Joseph Prince - Your Lowest Point Is Your Greatest Victory

January 18, 2026 | 27:29

The Abundant Life: Walk in length of days, health, provision, honor, pleasantness, and peace today.

Closed captions

Show Timecode
Joseph Prince | Joseph Prince - Your Lowest Point Is Your Greatest Victory | January 18, 2026
  • ...
  • 00:00:00.633 --> 00:00:01.310
  • Joseph prince: devil will come to you and say,
  • 00:00:13.021 --> 00:00:14.223
  • "now what can you expect?
  • 00:00:14.356 --> 00:00:15.557
  • You can expect bad health, all right?
  • 00:00:15.691 --> 00:00:17.459
  • You know what's gonna happen?
  • 00:00:17.593 --> 00:00:18.794
  • Your kids will be in trouble because of your sin just now,"
  • 00:00:18.927 --> 00:00:19.962
  • And because of this and that.
  • 00:00:21.497 --> 00:00:22.831
  • There's a fearful expectation of evil as mentioned
  • 00:00:22.831 --> 00:00:25.334
  • In hebrews 10.
  • 00:00:25.334 --> 00:00:26.668
  • There is this fearful expectation of judgment.
  • 00:00:26.668 --> 00:00:29.571
  • But this preaching of grace, where sin increase,
  • 00:00:29.571 --> 00:00:31.840
  • Grace super abounds, will set you free from that.
  • 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:34.776
  • It will tell you, "because of this sin, all right,
  • 00:00:34.776 --> 00:00:37.279
  • My children will be doubly blessed.
  • 00:00:37.279 --> 00:00:39.181
  • My future is doubly bright."
  • 00:00:39.181 --> 00:00:42.618
  • Announcer: what if the answers you need to live well
  • 00:00:42.684 --> 00:00:45.120
  • And make the right decisions are already in front of you?
  • 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:48.457
  • In today's message, joseph prince shares how to make
  • 00:00:48.457 --> 00:00:51.126
  • Good choices that bring peace and prosperity
  • 00:00:51.126 --> 00:00:53.729
  • In every area of your life.
  • 00:00:53.729 --> 00:00:55.931
  • We all make hundreds of choices every day and deep down
  • 00:00:55.931 --> 00:00:59.234
  • We're all asking the same thing.
  • 00:00:59.234 --> 00:01:01.703
  • In his book "god's way to making good choices,"
  • 00:01:01.703 --> 00:01:04.706
  • Joseph takes you on a 31-day journey
  • 00:01:04.706 --> 00:01:07.042
  • Through the book of proverbs;
  • 00:01:07.042 --> 00:01:08.510
  • Helping you discover the clarity, peace,
  • 00:01:08.510 --> 00:01:10.846
  • And confidence god wants you to have
  • 00:01:10.846 --> 00:01:12.981
  • As you make good choices every day.
  • 00:01:12.981 --> 00:01:15.417
  • Learn how to make strong, confident decisions not based
  • 00:01:15.417 --> 00:01:18.887
  • On fear or pressure but on god's timeless truths.
  • 00:01:18.887 --> 00:01:22.691
  • Receive your copy today for a gift of any amount
  • 00:01:22.691 --> 00:01:25.027
  • To the ministry in support of our broadcast
  • 00:01:25.027 --> 00:01:27.429
  • And outreach initiatives.
  • 00:01:27.429 --> 00:01:29.131
  • And for a gift of $75 or more, we'll also send you
  • 00:01:29.131 --> 00:01:32.401
  • These bonus resources,
  • 00:01:32.401 --> 00:01:33.835
  • Including an esv large-print bible,
  • 00:01:33.835 --> 00:01:36.471
  • To help you grow in your walk with the lord
  • 00:01:36.471 --> 00:01:38.440
  • And live out his best for you.
  • 00:01:38.440 --> 00:01:40.209
  • Call or text the number on your screen
  • 00:01:40.209 --> 00:01:42.244
  • Or visit our website to request your copy now.
  • 00:01:42.244 --> 00:01:45.514
  • And now, here's pastor joseph prince
  • 00:01:45.514 --> 00:01:47.950
  • With today's program.
  • 00:01:47.950 --> 00:01:49.318
  • Joseph prince: you know, the bible tells us that--
  • 00:01:49.318 --> 00:01:52.287
  • Let's put up leviticus 14, yes, verse 1 to 4.
  • 00:01:52.287 --> 00:01:56.525
  • "the lord spoke to moses,
  • 00:01:56.525 --> 00:01:57.926
  • Saying, 'this shall be the law of the leper
  • 00:01:57.926 --> 00:02:00.696
  • For the day of his cleansing.'"
  • 00:02:00.696 --> 00:02:02.097
  • Now, stop.
  • 00:02:02.097 --> 00:02:03.432
  • When you read things like this and god devotes
  • 00:02:03.432 --> 00:02:04.967
  • An entire chapter--in fact more than one chapter on leprosy
  • 00:02:04.967 --> 00:02:08.303
  • In the book of leviticus,
  • 00:02:08.303 --> 00:02:11.440
  • You know that he's not just referring to leprosy
  • 00:02:11.440 --> 00:02:13.909
  • Because many people don't suffer leprosy today.
  • 00:02:13.909 --> 00:02:16.845
  • There are still people suffering leprosy.
  • 00:02:16.845 --> 00:02:18.914
  • And everything in the old testament is a type,
  • 00:02:18.914 --> 00:02:20.716
  • Is a shadow of a substance.
