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Joseph Prince - Why You're Afraid To Rest (And How To Let Go)

June 2, 2026 | 27:29

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Why You're Afraid To Rest (And How To Let Go) | June 2, 2026

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Joseph prince: the only one place in the bible
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God tells you to fear is here-- fear of not entering his rest,
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Fear of not being restful.
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God loves it when his people rest
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In what his son has done.
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It's the greatest honor you can give god.
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Male announcer: have you ever felt too tired to sleep,
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Too restless to rest?
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In today's message, joseph shares
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How the lord wants to make our hearts lighter,
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Our minds quieter, and our sleep truly restful.
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Announcer: "you are my hiding place.
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You will protect me from trouble.
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In peace i will lie down and sleep, for you alone,
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O lord, will keep me safe.
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I lay down and slept, yet i woke up in safety,
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For the lord was watching over me.
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He makes me lie down in green pastures.
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He leads me beside still waters.
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He restores my soul."
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In joseph's book "bedtime psalms,"
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You can find rest for your restless soul,
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Journey through 50 nightly meditations
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To fill your tired heart with hope and peace.
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To request your copy now.
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And now here's pastor joseph prince
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With today's program.
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Joseph prince: we're gonna learn how to walk with god
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Because in the new testament, it is not walk with god,
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It is not walk before his face, amen,
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Although it will include all that.
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Our word is walk in the spirit,
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And it's a such closeness that god dwells in us,
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People, and our spirit and god's spirit are so close
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That we sometimes know things before anyone else does.
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We know what's the right thing to do
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Without going to college, without going to university,
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And the wisdom that god gives us in one split second
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Is greater than all the experts in the world.
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So god told israel, "look, i've given you the land."
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Time and time again, god says, "i give you a land
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Flowing with milk and honey," amen?
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In deuteronomy 8, god describes to them the land, amen.
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This is the description.
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"god--the lord your god is bringing you to a--
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Into a good land, a land of brooks of water,
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Of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys
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And hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines,
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Fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey."
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All this easy picking.
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It's not backbreaking work to pick this food of zion,
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This food of canaan.
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"a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity,
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In which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron
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And out of whose hills you can dig copper."
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And for all those people who are so afraid
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Of the word prosperity, all right,
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You gotta check these verses out and talk to god about it.
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I pray that you pray and talk to god, all right?
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Advise him, if you can.
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It's not my place, okay?
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God should have said, "i bring you to a place
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Where you won't have enough and you will just learn
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Some lessons by that, and you'll go to a place
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Where the bees cannot even produce enough honey.
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There's a lesson down there. there's a lesson."
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We do not know, but there's a lesson, all right?
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"and you'll come to a place where there's no copper,
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But you will learn to be creative
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Because you've got no copper, no iron, okay?"
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That is not what i read, okay?
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I don't believe in selfish prosperity,
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But the bible does teach that our god is
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An abundant god in goodness and truth, and he loves to give.
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He loves to give.
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Let's look at another description of--
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That god told them about the land in chapter 6.
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"so it shall be, when the lord your god
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Brings you into the land--"
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You see, god wants to bring them.
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God said about the land in such a way that,
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"i'm giving you this land."
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He's describing because he's telling them
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He's giving them the land.
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He didn't tell them, all right, "you're gonna do this.
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You're gonna do that. you're gonna do this.
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You're gonna do that.
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These are the ten commandments for taking the land."
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No, he said--he just said, "i'm giving you the land."
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He wants to be trusted.
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And here it says, "the land that i give," all right,
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"this land is to give you large and beautiful cities
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Which you did not build,
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Houses full of all good things, full of all good things,
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Which you did not fill, hewn-out wells
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Which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees
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Which you did not plant."
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He goes on to tell them, "when you have eaten
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And you are full--" so there's also eating and then full.
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Singaporeans, the distance between eating and full
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Is a lonnnnggg line, i'm telling you,
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Like the mrt line, and it breaks down
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Also halfway sometimes, you know.
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We are never full,
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But god promised you will eat and you'll be full.
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So god promised what?
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They will live in cities they did not build
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And live in houses full of good things
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Which they didn't fill,
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Drink from waters of hewn-out wells
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That they didn't dig, eat from vineyards--
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There'll be grapes, amen?--
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And olive trees that they did not plant.
