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Joseph Prince - The Worship That Delights The Father

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - The Worship That Delights The Father | November 25, 2025

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Joseph prince: worship is telling the father
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The beauties of his son.
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The father loves it.
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If you think about it,
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Why bring a lamb without blemish to be sacrificed?
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Because it's a picture of his son.
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You present his son, and he is pleased.
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And god says, "i'll never again smite the earth."
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Blessings come down when god is reminded of
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His son.
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Male announcer: when the demands of life come one after another,
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What will raise us up?
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In today's message, joseph shows us how to look above the waves,
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Fix our eyes on jesus, and find confidence, peace,
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And strength in the word.
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Announcer: encouraged by today's message?
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Now you can fill your heart every day
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With wave upon wave of grace
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From joseph's book "grace for today."
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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: when you spend time in the word,
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God speaks to you.
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Am i right?
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Maybe you're going through a marital situation.
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Maybe you're having a problem with one of your teenage boys.
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But when you go to the word of god
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And you ask god to speak to you,
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He might not speak to you directly
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About that relationship challenge
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That you're going through,
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But he will speak to you about something else.
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But listen carefully.
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There is a verse that says, "in your light, we see light."
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We do not know what is the situation here.
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I'm blind to what i need to do in this particular situation.
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But in god's light, we see light.
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We see how to handle, all right?
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It's like when you switch on the light in a room, all right,
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You have a missing car key,
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You do not know where you placed it,
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And then you start looking around.
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But in that light, you find you're missing glasses
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That you misplaced or things like that, amen.
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In his light, we see everything, amen.
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So that happens during worship as well.
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Now, how many of you, since you came to church
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From the time before you were a believer
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Until the time that you are here now as a believer,
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Praise the lord,
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You see more things that you never saw before.
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Even the plan of god for man,
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You see the world events in a new light.
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You see the signs of the times and the coming of the lord
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Draws near.
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Light comes in, amen?
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Even your own personal life, you know why people are acting
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Like that.
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It's the sinful flesh, amen.
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And the bible says, we are all--
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I'm speaking generally of the world and all that--
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Sinners.
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And we need the lord jesus, amen.
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So you see people with compassion.
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Light has come in, amen.
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Have you handled a situation with your--
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One of your boys or your daughters
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And you find that all of a sudden,
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As you are dealing with a complicated issue,
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Light shines from a sermon you heard,
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Something like that,
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And you don't respond the same way you do?
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Because if you respond the same way you do,
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You always get the same kind of response
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From the other person that you always get, amen.
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So the light comes in, and all of a sudden,
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You are able to implement a new course of action
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That brings prosperous results, amen?
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So that's what we want.
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You see, a young man was about to fill in
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A big pair of shoes, and he knew he was humble.
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That's where it all starts.
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If you think that you know it all,
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All right, most likely, you do not know it all.
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Most likely.
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You know nothing, actually.
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Not the things that really matter.
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You might excel in science, you might excel in chemistry,
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You might excel in mathematics,
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You might excel in worldly understanding and knowledge.
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But i tell you: you know nothing
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Because you do not know the very thing
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That is the most important thing.
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The bible says, "he that boasts,
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Let him not boast in the glory of his strength,"
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Amen, "in the wisdom of his intelligence.
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But he that glories, let him glory in this,
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That he knows me."
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It's the greatest knowledge of all.
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And that knowledge, that light, causes you to see things in--
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Everything in a new light, amen, amen?
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You are able to handle things in a new way,
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And when light comes in, darkness goes out.
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You don't have to fight the darkness.
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Just bring in the light.
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So the entrance of god's words gives light.
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And the whole thing about jesus dying for us
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On the cross, why, why?
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You see, we see that as something so vital,
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And rightly so, so necessary and rightly so,
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In the redemption plan of god.
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But why did jesus die for us on the cross, amen?
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So that we can be cleansed, washed from our sins.
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But why wash from our sins?
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So that we can be clothed with the righteousness of christ,
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Amen?
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He took our sins, and we take his place.
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So that what? so it ends there?
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No!
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So that we can come to god.
