Joseph Prince - Your Lowest Point Is Your Greatest Victory

July 29, 2025 | 29:45

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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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  • And you know what's going to 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 in hebrews 10.
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  • There is this fearful expectation of judgment,
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  • And that's what the devil wants to bring.
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  • But this preaching of grace--where sin increases,
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  • Grace superabounds--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, amen.
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  • My future is doubly bright.
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  • The lord demands righteousness, the spirit of god imparts
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  • Righteousness to you, amen; gives you the gift
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  • Of righteousness.
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  • So whatever we need today, the holy spirit imparts to us.
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  • 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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  • And now, here is pastor joseph prince 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, saying,
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  • 'this shall be the law of the leper
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  • For the day of his cleansing.'"
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  • Now stop, 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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  • It's a shadow of a substance.
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  • So what is leprosy?
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  • Leprosy is something that, in those days,
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  • If they contract leprosy, right,
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  • They are cut off from their families, amen?
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  • They live isolated.
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  • I mean, it's a very--it's almost like a life sentence, 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 their body parts rot away, but it's more than
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  • Just the physical thing the lord 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,
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  • All right; 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 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 know that if we were not
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  • Brought 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, 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 summit.
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  • Many of you 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, he must be around there
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  • Somewhere on the hill, 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,
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  • You don't go down to where the crowd is.
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  • That is going towards tiberias area, 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 confirm this, 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, 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,
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  • But this came to me 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, the whole area
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  • By the lake of galilee is strewn
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  • With volcanic rocks, okay?
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  • And there was a lot of rocks that tumbled and all that, and
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  • All of a sudden, 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
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  • Because they would stone him to death,
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  • And i just imagined that he was eavesdropping,
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  • He was listening to the lord saying--and when he
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  • Spoke from that mountaintop, and we have tested it,
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  • His voice carried through the valley, 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, "don't worry about your life,
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  • What you shall eat, what you shall eat;
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  • Nor yet for your body 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 flitting onto a rock near him,
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  • And he looked 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,
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  • Matthew 8, when he finished the sermon,
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  • He went down the mountain.
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  • There's no way that 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 the mount of beatitude,
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  • I walked towards this direction.
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  • I could just imagine--i walked by myself and looked at all the
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  • Slabs of stone and all that; one of these probably hid the leper.
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  • He cannot be seen in public.
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  • So jesus walked to where he was, and he appeared before jesus and
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  • Said, "lord, if you can, please; if you can, make me clean.
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  • If you are willing"--not if you can, "if you are willing."
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  • He knew jesus could.
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  • "if you are willing."
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  • But he doubted whether jesus was willing
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  • To use his power for him.
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  • How many know that that's the reason
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  • Why jesus walked towards that direction?
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  • And jesus touched him.
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  • Oh, how--a leper has never been touched by anybody;
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  • And how he has not been touched,
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  • That human touch that makes a person,
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  • You know, feel like a human.
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  • Jesus touched him first before he cleansed him,
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  • And jesus says, "i will."
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  • I feel like god is anointing people,
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  • And right now healing people in different places.
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  • Listen carefully: the blood, whenever you talk about
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  • The blood of jesus, amen, the holy spirit responds.
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  • I'm going to tell you why, okay?
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  • One bird is killed.
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  • 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
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  • Means that you get much more than what you have lost.
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  • Are you listening?
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  • "trespass offering" means if you have been cheated.
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  • Someone sins against you or whatever, amen,
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  • You will get much more than before you lost
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  • That item or object or animal, or whatever.
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  • All right, this is the trespass offering,
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  • So it's a picture of where sin increases,
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  • Grace superabounds.
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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, amen?
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  • Well, that's 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's 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,
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  • "what a tender-hearted man, what a loving man," amen?
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  • Amen, 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, the things that you touch,
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  • And then the blood of the trespass offering is put
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  • On the right lobe of the ear, and also on the right toe.
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  • Okay, that's the thing: right lobe of the ear,
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  • Which means the things you hear will be from now on anointed
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  • And cleansed.
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  • Amen, the things that you do 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, amen.
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  • Amen, god put you at the right place at 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 the evil, praise god.