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So what is this a picture of? picture of rest.
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It's a picture of rest.
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Hebrews chapter 4 gives us the reality
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Of our promised land today.
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Our promised land is not a physical land,
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Amen, but it is a place of rest.
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"therefore, since a promise remains of entering his rest,
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Let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it."
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Do you know what, church?
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This is the only place that god tells us to fear.
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The only one place in the bible god tells you to fear is here:
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Fear of not entering his rest, fear of not being restful.
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The bible says let us fear
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Lest any of you seem to come short of that rest.
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"for indeed the gospel was preached to them--"
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Referring to the same story i'm sharing today
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At kadesh barnea, the same good news was preached
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That god's bringing them to a land flowing
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With milk and honey, but they didn't listen, all right?
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"the word preached--which they heard did not profit them,
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Not being mixed with faith in those who heard it."
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Verse 3, "for we who have believed do enter that rest."
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We who have what? believed.
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Not working people, not work towards it, not earn it,
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But we who believe what he has done,
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What he has accomplished, we enter into rest.
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Then it says, "as he has said--"
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Now he's quoting psalms 95, verse 11.
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Psalm 95 says, "so i swore in my wrath,"
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God is talking, "they shall not enter my rest."
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This is very interesting because here god calls
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What we just read just now houses full of all good things
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That we did not fill,
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You know, vineyards we did not plant--
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Notice that all these things that we did not do,
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That means what?
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We're entering a place of rest.
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So this year will be a year where you will enjoy things
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Restfully.
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I said restfully.
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And god instead of saying, "they shall not enter my land,"
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Here god says-- instead of saying,
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"my land," he says, "they will not enter--
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They shall not enter my rest."
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Contrast that with "my wrath."
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Opposite of "my wrath" is not "my joy"; it's "my rest."
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God loves it when his people rest in what his son has done.
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It's the greatest honor you can give god.
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Okay, nonetheless, back to kadesh barnea.
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They're at kadesh barnea, so they decide to send
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12 spies, all right?
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"but, pastor, god commanded them.
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We read just now--"
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Okay, let's read. i had to settle this part.
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"and the lord spoke to moses, saying, 'send men to spy out
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The land of canaan, which i am giving,'"
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Don't forget god is giving, "to the children of israel;
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And from each tribe of their fathers
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You shall send a man, every one a leader among them."
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Now, god has described to them the land.
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God has told them what the land looks like,
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The mountains.
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There'll be brass, iron.
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And god told them there'll be vineyards.
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There'll be all kinds of good things about the land.
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God told them, but they are not willing to accept
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What god said, so god says send--
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God told moses-- no doubt, here god is--
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It sounds like god is commanding moses
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To send spies out to the land.
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I have to settle this part first
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And teach you about an aspect of god, okay?
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But at the end of moses's life as moses was recounting--
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In the book of deuteronomy, he was recounting the journeys
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And all that and--he said this to the people in deuteronomy 1.
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He told them, "look, the lord your god
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Has set the land before you."
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Now, he's recounting.
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This is coming to the 40th year already, okay?
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They have wandered.
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He's recounting.
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"look, the lord your god-- i told you this."
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He was telling them. "remember i told you this.
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'the lord your god has set the land before you,
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Go up and possess it, as the lord god of your fathers
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Has spoken to you: do not fear or be discouraged.'
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And every one of you came near to me.
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Every one of you came near to me."
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We read just now god commanded them to send the spies.
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Here, every one of the leaders came to him.
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They came to him and they said or the--
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People of israel, every one of them--
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Not just the leaders, every one of them came
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To moses and said, "let us send men before us,
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And let them search out the land for--"
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What do you want men for when god has spoken?
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God told you what the land looks like.
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What can mortal men, whose eyes are frail--
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Some of you can't even see me from there,
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So you look at the screen.
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What can mortal men, what--why need--
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Do we need spies when god has spoken?
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Yet there's this propensity of the human flesh.
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What expert told you that?
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What need we for human eyes, human estimate, human advice
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When god said this is how the land is gonna be like?
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So because they came, because they asked,
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God said to moses, "send men."
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So you understand now?
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It's the same thing as when they asked
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For the law in exodus 19.
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It wasn't god's design.
