loved that man very much.
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He was a dear man to me.
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I appreciate him, you know, all the years that i worked for him.
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I felt that this is the only link i have with him.
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So i frame it up."
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She never could read.
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That's why she worked as she did,
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As a chambermaid in the place.
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And all these years she could have lived in that house.
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It was hers.
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And those acres and acres of land was hers.
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This is like the story of many believers.
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One of the saddest things that god told joshua is this.
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Joshua at the end of his life, god told him,
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"there is yet much land to be possessed."
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It says when jacob--when joshua was old and stricken in years,
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God said, "joshua, there's much land to be possessed."
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Obadiah, chapter 1, has this phrase that the people of god
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Need to do something.
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Look at this.
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It says: "in mount zion," the place of god's people,
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"there shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness;
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The house of jacob shall possess their possessions."
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It is one thing to have your inheritance,
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It's another thing to inherit it.
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It's one thing to have your possessions,
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It's another thing to possess it.
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Can i have a good amen, people?
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And your inheritance is rich, it's powerful.
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It's not just for this earth, it is also heavenly.
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And the main crux of the--the main, i should say,
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The main clause of this inheritance
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Is that you are to inherit this entire earth
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As well as the universe.
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Do you know that?
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And this promise was first given to--i said inherit,
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I didn't say fight for it.
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You know the difference between inherit and fight for it?
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God says inherit.
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You know, if you inherit your inheritance, it's got nothing
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To do with how good you are, how bad you are.
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In fact, the word heir, h-e-i-r, in greek, in the new testament,
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Is defined like this.
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One who receives his allotted possession by right of sonship.
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So do you know when god gave you the spirit,
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When jesus rose from the dead,
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He made israel that was nepios, the word "nepios"
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In greek, an infant in the old testament.
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And jesus made them who believe in him sons.
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An infant, even though he has possessions,
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He has a title to the possessions.
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He cannot enjoy his possessions.
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I always say he cannot drive his father's lamborghini.
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But when he's a son, a full-grown son, he can.
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Now, many of us think, "oh, that's spiritual growth."
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It's got nothing to do with spiritual growth, galatians 4.
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It's got to do with with under law
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Israel was an infant and the grace is a full son.
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Jesus came bringing sonship.
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And every time you find the word "adoption" as sons,
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The word "adoption" doesn't even appear in the greek.
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The word there is huiothesia, which is actually
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Placement as sons.
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Jesus came to make sons out of every believer.
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The moment you are a believer, you are a full-fledged son.
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Listen carefully.
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Inheritance is what this grace message is all about.
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Why is there such an attack on grace?
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Because only grace can give you the inheritance.
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And i'm getting ahead of myself but you need to see this.
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So let's look right here in romans chapter 4:
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"for the promise that abraham would be the heir of the world."
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Again, it's got to do with inheritance, heir of the world.
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Heir of the world.
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What was the promise, people?
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If i ask you, you're doing an exam, all right, and i say,
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"what is the promise given to abraham by god?"
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That he'll be the heir of the world.
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The word "world" is cosmos which is actually not just everything
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In the earth but the whole earth and also the universe.
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And one day we'll see that happen in its fullness when
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Jesus comes again, the one to whom all power belongs,
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Rightful king of this earth,
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And he will reign from jerusalem,
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And there will be no child dying, amen?
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There will be no more sickness, amen?
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No more need for hospitals because this one who is reigning
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Is meek, kind, whose heart is kind beyond all measure.
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What a king, amen?
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So notice the promise that he will be the heir of the world.
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Can you be the heir of the world if you are sick,
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Always flat on your back?
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So freedom from that even is in the heir of the world.
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So god always gives you the larger
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Because the larger encompasses the lesser.
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So the promise that abraham will be the heir of the world
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Is about inheritance.
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That's why this--you must understand this, people.
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Why the devil is fighting the message of grace so much.
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The message of righteousness of faith.
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Why?
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Because the promise that abraham would be the heir of the world
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Was not to abraham or to his seed through the law,
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But through the righteousness of faith.
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This promise is not via the law,
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It is via the righteousness of faith.
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And israel is trying to get it by law, by their merits, amen?
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But it only comes, this promise,
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Through the righteousness of faith.
