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Joseph Prince - Why Real Change Doesn’t Come from Trying Harder

March 24, 2026 | 27:29

Joseph Prince - Why Real Change Doesn’t Come from Trying Harder
Learn how you can stay hopeful in a hopeless world, and live fearless in these fearful last days.
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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Why Real Change Doesn’t Come from Trying Harder | March 24, 2026
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  • Joseph prince: some people think that this idea of the--
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  • Preaching the rapture,
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  • It will cause people to be indolent, you know,
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  • Lazy or lawless or whatever.
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  • Look at this, 1 john 3: "beloved,
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  • Now we the children of god; and it has not yet been revealed
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  • What we shall be, but we know that when he is revealed,"
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  • In all his glory and majesty, "we shall be like him,
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  • For we shall see him as he is."
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  • When you read the bible, you see his glory,
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  • You are being transformed.
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  • How much more when you see him face to face?
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  • Announcer: how would you spend today
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  • If you knew tomorrow was the rapture?
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  • We've seen enough movies to have an idea,
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  • But what does the bible really say?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince unpacks
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  • This blessed hope and reveals powerful truths
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  • About the last days.
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  • When you think about the rapture,
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  • Have you ever wondered, "will i be left behind?"
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  • "will the end times be filled with fear?"
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  • In his book, "ready for the rapture,"
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  • Joseph reveals why the rapture is not a reason
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  • To fear, but a promise of peace, security, hope,
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  • And joy in these last days.
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  • In these pages, discover how to live in hope
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  • When the world feels hopeless.
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  • Walk in confidence when things feel dark
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  • And uncertain, and shine with the light of christ
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  • In a world that seems more complex
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  • With each passing day.
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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: listen to the word
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  • That god has for you today because one word from god
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  • Can change your life eternally, amen?
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  • I want to share something from the last message.
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  • We talked about the end times.
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  • The greek word for man, "anthropos," is made up of
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  • Two words, all right, if you break it down,
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  • It is the word "standing up, looking up."
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  • Of all the creation of god, man stands and looks up.
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  • Man is not supposed to be looking down, amen.
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  • Jesus had little, and a great demand,
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  • More than 5000, including women and children
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  • Would be 10,000, people who were hungry.
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  • He had little in his hands, five loaves,
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  • And the bible says two small fish.
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  • He looked up.
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  • That's the posture of the way god made man--
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  • To always be looking up.
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  • That's true humility.
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  • You are never more tall than when you look up.
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  • You're never more frightening to the devil
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  • Than when you look up.
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  • The devil wants you to look around, look at one another,
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  • Compare with each other, amen.
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  • Compare, compete, be jealous, be envious.
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  • Jesus says, what is that to you?
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  • You follow me, you look up.
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  • You look at the glorified, exalted man
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  • At the father's right hand, the one with all authority
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  • In heaven and on earth.
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  • He is your master, he is your savior.
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  • Look up to him.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
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  • 1 thessalonians talks about the believers.
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  • They became, you know, the thessalonians
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  • In this greek city called salonika, all right,
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  • The thessalonians, "they themselves declare
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  • Concerning us what manner of entry we had to you,"
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  • When paul first preached the word,
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  • "how you turned to god from idols
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  • To serve the living and true god,
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  • And to wait for his son from heaven."
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  • Notice after you turn to god, what do you do?
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  • Is to wait for his son from heaven.
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  • Once you turn to the true and living god, after that,
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  • You're to "wait for his son from heaven,
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  • Whom god raised from the dead,
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  • Even jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come."
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  • Plain, isn't it?
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  • The rapture is the lord coming for his saints,
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  • Not to judge his saints.
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  • All judgment is finished at the cross.
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  • He's coming for his saints, coming in love.
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  • You know, he said this in matthew 24 and 25,
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  • You cannot find the rapture there.
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  • The rapture is a mystery, just as the church
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  • Is a mystery, a mystery that's been revealed,
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  • Especially to apostle paul, and the church
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  • And the jewish people never realized
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  • There's going to be a church, a called-out ones.
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  • When you see-- when you think of church,
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  • Don't think of a building.
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  • It's made of many members, it's called the body of christ.
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  • It's the father's dream.
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  • But the church was hidden in a mystery
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  • In the old testament.
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  • You cannot find the church except in types
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  • In the old testament.