  • 00:02:20.716 --> 00:02:22.451
  • So what is leprosy?
  • 00:02:22.451 --> 00:02:24.186
  • Leprosy is something that-- in those days if they contract
  • 00:02:24.186 --> 00:02:27.522
  • Leprosy, all right, they are cut off from their families.
  • 00:02:27.522 --> 00:02:30.926
  • Amen. they live isolated.
  • 00:02:30.926 --> 00:02:33.195
  • Amen.
  • 00:02:33.195 --> 00:02:34.529
  • It's a very se--it's almost like a life sentence.
  • 00:02:34.529 --> 00:02:37.232
  • Amen?
  • 00:02:37.232 --> 00:02:38.767
  • Where most of the cases they don't get cleansed,
  • 00:02:38.767 --> 00:02:42.104
  • Many of them they literally sort of degenerate
  • 00:02:42.104 --> 00:02:45.140
  • And they--their body parts rot away.
  • 00:02:45.140 --> 00:02:48.110
  • But it's more than just the physical thing the lord
  • 00:02:48.110 --> 00:02:51.280
  • Is talking about.
  • 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.648
  • It's our sin.
  • 00:02:52.648 --> 00:02:54.016
  • Growth in christ is not getting stronger and stronger, amen,
  • 00:02:54.016 --> 00:02:59.521
  • In every way you feel that you are stronger, all right?
  • 00:02:59.521 --> 00:03:02.424
  • You can overcome this, overcome that.
  • 00:03:02.424 --> 00:03:03.792
  • Actually, you feel weaker and weaker in and of yourself,
  • 00:03:03.792 --> 00:03:08.263
  • But then there's a greater and greater dependence
  • 00:03:08.263 --> 00:03:10.866
  • On christ.
  • 00:03:10.866 --> 00:03:12.200
  • That, my friend, is spiritual growth.
  • 00:03:12.200 --> 00:03:14.102
  • So notice it says, "this shall be the law of the leper
  • 00:03:14.102 --> 00:03:15.904
  • For the day of his cleansing:
  • 00:03:15.904 --> 00:03:17.372
  • He shall be brought to the priest."
  • 00:03:17.372 --> 00:03:18.874
  • Notice the passive voice he shall be brought.
  • 00:03:18.874 --> 00:03:22.577
  • How many of you know that if we were not brought
  • 00:03:22.577 --> 00:03:24.713
  • By the holy spirit to jesus we'll never be saved?
  • 00:03:24.713 --> 00:03:28.250
  • When i was in israel a number of years ago,
  • 00:03:28.250 --> 00:03:30.986
  • I took some time out
  • 00:03:30.986 --> 00:03:33.588
  • From my group, which are all my pastors, all right?
  • 00:03:33.588 --> 00:03:36.458
  • And the pastors still remember this.
  • 00:03:36.458 --> 00:03:38.393
  • I took some time to walk the other side.
  • 00:03:38.393 --> 00:03:40.395
  • So i went to the other side of the sermon--many of you
  • 00:03:40.395 --> 00:03:42.431
  • Have been there, the mount of beatitudes.
  • 00:03:42.431 --> 00:03:43.799
  • It's still so beautiful.
  • 00:03:43.799 --> 00:03:45.534
  • And the place where jesus was preaching, amen,
  • 00:03:45.534 --> 00:03:48.303
  • You can tell where most likely he is.
  • 00:03:48.303 --> 00:03:50.605
  • It's not such a big space.
  • 00:03:50.605 --> 00:03:52.007
  • He must be around there somewhere on the hill.
  • 00:03:52.007 --> 00:03:54.910
  • Amen. the people are down there.
  • 00:03:54.910 --> 00:03:56.278
  • But i went this way. because why this way?
  • 00:03:56.278 --> 00:03:58.447
  • This way goes straight to the town of capernaum,
  • 00:03:58.447 --> 00:04:02.784
  • And right after the sermon on the mount
  • 00:04:02.784 --> 00:04:04.119
  • The bible says jesus headed to capernaum
  • 00:04:04.119 --> 00:04:06.188
  • Where he proceeded to heal the centurion servant
  • 00:04:06.188 --> 00:04:10.325
  • In capernaum and the rest of the account in capernaum.
  • 00:04:10.325 --> 00:04:12.594
  • So to go to capernaum, you don't go down to where the crowd is.
  • 00:04:12.594 --> 00:04:15.864
  • That is going towards tiberius area.
  • 00:04:15.864 --> 00:04:18.200
  • Amen?
  • 00:04:18.200 --> 00:04:19.568
  • He would have not gone down this way.
  • 00:04:19.568 --> 00:04:21.536
  • He went down this way.
  • 00:04:21.536 --> 00:04:22.871
  • To further confirmed it in--confirm this,
  • 00:04:22.871 --> 00:04:25.073
  • At the end of the sermon on the mount
  • 00:04:25.073 --> 00:04:26.608
  • The bible says, "and he went down the mountain
  • 00:04:26.608 --> 00:04:28.677
  • And great multitudes followed him."
  • 00:04:28.677 --> 00:04:30.679
  • If he went down to where the multitudes were,
  • 00:04:30.679 --> 00:04:33.382
  • They don't have to follow him.
  • 00:04:33.382 --> 00:04:35.784
  • So obviously he went this way.
  • 00:04:35.784 --> 00:04:37.119
  • The multitudes followed him.
