Joseph Prince - Your Lowest Point Is Your Greatest Victory

January 13, 2026 | 29:45

Pastor Joseph Prince is powerfully proclaiming the unadulterated gospel of grace through Jesus Christ to every corner of the earth

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Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Your Lowest Point Is Your Greatest Victory | January 13, 2026
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  • Joseph prince: devil will come to you and say,
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  • "now what can you expect?
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  • You can expect bad health, all right?
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  • You know what's gonna happen?
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  • Your kids will be in trouble because of your sin just now,"
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  • And because of this and that.
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  • There's a fearful expectation of evil as mentioned
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  • In hebrews 10.
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  • There is this fearful expectation of judgment.
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  • But this preaching of grace, where sin increase,
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  • Grace super abounds, will set you free from that.
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  • It will tell you, "because of this sin, all right,
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  • My children will be doubly blessed.
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  • My future is doubly bright."
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  • Announcer: what if the answers you need to live well
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  • And make the right decisions are already in front of you?
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  • In today's message, joseph prince shares how to make
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  • Good choices that bring peace and prosperity
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  • In every area of your life.
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  • We all make hundreds of choices every day and deep down
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  • We're all asking the same thing.
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  • In his book "god's way to making good choices,"
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  • Joseph takes you on a 31-day journey
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  • Through the book of proverbs;
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  • Helping you discover the clarity, peace,
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  • And confidence god wants you to have
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  • As you make good choices every day.
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  • Learn how to make strong, confident decisions not based
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  • On fear or pressure but on god's timeless truths.
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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: you know, the bible tells us that--
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  • Let's put up leviticus 14, yes, verse 1 to 4.
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  • "the lord spoke to moses,
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  • Saying, 'this shall be the law of the leper
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  • For the day of his cleansing.'"
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  • Now, stop.
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  • When you read things like this and god devotes
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  • An entire chapter--in fact more than one chapter on leprosy
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  • In the book of leviticus,
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  • You know that he's not just referring to leprosy
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  • Because many people don't suffer leprosy today.
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  • There are still people suffering leprosy.
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  • And everything in the old testament is a type,
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  • Is a shadow of a substance.
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  • So what is leprosy?
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  • Leprosy is something that-- in those days if they contract
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  • Leprosy, all right, they are cut off from their families.
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  • Amen. they live isolated.
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  • Amen.
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  • It's a very se--it's almost like a life sentence.
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  • Amen?
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  • Where most of the cases they don't get cleansed,
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  • Many of them they literally sort of degenerate
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  • And they--their body parts rot away.
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  • But it's more than just the physical thing the lord
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  • Is talking about.
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  • It's our sin.
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  • Growth in christ is not getting stronger and stronger, amen,
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  • In every way you feel that you are stronger, all right?
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  • You can overcome this, overcome that.
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  • Actually, you feel weaker and weaker in and of yourself,
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  • But then there's a greater and greater dependence
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  • On christ.
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  • That, my friend, is spiritual growth.
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  • So notice it says, "this shall be the law of the leper
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  • For the day of his cleansing:
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  • He shall be brought to the priest."
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  • Notice the passive voice he shall be brought.
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  • How many of you know that if we were not brought
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  • By the holy spirit to jesus we'll never be saved?
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  • When i was in israel a number of years ago,
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  • I took some time out
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  • From my group, which are all my pastors, all right?
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  • And the pastors still remember this.
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  • I took some time to walk the other side.
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  • So i went to the other side of the sermon--many of you
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  • Have been there, the mount of beatitudes.
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  • It's still so beautiful.
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  • And the place where jesus was preaching, amen,
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  • You can tell where most likely he is.
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  • It's not such a big space.
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  • He must be around there somewhere on the hill.
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  • Amen. the people are down there.
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  • But i went this way. because why this way?
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  • This way goes straight to the town of capernaum,
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  • And right after the sermon on the mount
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  • The bible says jesus headed to capernaum
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  • Where he proceeded to heal the centurion servant
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  • In capernaum and the rest of the account in capernaum.
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  • So to go to capernaum, you don't go down to where the crowd is.
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  • That is going towards tiberius area.
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  • Amen?
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  • He would have not gone down this way.
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  • He went down this way.
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  • To further confirmed it in--confirm this,
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  • At the end of the sermon on the mount
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  • The bible says, "and he went down the mountain
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  • And great multitudes followed him."
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  • If he went down to where the multitudes were,
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  • They don't have to follow him.
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  • So obviously he went this way.
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  • The multitudes followed him.
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  • They were saying, "where is he going?"
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  • Now, it's very beautiful, and this revelation came to me.