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God wanted to bring them out by grace
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And let them enter the land by grace.
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So the 12 spies explored the land.
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They went down. from the south, they went up.
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By the way, they went all the way to the galilee area, harma.
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The bible mention the name hammat.
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All the way to the galilee area and then he came back.
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Forty days of spying out the land,
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Each tribe sent their leader.
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So we have joshua, all right, and caleb.
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Caleb from the tribe of judah; joshua, ephraim.
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And they came back, and the bible says
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They carried this.
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Then they came to the valley of eshcol.
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"eshcol" means cluster. say "cluster."
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And there cut-- there they cut down a branch
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With one cluster of grapes.
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Now, imagine how heavy the grapes must be
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That they carried it between two of them on a pole.
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Now, grapes represent joy.
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Jesus says, "i am the vine. you are the branches."
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The aspect of the holy spirit is a--
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Picture of the holy spirit, but it's a joyful aspect,
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Just like oil is the holy spirit but it is the revelation aspect.
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Oil for light, the bible says, is the revelation aspect.
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So grapes--what is god saying?
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Listen, "the joys i have for you in my land,
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The joys that i have for you
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Far outstrips the joys and pleasures of egypt.
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It far outstrips the joys you find out there."
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Are you listening, people?
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And yet people think, "you know, this--
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Church is a boring place,
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Doing the things of god is boring and all that."
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They do not know the greater grapes,
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It far surpasses the grapes of egypt.
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By the way, during that time,
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You notice that there are not many pictographs.
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There are, but there are not many pictographs
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In egypt of grapes.
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And those few that had grapes, their grapes are so puny, why?
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Grapes don't grow well in egypt.
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But in canaan, they had a cluster of grapes.
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They call the place eshcol because of the cluster.
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They had to carry it between two guys.
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There was so much.
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God is saying to you, "my land has so much pleasure,
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So much joy that far surpasses that of the world."
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Forget the world, amen. i got a poetry for the world.
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"oh worldly pomp and glory. your charms are spread in vain.
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I've heard a sweeter story.
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I found a truer gain."
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The world will never know and taste
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What you know and taste down here.
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Don't back away
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And think you're going to something greater.
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You're going down,
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And that's why they always say going down to egypt.
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He went down to egypt. abraham went down.
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But canaan, let us go up. it's a higher place.
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May you and your families go up, amen?
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Stop wandering and start walking deliberately with god.
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And all the people said amen?
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"they returned from spying out the land after forty days."
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All right, drop down.
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"now they departed and came back to moses and aaron
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And all the congregation of the children of israel
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In the wilderness of paran, at kadesh.
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They had brought back word to them
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And to all the congregation,
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And showed them the fruit of the land.
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Then they told him and said,
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'we went to the land where you sent us.
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It truly flows with milk and honey.'"
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It is not a land having milk and honey--
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That is good enough--but flows.
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You know what's flows? flows is abundant.
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Flows, amen. then look what happened.
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Verse 28, "nevertheless the people who dwell in the land
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Are strong,
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The cities are fortified and very large;
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Moreover we saw the descendants of anak there.
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Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong,
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The cities are fortified and very large."
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There's always a "nevertheless."
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So, first, they say that "yes, it's a good land.
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It is a good land. look at the fruit.
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We brought back the fruit.
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Nevertheless--" you know, men will always sit in judgment
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Of what god said.
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"yes, but. yes, but.
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Yes, but."
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That's why god separates the goats from the sheep.
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Goats love to butt.
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"yes, but. yes, but."
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You know, when god said it, that settles it.
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There's no but.
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So here they said, "we saw the descendants--
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The cities are fortified and very large.
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We saw the descendants of anak there."
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Now, faith does not deny difficulties, amen.
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Neither joshua nor caleb-- later on you see none of them
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Denied the difficulties.
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They never said, "there are--no, no, no, no.
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What are you saying?
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There's no giant, like a guy with a big tumor on his face.
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No, no, no, no, no. nothing, nothing.
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This is nothing."
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No, that's not faith. people think that's faith.
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No, that's not faith. faith is not reckless.
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It is not indifferent.
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Faith looks straight at the difficulties,
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But looks through it to god, to jehovah.
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Amen.
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Faith looks at god.
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These people looks-- they were looking at the cities,
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Large cities.