  • 00:04:37.119 --> 00:04:38.453
  • They were saying, "where is he going?"
  • 00:04:38.453 --> 00:04:40.255
  • Now, it's very beautiful, and this revelation came to me.
  • 00:04:40.255 --> 00:04:43.792
  • Never heard anyone preach this, but this came to me
  • 00:04:43.792 --> 00:04:45.827
  • When i was there.
  • 00:04:45.827 --> 00:04:47.195
  • There was a leper hiding somewhere there.
  • 00:04:47.195 --> 00:04:49.197
  • I say he's hiding because when i went down there
  • 00:04:49.197 --> 00:04:51.400
  • I saw a lot of volcanic rocks that--you know,
  • 00:04:51.400 --> 00:04:55.070
  • The whole area is strewn.
  • 00:04:55.070 --> 00:04:56.405
  • The whole area by the lake of galilee
  • 00:04:56.405 --> 00:04:57.873
  • Is strewn with volcanic rocks, okay?
  • 00:04:57.873 --> 00:05:02.110
  • And there was a lot of rocks that tumbled and all that,
  • 00:05:02.110 --> 00:05:04.913
  • And all of a sudden i--it's like i had a vision of that leper
  • 00:05:04.913 --> 00:05:07.783
  • Hiding in one of those rocks.
  • 00:05:07.783 --> 00:05:09.718
  • He cannot be appearing among the crowd because
  • 00:05:09.718 --> 00:05:12.120
  • They would stone him to death,
  • 00:05:12.120 --> 00:05:13.989
  • And i just imagine that he was eavesdropping.
  • 00:05:13.989 --> 00:05:16.925
  • He was listening to the lord saying--and when he spoke
  • 00:05:16.925 --> 00:05:20.929
  • From that mountaintop, and we have tested it,
  • 00:05:20.929 --> 00:05:22.864
  • His voice carried through the valley.
  • 00:05:22.864 --> 00:05:25.267
  • Amen?
  • 00:05:25.267 --> 00:05:27.068
  • It's a natural acoustic, all right, up on the hill,
  • 00:05:27.068 --> 00:05:30.005
  • And he could hear jesus saying,
  • 00:05:30.005 --> 00:05:31.373
  • "don't worry about your life what you shall eat,
  • 00:05:31.373 --> 00:05:33.642
  • What you shall eat, nor yet for your body
  • 00:05:33.642 --> 00:05:35.811
  • What you shall put on.
  • 00:05:35.811 --> 00:05:37.179
  • Isn't your life more than food?
  • 00:05:37.179 --> 00:05:41.183
  • Isn't your body more important than your clothing?
  • 00:05:41.183 --> 00:05:43.785
  • Look at the birds of the air.
  • 00:05:43.785 --> 00:05:45.253
  • They sow not, neither do they reap,
  • 00:05:45.253 --> 00:05:47.189
  • Yet your heavenly father feeds them.
  • 00:05:47.189 --> 00:05:49.357
  • Are you not much better than they?"
  • 00:05:49.357 --> 00:05:51.226
  • And the leper was listening, and he was crying.
  • 00:05:51.226 --> 00:05:53.528
  • Perhaps even a bird would come fleeting unto a rock near him
  • 00:05:53.528 --> 00:05:58.033
  • And he look at the bird.
  • 00:05:58.033 --> 00:05:59.501
  • God cares for the bird.
  • 00:05:59.501 --> 00:06:00.836
  • How much--jesus is saying, "how much better are you
  • 00:06:00.836 --> 00:06:02.637
  • Than the bird?"
  • 00:06:02.637 --> 00:06:04.406
  • And here is jesus walking towards your direction.
  • 00:06:04.406 --> 00:06:06.374
  • Jesus walking towards him.
  • 00:06:06.374 --> 00:06:09.478
  • Isn't the lord wonderful?
  • 00:06:09.478 --> 00:06:11.680
  • So jesus went all the way there, right, to where the guy was,
  • 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.284
  • And the man came up to jesus.
  • 00:06:16.284 --> 00:06:17.819
  • And the bible says in this story, matthew 8,
  • 00:06:17.819 --> 00:06:20.021
  • When he finished the sermon, he went down the mountain.
  • 00:06:20.021 --> 00:06:21.857
  • There's no way that leper was among the multitude.
  • 00:06:21.857 --> 00:06:25.193
  • I never thought of that.
  • 00:06:25.193 --> 00:06:26.528
  • That's why we need to meditate on the word.
  • 00:06:26.528 --> 00:06:28.096
  • So when i was there, you know, in mount of beatitude,
  • 00:06:28.096 --> 00:06:31.633
  • I walked towards that direction.
  • 00:06:31.633 --> 00:06:33.001
  • Now, i could just imagine, i walk by myself and look
  • 00:06:33.001 --> 00:06:35.504
  • At all the slabs of stone and all that,
  • 00:06:35.504 --> 00:06:37.539
  • "one of these probably hid the leper."
  • 00:06:37.539 --> 00:06:39.641
  • He cannot be seen in public.
  • 00:06:39.641 --> 00:06:41.109
  • So jesus walked where--to where he was, and he appeared before
  • 00:06:41.109 --> 00:06:44.479
  • Jesus and said, "lord, if you can, please you--
  • 00:06:44.479 --> 00:06:47.782
  • If you can, make me clean.
  • 00:06:47.782 --> 00:06:49.651
  • If you are willing."
  • 00:06:49.651 --> 00:06:51.419
  • Not, "if you can, if you are willing."