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  • So right ear, right thumb, right toe for the feet.
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  • Now, watch this: before the chapter ends,
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  • It says that "now put the oil"-- the priest will put the oil
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  • On the right lobe where the blood is.
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  • So where the blood is, the oil comes on the blood;
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  • And then the right thumb,
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  • Where the blood of the trespass offering was,
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  • The oil comes on the blood, amen?
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  • 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--
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  • Wherever the blood touches, the holy spirit answers, amen.
  • 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:29.137
  • When the blood is honored, the holy spirit responds, amen.
  • 00:10:29.137 --> 00:10:32.640
  • The holy spirit's--you don't have to be conscious
  • 00:10:32.640 --> 00:10:34.409
  • All the time, "the holy spirit's in me,
  • 00:10:34.409 --> 00:10:35.777
  • The holy spirit's in me," you just have to be conscious
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  • That you are being cleansed by the blood of jesus.
  • 00:10:37.412 --> 00:10:39.414
  • 1 john 1:7 says that "if we walk in the light,
  • 00:10:39.414 --> 00:10:42.083
  • As he is in the light,"
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  • It's not a matter of how you walk,
  • 00:10:43.451 --> 00:10:44.819
  • It's a matter of where you walk.
  • 00:10:44.819 --> 00:10:46.221
  • Once you are saved, you are in the light,
  • 00:10:46.221 --> 00:10:47.655
  • You are walking in the light.
  • 00:10:47.655 --> 00:10:48.990
  • And the bible says when you are in the light,
  • 00:10:48.990 --> 00:10:50.325
  • Doesn't mean you are perfectly free from sin,
  • 00:10:50.325 --> 00:10:51.793
  • But the blood of jesus christ--
  • 00:10:51.793 --> 00:10:53.228
  • Present tense--continuously cleanses you from every sin.
  • 00:10:53.228 --> 00:10:57.031
  • Every itemized sin, you are cleansed from it,
  • 00:10:57.031 --> 00:11:00.702
  • And you must live in that consciousness.
  • 00:11:00.702 --> 00:11:04.205
  • The bible says you are "righteous by the blood
  • 00:11:04.205 --> 00:11:05.907
  • Of jesus," so what are you more conscious of today?
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  • Your sins, your failures thus far,
  • 00:11:08.710 --> 00:11:10.478
  • Or the blood that ever cleanses you?
  • 00:11:10.478 --> 00:11:12.847
  • Right now, you are in a wash cycle.
  • 00:11:12.847 --> 00:11:15.183
  • The blood keeps you clean.
  • 00:11:15.183 --> 00:11:17.786
  • The monkey's off your back to try to be forgiven,
  • 00:11:17.786 --> 00:11:20.255
  • To try to be kept clean.
  • 00:11:20.255 --> 00:11:21.723
  • It's not your responsibility anymore.
  • 00:11:21.723 --> 00:11:23.558
  • Your part is to believe that the blood cleanses you all the time,
  • 00:11:23.558 --> 00:11:27.095
  • And the spirit answers to the blood.
  • 00:11:27.095 --> 00:11:28.863
  • When you are conscious of that,
  • 00:11:28.863 --> 00:11:30.298
  • Man, you are anointed because the spirit comes on you.
  • 00:11:30.298 --> 00:11:33.234
  • Whenever you are conscious of blood, the spirit comes on you.
  • 00:11:33.234 --> 00:11:36.037
  • Where the blood is, the spirit comes.
  • 00:11:36.037 --> 00:11:40.241
  • Now, this leper has become a gainer.
  • 00:11:40.241 --> 00:11:42.944
  • He has something now that even an average jew
  • 00:11:42.944 --> 00:11:45.747
  • In ancient israel at that time don't have,
  • 00:11:45.747 --> 00:11:48.516
  • Because only kings are anointed with the oil.
  • 00:11:48.516 --> 00:11:51.786
  • Only priests are anointed.
  • 00:11:51.786 --> 00:11:53.655
  • Only three groups, all right: prophet, priest,
  • 00:11:53.655 --> 00:11:58.593
  • And king are anointed.
  • 00:11:58.593 --> 00:12:00.829
  • But now, this lowly--this poor leper
  • 00:12:00.829 --> 00:12:07.368
  • Who has been cleansed gets the oil.