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The very original plan of god,
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God wants--a father had a dream to have a family
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That is close to him.
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And that's why he made us all-- we came later--with families
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So that when we have children,
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We see a little sampling, we see a little light
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Of what it's like in god's heart for his family.
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What do you desire for your children?
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Do you desire them to prosper? yes, of course.
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But prosper for their own lives,
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Whether you are around to see it or not.
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True love is this: i bless you, but i don't expect a return,
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All right?
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If i get a return, it's a bonus, all right?
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Don't say i love you and then you wait.
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I love you...
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Come on, come on, you know?
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All right, you expect a response.
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So we all know we are not perfect.
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God doesn't love us like that, amen?
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Everyone that jesus healed, he never told them to follow him.
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He doesn't make them oblige.
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Now, others, he can say, follow me.
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A man that's collecting taxes, he will say, "follow me," right?
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Those are other circumstances.
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But every time he healed a child, all right,
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He would give it back to the mother.
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He raised the widow of nain's son,
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He give back to the mother.
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He will never accept anything from the motives of obligation,
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"because i have to," necessity.
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Even your giving.
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When god says, "give your finances to the work of god,"
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God says, "let him do it cheerfully,"
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Not out of necessity or grudgingly.
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God doesn't want that.
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You know, there are people who give--
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The giving itself is not the thing.
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But the style of giving spoils everything.
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What do you want? i want a big mac.
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"always big, big, big. everything you want is big.
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Okay, okay, okay, big mac."
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You just gave, but the style of giving stinks, amen?
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You know what jesus says?
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It's your father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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Church, i want to say this.
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Everything that jesus did for us, to make us--
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I'm the righteousness of god in christ.
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Yes, that's who you are. for what?
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It's like all dressed up and don't know where to go.
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You are clothed in righteousness so you can come to god.
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See, every man has this unrenewed part of our mind
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That's afraid to come near to god.
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And even though you say you understand grace,
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But you still shun him.
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Is he the first person you talk to
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When you wake up in the morning?
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If you don't, why? why is that so?
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Why are you more comfortable with your friends than with god?
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God knows everything about you. he still loves you.
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And he has forgiven you of all your sins.
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I'm speaking to believers now, right?
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If someone knows everything about you,
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In fact, your friends know your best parts.
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Because there are areas that you still hide from your friends
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And you trust them more than you trust god.
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So the whole purpose of being righteous
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Is so that we can come to god's presence
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And talk to him freely, admire him.
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Sometimes the words are not necessary.
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Like i said just now, just sit down there
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And wait on him.
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Something happens to you.
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It's never wasted time,
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Because you are in the timelessness zone
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Where everything can become accelerated,
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The past can be changed even, because you are in that realm.
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And you know what's going to happen?
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The laws of nature doesn't apply anymore.
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Because as you wait upon the lord,
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You'll find all of a sudden, without looking for it,
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Because you're looking to the lord and admiring him.
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That's worship.
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All of a sudden, you find that you sprout wings as eagles.
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They that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength.
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You don't even know strength is coming in, okay?
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And please don't take away from that physical strength
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As well.
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The hebrew word is also used for physical strength.
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Strength in all dimensions. they shall renew their strength.
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Why renew?
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Because our own strength grows old.
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Our strength waxes and wanes.
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But renew.
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You exchange--one word for that word, "renew,"
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Is exchange.
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You exchange your human strength for divine strength, amen.
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Jesus says he came to give beauty for ashes,
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Oil of joy for mourning,
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The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.
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Show them that real quick.
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All right, he came to give them beauty for ashes.
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Your face always looks like it's melancholic: ashes.
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Ashes in those days, they put ashes when they are mourning,
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All right?
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God says, "i'll give you beauty."
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So he came to make the ugly beautiful.
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It's there in the bible, all right?
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It's from the passage that says,
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"the spirit of the lord is on me because he has anointed me
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To do all these things," all right?
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Also to give beauty for ashes.
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Look at your neighbor and say, "you need a lot of it, man."
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Okay, i'm just kidding.
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I'm just kidding, okay, all right?