  • 00:06:51.419 --> 00:06:53.121
  • He knew jesus could.
  • 00:06:53.121 --> 00:06:54.456
  • "if you are willing--" but he doubt
  • 00:06:54.456 --> 00:06:55.957
  • Whether jesus was willing to use his power for him.
  • 00:06:55.957 --> 00:06:59.461
  • How many know that that's the reason why jesus walked
  • 00:06:59.461 --> 00:07:01.396
  • Towards that direction?
  • 00:07:01.396 --> 00:07:02.797
  • And jesus touched him.
  • 00:07:02.797 --> 00:07:04.132
  • Oh, how he had--a leper has never been touched by anybody.
  • 00:07:04.132 --> 00:07:08.637
  • And how he has not been touched, that human touch
  • 00:07:08.637 --> 00:07:11.273
  • That makes a person, you know, feel like a human,
  • 00:07:11.273 --> 00:07:13.909
  • Jesus touched him first
  • 00:07:13.909 --> 00:07:15.477
  • Before he cleansed him and jesus says, "i will."
  • 00:07:15.477 --> 00:07:18.580
  • I feel like god is anointing people and right now
  • 00:07:18.580 --> 00:07:21.716
  • Healing people in different places.
  • 00:07:21.716 --> 00:07:23.652
  • Listen carefully.
  • 00:07:23.652 --> 00:07:24.986
  • The blood--whenever you talk about the blood of jesus, amen,
  • 00:07:24.986 --> 00:07:29.524
  • The holy spirit responds.
  • 00:07:29.524 --> 00:07:30.859
  • I'm gonna tell you why, okay?
  • 00:07:30.859 --> 00:07:33.395
  • One bird is killed, the blood of the trespass offering
  • 00:07:33.395 --> 00:07:38.800
  • Is put on the poor leper on his right thumb.
  • 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:43.138
  • Now, say, "trespass offering."
  • 00:07:43.138 --> 00:07:45.106
  • Remember trespass offering means that you get much more
  • 00:07:45.106 --> 00:07:49.544
  • Than what you have lost.
  • 00:07:49.544 --> 00:07:51.713
  • Are you listening?
  • 00:07:51.713 --> 00:07:53.281
  • Trespass offering means if you have been cheated, someone sins
  • 00:07:53.281 --> 00:07:56.351
  • Against you or whatever, amen, you will get much more than
  • 00:07:56.351 --> 00:07:59.688
  • Before you lost that item or object or animal
  • 00:07:59.688 --> 00:08:02.791
  • Or whatever, all right?
  • 00:08:02.791 --> 00:08:04.125
  • This is in the trespass offering.
  • 00:08:04.125 --> 00:08:05.760
  • So it's a picture of where sin increase, grace super abounds.
  • 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:09.197
  • In the very area of your weakness
  • 00:08:09.197 --> 00:08:10.665
  • God's grace will triumph.
  • 00:08:10.665 --> 00:08:12.534
  • So let's say your problem is pornography.
  • 00:08:12.534 --> 00:08:14.502
  • Amen?
  • 00:08:14.502 --> 00:08:15.837
  • Well, that the very area that god's grace will triumph.
  • 00:08:15.837 --> 00:08:18.239
  • If you allow it to, it will triumph in that area.
  • 00:08:18.239 --> 00:08:21.042
  • Let's say your area is bad-temperedness.
  • 00:08:21.042 --> 00:08:23.078
  • Well, in the very area of your bad-temperedness,
  • 00:08:23.078 --> 00:08:25.747
  • People will look at you and say, "what a tender-hearted man.
  • 00:08:25.747 --> 00:08:29.050
  • What a loving man."
  • 00:08:29.050 --> 00:08:30.418
  • Amen. amen.
  • 00:08:30.418 --> 00:08:31.753
  • I'm telling you, church, this is what the gospel--
  • 00:08:31.753 --> 00:08:34.689
  • The power of the gospel is all about.
  • 00:08:34.689 --> 00:08:36.691
  • Praise the lord. can i have a good amen?
  • 00:08:36.691 --> 00:08:38.493
  • So they put the blood of the trespass offering
  • 00:08:38.493 --> 00:08:40.562
  • On the right thumb of the leper, okay?
  • 00:08:40.562 --> 00:08:44.165
  • Say, "right thumb."
  • 00:08:44.165 --> 00:08:45.667
  • This is for the things that you do,
  • 00:08:45.667 --> 00:08:47.002
  • The things that you touch.
  • 00:08:47.002 --> 00:08:48.370
  • And then the blood of the trespass offering
  • 00:08:48.370 --> 00:08:50.505
  • Is put on the right lobe of the ear
  • 00:08:50.505 --> 00:08:54.342
  • And also on the right toe.
  • 00:08:54.342 --> 00:08:56.478
  • Okay, that's the thing.
  • 00:08:56.478 --> 00:08:57.846
  • Right lobe of the ear, which means
  • 00:08:57.846 --> 00:09:00.248
  • The things you hear will be from now on anointed
  • 00:09:00.248 --> 00:09:02.851
  • And cleansed, amen, the things that you do
  • 00:09:02.851 --> 00:09:05.553
  • Will be touched and cleansed.
  • 00:09:05.553 --> 00:09:06.921
  • So whatever you do prospers.
  • 00:09:06.921 --> 00:09:09.157
  • Like joseph, whatever he touched,
  • 00:09:09.157 --> 00:09:11.026
  • The lord made it to prosper.