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  • It was a mystery.
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  • The rapture is also a mystery.
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  • Paul says, "behold, i show you a mystery."
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  • And the word "mystery" in the new testament
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  • Is not something hidden.
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  • It is something hidden at one time
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  • In the old testament, but now revealed.
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  • Are you with me?
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  • "pastor prince, you know, the rapture is something
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  • That is new."
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  • Yes, it's a mystery, but yet at the same time,
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  • There are types in the old testament.
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  • Do you remember the story of noah and the flood?
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  • All right, noah-- noah's father is lamech.
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  • Lamech's father is methuselah.
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  • Methuselah's father is enoch.
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  • So god already said the flood is coming, the flood is coming.
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  • God is fed up with all the corruption
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  • That's going on and men being violent
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  • And killing one another.
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  • When god looked at the hearts of men,
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  • Their hearts are wicked all the time.
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  • And the bible says god looked at noah, and noah found grace.
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  • But the thing is this,
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  • It wasn't a message given to noah per se.
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  • It was a message given to his great-grandfather enoch.
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  • So the bible says in genesis 5 that enoch
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  • Lived 65 years and begot methuselah, all right?
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  • "after he begot methuselah, enoch walked with god.
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  • He walked with god three hundred years,
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  • And had sons and daughters."
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  • What revelation did he receive that he walked with god?
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  • Of all the patriarchs in this genesis 5,
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  • He's the only one that's mentioned he walked with god.
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  • Others did, but it's not mentioned.
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  • His was mentioned.
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  • The bible says in hebrews 11, the hall of faith,
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  • "enoch pleased god before he was translated."
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  • Do you know something? enoch never saw death.
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  • The bible says-- keep on reading.
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  • So all the days-- go down to verse 24:
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  • "enoch walked with god; and he was not,
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  • For god took him."
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  • He disappeared. he was not means he disappeared.
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  • He didn't die.
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  • God just took him.
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  • This is the first rapture before the flood.
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  • Noah, his great-grandson-- enoch brought methuselah,
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  • Methuselah brought lamech, lamech brought noah, okay?
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  • Long before the flood happened, before the judgment came
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  • On earth, god removed enoch.
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  • Noah, on the other hand, went through the judgment,
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  • Albeit in the ark, protected.
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  • So are there things on earth when the tribulation is on?
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  • Yes.
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  • "now pastor prince, how do you explain,
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  • They didn't go up?"
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  • No, they became saints after we disappeared.
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  • They read my book, all right?
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  • I'm not the only one, of course.
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  • The great disappearance will cause them to see,
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  • In fact, it's because of the great disappearance,
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  • Anarchy will rule,
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  • All kinds of lawlessness will happen
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  • Because the church disappears.
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  • 2 thessalonians: "the mystery of lawlessness," paul writes,
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  • "is already at work; only he," the holy spirit,
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  • "who now restrains will do so until he's taken
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  • Out of the way."
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  • You know the address of the holy spirit?
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  • Turn to your neighbor and say, "it's me."
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  • You are the temple of god.
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  • "know you not, you're the temple of god," right?
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  • The holy spirit's address is in you.
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  • So, you are restraining, in a sense it's not you,
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  • But the holy spirit, your presence,
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  • Your very presence, drives back
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  • That foul atmosphere, that murky atmosphere.
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  • You step into a room, people feel and sense
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  • A sanctifying influence.
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  • You are the salt of the earth.
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  • You are the refrigerator that keeps things
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  • From getting bad and stink.
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  • You are the light of the earth because salt in those days
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  • Is the refrigerator.
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  • It keeps their fish and others, all right,
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  • For a long, long time.
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  • Preserve it.
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  • Jesus says you are the salt, you are the light.
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  • Light is no good among light.
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  • Like a meeting of torchlights on sunday is good.
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  • But make sure we go out there in the darkness
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  • Because the value of a light is in darkness,
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  • And you shine.
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  • And that's why we live for his glory.
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  • We don't conduct our affairs with deception,
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  • With lies, all right?
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  • We don't act like the people of the world,
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  • Amen, complaining, murmuring all the time.
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  • When they look at you, there should be
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  • Something heavenly about you.
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  • There should be a princely or a princessly quality
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  • About you.
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  • You are above the petty things of life.
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  • You are above murmuring and complaining.