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  • Never heard anyone preach this, but this came to me
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  • When i was there.
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  • There was a leper hiding somewhere there.
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  • I say he's hiding because when i went down there
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  • I saw a lot of volcanic rocks that--you know,
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  • The whole area is strewn.
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  • The whole area by the lake of galilee
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  • Is strewn with volcanic rocks, okay?
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  • And there was a lot of rocks that tumbled and all that,
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  • And all of a sudden i--it's like i had a vision of that leper
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  • Hiding in one of those rocks.
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  • He cannot be appearing among the crowd because
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  • They would stone him to death,
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  • And i just imagine that he was eavesdropping.
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  • He was listening to the lord saying--and when he spoke
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  • From that mountaintop, and we have tested it,
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  • His voice carried through the valley.
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  • Amen?
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  • It's a natural acoustic, all right, up on the hill,
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  • And he could hear jesus saying,
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  • "don't worry about your life what you shall eat,
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  • What you shall eat, nor yet for your body
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  • What you shall put on.
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  • Isn't your life more than food?
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  • Isn't your body more important than your clothing?
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  • Look at the birds of the air.
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  • They sow not, neither do they reap,
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  • Yet your heavenly father feeds them.
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  • Are you not much better than they?"
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  • And the leper was listening, and he was crying.
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  • Perhaps even a bird would come fleeting unto a rock near him
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  • And he look at the bird.
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  • God cares for the bird.
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  • How much--jesus is saying, "how much better are you
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  • Than the bird?"
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  • And here is jesus walking towards your direction.
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  • Jesus walking towards him.
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  • Isn't the lord wonderful?
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  • So jesus went all the way there, right, to where the guy was,
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  • And the man came up to jesus.
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  • And the bible says in this story, matthew 8,
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  • When he finished the sermon, he went down the mountain.
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  • There's no way that leper was among the multitude.
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  • I never thought of that.
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  • That's why we need to meditate on the word.
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  • So when i was there, you know, in mount of beatitude,
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  • I walked towards that direction.
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  • Now, i could just imagine, i walk by myself and look
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  • At all the slabs of stone and all that,
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  • "one of these probably hid the leper."
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  • He cannot be seen in public.
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  • So jesus walked where--to where he was, and he appeared before
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  • Jesus and said, "lord, if you can, please you--
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  • If you can, make me clean.
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  • If you are willing."
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  • Not, "if you can, if you are willing."
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  • He knew jesus could.
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  • "if you are willing--" but he doubt
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  • Whether jesus was willing to use his power for him.
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  • How many know that that's the reason why jesus walked
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  • Towards that direction?
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  • And jesus touched him.
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  • Oh, how he had--a leper has never been touched by anybody.
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  • And how he has not been touched, that human touch
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  • That makes a person, you know, feel like a human,
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  • Jesus touched him first
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  • Before he cleansed him and jesus says, "i will."
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  • I feel like god is anointing people and right now
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  • Healing people in different places.
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  • Listen carefully.
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  • The blood--whenever you talk about the blood of jesus, amen,
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  • The holy spirit responds.
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  • I'm gonna tell you why, okay?
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  • One bird is killed, the blood of the trespass offering
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  • Is put on the poor leper on his right thumb.
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  • Now, say, "trespass offering."
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  • Remember trespass offering means that you get much more
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  • Than what you have lost.
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  • Are you listening?
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  • Trespass offering means if you have been cheated, someone sins
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  • Against you or whatever, amen, you will get much more than
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  • Before you lost that item or object or animal
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  • Or whatever, all right?
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  • This is in the trespass offering.
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  • So it's a picture of where sin increase, grace super abounds.
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  • In the very area of your weakness
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  • God's grace will triumph.
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  • So let's say your problem is pornography.
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  • Amen?
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  • Well, that the very area that god's grace will triumph.
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  • If you allow it to, it will triumph in that area.
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  • Let's say your area is bad-temperedness.
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  • Well, in the very area of your bad-temperedness,
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  • People will look at you and say, "what a tender-hearted man.
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  • What a loving man."
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  • Amen. amen.
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  • I'm telling you, church, this is what the gospel--
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  • The power of the gospel is all about.
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  • Praise the lord. can i have a good amen?
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  • So they put the blood of the trespass offering
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  • On the right thumb of the leper, okay?
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  • Say, "right thumb."
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  • This is for the things that you do,
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  • The things that you touch.
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  • And then the blood of the trespass offering
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  • Is put on the right lobe of the ear
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  • And also on the right toe.
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  • Okay, that's the thing.
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  • Right lobe of the ear, which means
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  • The things you hear will be from now on anointed
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  • And cleansed, amen, the things that you do
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  • Will be touched and cleansed.