  • 00:09:11.026 --> 00:09:12.560
  • And then the right toe, wherever you walk you're a blessing.
  • 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:15.730
  • Wherever you walk, amen, it's gonna be blessed
  • 00:09:15.730 --> 00:09:18.667
  • For you as well.
  • 00:09:18.667 --> 00:09:20.001
  • Amen. amen?
  • 00:09:20.001 --> 00:09:21.336
  • God will put you at the right place the right time.
  • 00:09:21.336 --> 00:09:22.804
  • The blood will take care of you so that the blood
  • 00:09:22.804 --> 00:09:24.305
  • Will protect you from all evil.
  • 00:09:24.305 --> 00:09:25.640
  • Praise god.
  • 00:09:25.640 --> 00:09:26.975
  • So right ear, right thumb, right toe for the feet.
  • 00:09:26.975 --> 00:09:31.813
  • Now, watch this.
  • 00:09:31.813 --> 00:09:33.481
  • Before the chapter ends, it says that now put the oil--
  • 00:09:33.481 --> 00:09:36.584
  • The priest will put the oil on the right lobe
  • 00:09:36.584 --> 00:09:38.987
  • Where the blood is.
  • 00:09:38.987 --> 00:09:40.321
  • So the--where the blood is, the oil comes on the blood.
  • 00:09:40.321 --> 00:09:42.857
  • And then the right thumb, where the blood
  • 00:09:42.857 --> 00:09:44.793
  • Of the trespass offering was, the oil comes on the blood.
  • 00:09:44.793 --> 00:09:47.996
  • Amen?
  • 00:09:47.996 --> 00:09:49.330
  • And then the right toe, the oil comes on the blood.
  • 00:09:49.330 --> 00:09:53.201
  • What's the oil a representation of?
  • 00:09:53.201 --> 00:09:54.602
  • The holy spirit, the anointing of god.
  • 00:09:54.602 --> 00:09:57.505
  • I'm telling you, church, the very--wherever
  • 00:09:57.505 --> 00:10:00.175
  • The blood touches, the holy spirit answers.
  • 00:10:00.175 --> 00:10:03.044
  • Amen.
  • 00:10:03.044 --> 00:10:04.379
  • When the blood is honored, the holy spirit responds, amen.
  • 00:10:04.379 --> 00:10:07.482
  • The holy spirit is--you don't have to be
  • 00:10:07.482 --> 00:10:08.883
  • Conscious all the time.
  • 00:10:08.883 --> 00:10:10.218
  • "the holy spirit is in me. the holy spirit is in me."
  • 00:10:10.218 --> 00:10:11.820
  • You just have the conscious that you are being cleansed
  • 00:10:11.820 --> 00:10:13.221
  • By the blood of jesus.
  • 00:10:13.221 --> 00:10:14.556
  • 1 john 1:7 says that if we walk in the light as he is
  • 00:10:14.556 --> 00:10:17.459
  • In the light--it's not a matter of how you walk,
  • 00:10:17.459 --> 00:10:19.227
  • It's a matter of where you walk.
  • 00:10:19.227 --> 00:10:20.562
  • Once you are saved, you are in the light.
  • 00:10:20.562 --> 00:10:21.963
  • You are walking in the light.
  • 00:10:21.963 --> 00:10:23.298
  • And the bible says when you are in the light doesn't mean
  • 00:10:23.298 --> 00:10:24.933
  • You are perfectly free from sin, but the blood of jesus christ,
  • 00:10:24.933 --> 00:10:28.169
  • Present tense, continuously cleanses you from every sin.
  • 00:10:28.169 --> 00:10:32.006
  • Every item, my sin, you are cleansed from it
  • 00:10:32.006 --> 00:10:35.643
  • And you must live in that consciousness.
  • 00:10:35.643 --> 00:10:39.013
  • The bible says you are righteous by the blood of jesus.
  • 00:10:39.013 --> 00:10:41.816
  • So what are you more conscious of today, your sins,
  • 00:10:41.816 --> 00:10:44.419
  • Your failures thus far, or the blood
  • 00:10:44.419 --> 00:10:46.287
  • That ever cleanses you?
  • 00:10:46.287 --> 00:10:47.822
  • Right now you are in a wash cycle.
  • 00:10:47.822 --> 00:10:50.024
  • The blood keeps you clean.
  • 00:10:50.024 --> 00:10:52.560
  • The monkey is off your back to try to be forgiven,
  • 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:55.163
  • To try to be kept clean.
  • 00:10:55.163 --> 00:10:56.531
  • It's not your responsibility anymore.
  • 00:10:56.531 --> 00:10:58.433
  • Your part is to believe that the blood cleanses you
  • 00:10:58.433 --> 00:11:01.169
  • All the time,
  • 00:11:01.169 --> 00:11:02.504
  • And the spirit answers through the blood.
  • 00:11:02.504 --> 00:11:03.872
  • When you are conscious of that, man,
  • 00:11:03.872 --> 00:11:05.507
  • You are anointed because the spirit comes on you.
  • 00:11:05.507 --> 00:11:08.243
  • Whenever you're conscious of the blood,
  • 00:11:08.243 --> 00:11:09.844
  • The spirit comes on you.
  • 00:11:09.844 --> 00:11:11.246
  • Where the blood is, the spirit comes.
  • 00:11:11.246 --> 00:11:15.150
  • Now, this leper has become a gainer.