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In other words, people, we got to burn this truth
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In our spirit man, i'm telling you.
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Seek you first his kingdom and his, not yours.
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His, not your performance.
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His righteousness which is a gift and all these things
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Will be added to you, amen.
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There will be all kinds of appendixes
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And all kinds of bonuses.
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Everything is attached to his righteousness.
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You know, many of us, we are trying to, when we are broke,
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We try to resolve the situation by borrowing from people
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Or whatever.
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By the way, have you noticed if you lend to a friend money,
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You destroy his memory.
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Okay, anyway, the thing is this.
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We try our best to try to overcome our problem
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Trying to do it vertically, you know, but through men.
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But the bible says if you will just come before god and say,
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"i'm the righteousness of god in christ,"
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Believe it, study it, know what it's all about.
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My book, "the power of right believing,"
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All right, it's all about righteousness by faith.
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And that's why 1 john 1:9 will have to come into the picture
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Because it destroys righteousness consciousness,
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Amen, amen.
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And only when you're righteous in god, you know, even a little
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Girl, when she knows she's wearing something beautiful,
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The mother just bought her this beautiful dress,
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She doesn't want to soil the dress.
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When her little friends ask her to play in the mud and all that,
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She won't want to play because, "i got a new dress on."
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She's conscious.
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So people, tell me which one will make people sin more?
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To know that they are clean by faith, righteous by faith,
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Having that gift on them, or to make them feel dirty?
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So here, the bible says: "the promise cannot happen
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Through the law, but through the righteousness of faith."
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So the devil, seeing this verse, will want to promote the law
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And will want to demote righteousness of faith.
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He will attack anyone, assassinate the character
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Of anyone who preaches righteousness of faith.
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Why?
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Because the promise of abraham that god promised he
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Would be the heir of the world will happen in their lives.
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And i'm here to tell you, people, in this church
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We have seen god give us this building.
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It's not because we are good.
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It's not because we are extra diligent.
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It's not because our leaders are fantastic.
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It is not because pastor prince is great.
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No way!
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It is because we inherited effortlessly
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In land-scarce singapore.
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I can tell you this, we are inheriting.
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We are inheriting.
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The ministry i have,
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It's not because i'm such an eloquent speaker.
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So if you're the devil, if you're not the devil,
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Okay, the devil is not this good looking, all right?
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If the devil is the devil and he wants to destroy people
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From inheriting, what will he do?
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He will promote the law.
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And he will do it in such a way that says, you know, no, no,
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We are not saved by the law, but we are saved by, you know,
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By grace, but then after that we keep the law.
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It's the same thing.
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It will rob you of your confidence,
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It will rob you of your righteousness consciousness.
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It'll make you self-conscious instead of christ-conscious.
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It will not deliver you from self and you find the result
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Is unholiness and outbreaks of sin.
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Are you listening, people?
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I've got testimony here from a man
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That just read this past week and it's a mail from hong kong.
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He's still in hong kong.
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He said, "i grew up in a dysfunctional family
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With an absent father who was emotionally absent
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And my mother suffered from anxiety problems.
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I felt that i needed to earn my father's love and recognition.
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My upbringing made me very insecure
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And i developed an aggressive and arrogant temperament.
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In school i was rejected by my peers.
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Such experience made me radical, selfish, overly ambitious,
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And above all, deeply cynical."
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And that's true.
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People are-- experience rejection,
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They get into all sorts of problems.
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"in 2004, i fell very ill with an unknown skin condition.
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My skin would swell and become extremely allergic.
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I could hardly sleep at night due to the skin condition.
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My work as a lawyer was overwhelming
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And i simply had no energy to get through the day.
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No doctor could offer a solution.
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I turned to other spiritual means to soothe my pain
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But nothing worked.
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In fact, my fear grew and i developed anxiety
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And panic attacks.
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It was a breath of fresh air when my girlfriend," bracket,
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"(now my beloved wife), brought me to church,"
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There was a church in hong kong, "in 2006.
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I received christ a year later.
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Yet life did not change in any fundamental way.
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I was taught that i needed to perform and please god
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With my deeds before i could earn his blessings.
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The preachers in my church also preached
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That salvation could be lost."
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Look at the result of believing this.
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"and the result of living an ungodly life
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Would be to end up in hell.