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  • So whatever you do prospers.
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  • Like joseph, whatever he touched,
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  • The lord made it to prosper.
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  • And then the right toe, wherever you walk you're a blessing.
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  • Wherever you walk, amen, it's gonna be blessed
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  • For you as well.
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  • Amen. amen?
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  • God will put you at the right place the right time.
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  • The blood will take care of you so that the blood
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  • Will protect you from all evil.
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  • Praise god.
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  • So right ear, right thumb, right toe for the feet.
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  • Now, watch this.
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  • Before the chapter ends, it says that now put the oil--
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  • The priest will put the oil on the right lobe
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  • Where the blood is.
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  • So the--where the blood is, the oil comes on the blood.
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  • And then the right thumb, where the blood
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  • Of the trespass offering was, the oil comes on the blood.
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  • Amen?
  • 00:09:47.005 --> 00:09:48.339
  • And then the right toe, the oil comes on the blood.
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  • What's the oil a representation of?
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  • The holy spirit, the anointing of god.
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  • I'm telling you, church, the very--wherever
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  • The blood touches, the holy spirit answers.
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  • Amen.
  • 00:10:02.053 --> 00:10:03.388
  • When the blood is honored, the holy spirit responds, amen.
  • 00:10:03.388 --> 00:10:06.491
  • The holy spirit is--you don't have to be
  • 00:10:06.491 --> 00:10:07.892
  • Conscious all the time.
  • 00:10:07.892 --> 00:10:09.227
  • "the holy spirit is in me. the holy spirit is in me."
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  • You just have the conscious that you are being cleansed
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  • By the blood of jesus.
  • 00:10:12.230 --> 00:10:13.565
  • 1 john 1:7 says that if we walk in the light as he is
  • 00:10:13.565 --> 00:10:16.468
  • In the light--it's not a matter of how you walk,
  • 00:10:16.468 --> 00:10:18.236
  • It's a matter of where you walk.
  • 00:10:18.236 --> 00:10:19.571
  • Once you are saved, you are in the light.
  • 00:10:19.571 --> 00:10:20.972
  • You are walking in the light.
  • 00:10:20.972 --> 00:10:22.307
  • And the bible says when you are in the light doesn't mean
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  • You are perfectly free from sin, but the blood of jesus christ,
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  • Present tense, continuously cleanses you from every sin.
  • 00:10:27.178 --> 00:10:31.015
  • Every item, my sin, you are cleansed from it
  • 00:10:31.015 --> 00:10:34.652
  • And you must live in that consciousness.
  • 00:10:34.652 --> 00:10:38.022
  • The bible says you are righteous by the blood of jesus.
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  • So what are you more conscious of today, your sins,
  • 00:10:40.825 --> 00:10:43.428
  • Your failures thus far, or the blood
  • 00:10:43.428 --> 00:10:45.296
  • That ever cleanses you?
  • 00:10:45.296 --> 00:10:46.831
  • Right now you are in a wash cycle.
  • 00:10:46.831 --> 00:10:49.033
  • The blood keeps you clean.
  • 00:10:49.033 --> 00:10:51.569
  • The monkey is off your back to try to be forgiven,
  • 00:10:51.569 --> 00:10:54.172
  • To try to be kept clean.
  • 00:10:54.172 --> 00:10:55.540
  • It's not your responsibility anymore.
  • 00:10:55.540 --> 00:10:57.442
  • Your part is to believe that the blood cleanses you
  • 00:10:57.442 --> 00:11:00.178
  • All the time,
  • 00:11:00.178 --> 00:11:01.513
  • And the spirit answers through the blood.
  • 00:11:01.513 --> 00:11:02.881
  • When you are conscious of that, man,
  • 00:11:02.881 --> 00:11:04.516
  • You are anointed because the spirit comes on you.
  • 00:11:04.516 --> 00:11:07.252
  • Whenever you're conscious of the blood,
  • 00:11:07.252 --> 00:11:08.853
  • The spirit comes on you.
  • 00:11:08.853 --> 00:11:10.255
  • Where the blood is, the spirit comes.
  • 00:11:10.255 --> 00:11:14.159
  • Now, this leper has become a gainer.
  • 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:16.795
  • He has something now that even an average jew
  • 00:11:16.795 --> 00:11:19.697
  • In ancient israel at that time don't have
  • 00:11:19.697 --> 00:11:22.367
  • Because only kings are anointed with the oil.
  • 00:11:22.367 --> 00:11:25.603
  • Only priests are anointed.
  • 00:11:25.603 --> 00:11:27.405
  • Only three groups, all right?