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  • It's something like they almost feel like
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  • They're in the presence of a prince or a princess.
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  • Now, they don't like it, they wanna pull you down
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  • From that, but that's your heavenly character.
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  • And it's taken from the one who is at the father's right hand,
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  • Who is now in glory, never again to suffer.
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  • The bible says, as he is, so are we in this world, amen?
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  • The moment a prince forget that,
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  • A princess does not know who she is,
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  • Then you act like the world.
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  • And the world loves it.
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  • I can't understand christians who go to the world
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  • To find their identity, when they themselves are lost.
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  • That's why we call them lost, okay?
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  • So, we're--it's very exciting because when jesus comes again,
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  • The bible says-- so some people think
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  • That this idea of the-- preaching the rapture,
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  • It will cause people to be indolent, you know,
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  • Lazy or lawless or whatever.
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  • According to the bible, when you preach on it,
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  • Look at this, 1 john 3: "beloved, now we
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  • The children of god; and it has not yet been revealed
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  • What we shall be, but we know that when he is revealed,"
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  • In all his glory and majesty, "we shall be like him,
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  • For we shall see him as he is."
  • 00:10:42.917 --> 00:10:45.120
  • Even now we are being transformed
  • 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.188
  • By someone preaching to us his beauty, his glory,
  • 00:10:47.188 --> 00:10:49.457
  • You are being transformed.
  • 00:10:49.457 --> 00:10:50.792
  • When you read the bible, you see his glory,
  • 00:10:50.792 --> 00:10:52.227
  • You are being transformed.
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  • How much more when you see him face to face?
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  • Man, everything about you, you think you're--
  • 00:10:56.831 --> 00:10:58.433
  • You have a touch of heavenly now,
  • 00:10:58.433 --> 00:10:59.768
  • You'll be heavenly completely, amen?
  • 00:10:59.768 --> 00:11:03.371
  • "we shall see him as he is.
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  • And everyone who has this hope,"
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  • Which the devil is trying to destroy.
  • 00:11:08.743 --> 00:11:11.079
  • "everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself,
  • 00:11:11.079 --> 00:11:14.482
  • Just as he is pure."
  • 00:11:14.482 --> 00:11:15.850
  • That's why the devil want to remove the blessed hope
  • 00:11:15.850 --> 00:11:17.919
  • From the church.
  • 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:19.254
  • It's a hope that purifies the church.
  • 00:11:19.254 --> 00:11:22.891
  • The more you think, "man, that's my home."
  • 00:11:22.891 --> 00:11:26.327
  • Yes, conduct the affairs of this earth
  • 00:11:26.327 --> 00:11:29.464
  • With a loose hand, just like gideon's men,
  • 00:11:29.464 --> 00:11:32.801
  • Drink the water by looking up.
  • 00:11:32.801 --> 00:11:35.236
  • Don't be like those who dive into the water,
  • 00:11:35.236 --> 00:11:37.472
  • All disqualified from being serving--
  • 00:11:37.472 --> 00:11:40.809
  • For serving the kingdom of god.
  • 00:11:40.809 --> 00:11:45.547
  • Look up, get ready.
  • 00:11:45.547 --> 00:11:49.350
  • Another reason why believers don't want to hear about rapture
  • 00:11:49.350 --> 00:11:52.253
  • Is because they are so much vested on this earth.
  • 00:11:52.253 --> 00:11:54.989
  • So much gold, so much property.
  • 00:11:54.989 --> 00:11:57.292
  • They don't want to talk about the rapture.
  • 00:11:57.292 --> 00:11:58.993
  • I cannot understand that, you know.
  • 00:11:58.993 --> 00:12:00.829
  • That's why the rapture purifies you.
  • 00:12:00.829 --> 00:12:02.363
  • The more you think about the rapture,
  • 00:12:02.363 --> 00:12:04.399
  • Yeah, you can invest, you can--but you do it
  • 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:07.068
  • With understanding that these things
  • 00:12:07.068 --> 00:12:08.403
  • Are not everything, this temporal.
  • 00:12:08.403 --> 00:12:10.638
  • You are living here for his glory.
  • 00:12:10.638 --> 00:12:13.441
  • You invest in gold.
  • 00:12:13.441 --> 00:12:14.776
  • At the end, you know what heaven will use gold for?
  • 00:12:14.776 --> 00:12:17.679
  • Like the way we use tar for the road.