  • 00:12:07.368 --> 00:12:13.141
  • He joins the category of the kings, the prophets,
  • 00:12:13.141 --> 00:12:15.243
  • And the priests.
  • 00:12:15.243 --> 00:12:17.612
  • What an honor.
  • 00:12:17.612 --> 00:12:19.814
  • And that tells us that whatever you have lost by sin,
  • 00:12:19.814 --> 00:12:25.386
  • God's grace will superabound.
  • 00:12:25.386 --> 00:12:27.589
  • You know, i get criticized for preaching this, amen,
  • 00:12:27.589 --> 00:12:29.958
  • But it's the bible.
  • 00:12:29.958 --> 00:12:31.492
  • It's the bible, people.
  • 00:12:31.492 --> 00:12:32.961
  • Instead of the despairing that you have sinned, okay,
  • 00:12:32.961 --> 00:12:35.463
  • You have sinned--this is not to encourage you to sin, all right?
  • 00:12:35.463 --> 00:12:38.199
  • In fact, paul preached like this so strong that people say,
  • 00:12:38.199 --> 00:12:41.369
  • "paul is saying, 'let us sin more that grace may abound.'"
  • 00:12:41.369 --> 00:12:43.638
  • But if you look at the verses before paul brought up
  • 00:12:43.638 --> 00:12:46.207
  • The question, you will find it says,
  • 00:12:46.207 --> 00:12:48.076
  • "where sin increase," pleonazo in greek.
  • 00:12:48.076 --> 00:12:50.879
  • "increase" means you can count it, all right?
  • 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:53.781
  • "grace huperperisseuo" is not "pleonazo," all right?
  • 00:12:53.781 --> 00:12:57.418
  • It does not say in your king james you use both words
  • 00:12:57.418 --> 00:13:00.321
  • The same, but actually it says, "where sin abounds,
  • 00:13:00.321 --> 00:13:02.724
  • Grace much more abounds,"
  • 00:13:02.724 --> 00:13:04.092
  • But in the greek, "where sin increases,
  • 00:13:04.092 --> 00:13:07.061
  • Grace superabounds," which means you cannot measure it;
  • 00:13:07.061 --> 00:13:10.365
  • The word hyperperisseuo, "beyond its banks"
  • 00:13:10.365 --> 00:13:14.235
  • And much more on top of that.
  • 00:13:14.235 --> 00:13:16.738
  • So instead of despairing that you have sinned, realize this:
  • 00:13:16.738 --> 00:13:20.174
  • Now because of this sin, because the devil tempted you
  • 00:13:20.174 --> 00:13:22.944
  • Or whatever it is,
  • 00:13:22.944 --> 00:13:24.279
  • And because of this sin, amen, now there's more abundant grace,
  • 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:30.852
  • Superabounding grace in this very area. so it wasn't god's will that david had bathsheba
  • 00:13:30.852 --> 00:13:33.621
  • For his wife, but of all the wives that david had,
  • 00:13:37.892 --> 00:13:44.399
  • It was through bathsheba--of all the sons that he had,
  • 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:48.036
  • It was the son through bathsheba
  • 00:13:48.036 --> 00:13:49.737
  • That god raised as king to succeed david.
  • 00:13:49.737 --> 00:13:54.275
  • Now, that's not to say, "all right, commit adultery!"
  • 00:13:54.275 --> 00:13:58.246
  • We're not saying, "let us sin more that grace may abound,"
  • 00:13:58.246 --> 00:14:00.014
  • But where there is sin already,
  • 00:14:00.014 --> 00:14:01.783
  • You're in despair because of the blood.
  • 00:14:01.783 --> 00:14:04.152
  • Amen, in the very area you respond to god,
  • 00:14:04.152 --> 00:14:06.621
  • There will be much more grace.
  • 00:14:06.621 --> 00:14:09.424
  • Now, your problem is that you fell into this sin,
  • 00:14:09.424 --> 00:14:11.159
  • That you're saying the devil will come to you and say,
  • 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:12.627
  • "now, what can you expect?
  • 00:14:12.627 --> 00:14:13.995
  • You can expect bad health, all right?