  • 00:11:27.405 --> 00:11:29.440
  • Prophet, priest, and king are anointed.
  • 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:34.646
  • But now, this lowly, this poor leper
  • 00:11:34.646 --> 00:11:41.519
  • Who has been cleansed gets the oil.
  • 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:47.058
  • He joins the category of the kings, the prophets,
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  • And the priests.
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  • What an honor.
  • 00:11:51.362 --> 00:11:53.598
  • And that tells us that whatever you have lost by sin,
  • 00:11:53.598 --> 00:11:59.370
  • God's grace will super abound.
  • 00:11:59.370 --> 00:12:01.272
  • You know, i get criticized for preaching this, amen,
  • 00:12:01.272 --> 00:12:03.741
  • But it's the bible.
  • 00:12:03.741 --> 00:12:05.143
  • It's the bible, people.
  • 00:12:05.143 --> 00:12:06.711
  • Instead of the despairing that you have sinned--
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  • Okay, you have sinned.
  • 00:12:08.980 --> 00:12:10.315
  • This is not to encourage you to sin, all right?
  • 00:12:10.315 --> 00:12:12.083
  • In fact, paul preached like this so strong
  • 00:12:12.083 --> 00:12:14.052
  • That people say, "paul is saying let us sin more
  • 00:12:14.052 --> 00:12:16.754
  • That grace may abound."
  • 00:12:16.754 --> 00:12:18.089
  • But if you look at the verses
  • 00:12:18.089 --> 00:12:19.457
  • Before paul brought up the question,
  • 00:12:19.457 --> 00:12:21.059
  • You'll find it says where sin increase, pleonazo in greek--
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  • Increase means you can count it, all right?
  • 00:12:24.863 --> 00:12:27.599
  • Grace, huperperisseuo.
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  • It's not pleonazo, all right?
  • 00:12:29.567 --> 00:12:31.236
  • It does not say--in your king james you use
  • 00:12:31.236 --> 00:12:34.005
  • Both words the same, but actually it says
  • 00:12:34.005 --> 00:12:35.974
  • Where sin abounds grace much more abounds.
  • 00:12:35.974 --> 00:12:38.009
  • But in the greek, where sin increase grace super abounds,
  • 00:12:38.009 --> 00:12:42.881
  • Which means you cannot measure it.
  • 00:12:42.881 --> 00:12:44.215
  • The word huper, hyper, perisseuo, beyond its banks
  • 00:12:44.215 --> 00:12:48.286
  • And much more on top of that.
  • 00:12:48.286 --> 00:12:50.688
  • So instead of despairing that you have sinned,
  • 00:12:50.688 --> 00:12:52.891
  • Realize this.
  • 00:12:52.891 --> 00:12:54.225
  • Now, because of this sin, because the devil tempted you
  • 00:12:54.225 --> 00:12:56.828
  • Or whatever it is and because of this sin,
  • 00:12:56.828 --> 00:12:59.964
  • Amen, now there's more abundant grace,
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  • Super abounding grace in this very area.
  • 00:13:04.736 --> 00:13:07.505
  • So it wasn't god's will that david had bathsheba
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  • For his wife, but of all the wives
  • 00:13:11.809 --> 00:13:16.581
  • That david had, it was through bathsheba--of all the sons
  • 00:13:16.581 --> 00:13:21.252
  • That he had, it was the son through
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  • Bathsheba that god raised as king to succeed david.
  • 00:13:23.187 --> 00:13:28.159
  • Now, that's not to say, all right, commit adultery.
  • 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:32.030
  • We're not saying let us sin more that grace may abound,
  • 00:13:32.030 --> 00:13:34.032
  • But where there is sin already you're not in despair
  • 00:13:34.032 --> 00:13:36.367
  • Because of the blood, amen.
  • 00:13:36.367 --> 00:13:38.469
  • In the very area if you respond to god,
  • 00:13:38.469 --> 00:13:40.605
  • There'll be much more grace.
  • 00:13:40.605 --> 00:13:43.241
  • Now, your problem is that you fell into this sin,
  • 00:13:43.241 --> 00:13:45.043
  • That you're saying--the devil will come to you and say,
  • 00:13:45.043 --> 00:13:46.544
  • "now what can you expect?
  • 00:13:46.544 --> 00:13:47.879
  • You can expect bad health, all right?
  • 00:13:47.879 --> 00:13:50.815
  • And you know what's gonna happen?
  • 00:13:50.815 --> 00:13:52.216
  • Your kids will be in trouble because of your sin just now
  • 00:13:52.216 --> 00:13:54.686
  • And because of this and that."
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  • There's a fearful expectation of evil as mentioned
  • 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:00.291
  • In hebrews 10.