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Because of the teaching, i found it difficult to believe
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That god loves me or wanted the best for me,
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And i still felt cursed.
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Then my life was completely reformed when a brother--
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Transformed, when a brother in the men's ministry introduced me
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To pastor prince's message of grace.
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My world and perception of my faith changed radically.
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For the first time in my life the feeling of curse
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Was gone completely.
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An abundance of love overflows in my life,
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So much so that i wanted to bless others around me."
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Look at that.
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The result of insecurity is not--you become selfish.
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When there's pain in your tooth, all right,
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And you're insecure physically, who do you think of?
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You don't care about the world suffering
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Or even your family member.
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You care about yourself.
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So people, which one will promote holiness?
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Anyway, he says that "an abundance of love
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Overflows in my life.
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I have been preaching the word to my family members
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And friends who are not believers."
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See?
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He's now an evangelist.
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When we say "preach the good news," it's not just,
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You preach the good news, now you're a christian.
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"oh, what is it?
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Must tell them the law.
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Okay, you're a sinner."
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There's no spirit behind it.
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When you say, "it's good news, man,"
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You can't stop from sharing.
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"i've also been following pastor prince's teachings on praying in
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Tongues, and unimaginable peace and tranquility flow through me
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As i pray.
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I now run with pastor prince's sermons playing on my ipod,
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Listening to them whenever i have time.
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I feel a tremendous peace, sense of peace and joy,
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Just by hearing and hearing the word of god.
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Going forward, i want to help spread the message of grace,
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Especially within the chinese community, and my aim is to pass
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On the message of grace to the people around me," amen?
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The gospel is going places.
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There's a revolution of grace on.
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And there is a spiritual warfare going on,
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Because it's all about being an heir.
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And it goes on to say: "if those who are of the law,"
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Those who are of the merit system,
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Earning system, "are heirs, faith is made void
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And the promise," this promise of being the heir
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Of the world, "made of no effect."
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I can tell you this, this verse is memorized in hell.
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What do you think?
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It voids faith.
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You tell the average christian, "what voids faith?"
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They'll tell you, "sin."
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I can tell you this, the average christian,
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Whether it's here or america or anywhere else,
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You ask them, "what voids faith in your life?"
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They will say, "sin."
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I'm all against sin.
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But you're not answering scripturally.
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Nobody dare to say the law voids faith.
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And yet the scripture says: "if those who are of the law
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Are heirs, faith is made void."
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And the promise?
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No effect.
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Let's look at galatians chapter--
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It's all about inheritance.
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"tell me," paul says, "you who desire to be under the law,
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Do you not hear the law?"
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He's writing to believers.
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Romans is about, you cannot be justified by the law, all right?
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Galatians is written to believers also,
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And it says you cannot be sanctified by the law.
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You cannot live a holy life by the law.
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So there are those who say, "yeah, i'm not justified
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By the law, but i live a holy life by the law."
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Then galatians is for you.
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You believe another gospel.
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"and tell me," he's writing to believers,
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"you who desire to be under the law, do you not hear the law?
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For it is written that abraham had two sons."
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Get ready for a first-class exposition of typology,
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All right, at the hands of the apostle paul.
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Look at this.
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"it is written abraham had two sons,"
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Isaac and ishmael, "the one by a bondwoman,"
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Ishmael, was born from that slave woman,
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All right, "the other by a freewoman,"
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Which is rightful wife, which is sarah.
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And who was that?
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Isaac.
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"he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh,"
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According to human effort, when abraham still could perform.
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"and he of the freewoman," isaac,
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Through sarah, "was born through promise,"
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When abraham was nearly 100 years old.
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He cannot, no more effort.
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Watch this.
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"which things are symbolic."
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These two sons, these two women, "they are symbolic.
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For these are the two covenants," hagar and sarah,
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"the one from mount sinai who gives birth to bondage,"
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Don't you forget that, "which is hagar."
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Mount sinai is where we get our ten commandments.
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Yet the bible says everything from mount sinai
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Gives birth to bondage.
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Let that sink in.
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There's no mistake who this mountain is speaking of: hagar,
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Which is hagar, it produces bondage.
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And this bondage is not just spiritual bondage, people,
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It is mental bondage, physical bondage,
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Financial bondage, all kinds of bondage.