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Just say, "remove the ashes," okay?
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Receive the beauty, amen?
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So there is a passage in the bible
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Where the lord says he will give you beauty for ashes.
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And then the oil of joy for mourning.
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Notice joy is an oil. mourning is not.
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Because mourning is based on dryness, amen?
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Mourning is based on dry.
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Oil of joy. oil of joy.
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Can i have a good amen?
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He wants our joy always to be full--
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That your joy may be full, amen.
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It's an anointing, when you feel oppressed, right?
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The third thing isaiah 61 tells you is this:
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"the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."
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The spirit of heaviness is what came on saul, the king.
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We must realize that it's a spirit of heaviness;
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It's a spiritual problem.
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But what's the answer? garment of praise.
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That's why when you get around
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An atmosphere of worship and praise,
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It drives out the evil spirit, amen.
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They cannot hang around. they don't like praise.
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They are very temperamental, grumpy, melancholic, depressed.
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I'm not talking about your husband or your employer.
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I'm talking about the devil.
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And you follow him, you'll be like that.
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So be joyful. start praise going.
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You feel heaviness coming on you?
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Start praise going.
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And you cannot have a garment of praise on you
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And the spirit of heaviness as well.
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You cannot.
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"the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."
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Not only that, you'll look more beautiful
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Because you have beauty for ashes.
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And oil will start flowing, all right?
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The bible says: "be being filled with the spirit;
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Speaking to yourself in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs,
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Singing and making melody in your heart to the lord,"
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Amen?
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Amen, by singing, you are filled with the spirit.
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That's why the oil of joy go together.
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It's the holy spirit that gives you the joy,
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Hallelujah, hallelujah.
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There's a verse, there's a phrase, in the bible,
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In the new testament, that says, "the gospel of the blessed god,"
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In our king james version.
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But the word "blessed" there is not eulogio.
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It is the word "makorios." makorios is actually happy.
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So you can say "the gospel of the happy god."
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God is a happy god. god is a happy god.
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For us, you know, we want to be happy, right?
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But this side of heaven, we cannot have happiness,
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But we can have joy.
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Happiness is happenings that happen to happen
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The way you want it to happen.
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And when it happened the way you want it to happen,
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You are "hap-py" because all the haps,
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The old english haps, fall into place, amen.
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But listen, you can have joy through it all.
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And the joy of the lord is your strength, amen?
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So back to joseph again.
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You have these two years-- "and god sent me before you
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To preserve a posterity."
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Drop down, verse 8: "now it was not you who sent me here,
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But god; he made me a father to pharaoh,
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And lord of all his house,
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And ruler throughout all the land of egypt.
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'hurry, go up to my father, and say,
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"thus says your son joseph:
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'god has made me lord of all egypt;
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Come down to me, do not tarry.
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You shall dwell in the land of goshen,
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And you shall be near to me.'"'"
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Goshen in hebrew is nearness.
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Say "nearness."
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I'm bringing this to a close, all right?
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Nearness. say "nearness."
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God's heart is always to have you near, all right?
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I don't like just looking at my son far away.
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I like him near. i like him near, amen, amen?
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Embrace them if possible, near, praise god.
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So, and you shall be-- and that includes my wife,
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That includes my daughter.
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I love to be embracing them.
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Near, not far away.
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When i'm far away from them, something happens, amen?
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You don't feel--it's not just a dopamine release.
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It's a lot more.
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It happens when your loved ones are near you.
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Now studies have shown, studies from universities have shown,
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That grandparents live longer
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When they spend more time with their grandchildren.
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So some of you need to produce grandchildren, amen?
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Be fruitful and multiply. you won't regret it.
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So it's a place of nearness. it's a place of nearness.
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Goshen is what? nearness in hebrew.
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"you shall be near me, you and your children,
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Your children's children."
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Didn't say your children have to walk their own life.
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No, no. you and your children.
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So take that promise.
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They might seem far away,
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But they will be near when you are near, all right,
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So the whole purpose of being the righteousness of god
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Is to be near.
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And you know something? you are always near.
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Don't try to be near when you are near.