  • 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.683
  • Oh, you're not happy with me now--
  • 00:12:21.683 --> 00:12:23.885
  • I'm not here to make you happy. i'm here to help you.
  • 00:12:23.885 --> 00:12:26.754
  • I'm here to feed you.
  • 00:12:26.754 --> 00:12:28.456
  • I'm here to bless you, amen.
  • 00:12:28.456 --> 00:12:32.160
  • One thing about jesus, if you notice carefully
  • 00:12:32.160 --> 00:12:33.728
  • About him, he's never flattered into being gracious or kind.
  • 00:12:33.728 --> 00:12:39.901
  • Neither is he ever offended to be unkind.
  • 00:12:39.901 --> 00:12:46.341
  • There's a rhythm that he follows and it's the holy spirit.
  • 00:12:46.341 --> 00:12:49.344
  • He will help you.
  • 00:12:49.344 --> 00:12:50.745
  • If he needs to correct you,
  • 00:12:50.745 --> 00:12:52.080
  • He'll correct you, but he's always looking
  • 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:53.414
  • To love you.
  • 00:12:53.414 --> 00:12:54.749
  • Today we don't look for that, we look to please people
  • 00:12:54.749 --> 00:12:57.986
  • Instead of loving them.
  • 00:12:57.986 --> 00:12:59.320
  • Okay, back to this again. so i'm loving you, okay?
  • 00:12:59.320 --> 00:13:03.658
  • And the thing is that once you realize
  • 00:13:03.658 --> 00:13:05.226
  • That business people, go ahead, occupy.
  • 00:13:05.226 --> 00:13:07.061
  • Jesus says, "occupy till i come."
  • 00:13:07.061 --> 00:13:08.730
  • But remember, once you know that he's coming,
  • 00:13:08.730 --> 00:13:11.065
  • Everything is seen in its right perspective.
  • 00:13:11.065 --> 00:13:13.801
  • You're looking up, you're not trying
  • 00:13:13.801 --> 00:13:15.770
  • To make this world your home.
  • 00:13:15.770 --> 00:13:18.072
  • Aren't you happy for the rapture?
  • 00:13:18.072 --> 00:13:19.641
  • The rapture is nothing more than him coming
  • 00:13:19.641 --> 00:13:21.709
  • To claim what he has purchased.
  • 00:13:21.709 --> 00:13:24.913
  • Please don't have this idea: the rapture is actually jesus,
  • 00:13:24.913 --> 00:13:28.016
  • You know, "oh man, i forgot to redeem their bodies.
  • 00:13:28.016 --> 00:13:33.121
  • So, paul, tell them i'm coming--"
  • 00:13:33.121 --> 00:13:36.057
  • No, no, it's all covered at the cross.
  • 00:13:36.057 --> 00:13:38.826
  • But for some reason, which i can speculate,
  • 00:13:38.826 --> 00:13:41.896
  • But speculation is not what i'm gonna preach.
  • 00:13:41.896 --> 00:13:44.532
  • God has allowed us to be in our fallen body,
  • 00:13:44.532 --> 00:13:47.502
  • And yet our spirits are new.
  • 00:13:47.502 --> 00:13:49.137
  • You are a resurrected spirit in an unresurrected body.
  • 00:13:49.137 --> 00:13:53.508
  • And god left you here on earth to reach out
  • 00:13:53.508 --> 00:13:56.010
  • To others, to live a victorious life,
  • 00:13:56.010 --> 00:13:58.313
  • A life that bring honor to his name in that old body.
  • 00:13:58.313 --> 00:14:04.052
  • And there is a practice during paul's time
  • 00:14:04.052 --> 00:14:07.088
  • Where, which was until recent times,
  • 00:14:07.088 --> 00:14:09.857
  • You know, you still have it,
  • 00:14:09.857 --> 00:14:11.292
  • Where you put a down payment for something you buy.
  • 00:14:11.292 --> 00:14:13.628
  • In other words, you buy something, okay,
  • 00:14:13.628 --> 00:14:15.596
  • But then you put a down payment for it.
  • 00:14:15.596 --> 00:14:18.833
  • A down payment guarantees you're coming back,
  • 00:14:18.833 --> 00:14:22.437
  • All right, for the full redemption.
  • 00:14:22.437 --> 00:14:25.974
  • So the master goes far away. we don't know how long.