  • 00:14:13.995 --> 00:14:16.297
  • And you know what's going to happen?
  • 00:14:16.297 --> 00:14:18.366
  • Your kids will be in trouble because of your sin just now,
  • 00:14:18.366 --> 00:14:21.002
  • And because of this and that."
  • 00:14:21.002 --> 00:14:22.337
  • There's a fearful expectation of evil as mentioned in hebrews 10.
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  • There is this fearful expectation of judgment,
  • 00:14:26.908 --> 00:14:31.145
  • And that's what the devil wants to bring.
  • 00:14:31.145 --> 00:14:32.580
  • But this preaching of grace--where sin increases,
  • 00:14:32.580 --> 00:14:34.515
  • Grace superabounds--will set you free from that.
  • 00:14:34.515 --> 00:14:38.019
  • It will tell you, "because of this sin,"
  • 00:14:38.019 --> 00:14:39.921
  • All right, "my children will be doubly blessed."
  • 00:14:39.921 --> 00:14:42.890
  • Amen, my future is doubly bright, amen.
  • 00:14:42.890 --> 00:14:48.296
  • In the entire old testament, we have many promises of god,
  • 00:14:48.296 --> 00:14:52.333
  • But there is the promise.
  • 00:14:52.333 --> 00:14:54.502
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:14:54.502 --> 00:14:55.837
  • Say "the promise."
  • 00:14:55.837 --> 00:14:57.438
  • So what is the promise?
  • 00:14:57.438 --> 00:15:00.675
  • It's one definite promise that is alluded to.
  • 00:15:00.675 --> 00:15:07.215
  • There is an emphasis that all the prophets talk about
  • 00:15:07.215 --> 00:15:12.420
  • In the old testament, amen--or at least they allude to it,
  • 00:15:12.420 --> 00:15:17.058
  • But what is the promise?
  • 00:15:17.058 --> 00:15:19.360
  • Amen, it's the promise that you'll be
  • 00:15:19.360 --> 00:15:21.863
  • "endued with power from on high."
  • 00:15:21.863 --> 00:15:23.731
  • What is this enduement with power from on high?
  • 00:15:23.731 --> 00:15:26.367
  • All right, let's look at acts.
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  • "being assembled together with them"--
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  • Now, jesus is about to ascend to heaven.
  • 00:15:30.271 --> 00:15:33.274
  • Jesus "commanded them not to depart from jerusalem,
  • 00:15:33.274 --> 00:15:35.843
  • But to wait for the promise of the father."
  • 00:15:35.843 --> 00:15:38.279
  • Say "the promise."
  • 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.314
  • What is the promise of the father?
  • 00:15:40.314 --> 00:15:42.850
  • Definite article, one and only promise,
  • 00:15:42.850 --> 00:15:44.285
  • The promise of the father.
  • 00:15:44.285 --> 00:15:46.020
  • It's the promise of the father that brings
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  • All the other promises into fulfillment in your life.
  • 00:15:47.488 --> 00:15:51.225
  • Amen, "but wait for the promise of the father,
  • 00:15:51.225 --> 00:15:53.795
  • 'which,' jesus said, 'you have heard from me,'"
  • 00:15:53.795 --> 00:15:56.597
  • Amen, "'for john truly baptized with water,
  • 00:15:56.597 --> 00:15:59.300
  • But you shall be baptized with the holy spirit
  • 00:15:59.300 --> 00:16:02.403
  • Not many days from now,'" amen.
  • 00:16:02.403 --> 00:16:05.139
  • So, ten more days after 40 days is the day of pentecost.
  • 00:16:05.139 --> 00:16:08.943
  • When the day of pentecost was fully come,
  • 00:16:08.943 --> 00:16:10.545
  • God sent the holy spirit, amen.
  • 00:16:10.545 --> 00:16:13.548
  • And he says like this, very--give them acts 2,
  • 00:16:13.548 --> 00:16:17.085
  • The first part.
  • 00:16:17.085 --> 00:16:18.419
  • "when the day of pentecost had fully come,
  • 00:16:18.419 --> 00:16:20.154
  • There came a sound from heaven
  • 00:16:20.154 --> 00:16:21.589
  • Like a rushing mighty wind."