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When you try to be near when you are already near,
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Because in christ, you are near.
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You are in christ at the father's right hand.
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You are so near god. nearer to god, you cannot be.
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But the attempt to try to be nearer to god
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Caused you to fall from grace.
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And then you are frustrated
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Because you are trying to get nearer to god.
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But actually, you are denying the truth
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That you are near to god.
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So the attempt to be near to god is actually an act of unbelief.
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I'll try that again.
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When you--in christ, you are very near to god.
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Nearer, you cannot be. you can walk anywhere.
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You can walk down the streets
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And then you feel like talking to god.
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Just talk to god, and know that you are very near
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Because you are in christ.
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And, see, it doesn't revolutionize
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Your prayer life.
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Many of us are like, "i gotta get near.
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I gotta get near."
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The very attempt to get near is a denial that you are in christ
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At the father's right hand.
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Are you listening?
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It's a denial of the new covenant.
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Your sins are forgiven.
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It's a denial that god sees you righteous.
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Stop trying to get near. you are there.
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But what happens when you're there?
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"there," verse 11, "i will provide for you."
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The place of nearness, the lord jesus is saying,
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"there i will provide for you."
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You will have five times more than the people of the world
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To be a testimony that they will see you
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And read the living letters of christ,
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And they will say that "i want your god."
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Amen, "i want your god."
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Because i know, especially when we're not as smart as them,
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Those learned, erudite in financial education,
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And they look at you and i and they say that
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"how come this happened to you and not to me
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And i have all the, you know, the learnings,
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And it happened to you, why?"
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Make sure you say, "it's jesus," amen.
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Don't be ashamed, okay? "there i'll provide for you."
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Where? there!
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"the place of nearness, i'll provide for you,
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Lest you and your household, and all that you have,
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Come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine."
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Let me close with this.
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"you'll behold your eyes
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And the eyes of my brother benjamin
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See that it is my mouth that speaks to you."
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I'll end with this: "so you shall tell my father
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Of all my glory in egypt, and of all that you have seen;
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You shall tell my father of all my glory in egypt
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And of all that you've seen."
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You know what's worship?
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The picture of joseph, the picture of jesus.
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"tell my father of all my glory that you have seen."
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Worship is telling the father the beauties of his son.
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The father loves it.
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If you think about it, why bring a lamb without blemish,
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Without spot, to be sacrificed?
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Because it's a picture of his son.
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You present his son, and he is pleased, amen.
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Worship is presenting all the fragrance,
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All the old testament spices
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And fragrance, all pictures of christ.
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When it's burned, the frankincense goes up there.
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It's the fragrance of christ.
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And god says, "i'll never again smite the earth."
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Blessings come down when god smells his son.
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When god is reminded of his son. yes, god knows all things.
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But god, like us, even though we know my son exists
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Or my wife exists or my daughter exists,
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I still love when i'm overseas to look at their photos.
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Look at them. i know how they look.
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I still look at them. it's the same way.
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Every time you do that, you bring pleasure to god's heart.
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But who do you bring? not yourself.
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Not your--you know, "lord, lord."
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It's not about you.
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Worship is being occupied with christ.
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It's being occupied with his beauty, amen.
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"tell my father all my glory.
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And then during worship,
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Tell him also what you personally have seen
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About my beauty, my goodness, my grace.
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Tell the father."
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So sometimes i go to the father and i say, father, i thank you
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For the gift of your son.
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And, father, he's so beautiful, father.
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It's like fine flour.
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Nothing coarse, nothing uneven in his person.
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When he's strong, he is not overbearing.
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When he's kind, he's not fearful with slavish fear.
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He's not servile.
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I thank you he's altogether lovely, lord.
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And i thank you, lord, that he loved me.
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And both of us, it's like a peace offering.
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The peace offering is offered,
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The breast meat is offered on the altar.
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That's the love of jesus
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Being worshipped before the father.
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You remind the father, "and, father, he gave his life
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Because he loved you."
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Remember this:
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The primary reason that christ laid down his life
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Is because of his father's glory.
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His death fully met all the demands and requirements
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And righteousness of a holy god.