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  • There is this fearful expectation of judgment,
  • 00:14:01.626 --> 00:14:05.029
  • And that's what the devil wants to bring.
  • 00:14:05.029 --> 00:14:06.431
  • But this preaching of grace where sin increase
  • 00:14:06.431 --> 00:14:08.566
  • Grace super abounds will set you free from that.
  • 00:14:08.566 --> 00:14:11.936
  • It will tell you, "because of this sin, all right,
  • 00:14:11.936 --> 00:14:14.439
  • My children will be doubly blessed, amen.
  • 00:14:14.439 --> 00:14:17.475
  • My future is doubly bright." amen.
  • 00:14:17.475 --> 00:14:22.447
  • In the entire old testament we have many promises of god,
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  • But there is the promise.
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  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:14:28.019 --> 00:14:29.354
  • Say it: "the promise."
  • 00:14:29.354 --> 00:14:31.289
  • So what is the promise?
  • 00:14:31.289 --> 00:14:34.559
  • It's one definite promise that is alluded to,
  • 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:41.099
  • That is an emphasis that all the prophets talk about
  • 00:14:41.099 --> 00:14:46.170
  • In the old testament.
  • 00:14:46.170 --> 00:14:47.972
  • Amen? or at least they allude to it.
  • 00:14:47.972 --> 00:14:50.942
  • But what is the promise? amen?
  • 00:14:50.942 --> 00:14:53.978
  • It's the promise that you'll be endued with power
  • 00:14:53.978 --> 00:14:56.714
  • From on high.
  • 00:14:56.714 --> 00:14:58.049
  • What is this enduement with power from on high?
  • 00:14:58.049 --> 00:15:00.218
  • All right, let's look at acts.
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  • "being assembled together with them--"
  • 00:15:02.754 --> 00:15:04.255
  • Now, jesus is about to ascend to heaven.
  • 00:15:04.255 --> 00:15:07.158
  • Jesus commanded them not to depart from jerusalem,
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  • But to wait for the promise of the father.
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  • Say, "the promise."
  • 00:15:12.296 --> 00:15:14.298
  • What is the promise of the father?
  • 00:15:14.298 --> 00:15:16.701
  • Definite article, one and only promise.
  • 00:15:16.701 --> 00:15:18.202
  • The promise of the father.
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  • It's the promise of the father
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  • That brings all the other promises
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  • Into fulfillment in your life.
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  • Amen?
  • 00:15:24.976 --> 00:15:26.310
  • "the--wait for the promise of the father, which,"
  • 00:15:26.310 --> 00:15:28.046
  • Jesus said, "you have heard from me."
  • 00:15:28.046 --> 00:15:30.281
  • Amen?
  • 00:15:30.281 --> 00:15:31.616
  • "for john truly baptized with water,
  • 00:15:31.616 --> 00:15:32.950
  • But you shall be baptized
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  • With the holy spirit not many days from now," amen?
  • 00:15:34.886 --> 00:15:38.890
  • And so 10 more days after 40 days is the day of pentecost.
  • 00:15:38.890 --> 00:15:42.727
  • When the day of pentecost was fully come,
  • 00:15:42.727 --> 00:15:44.262
  • God sent the holy spirit. amen?
  • 00:15:44.262 --> 00:15:47.365
  • And he says like this, very--give them acts 2,
  • 00:15:47.365 --> 00:15:51.102
  • The first part.
  • 00:15:51.102 --> 00:15:52.437
  • "when the day of pentecost had fully come--
  • 00:15:52.437 --> 00:15:54.005
  • There came a sound--from heaven like a rushing mighty wind--"
  • 00:15:54.005 --> 00:15:56.741
  • Why does it say when the day of pentecost
  • 00:15:56.741 --> 00:15:58.142
  • Was fully come?
  • 00:15:58.142 --> 00:15:59.477
  • Because the first pentecost in the old testament
  • 00:15:59.477 --> 00:16:01.479
  • Was the giving of the law.
  • 00:16:01.479 --> 00:16:03.648
  • God gave the law, okay?
  • 00:16:03.648 --> 00:16:06.150
  • That was the first pentecost and the result
  • 00:16:06.150 --> 00:16:08.786
  • Was 3,000 people died at the foot of the mountain.
  • 00:16:08.786 --> 00:16:14.225
  • But when the day of pentecost and a new testament,
  • 00:16:14.225 --> 00:16:16.661
  • A new covenant had come because jesus has died,
  • 00:16:16.661 --> 00:16:19.764
  • He has paid for our sins,
  • 00:16:19.764 --> 00:16:21.132
  • The blood has been shed, now the spirit answers
  • 00:16:21.132 --> 00:16:23.301
  • Through the blood.