  • 00:11:15.150 --> 00:11:17.786
  • He has something now that even an average jew
  • 00:11:17.786 --> 00:11:20.688
  • In ancient israel at that time don't have
  • 00:11:20.688 --> 00:11:23.358
  • Because only kings are anointed with the oil.
  • 00:11:23.358 --> 00:11:26.594
  • Only priests are anointed.
  • 00:11:26.594 --> 00:11:28.396
  • Only three groups, all right?
  • 00:11:28.396 --> 00:11:30.431
  • Prophet, priest, and king are anointed.
  • 00:11:30.431 --> 00:11:35.637
  • But now, this lowly, this poor leper
  • 00:11:35.637 --> 00:11:42.510
  • Who has been cleansed gets the oil.
  • 00:11:42.510 --> 00:11:48.049
  • He joins the category of the kings, the prophets,
  • 00:11:48.049 --> 00:11:50.351
  • And the priests.
  • 00:11:50.351 --> 00:11:52.353
  • What an honor.
  • 00:11:52.353 --> 00:11:54.589
  • And that tells us that whatever you have lost by sin,
  • 00:11:54.589 --> 00:12:00.361
  • God's grace will super abound.
  • 00:12:00.361 --> 00:12:02.263
  • You know, i get criticized for preaching this, amen,
  • 00:12:02.263 --> 00:12:04.732
  • But it's the bible.
  • 00:12:04.732 --> 00:12:06.134
  • It's the bible, people.
  • 00:12:06.134 --> 00:12:07.702
  • Instead of the despairing that you have sinned--
  • 00:12:07.702 --> 00:12:09.971
  • Okay, you have sinned.
  • 00:12:09.971 --> 00:12:11.306
  • This is not to encourage you to sin, all right?
  • 00:12:11.306 --> 00:12:13.074
  • In fact, paul preached like this so strong
  • 00:12:13.074 --> 00:12:15.043
  • That people say, "paul is saying let us sin more
  • 00:12:15.043 --> 00:12:17.745
  • That grace may abound."
  • 00:12:17.745 --> 00:12:19.080
  • But if you look at the verses
  • 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:20.448
  • Before paul brought up the question,
  • 00:12:20.448 --> 00:12:22.050
  • You'll find it says where sin increase, pleonazo in greek--
  • 00:12:22.050 --> 00:12:25.854
  • Increase means you can count it, all right?
  • 00:12:25.854 --> 00:12:28.590
  • Grace, huperperisseuo.
  • 00:12:28.590 --> 00:12:30.558
  • It's not pleonazo, all right?
  • 00:12:30.558 --> 00:12:32.227
  • It does not say--in your king james you use
  • 00:12:32.227 --> 00:12:34.996
  • Both words the same, but actually it says
  • 00:12:34.996 --> 00:12:36.965
  • Where sin abounds grace much more abounds.
  • 00:12:36.965 --> 00:12:39.000
  • But in the greek, where sin increase grace super abounds,
  • 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:43.872
  • Which means you cannot measure it.
  • 00:12:43.872 --> 00:12:45.206
  • The word huper, hyper, perisseuo, beyond its banks
  • 00:12:45.206 --> 00:12:49.277
  • And much more on top of that.
  • 00:12:49.277 --> 00:12:51.679
  • So instead of despairing that you have sinned,
  • 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:53.882
  • Realize this.
  • 00:12:53.882 --> 00:12:55.216
  • Now, because of this sin, because the devil tempted you
  • 00:12:55.216 --> 00:12:57.819
  • Or whatever it is and because of this sin,
  • 00:12:57.819 --> 00:13:00.955
  • Amen, now there's more abundant grace,
  • 00:13:00.955 --> 00:13:05.727
  • Super abounding grace in this very area.
  • 00:13:05.727 --> 00:13:08.496
  • So it wasn't god's will that david had bathsheba
  • 00:13:08.496 --> 00:13:12.800
  • For his wife, but of all the wives
  • 00:13:12.800 --> 00:13:17.572
  • That david had, it was through bathsheba--of all the sons
  • 00:13:17.572 --> 00:13:22.243
  • That he had, it was the son through
  • 00:13:22.243 --> 00:13:24.178
  • Bathsheba that god raised as king to succeed david.
  • 00:13:24.178 --> 00:13:29.150
  • Now, that's not to say, all right, commit adultery.
  • 00:13:29.150 --> 00:13:33.021
  • We're not saying let us sin more that grace may abound,
  • 00:13:33.021 --> 00:13:35.023
  • But where there is sin already you're not in despair
  • 00:13:35.023 --> 00:13:37.358
  • Because of the blood, amen.
  • 00:13:37.358 --> 00:13:39.460
  • In the very area if you respond to god,
  • 00:13:39.460 --> 00:13:41.596
  • There'll be much more grace.
  • 00:13:41.596 --> 00:13:44.232
  • Now, your problem is that you fell into this sin,
  • 00:13:44.232 --> 00:13:46.034
  • That you're saying--the devil will come to you and say,
  • 00:13:46.034 --> 00:13:47.535
  • "now what can you expect?
  • 00:13:47.535 --> 00:13:48.870
  • You can expect bad health, all right?
  • 00:13:48.870 --> 00:13:51.806
  • And you know what's gonna happen?
  • 00:13:51.806 --> 00:13:53.207
  • Your kids will be in trouble because of your sin just now
  • 00:13:53.207 --> 00:13:55.677
  • And because of this and that."