  • 00:14:25.974 --> 00:14:29.877
  • When he comes back, he comes and takes that--
  • 00:14:29.877 --> 00:14:33.314
  • Takes possession of what he has redeemed.
  • 00:14:33.314 --> 00:14:37.185
  • This time it's not a-- it's a full payment.
  • 00:14:37.185 --> 00:14:39.554
  • Now of course, all the full payment
  • 00:14:39.554 --> 00:14:40.888
  • Is done at the cross, but the bible itself says
  • 00:14:40.888 --> 00:14:43.458
  • That the holy spirit is the earnest,
  • 00:14:43.458 --> 00:14:45.660
  • The down payment.
  • 00:14:45.660 --> 00:14:47.395
  • So god put the holy spirit in us as a down payment
  • 00:14:47.395 --> 00:14:50.565
  • That when he comes, all of us, plus our bodies,
  • 00:14:50.565 --> 00:14:53.968
  • Will be redeemed.
  • 00:14:53.968 --> 00:14:56.337
  • The holy spirit is the down payment.
  • 00:14:56.337 --> 00:14:57.839
  • Check out your bible, ephesians chapter 1.
  • 00:14:57.839 --> 00:14:59.774
  • He is the down payment.
  • 00:14:59.774 --> 00:15:01.476
  • When it says: "let-- grieve not the holy spirit,
  • 00:15:01.476 --> 00:15:03.678
  • Whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption,"
  • 00:15:03.678 --> 00:15:07.115
  • What is that?
  • 00:15:07.115 --> 00:15:08.449
  • The holy spirit is a guarantee, all right?
  • 00:15:08.449 --> 00:15:10.251
  • The holy spirit in you now is a guarantee
  • 00:15:10.251 --> 00:15:12.120
  • That there's a day of redemption coming
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  • When your entire body is redeemed.
  • 00:15:13.788 --> 00:15:15.857
  • And i'll tell you something, people, this is powerful.
  • 00:15:15.857 --> 00:15:20.962
  • Some time ago, i used to think that in heaven,
  • 00:15:20.962 --> 00:15:23.965
  • There are bodies waiting for us,
  • 00:15:23.965 --> 00:15:26.000
  • Like batman's uniform hanging somewhere, you know,
  • 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.804
  • A lot of batman uniform.
  • 00:15:29.804 --> 00:15:31.706
  • So anyway, we always imagine that when jesus comes,
  • 00:15:31.706 --> 00:15:34.876
  • He will bring our bodies from heaven.
  • 00:15:34.876 --> 00:15:37.111
  • Now the bible doesn't say that.
  • 00:15:37.111 --> 00:15:38.446
  • The bible says it is made in heaven.
  • 00:15:38.446 --> 00:15:40.982
  • But do you know where you are--
  • 00:15:40.982 --> 00:15:42.650
  • Do you know where you're glorified
  • 00:15:42.650 --> 00:15:43.985
  • In the new body?
  • 00:15:43.985 --> 00:15:45.453
  • Right where the old body is.
  • 00:15:45.453 --> 00:15:48.589
  • That's why when jesus comes again,
  • 00:15:48.589 --> 00:15:50.858
  • The dead in christ-- do you know many of them
  • 00:15:50.858 --> 00:15:53.161
  • Are ashes already?
  • 00:15:53.161 --> 00:15:55.496
  • But "by him all things were made,
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  • And without him was not anything made that was made,"
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  • John 1--colossians chapter 1.
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  • In him, in christ, who made everything,
  • 00:16:02.904 --> 00:16:05.406
  • All things are held together.
  • 00:16:05.406 --> 00:16:07.375
  • You can burn something to ashes, but the atoms
  • 00:16:07.375 --> 00:16:10.078
  • Is not lost, why?
  • 00:16:10.078 --> 00:16:11.546
  • He made the atoms.
  • 00:16:11.546 --> 00:16:12.880
  • In him, all atoms are held together,
  • 00:16:12.880 --> 00:16:15.183
  • The bible tells us.
  • 00:16:15.183 --> 00:16:16.517
  • So when it comes to the rapture,
  • 00:16:16.517 --> 00:16:17.852
  • We want shout, that voice, he who created all things,
  • 00:16:17.852 --> 00:16:20.588
  • All atoms, and held all atoms together.