  • 00:16:23.301 --> 00:16:24.635
  • Are you listening, people?
  • 00:16:24.635 --> 00:16:25.970
  • When the day of pentecost had fully come, all right,
  • 00:16:25.970 --> 00:16:27.972
  • The holy spirit came.
  • 00:16:27.972 --> 00:16:29.607
  • So obviously the day of pentecost
  • 00:16:29.607 --> 00:16:31.943
  • For the jew even today is only on this side here.
  • 00:16:31.943 --> 00:16:34.812
  • It's very sad because the law demands but never imparts.
  • 00:16:34.812 --> 00:16:39.050
  • The law is holy, but it cannot impart holiness.
  • 00:16:39.050 --> 00:16:41.519
  • The law is righteous, but it cannot give you
  • 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:43.187
  • The gift of righteousness.
  • 00:16:43.187 --> 00:16:44.522
  • The law--but what the law demands, the spirit supplies,
  • 00:16:44.522 --> 00:16:47.825
  • The spirit imparts, the spirit gives.
  • 00:16:47.825 --> 00:16:49.861
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:16:49.861 --> 00:16:51.195
  • All right, the law demands righteousness,
  • 00:16:51.195 --> 00:16:52.730
  • The spirit of god imparts righteousness to you.
  • 00:16:52.730 --> 00:16:55.199
  • Amen?
  • 00:16:55.199 --> 00:16:56.534
  • Gives you the gift of righteousness.
  • 00:16:56.534 --> 00:16:57.869
  • So whatever we need today the holy spirit imparts to us.
  • 00:16:57.869 --> 00:16:59.737
  • He's not there to demand.
  • 00:16:59.737 --> 00:17:01.072
  • Whenever you think of the holy spirit as demanding,
  • 00:17:01.072 --> 00:17:02.406
  • You have put the holy spirit in the place where
  • 00:17:02.406 --> 00:17:04.075
  • He does not belong.
  • 00:17:04.075 --> 00:17:05.510
  • He's there to impart. he's there to help.
  • 00:17:05.510 --> 00:17:07.812
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:17:07.812 --> 00:17:09.480
  • All right, so on the day of pentecost--
  • 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:11.149
  • The first pentecost, the law was given, 3,000 died.
  • 00:17:11.149 --> 00:17:14.051
  • The new covenant pentecost, this day
  • 00:17:14.051 --> 00:17:16.654
  • When the day of pentecost had fully come,
  • 00:17:16.654 --> 00:17:18.589
  • The spirit was given and 3,000 people
  • 00:17:18.589 --> 00:17:21.325
  • Were saved in that day.
  • 00:17:21.325 --> 00:17:23.127
  • And peter in that sermon--before 3,000 got saved, he preached
  • 00:17:23.127 --> 00:17:27.298
  • That sermon that got the 3,000 people saved.
  • 00:17:27.298 --> 00:17:29.734
  • Peter actually said when he stood up, all right,
  • 00:17:29.734 --> 00:17:32.236
  • Give them acts 2, drop down, "this jesus god has raised up,
  • 00:17:32.236 --> 00:17:35.806
  • Of which we are all witnesses.
  • 00:17:35.806 --> 00:17:37.475
  • Therefore being exalted to the right hand of god--"
  • 00:17:37.475 --> 00:17:40.144
  • He's telling them what happened to jesus after he rose
  • 00:17:40.144 --> 00:17:41.979
  • From the dead.
  • 00:17:41.979 --> 00:17:43.314
  • He was just--he just saw jesus go up to heaven 10 days ago
  • 00:17:43.314 --> 00:17:45.983
  • And now he tells them, "being exalted
  • 00:17:45.983 --> 00:17:48.052
  • To the right hand of god--" hallelujah.
  • 00:17:48.052 --> 00:17:50.354
  • The one who was crowned with thorns is now crowned
  • 00:17:50.354 --> 00:17:52.623
  • With glory and honor.
  • 00:17:52.623 --> 00:17:54.192
  • Hallelujah.
  • 00:17:54.192 --> 00:17:55.560
  • Every crown--crown him with many crowns.
  • 00:17:55.560 --> 00:17:57.528
  • Hallelujah. amen.
  • 00:17:57.528 --> 00:17:59.397
  • He's worthy of it.
  • 00:17:59.397 --> 00:18:00.731
  • "and having received from the father the promise
  • 00:18:00.731 --> 00:18:02.600
  • Of the holy spirit,
  • 00:18:02.600 --> 00:18:03.935
  • He poured out this which you now see and hear."