  • 00:13:55.677 --> 00:13:57.111
  • There's a fearful expectation of evil as mentioned
  • 00:13:57.111 --> 00:14:01.282
  • In hebrews 10.
  • 00:14:01.282 --> 00:14:02.617
  • There is this fearful expectation of judgment,
  • 00:14:02.617 --> 00:14:06.020
  • And that's what the devil wants to bring.
  • 00:14:06.020 --> 00:14:07.422
  • But this preaching of grace where sin increase
  • 00:14:07.422 --> 00:14:09.557
  • Grace super abounds will set you free from that.
  • 00:14:09.557 --> 00:14:12.927
  • It will tell you, "because of this sin, all right,
  • 00:14:12.927 --> 00:14:15.430
  • My children will be doubly blessed, amen.
  • 00:14:15.430 --> 00:14:18.466
  • My future is doubly bright." amen.
  • 00:14:18.466 --> 00:14:23.438
  • In the entire old testament we have many promises of god,
  • 00:14:23.438 --> 00:14:27.075
  • But there is the promise.
  • 00:14:27.075 --> 00:14:29.010
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:14:29.010 --> 00:14:30.345
  • Say it: "the promise."
  • 00:14:30.345 --> 00:14:32.280
  • So what is the promise?
  • 00:14:32.280 --> 00:14:35.550
  • It's one definite promise that is alluded to,
  • 00:14:35.550 --> 00:14:42.090
  • That is an emphasis that all the prophets talk about
  • 00:14:42.090 --> 00:14:47.161
  • In the old testament.
  • 00:14:47.161 --> 00:14:48.963
  • Amen? or at least they allude to it.
  • 00:14:48.963 --> 00:14:51.933
  • But what is the promise? amen?
  • 00:14:51.933 --> 00:14:54.969
  • It's the promise that you'll be endued with power
  • 00:14:54.969 --> 00:14:57.705
  • From on high.
  • 00:14:57.705 --> 00:14:59.040
  • What is this enduement with power from on high?
  • 00:14:59.040 --> 00:15:01.209
  • All right, let's look at acts.
  • 00:15:01.209 --> 00:15:03.745
  • "being assembled together with them--"
  • 00:15:03.745 --> 00:15:05.246
  • Now, jesus is about to ascend to heaven.
  • 00:15:05.246 --> 00:15:08.149
  • Jesus commanded them not to depart from jerusalem,
  • 00:15:08.149 --> 00:15:10.785
  • But to wait for the promise of the father.
  • 00:15:10.785 --> 00:15:13.287
  • Say, "the promise."
  • 00:15:13.287 --> 00:15:15.289
  • What is the promise of the father?
  • 00:15:15.289 --> 00:15:17.692
  • Definite article, one and only promise.
  • 00:15:17.692 --> 00:15:19.193
  • The promise of the father.
  • 00:15:19.193 --> 00:15:20.661
  • It's the promise of the father
  • 00:15:20.661 --> 00:15:21.996
  • That brings all the other promises
  • 00:15:21.996 --> 00:15:23.765
  • Into fulfillment in your life.
  • 00:15:23.765 --> 00:15:25.967
  • Amen?
  • 00:15:25.967 --> 00:15:27.301
  • "the--wait for the promise of the father, which,"
  • 00:15:27.301 --> 00:15:29.037
  • Jesus said, "you have heard from me."
  • 00:15:29.037 --> 00:15:31.272
  • Amen?
  • 00:15:31.272 --> 00:15:32.607
  • "for john truly baptized with water,
  • 00:15:32.607 --> 00:15:33.941
  • But you shall be baptized
  • 00:15:33.941 --> 00:15:35.877
  • With the holy spirit not many days from now," amen?
  • 00:15:35.877 --> 00:15:39.881
  • And so 10 more days after 40 days is the day of pentecost.
  • 00:15:39.881 --> 00:15:43.718
  • When the day of pentecost was fully come,
  • 00:15:43.718 --> 00:15:45.253
  • God sent the holy spirit. amen?
  • 00:15:45.253 --> 00:15:48.356
  • And he says like this, very--give them acts 2,
  • 00:15:48.356 --> 00:15:52.093
  • The first part.
  • 00:15:52.093 --> 00:15:53.428
  • "when the day of pentecost had fully come--
  • 00:15:53.428 --> 00:15:54.996
  • There came a sound--from heaven like a rushing mighty wind--"
  • 00:15:54.996 --> 00:15:57.732
  • Why does it say when the day of pentecost
  • 00:15:57.732 --> 00:15:59.133
  • Was fully come?
  • 00:15:59.133 --> 00:16:00.468
  • Because the first pentecost in the old testament
  • 00:16:00.468 --> 00:16:02.470
  • Was the giving of the law.
  • 00:16:02.470 --> 00:16:04.639
  • God gave the law, okay?
  • 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:07.141
  • That was the first pentecost and the result
  • 00:16:07.141 --> 00:16:09.777
  • Was 3,000 people died at the foot of the mountain.
  • 00:16:09.777 --> 00:16:15.216
  • But when the day of pentecost and a new testament,
  • 00:16:15.216 --> 00:16:17.652
  • A new covenant had come because jesus has died,
  • 00:16:17.652 --> 00:16:20.755
  • He has paid for our sins,
  • 00:16:20.755 --> 00:16:22.123
  • The blood has been shed, now the spirit answers
  • 00:16:22.123 --> 00:16:24.292
  • Through the blood.
  • 00:16:24.292 --> 00:16:25.626
  • Are you listening, people?