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They were looking at the descendants of anak.
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By the way, anak here--anak are pronounced in hebrew "anak."
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They're actually descendants of the giants--nephilim.
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The "nevertheless" there--
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"nevertheless the people are strong.
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So the fruit is good. this is the fruit.
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Look at the grapes. it's great.
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Nevertheless, but--" are you listening, people?
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So the cities are great, but our god is greater.
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The walls are high. our god is higher.
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The giants are strong, but god is stronger!
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They saw the giants.
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They saw the big walls, the lofty walls,
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But two of them, joshua and caleb, saw jehovah.
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They looked at god.
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They saw the lord, and it's interesting
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What they say.
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Now, they're not finished complaining yet.
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"we saw the descendants of anak there.
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The amalekites dwell in the land of the south,
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The hittites, the jebusites--"
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So south--"we look down, we saw giants.
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The hittites, the jebusites, and the amorites
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Dwell in the mountains.
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In the mountains, we saw the hittites."
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By the way, just to let you know,
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The word "hittites" come from the word "heth,"
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Which is the word for fear, fear.
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"hittites and the canaanites dwell by the sea
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Along the banks of the jordan."
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"so up there in the mountain, they are there.
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Looking down in the south, they are there.
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By the sea, they are there.
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They are everywhere!"
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That always happens.
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Not one time did they ever mention god.
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They compared them with themselves,
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Never compared them with god.
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Let's go on. they're not finished yet.
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"then caleb quieted the people before moses, and said,
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'let us go up at once and take possession.
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Let us go up at once and take possession.'"
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And you all should be like, "yeah! god has spoken!
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Wait for what?"
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"'let us go up at once and take possession,
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For we are well able to overcome it.'
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But the men who had gone up with him said,
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'we are not able to go up against the people.'"
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If you look at the lofty walls,
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You look at the strong giants, you look at the great cities,
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You'll say, "we're not able."
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But if you look to jehovah,
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You look to god with whom nothing is impossible,
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You will say, "come on, man.
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Let us go up at once.
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We are well able to overcome it."
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Listen, friend, you will never lose your salvation,
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But you can lose the enjoyment of your salvation.
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You cannot lose the promises.
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A promise made is a promise from god.
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God keeps his promise.
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But you can lose enjoying that promise.
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But you know what god will do?
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You don't enjoy it, god says, "next generation."
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God loves you, and i want you all to enjoy.
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Pastor prince loves you.
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Love sent me here today to tell you
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Love is giving you a wonderful year,
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But the devil wants you to be focused on
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What he's doing, how bad the world is,
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How bad everything is.
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Are you listening?
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"we are not able to go up," they said.
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Verse--next verse.
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"and they gave the children of israel a bad report"--
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Say "bad report"--
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"of the land which they had spied out,
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Saying, 'the land through which we have gone as spies
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Is a land that devours its inhabitants.'"
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Keep that in mind.
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They say that land that we-- god never said that the land--
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We read just now is a land of brooks,
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Right, rivers, fountains, a land of olives
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And vineyards and blessings.
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God says that from the mountains you can duck--
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Dig out brass, iron.
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God never even mentioned the giants.
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They were there.
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Because what is a giant compared to god?
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You see, if you--faith looks at god and his resources.
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Unbelief looks at self and his circumstances,
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And that's why faith always reasons from god
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To the difficulties.
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It always starts there.
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It always starts with god.
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Unbelief reasons from the difficulties
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And then to god.
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It always starts with them, the difficulties.
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I'm telling you this involves your life,
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A greater war,
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And what the devil wants you to see
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Is the extremists out there,
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All those sons of anak out there doing this.
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"and we can't travel, we can't do this, we can't go,
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Because we'll be devoured."
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That's what they said.
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Now, i'm going to stop here and look at--
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We're gonna fast-forward real fast, okay?
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Just stop here for a while. we'll fast-forward, okay?
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We've not come to joshua and caleb's response, all right?
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We're gonna to fast-forward to the time after 40 years.
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Moses is dead. joshua now send two spies.
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He's not gonna send ten. he learned already.
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He learned his lesson.
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All right, he's gonna send two, like joshua and caleb,
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Reminded him of joshua and caleb.