  • 00:18:03.935 --> 00:18:06.270
  • So it's like jesus in heaven saying,
  • 00:18:06.270 --> 00:18:07.838
  • "hey, now you have the gift of the ho--i paid for it.
  • 00:18:07.838 --> 00:18:11.742
  • Now you have it."
  • 00:18:11.742 --> 00:18:13.077
  • And it's a dream of all the jewish people
  • 00:18:13.077 --> 00:18:16.147
  • In the old testament to have this promise,
  • 00:18:16.147 --> 00:18:18.649
  • But they cannot have it in the old covenant
  • 00:18:18.649 --> 00:18:20.818
  • Because christ has not yet died, amen?
  • 00:18:20.818 --> 00:18:23.287
  • But it's like peter is saying here he has received
  • 00:18:23.287 --> 00:18:26.290
  • From the father this gi-- the promise of the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:26.290 --> 00:18:29.126
  • Now he is pouring it out, which you now see and hear.
  • 00:18:29.126 --> 00:18:32.196
  • They are praying in tongues, the bible says.
  • 00:18:32.196 --> 00:18:34.165
  • And when the holy spirit filled them,
  • 00:18:34.165 --> 00:18:35.499
  • They were all speaking in tongues
  • 00:18:35.499 --> 00:18:36.901
  • And it's something that people can see and hear, amen.
  • 00:18:36.901 --> 00:18:40.271
  • This idea that you are saved and then you are baptized
  • 00:18:40.271 --> 00:18:42.974
  • In the holy spirit immediately is not scriptural.
  • 00:18:42.974 --> 00:18:47.044
  • Now, you have the holy spirit once you are saved.
  • 00:18:47.044 --> 00:18:49.680
  • Don't doubt that.
  • 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:51.015
  • You have the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:51.015 --> 00:18:52.350
  • But it's one thing to have the holy spirit, it's another thing
  • 00:18:52.350 --> 00:18:54.285
  • For the holy spirit to have you.
  • 00:18:54.285 --> 00:18:55.820
  • I can drink water.
  • 00:18:55.820 --> 00:18:57.154
  • Water is now inside me.
  • 00:18:57.154 --> 00:18:58.556
  • But if i jump into--i dive into the swimming pool,
  • 00:18:58.556 --> 00:19:01.659
  • I'm now in the water.
  • 00:19:01.659 --> 00:19:03.261
  • Baptism of the holy spirit is you diving
  • 00:19:03.261 --> 00:19:05.763
  • Into the pool, amen.
  • 00:19:05.763 --> 00:19:07.765
  • Once you are saved, you have the water inside you but you--
  • 00:19:07.765 --> 00:19:10.635
  • You know, baptism of the holy spirit
  • 00:19:10.635 --> 00:19:12.203
  • Means immersed in the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:12.203 --> 00:19:13.604
  • Hallelujah?
  • 00:19:13.604 --> 00:19:15.172
  • So i wanna close with this.
  • 00:19:15.172 --> 00:19:17.608
  • We touched on this a little bit, but lemme just tell this.
  • 00:19:17.608 --> 00:19:20.444
  • The life of the holy spirit is a wonderful life.
  • 00:19:20.444 --> 00:19:24.515
  • Many a times, you know, if you'll pray in the spirit,
  • 00:19:24.515 --> 00:19:28.119
  • You pray in tongues, amen, you will sensitize your spirit
  • 00:19:28.119 --> 00:19:32.757
  • To the holy spirit and you will live
  • 00:19:32.757 --> 00:19:35.326
  • By perceiving instead of reasoning.
  • 00:19:35.326 --> 00:19:38.496
  • Why people are defeated is because they are reas--
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  • They reason a lot instead of perceiving.
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  • God told adam and--adam before eve came, god told adam,
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  • "of all the trees in the garden you may freely eat."
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  • Akol to kel in hebrew.
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  • The word akol akol appears twice.
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  • Eat, eat.
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  • That means freely eat.
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  • Like, even, you know, in english, right,
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  • We say eat, eat, eat.
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  • We are very close to the hebrew.
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  • So literally in the hebrew, freely eat.
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  • God says freely eat.
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  • So look at the generosity of god.
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  • People say, "well, god forbade them the tree."
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  • Why you--how come you focus on that one?
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  • You know how many trees there are that god says
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  • You can freely eat?
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  • "but to show you honor me and my lordship, to show
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  • That you acknowledge me as god--"
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  • That's what the tithe is all about, all right?
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  • You don't have to tithe, you get to, all right?
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  • It's for people with revelation.