  • 00:16:20.588 --> 00:16:23.558
  • Even if the body is dead in the seas or in ashes
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  • Or in the stomach of a shark that also died
  • 00:16:26.227 --> 00:16:29.397
  • And became ashes, whatever it is, all right,
  • 00:16:29.397 --> 00:16:32.366
  • The atoms are not lost.
  • 00:16:32.366 --> 00:16:33.701
  • With one shout, he summons, even the dead in christ,
  • 00:16:33.701 --> 00:16:36.704
  • The ashes, will have a new body.
  • 00:16:36.704 --> 00:16:39.273
  • Or else, why go get their bodies?
  • 00:16:39.273 --> 00:16:41.442
  • They are now in heaven, you know,
  • 00:16:41.442 --> 00:16:43.044
  • Those who are dead in christ, they are now in heaven,
  • 00:16:43.044 --> 00:16:44.545
  • Jumping up and down the streets of gold.
  • 00:16:44.545 --> 00:16:46.280
  • My grandfather is there and he's young, he's a--
  • 00:16:46.280 --> 00:16:48.616
  • Look like a teenager, amen.
  • 00:16:48.616 --> 00:16:52.386
  • He look at me and say, "you think you're good-looking,
  • 00:16:52.386 --> 00:16:54.589
  • You think you're a good-looking boy?
  • 00:16:54.589 --> 00:16:56.157
  • Take a look at moi..."
  • 00:16:56.157 --> 00:16:59.694
  • Yeah, your grandfather, your grandmother, amen.
  • 00:16:59.694 --> 00:17:02.697
  • What do you think, people?
  • 00:17:02.697 --> 00:17:05.066
  • "pastor prince, you don't understand, pastor.
  • 00:17:05.066 --> 00:17:07.368
  • My grandfather died, never received christ."
  • 00:17:07.368 --> 00:17:10.338
  • But were you a believer? "yes, pastor."
  • 00:17:10.338 --> 00:17:12.640
  • Well, the bible says believe in the lord jesus christ
  • 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:14.375
  • And you shall be saved and your house.
  • 00:17:14.375 --> 00:17:17.645
  • So, it's not automatic, all right,
  • 00:17:17.645 --> 00:17:19.514
  • But what it's saying is that because you are saved,
  • 00:17:19.514 --> 00:17:21.716
  • There's a covenant.
  • 00:17:21.716 --> 00:17:23.050
  • God has a big hole in your family
  • 00:17:23.050 --> 00:17:24.552
  • To put his hand in and get your family saved.
  • 00:17:24.552 --> 00:17:27.455
  • And even if in the brink of that moment
  • 00:17:27.455 --> 00:17:30.391
  • Where heaven and earth meet
  • 00:17:30.391 --> 00:17:32.660
  • And they're in coma, we do not know,
  • 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:34.529
  • The lord can visit them, and the lord can say,
  • 00:17:34.529 --> 00:17:36.597
  • "yo, i am the lord jesus, and they are saved."
  • 00:17:36.597 --> 00:17:39.534
  • Whoever calls upon the name of the lord,
  • 00:17:39.534 --> 00:17:41.035
  • My grandfather last moment shouted, "jesus,"
  • 00:17:41.035 --> 00:17:43.571
  • And he's saved.
  • 00:17:43.571 --> 00:17:44.906
  • Whoever calls upon the name of the lord
  • 00:17:44.906 --> 00:17:46.541
  • Will be saved.
  • 00:17:46.541 --> 00:17:48.709
  • But i'll tell you this, that moment of limbo
  • 00:17:48.709 --> 00:17:53.114
  • Between life and death, you and i cannot judge.
  • 00:17:53.114 --> 00:17:57.118
  • If the lord visit them before their last heartbeat,
  • 00:17:57.118 --> 00:17:59.353
  • The lord says, "i'm jesus."
  • 00:17:59.353 --> 00:18:00.688
  • They say, "i believe," bang.
  • 00:18:00.688 --> 00:18:02.256
  • The thief at the cross, listen, the thief at the cross,
  • 00:18:02.256 --> 00:18:05.026
  • Jesus said--he says, "lord, remember me when you come
  • 00:18:05.026 --> 00:18:08.563
  • Into your kingdom."
  • 00:18:08.563 --> 00:18:10.231
  • Just one statement.