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"for this hagar is mount sinai in arabia,"
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In case you didn't get the message,
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"and corresponds to jerusalem which now is,
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And is in bondage with her children."
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Jerusalem now is under the law, amen?
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Next verse: "jerusalem above," sarah, "is free,
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Who is the mother of us all."
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Then he quotes from isaiah 54 about the fruitfulness of sarah,
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Those who are under grace.
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Sarah is a picture of grace.
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Next verse, verse 28: "now we, brethren, as isaac was,
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Are children of promise.
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But, as he who was born according to the flesh,"
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Which is ismael, was born after effort, "then persecuted him
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Who was born according to the spirit, even so it is now."
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Is always the child of law that persecutes the child of grace.
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It is never the child of grace persecutes a child of the law.
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You shall wake up and realize who is fulfilling
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The new commandment of jesus of love.
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Paul in acts 20 invited the elders of ephesus to meet him
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By the beach at miletus.
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They had a pastors' conference and this is what paul said
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In acts 20: "i know this, that after my departure
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Savage wolves will come in among you,
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Not sparing the flock.
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Also from among yourselves men will rise up,
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Speaking perverse things,
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To draw away disciples after themselves."
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So what are these wolves?
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How do they come in?
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And who are these men who rise up, speaking perverted things?
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To pervert means there's an original.
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You pervert from the original.
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What is the original?
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Keep on reading, next verse.
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"therefore watch, and remember that for three years
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I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
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So now, brethren," paul said, "i commend you to god
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And to the word of his grace,
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Which is able to do two things: to build you up
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And give you an inheritance among all those
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Who are sanctified."
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That means believers.
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"i commend you to god and to the word of his grace."
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You see, people, you can take the bible,
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The same portions that i read today,
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And someone else can turn it into law,
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The word of his law.
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They can turn it into word of his holiness,
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And i'm for god's holiness,
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But it doesn't say they commended to god's holiness
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Because grace produces holiness, not the other way around.
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It's the word of his grace.
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So who do you think, pastors, leaders?
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Paul commended you to god and to the word of his grace,
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Which is able to build you up, to build the people up.
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Remember, you must increase
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Before you can have the inheritance.
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He's able to build you up and to give you an inheritance.
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The word of his grace will build you up
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And give you an inheritance for you and your children.
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Blessed are your children for they live in your house.
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They are in your family.
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There are a lot of people who would love to hear the secrets
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Of god, because this is not pastor prince revelation.
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This is the word of the living god.
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Joseph prince: the lord keep you from every sickness and disease,
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You and your loved ones.
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And your families.
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Marked by favor, destined for greatness in the kingdom of god.
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In the name of the lord jesus christ,
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And all the people said, amen, amen.
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Love you all.
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Female: i told my son, i said, "i found my people!"
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I was so excited.
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Male announcer: church.
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It's not a place. it's a people.
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Male: good to see you guys. welcome, everyone.
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Female: hello.
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Male: we get people asking us, you know,
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How in the world do you do an online church?
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And we gather in our living room and we sing and we praise
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And then we sit there and we take in the word
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And then afterward you can talk about it.
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Announcer: church is not four walls.
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It's one body of christ.
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Male: we just feel so plugged in now, we feel planted.
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It does take some getting used to a little bit,
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You know, doing the online church.
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But i mean, right now we're speaking to you all
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And we're, you know, transcending time and space.
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Announcer: from livestreams to lifelines.
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Female: my best friends are in the chat,
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In the chat host, and when i was sick,
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I had people praying for me.
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I had people taking communion for me.
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They're right there when you need it.
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Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
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It's who you meet.
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Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love
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From people we can't see
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And we're not in the same room as.
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It helps us to make that connection,
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That i can't see god
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And i'm not in the same room as him, but he loves me.
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Announcer: find your people, find your church.
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Joseph prince: i believe that there is
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A corporate anointing whenever we come together
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To worship the lord as the body of christ,
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Even online.
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Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church
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Or text church to 71239 today.
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Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
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Join pastor joseph prince next time
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For a fresh word from the lord.
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Announcer: joseph prince ministries
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Is a section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,
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Joseph Prince - Why The Enemy Fights Grace So Hard

February 19, 2026 | 27:29

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