  • 00:16:21.589 --> 00:16:23.091
  • Why does it say "when the day of pentecost was fully come?"
  • 00:16:23.091 --> 00:16:25.059
  • Because the first pentecost in the old testament
  • 00:16:25.059 --> 00:16:27.728
  • Was the giving of the law.
  • 00:16:27.728 --> 00:16:29.997
  • God gave the law, okay?
  • 00:16:29.997 --> 00:16:32.400
  • That was the first pentecost, and the result
  • 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:34.802
  • Was 3,000 people died at the foot of the mountain.
  • 00:16:34.802 --> 00:16:40.208
  • But when the day of pentecost in the new testament--
  • 00:16:40.208 --> 00:16:42.610
  • A new covenant had come because jesus has died.
  • 00:16:42.610 --> 00:16:45.880
  • He has paid for our sins, the blood has been shed,
  • 00:16:45.880 --> 00:16:48.316
  • Now the spirit answers to the blood.
  • 00:16:48.316 --> 00:16:50.051
  • Are you listening people?
  • 00:16:50.051 --> 00:16:51.419
  • When the day of pentecost had fully come,
  • 00:16:51.419 --> 00:16:53.721
  • All right, the holy spirit came.
  • 00:16:53.721 --> 00:16:55.623
  • So obviously, the day of pentecost for the jew
  • 00:16:55.623 --> 00:16:58.559
  • Even today is only on this side here.
  • 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.962
  • It's very sad, because the law demands but never imparts.
  • 00:17:00.962 --> 00:17:05.066
  • The law is holy, but it cannot impart holiness.
  • 00:17:05.066 --> 00:17:07.535
  • The law is righteous, but it cannot give you
  • 00:17:07.535 --> 00:17:09.203
  • The gift of righteousness,
  • 00:17:09.203 --> 00:17:10.638
  • But what the law demands, the spirit supplies.
  • 00:17:10.638 --> 00:17:14.008
  • The spirit imparts, the spirit gives.
  • 00:17:14.008 --> 00:17:16.043
  • Can i have a good amen, all right?
  • 00:17:16.043 --> 00:17:17.578
  • The law demands righteousness, the spirit of god imparts
  • 00:17:17.578 --> 00:17:19.947
  • Righteousness to you, amen, gives you the gift
  • 00:17:19.947 --> 00:17:22.450
  • Of righteousness.
  • 00:17:22.450 --> 00:17:23.885
  • So whatever we need today, the holy spirit imparts to us.
  • 00:17:23.885 --> 00:17:25.586
  • He's not there to demand.
  • 00:17:25.586 --> 00:17:26.921
  • Whenever you think of the holy spirit as demanding,
  • 00:17:26.921 --> 00:17:28.289
  • You have put the holy spirit in a place
  • 00:17:28.289 --> 00:17:29.690
  • Where he does not belong.
  • 00:17:29.690 --> 00:17:31.626
  • He is there to impart, he is there to help.
  • 00:17:31.626 --> 00:17:34.095
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:17:34.095 --> 00:17:35.763
  • All right, so on the day of pente--first pentecost,
  • 00:17:35.763 --> 00:17:38.199
  • The law was given, 3,000 died.
  • 00:17:38.199 --> 00:17:39.967
  • The new covenant pentecost, this day when the day of pentecost
  • 00:17:39.967 --> 00:17:43.404
  • Had fully come, the spirit was given,
  • 00:17:43.404 --> 00:17:46.374
  • And 3,000 people were saved in that day.
  • 00:17:46.374 --> 00:17:49.277
  • And peter in that sermon--before 3,000 got saved, he preached
  • 00:17:49.277 --> 00:17:53.214
  • That sermon, they got to 3,000 people saved.
  • 00:17:53.214 --> 00:17:55.716
  • Peter actually said when he stood up--all right,
  • 00:17:55.716 --> 00:17:58.319
  • Give them a acts 2 drop-down.
  • 00:17:58.319 --> 00:17:59.887
  • "this jesus god has raised up, of which we are all witnesses.
  • 00:17:59.887 --> 00:18:03.658
  • Therefore being exalted to the right hand of god."