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He loved the father.
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"therefore doth my father love me because i laid down my life."
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The father always loved him,
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But it's a fresh impetus when he laid down his life.
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He loved his father.
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Father, he loved you so much, father.
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As i'm talking to the father about the beauty of jesus.
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That's worship.
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And then i talk to the father, "and, father, he loves me.
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He loves my family. he loves my church.
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He gave his life for us, father."
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That's worship.
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When you bring communion, it's in remembrance of him,
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Not remembrance of your sins, of your ugliness.
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It's of his beauty, his glory, amen.
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Praise the lord.
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Let me close by saying that this glory here,
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You think about it, how he loved you.
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The bible says when he took that--
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The passion started in the garden.
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It was, first of all, what was it that came on him?
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Exceeding sorrowful even unto death.
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First time you see jesus saying to his disciples at the garden:
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"my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death."
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And then at the garden, he sweat blood, right?
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I'll tell you something.
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If you know that man who sweat blood,
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He's not yet on the cross.
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His nature is holy.
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But he loves us so much that he knew he's going to lay down
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His life on the cross.
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The very anticipation of the cross
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Make him sweat blood.
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How much more when he was on the cross?
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You only sweat blood, doctors tell us today,
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In extreme duress or stress.
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Your capillaries burst, and he sweat blood.
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And when he sweat blood, because the first curse,
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Remember, in the garden,
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"upon your sweat, you will eat bread."
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The blood redeemed all of us from the curse of human sweat,
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Human labor because his blood redeems.
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We are all redeemed from the curse, amen.
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And his blood fell to the ground
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That was cursed as well.
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So everywhere we go now, we are on blessed ground.
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And all the people say, amen, amen.
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Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
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With a special prayer to close today's program,
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Right after this.
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Announcer: and now a closing word
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From pastor joseph prince.
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Joseph prince: lift your hands all across this place.
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I'll bless you like this, okay? i feel led to do this.
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Just stop for a while and think throughout this week.
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Take a deep breath, relax.
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I want you to have this posture throughout this week.
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Nearer to god i cannot be. i'm already very near.
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Maintain this truth because everything in life,
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Especially the enemy, will try to stop you
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From thinking that you're so near to god.
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He will change your life, he will revolutionize your life.
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Because you are in christ, you are very near to god.
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Outside church, wherever you are,
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You are very near to god, why?
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Because you are in christ--
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Not because you are in church-- that you are nearer to god.
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And you are in christ forevermore, amen?
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With that, you are blessed in jesus's name.
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God bless you. we'll see you again.
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We live in a world that moves faster than ever.
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Headlines change by the hour. values shift.
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Truth feels negotiable.
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What was certain yesterday is no longer clear today.
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But through all the noise and the shaking,
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There is one who is still the same.
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In the chaos, he is still the calm.
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In the panic, he is still the promise.
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Because when all else falters, fades, and falls,
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He is still jesus, above it all.
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So no matter what's popular today
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Or forgotten tomorrow,
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This ministry will still always be all about jesus,
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Still the center of our call,
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Still the heartbeat of our people.
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Female: i had been a smoker since i was in college.
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It's one of those habits that you picked up,
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And, you know, i really liked it.
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For me it was so hard
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Because i didn't want to let it go.
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Sitting under pastor's teaching so much
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I understood i needed a rhema word
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For my particular situation.
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So he led me to "the battle is the lord's."
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I listened to that for probably about two weeks.
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That was the only thing i was listening to.
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And then i started memorizing some of the scriptures.
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I knew there's no success without that just coming up
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Inside of me.
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Pastor's so good at teaching us the identity of the old man
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And the new man.
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That new man does not want to smoke.
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Now after this, did i still have the habit of, like, doing that?
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Because it was like a regular ritual.
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Yes, but, every time, i remembered..."that's not me.
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I'm created in true righteousness
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And holiness in christ."
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I went to bed that night, slept like a baby.
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The next morning, i had no desire 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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♪♪♪
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Joseph Prince - The Worship That Delights The Father

November 25, 2025 | 29:45

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