  • 00:18:10.231 --> 00:18:11.799
  • Jesus turned around and says, "today you shall be with me."
  • 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:15.069
  • All right, it's easier to be saved than to be lost.
  • 00:18:15.069 --> 00:18:17.872
  • Are you with me so far?
  • 00:18:17.872 --> 00:18:20.441
  • I hope this blessing you, helping you.
  • 00:18:20.441 --> 00:18:22.643
  • Back to 1 corinthians 15, it says:
  • 00:18:22.643 --> 00:18:24.912
  • "we shall all be changed in a moment,
  • 00:18:24.912 --> 00:18:26.480
  • In the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet."
  • 00:18:26.480 --> 00:18:28.482
  • Revelations 22, the last few verses,
  • 00:18:28.482 --> 00:18:30.985
  • The last few verses, drop down.
  • 00:18:30.985 --> 00:18:35.089
  • "he who--" these are the last two verses
  • 00:18:35.089 --> 00:18:37.358
  • Of the entire book of the bible.
  • 00:18:37.358 --> 00:18:40.728
  • It ends--the entire bible ends in chapter 22 of revelation
  • 00:18:40.728 --> 00:18:43.898
  • Like this: "he who testifies to this thing says,"
  • 00:18:43.898 --> 00:18:46.867
  • The last words of jesus in the bible,
  • 00:18:46.867 --> 00:18:49.003
  • "'surely i am coming quickly,'" all right?
  • 00:18:49.003 --> 00:18:54.976
  • "quickly" is the emphasis here.
  • 00:18:54.976 --> 00:18:57.278
  • But you know what's the problem, people?
  • 00:18:57.278 --> 00:18:59.247
  • People interpret this, and christians--
  • 00:18:59.247 --> 00:19:01.082
  • You see christians with sandwich boards
  • 00:19:01.082 --> 00:19:02.783
  • And all that downtown new york walking around,
  • 00:19:02.783 --> 00:19:05.920
  • "jesus is coming soon."
  • 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:09.090
  • And the problem is this, they never look at
  • 00:19:09.090 --> 00:19:10.992
  • The words "quickly."
  • 00:19:10.992 --> 00:19:13.227
  • The word "quickly" can mean soon, can mean sudden, swift.
  • 00:19:13.227 --> 00:19:20.201
  • Many people translate "jesus coming soon."
  • 00:19:20.201 --> 00:19:23.804
  • And people say, "for 2000 years, what do you mean 'soon'?"
  • 00:19:23.804 --> 00:19:26.641
  • It's not soon. "i'm coming.
  • 00:19:26.641 --> 00:19:28.542
  • When i come, it'll be suddenly."
  • 00:19:28.542 --> 00:19:31.579
  • "tachu" in the greek, coming suddenly.
  • 00:19:31.579 --> 00:19:34.815
  • When the holy spirit came, he came to the church
  • 00:19:34.815 --> 00:19:38.552
  • In the upper room suddenly.
  • 00:19:38.552 --> 00:19:41.722
  • The lord says, when it happens,
  • 00:19:41.722 --> 00:19:43.224
  • The rapture happens, it will happen
  • 00:19:43.224 --> 00:19:44.592
  • In an atomic second, the twinkling of an eye.
  • 00:19:44.592 --> 00:19:47.595
  • The world will see--
  • 00:19:47.595 --> 00:19:48.929
  • The world will just see a disappearance.
  • 00:19:48.929 --> 00:19:52.533
  • That's what it means.
  • 00:19:52.533 --> 00:19:53.968
  • It's not saying "i'll come soon.
  • 00:19:53.968 --> 00:19:56.170
  • Next year, i'll come soon."
  • 00:19:56.170 --> 00:19:58.005
  • It's not that.
  • 00:19:58.005 --> 00:19:59.340
  • It's that "i come in a sudden way.
  • 00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:02.176
  • I'll come swiftly."
  • 00:20:02.176 --> 00:20:04.245
  • Vine says swiftly, all right?
  • 00:20:04.245 --> 00:20:06.981
  • Swiftly can mean soon, it can mean also the manner.
  • 00:20:06.981 --> 00:20:11.585
  • So it's the manner of his coming.
  • 00:20:11.585 --> 00:20:15.256
  • People, let's close. these are the last few verses.
  • 00:20:15.256 --> 00:20:18.826
  • Imagine that's the last word of jesus.