  • 00:18:03.658 --> 00:18:06.327
  • He's telling them what happened to jesus after he rose
  • 00:18:06.327 --> 00:18:08.062
  • From the dead.
  • 00:18:08.062 --> 00:18:09.397
  • He was just--he just saw jesus go up to heaven ten days ago,
  • 00:18:09.397 --> 00:18:12.066
  • And now he tells them,
  • 00:18:12.066 --> 00:18:13.568
  • "being exalted to the right hand of god."
  • 00:18:13.568 --> 00:18:15.536
  • Hallelujah, the one who was crowned with thorns
  • 00:18:15.536 --> 00:18:18.005
  • Is now crowned with glory and honor, hallelujah.
  • 00:18:18.005 --> 00:18:21.609
  • Every crown--crown him with many crowns, hallelujah.
  • 00:18:21.609 --> 00:18:24.679
  • Amen, he's worthy of it.
  • 00:18:24.679 --> 00:18:26.380
  • "and having received from the father
  • 00:18:26.380 --> 00:18:28.082
  • The promise of the holy spirit,
  • 00:18:28.082 --> 00:18:30.017
  • He poured out this which you now see and hear."
  • 00:18:30.017 --> 00:18:32.420
  • So it's like jesus in heaven saying, "hey, now you
  • 00:18:32.420 --> 00:18:35.022
  • Have the gift of the holy--i paid for it, now you have it."
  • 00:18:35.022 --> 00:18:38.793
  • It's a dream of all the jewish people in the old testament
  • 00:18:38.793 --> 00:18:43.531
  • To have this promise, but they cannot have it
  • 00:18:43.531 --> 00:18:45.800
  • In the old covenant
  • 00:18:45.800 --> 00:18:47.134
  • Because christ has not yet died, amen?
  • 00:18:47.134 --> 00:18:49.337
  • But it's like--peter is saying here, he has
  • 00:18:49.337 --> 00:18:51.973
  • "received from the father the promise of the holy spirit."
  • 00:18:51.973 --> 00:18:54.976
  • Now he is "pouring it out which you now see and hear."
  • 00:18:54.976 --> 00:18:58.246
  • "they are praying in tongues," the bible says,
  • 00:18:58.246 --> 00:18:59.947
  • And when the holy spirit filled them,
  • 00:18:59.947 --> 00:19:01.415
  • "they were all speaking in tongues,"
  • 00:19:01.415 --> 00:19:02.984
  • And it's something that people can see and hear, amen.
  • 00:19:02.984 --> 00:19:06.387
  • This idea that you are saved and then you are baptized
  • 00:19:06.387 --> 00:19:09.056
  • In the holy spirit immediately, it's not scriptural.
  • 00:19:09.056 --> 00:19:13.194
  • Now you have the holy spirit once you are saved.
  • 00:19:13.194 --> 00:19:15.896
  • Don't doubt that, you have the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:15.896 --> 00:19:18.332
  • But it's one thing to have the holy spirit;
  • 00:19:18.332 --> 00:19:19.867
  • It's another thing for the holy spirit to have you.
  • 00:19:19.867 --> 00:19:21.969
  • I can drink water, water is now inside me;
  • 00:19:21.969 --> 00:19:24.772
  • But if i jump into it,
  • 00:19:24.772 --> 00:19:26.407
  • I dive into the swimming pool, i'm now in the water.
  • 00:19:26.407 --> 00:19:29.377
  • Baptism of the holy spirit is you diving into the pool, amen?
  • 00:19:29.377 --> 00:19:33.981
  • Once you are saved, you have the water inside you, but you know,
  • 00:19:33.981 --> 00:19:37.018
  • Baptism of the holy spirit is immersed
  • 00:19:37.018 --> 00:19:38.919
  • In the holy spirit, hallelujah.
  • 00:19:38.919 --> 00:19:41.355
  • So i want to close with this.
  • 00:19:41.355 --> 00:19:43.758
  • We touched on this a little bit, but let me just tell you this:
  • 00:19:43.758 --> 00:19:46.527
  • The life of the holy spirit is a wonderful life.