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He sent them, two, to see the best way to go in,
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All right, especially jericho, and they went to a prostitute's,
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A harlot's place because they were running away
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From the people of jericho,
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And then they--the woman hid them in her house
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On the roof.
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That woman, rahab, who later on married
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The son of nashon, the captain of judah,
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And their relationship, they got married,
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Brought forth boaz, who married ruth,
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And her name is mentioned in the lineage
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Of our lord jesus christ.
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Well, nonetheless, let me just tell you this.
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She said this to them.
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Now, this is 40 years after moses is dead.
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They're entering the land now, okay?
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They're just finding out which way best to go,
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And she said this to them.
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"she said to the men: 'i know the lord
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Has given you the land, that the terror of you
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Has fallen on us,'" huh?
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"the terror of you has fallen on us," she said,
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"and that all the inhabitants--"
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That--those are the sons of anak.
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She's talking from the walls of the sons of anak.
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Her house, her brothel, was on the wall of the sons of anak.
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This is the same walls they said were hofty--lofty.
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They said it was a huge city.
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She lived there, and she said,
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"all the inhabitants are fainthearted because of you."
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The enemies they were afraid of are afraid of them.
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Drop down.
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"we have heard-- for we have heard everyone--"
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All the enemies were the sons of anak,
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The so-called terrorists.
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"we have heard how the lord dried up
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The water of the red sea for you when you came out of egypt,
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And what you did to the two kings of the amorites
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Who were on the other side of jordan,
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Sihon and og, whom you utterly destroyed.
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We heard how the lord dried up the red sea."
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But at this point in time, that story happened 40 years ago
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And all those who didn't believe god
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All died already.
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God said they would.
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Those who don't believe, those who say
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God brought them out to kill them in the wilderness--
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God said they will get what they say.
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Joshua and caleb says, "god is able to bring us in."
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They got to go in.
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Are you listening, people?
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This is how the enemy saw them.
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A lot of your fears this year, or your half of this year,
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Won't happen.
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You waste your energy.
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You waste your time.
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I'm prophesying that to you.
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Start living.
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Start laughing.
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Start loving.
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Start spending time with your family, your children,
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And start to be at rest and peace,
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Confident in god.
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Put your eyes on god, okay?
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Joseph prince: let this be the best year of their health, lord.
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Let your people be super healthy.
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Let the people in new creation church, lord,
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And grace revolution church and all those watching, lord,
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That's been following this ministry,
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Let their life be a testimony of people saying
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They are super healthy and they are young like caleb,
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Strong at 85 as strong as 40.
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Thank you, father god.
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We pray for our loved ones, father.
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We pray that our children will-- you will cultivate
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A hunger and a thirst, father, for christ, for heavenly manna,
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For the figs and the olives, and for the grapes.
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I pray, father, that they will not have
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Any taste liking, lord, for the things of the world
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That perishes.
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We thank you, father.
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The lord bless you and keep you,
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The lord make his face shine on you,
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And the lord lift up his countenance
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On you and your families
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And grant to you and yours his wonderful shalom,
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Peace, and well-being, and wholeness
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In jesus's name, and all the people said amen.
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Stay young. stay strong.
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Stay looking at him. god bless you.
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Female: i had been a smoker since i was in college.
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It's one of those habits that you picked up and--
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You know, i really liked it.
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For me it was so hard because i didn't want to let it go.
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Sitting out at pastor's teaching so much,
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I understood i needed a rhema word
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For my particular situation.
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So he led me to "the battle is the lord's."
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I listened to that for probably about 2 weeks.
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That was the only thing i was listening to,
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And then i started memorizing some of the scriptures.
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I knew there's no success without that just coming up
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Inside of me.
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Pastor is so good in teaching us
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The identity of the old man and the new man.
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That new man does not wanna smoke.
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Now, after this, did i still have the desi--
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The habit of, like, doing that--
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Because it was, like, a regular ritual.
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Yes, but every time, i remembered...that's not me.
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I'm created in true righteousness
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And holiness in christ.
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I went to bed that night, slept like a baby.
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The next morning i had no desire for cigarettes again.
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It was such the lord, the power of his love.
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What a beautiful work that jesus did,
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And it's all him alone.
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Joseph Prince - Why You're Afraid To Rest (And How To Let Go)

June 2, 2026 | 27:29

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