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  • So acknowledge don't eat from this tree,
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  • But it's a tree that god gave,
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  • God planted, but it's meant to--for men to--
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  • Always not eat from it
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  • To show god's ownership, god's--man is a steward.
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  • Amen? are you listening?
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  • But if we go deeper, what's the nature of the tree?
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  • What's the name of the tree called?
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  • Knowledge of good and evil.
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  • So what is wrong with the knowledge of good?
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  • It's as deadly as the knowledge of evil.
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  • "the day that you eat of it," god told adam--
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  • Dying in the hebrew--dying, you die slowly.
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  • You die spiritually and you die slowly.
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  • Dying you shall die physically one day.
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  • Dying you shall die in the hebrew.
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  • In our english, "thou shall surely die."
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  • So today man is still eating
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  • From the tree of knowledge and good.
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  • They ask themself, "is this good and--or evil?"
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  • That's not the question.
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  • Is this what the spirit is saying to do?
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  • Are you listening?
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  • Mark 2 real quick. all right.
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  • "when jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic,
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  • 'son, your sins are forgiven you.'"
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  • Drop down.
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  • "and some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning
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  • In their hearts--" where were they reasoning?
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  • Reasoning.
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  • The greek is dialogismos.
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  • Dialogue, your english word from--logic, dialogismos,
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  • All right, is the greek word here.
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  • They are reasoning, reasoning, reasoning.
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  • When you live by reasoning, you cannot live
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  • The abundant life.
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  • We live by the spirit.
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  • The spirit is faster than the mind.
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  • You know things before your mind
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  • Can logic it out.
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  • In fact, it takes mind sometimes even days before we come
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  • To the conclusion, but the spirit
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  • Can get it real fast.
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  • I'm coming to something very exciting here
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  • And it's almost time, all right?
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  • So i think we gotta have a conference.
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  • Amen? a whole day conference.
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  • "why does this man--" the pharisees, the scribes says,
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  • "why does this man speak blasphemous like this?
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  • Who can forgive sins but god alone?"
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  • All right, logismos, logic out, okay?
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  • And they are right.
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  • Only god can forgive sins, and the man is god.
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  • "but immediately, when jesus perceived in his spirit
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  • That they reasoned thus within themselves,
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  • He said to them,
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  • 'why do you reason about these things in your heart?'"
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  • Jesus perceived in his spirit that they reason.
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  • Jesus said to them, "why do you reason about these things
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  • In your heart?"
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  • Jesus perceived in his spirit.
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  • You know, many of you, sometimes you know things
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  • Before your mind can play catch-up.
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  • You're about to sign a deal, you're about to go somewhere,
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  • You just feel so--or someone talks to you and he's very nice,
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  • He compliments you, he flatters you more than compliment,
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  • But inside--you know, ladies, you have met
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  • Those kinda guys before, amen?
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  • Something is scratchy inside here.
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  • You don't feel good, but whatever he's saying
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  • Is all good, whatever he's saying is all nice.
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  • Have you been there before where your spirit--
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  • Have you been in places--okay, let's use this illustration.
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  • Have you been in situation whereby you say,
  • 00:23:29.159 --> 00:23:30.828
  • "actually, i knew it.
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  • I knew it.
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  • I don't know why i didn't do it.
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  • I knew it."
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  • When you look back, you say, "actually,
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  • Something told me not to go there.
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  • In fact, something told me not to enter into a contract
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  • With this person or into a partnership with this person.
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  • Something inside.
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  • Now, thank god i obeyed."
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  • Have you all been there before?
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  • You will say, "i knew it."
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  • That's the spirit.
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  • Never mind, don't condemn yourself.
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  • Go ahead. the blood has cleansed it.
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  • Move on. amen?
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  • Learn from now on.
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  • I just wanna share with you this.
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  • The spirit bears witness with your spirit.
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  • It will never violate god's word,
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  • But it will always lead you in paths of peace
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  • And rest and it will bring you
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  • Into plenty, into a large land.
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  • And, you know, we gather in our living room
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  • And we sing and we praise
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  • And then we sit there and we take in the word,
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  • And then afterward you can talk about it.
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  • Announcer: church is not four walls;
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  • It's one body of christ.
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  • It does take some getting used to a little bit, you know,
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  • Doing the online church; but, i mean, right now
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  • We're speaking to you all and we're, you know,
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  • Female: my best friends are in the chat, in the chat host.
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  • And when i was sick i had people praying for me,
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  • I had people taking communion for me.
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  • They're right there when you need it.
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  • It's who you meet.
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  • From people we can't see and we're not
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  • In the same room as.
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  • It helps us to make that connection that,
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  • "i can't see god and i'm not in the same room
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  • As him, but he loves me."
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