  • 00:19:46.527 --> 00:19:50.698
  • Many a times, you know, if you pray in the spirit,
  • 00:19:50.698 --> 00:19:54.201
  • You pray in tongues, amen?
  • 00:19:54.201 --> 00:19:56.037
  • You will sensitize your spirit to the holy spirit,
  • 00:19:56.037 --> 00:20:00.675
  • And you will live by perceiving instead of reasoning.
  • 00:20:00.675 --> 00:20:04.679
  • Why people are defeated, is because they reason a lot
  • 00:20:04.679 --> 00:20:07.315
  • Instead of perceiving.
  • 00:20:07.315 --> 00:20:09.550
  • God told adam--before eve came, god told adam,
  • 00:20:09.550 --> 00:20:12.887
  • "of all the trees in the garden, you may freely eat";
  • 00:20:12.887 --> 00:20:17.124
  • Akol tokel in hebrew.
  • 00:20:17.124 --> 00:20:19.994
  • The word akol akol appears twice: eat, eat.
  • 00:20:19.994 --> 00:20:22.697
  • That means "freely eat."
  • 00:20:22.697 --> 00:20:24.799
  • Like, even in, you know, in singlish, right, we say,
  • 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:28.102
  • "hey, eat, eat, eat!"
  • 00:20:28.102 --> 00:20:30.471
  • We are very close to the hebrew.
  • 00:20:30.471 --> 00:20:32.073
  • So literally in the hebrew, "freely eat."
  • 00:20:32.073 --> 00:20:35.509
  • God says, "freely eat."
  • 00:20:35.509 --> 00:20:36.844
  • So look at the generosity of god.
  • 00:20:36.844 --> 00:20:38.479
  • People say, "well, god forbade them the tree."
  • 00:20:38.479 --> 00:20:40.114
  • Why do you--how come you focus on that one?
  • 00:20:40.114 --> 00:20:41.782
  • You know how many trees there are that god says
  • 00:20:41.782 --> 00:20:43.117
  • You can freely eat?
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  • "but to show your honor me and my lordship,
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  • To show that you acknowledge me as god,"
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  • That's what the tithe is all about.
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  • All right, you don't have to tithe, you get to.
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  • All right, 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 always
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  • Not eat from it, to show god's ownership.
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  • God's--man is a steward, amen.
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  • 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's 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--"dying"
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  • In the hebrew.
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  • Dying, you die slowly; 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 from the tree of knowledge.
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  • They ask themselves, "is this good 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.
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  • All right, "when jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic,
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  • 'son, your sins are forgiven you,'" drop down, "and some of
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  • The scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts."
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  • Where were they reasoning?
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  • Reasoning: the greek is dialogismos.
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  • Dialogue--your english word from--logic, dialogic,
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  • Dialogismos, all right?
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  • It's 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 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 can logic it out.
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  • In fact, it takes mind sometimes--even days before
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  • We come to the conclusion, but the spirit can get it real fast.
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  • I'm coming to something very exciting here, and it's almost
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  • Time, all right, so i think we gotta have a conference, amen?
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  • A whole big conference.
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  • "why does this man"--the pharisees, the scribe says,
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  • "why does this man speak blasphemies 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, only god can forgive sins,
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  • And the man is god.
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  • "but immediately, when jesus perceived in his spirit that
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  • They reasoned thus within themselves, 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 some--or someone talks to you,
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  • And he's very nice, he compliments you,
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  • He flatters you more than compliments.
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  • But inside, you know, ladies,
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  • You have met those kind of guys before, amen?
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  • Something is scratchy inside here, you don't feel good.
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  • Whatever he's saying is all good,
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  • Whatever he's saying is all nice.
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  • Have you been there before where your spirit--have you
  • 00:23:50.771 --> 00:23:52.806
  • Been in places--okay, let's use this illustration.
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  • Have you been in a situation where somebody said,
  • 00:23:55.342 --> 00:23:57.411
  • "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, i knew it."
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  • When you look back, you say, "actually, something told me not
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  • 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's like 'no,' 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, move on, amen.
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  • Learn from now on.
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  • I just want to 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 will, but it will always lead
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  • You in paths of peace and rest, and it will bring you
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  • Into plenty, into a large land.
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