  • 00:20:18.826 --> 00:20:21.662
  • Let's look at this last chapter, and then we'll close.
  • 00:20:21.662 --> 00:20:24.965
  • Go back to revelations 22, verse 16: "i, jesus,
  • 00:20:24.965 --> 00:20:29.437
  • Have sent my angel to testify to you
  • 00:20:29.437 --> 00:20:32.239
  • These things in the churches.
  • 00:20:32.239 --> 00:20:33.908
  • I am the root."
  • 00:20:33.908 --> 00:20:36.577
  • That makes him god.
  • 00:20:36.577 --> 00:20:38.412
  • He's the root of david.
  • 00:20:38.412 --> 00:20:40.881
  • Jesus came from the lineage of david.
  • 00:20:40.881 --> 00:20:42.950
  • David is long gone, you know, to be with the lord,
  • 00:20:42.950 --> 00:20:46.120
  • But how can he be the root?
  • 00:20:46.120 --> 00:20:47.588
  • The root produced a fruit, the root produced a tree.
  • 00:20:47.588 --> 00:20:52.626
  • In other words, he created david.
  • 00:20:52.626 --> 00:20:55.696
  • That's his deity, and yet, "the offspring of david."
  • 00:20:55.696 --> 00:20:59.834
  • David, from david's loins came mary and joseph, his father.
  • 00:20:59.834 --> 00:21:06.474
  • So he's the root and the offspring.
  • 00:21:06.474 --> 00:21:09.110
  • So this one line talks about his deity
  • 00:21:09.110 --> 00:21:11.812
  • And his humanity.
  • 00:21:11.812 --> 00:21:13.614
  • And it says: "the bright and morning star."
  • 00:21:13.614 --> 00:21:15.950
  • The last chapter of the bible
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  • Tells us the bright and morning star.
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  • The last chapter of the book of the old testament, malachi,
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  • The very last chapter of the entire old testament,
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  • Malachi says: "the sun of righteousness."
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  • The bright and morning star comes first.
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  • For his people, before the day of the lord,
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  • Which is the day of judgment, comes.
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  • The star comes before the day.
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  • He will come for his people, the new covenant people.
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  • That's why it ends with the bright and morning star.
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  • We are looking forward for his son from heaven,
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  • The one that we love, who first loved us.
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  • Let us live our lives for his glory, amen?
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  • And it says: "and the spirit and the bride say--"
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  • "and the spirit and the bride say--"
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  • Come on, bride.
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  • "and the spirit and the bride say--
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  • And let him who hears say, 'come!'
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  • And let him who thirst come.
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  • Whoever desires, let him take the water of life," how?
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  • "freely," without merit, freely,
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  • And it ends with the last two verses: "he who testifies
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  • To these things says, 'surely i'm coming quickly.'
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  • Amen.
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  • Even so, come, lord jesus!"
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  • The grace of our lord jesus christ
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  • Be with you all, amen.
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  • With a special prayer to close today's program
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  • Announcer: and now, a closing word
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  • From pastor joseph prince.
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  • Joseph prince: everyone that's watching this, lord,
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  • By way of broadcast,
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  • I pray that, father, the lord keep you,
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  • Preserve you, protect you, in the name of jesus,
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  • From every danger, from every strain of virus,
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  • From every disease and sickness.
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  • May your life be filled with the resurrection power
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  • That raised jesus from the dead,
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  • Permeating through every cell of your body.
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  • The lord make his face shine on you, be favorable to you.
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  • The lord grant you supernatural, unmerited favor,
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  • Favor that opened doors for you, favor that shut doors
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  • That are no good for you, favor everywhere you go.
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  • May the heavenly touch, may the princely touch,
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  • The princess touch, be on you and be felt by the world.
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  • The lord lift up his countenance on you
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  • And grant you shalom.
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  • And all the people say, "come, lord jesus.
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  • Come, lord jesus," amen. god bless you, we'll see you.
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  • In the lives of so many.
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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. male: welcome, everyone.
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  • Male: we get people asking us, saying, you know,
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  • How in the world do you do an online church
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  • And, you know, but we gather in our living room
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  • And we sing and we praise and then we sit there
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  • And we take in the word, and then afterward
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  • 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,
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  • 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
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  • And learn to feel love 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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  • Or text "church" to 71239 today.
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