  • 00:16:25.626 --> 00:16:26.961
  • When the day of pentecost had fully come, all right,
  • 00:16:26.961 --> 00:16:28.963
  • The holy spirit came.
  • 00:16:28.963 --> 00:16:30.598
  • So obviously the day of pentecost
  • 00:16:30.598 --> 00:16:32.934
  • For the jew even today is only on this side here.
  • 00:16:32.934 --> 00:16:35.803
  • It's very sad because the law demands but never imparts.
  • 00:16:35.803 --> 00:16:40.041
  • The law is holy, but it cannot impart holiness.
  • 00:16:40.041 --> 00:16:42.510
  • The law is righteous, but it cannot give you
  • 00:16:42.510 --> 00:16:44.178
  • The gift of righteousness.
  • 00:16:44.178 --> 00:16:45.513
  • The law--but what the law demands, the spirit supplies,
  • 00:16:45.513 --> 00:16:48.816
  • The spirit imparts, the spirit gives.
  • 00:16:48.816 --> 00:16:50.852
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:16:50.852 --> 00:16:52.186
  • All right, the law demands righteousness,
  • 00:16:52.186 --> 00:16:53.721
  • The spirit of god imparts righteousness to you.
  • 00:16:53.721 --> 00:16:56.190
  • Amen?
  • 00:16:56.190 --> 00:16:57.525
  • Gives you the gift of righteousness.
  • 00:16:57.525 --> 00:16:58.860
  • So whatever we need today the holy spirit imparts to us.
  • 00:16:58.860 --> 00:17:00.728
  • He's not there to demand.
  • 00:17:00.728 --> 00:17:02.063
  • Whenever you think of the holy spirit as demanding,
  • 00:17:02.063 --> 00:17:03.397
  • You have put the holy spirit in the place where
  • 00:17:03.397 --> 00:17:05.066
  • He does not belong.
  • 00:17:05.066 --> 00:17:06.501
  • He's there to impart. he's there to help.
  • 00:17:06.501 --> 00:17:08.803
  • Can i have a good amen?
  • 00:17:08.803 --> 00:17:10.471
  • All right, so on the day of pentecost--
  • 00:17:10.471 --> 00:17:12.140
  • The first pentecost, the law was given, 3,000 died.
  • 00:17:12.140 --> 00:17:15.042
  • The new covenant pentecost, this day
  • 00:17:15.042 --> 00:17:17.645
  • When the day of pentecost had fully come,
  • 00:17:17.645 --> 00:17:19.580
  • The spirit was given and 3,000 people
  • 00:17:19.580 --> 00:17:22.316
  • Were saved in that day.
  • 00:17:22.316 --> 00:17:24.118
  • And peter in that sermon--before 3,000 got saved, he preached
  • 00:17:24.118 --> 00:17:28.289
  • That sermon that got the 3,000 people saved.
  • 00:17:28.289 --> 00:17:30.725
  • Peter actually said when he stood up, all right,
  • 00:17:30.725 --> 00:17:33.227
  • Give them acts 2, drop down, "this jesus god has raised up,
  • 00:17:33.227 --> 00:17:36.797
  • Of which we are all witnesses.
  • 00:17:36.797 --> 00:17:38.466
  • Therefore being exalted to the right hand of god--"
  • 00:17:38.466 --> 00:17:41.135
  • He's telling them what happened to jesus after he rose
  • 00:17:41.135 --> 00:17:42.970
  • From the dead.
  • 00:17:42.970 --> 00:17:44.305
  • He was just--he just saw jesus go up to heaven 10 days ago
  • 00:17:44.305 --> 00:17:46.974
  • And now he tells them, "being exalted
  • 00:17:46.974 --> 00:17:49.043
  • To the right hand of god--" hallelujah.
  • 00:17:49.043 --> 00:17:51.345
  • The one who was crowned with thorns is now crowned
  • 00:17:51.345 --> 00:17:53.614
  • With glory and honor.
  • 00:17:53.614 --> 00:17:55.183
  • Hallelujah.
  • 00:17:55.183 --> 00:17:56.551
  • Every crown--crown him with many crowns.
  • 00:17:56.551 --> 00:17:58.519
  • Hallelujah. amen.
  • 00:17:58.519 --> 00:18:00.388
  • He's worthy of it.
  • 00:18:00.388 --> 00:18:01.722
  • "and having received from the father the promise
  • 00:18:01.722 --> 00:18:03.591
  • Of the holy spirit,
  • 00:18:03.591 --> 00:18:04.926
  • He poured out this which you now see and hear."
  • 00:18:04.926 --> 00:18:07.261
  • So it's like jesus in heaven saying,
  • 00:18:07.261 --> 00:18:08.829
  • "hey, now you have the gift of the ho--i paid for it.
  • 00:18:08.829 --> 00:18:12.733
  • Now you have it."
  • 00:18:12.733 --> 00:18:14.068
  • And it's a dream of all the jewish people
  • 00:18:14.068 --> 00:18:17.138
  • In the old testament to have this promise,
  • 00:18:17.138 --> 00:18:19.640
  • But they cannot have it in the old covenant
  • 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:21.809
  • Because christ has not yet died, amen?
  • 00:18:21.809 --> 00:18:24.278
  • But it's like peter is saying here he has received
  • 00:18:24.278 --> 00:18:27.281
  • From the father this gi-- the promise of the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:27.281 --> 00:18:30.117
  • Now he is pouring it out, which you now see and hear.
  • 00:18:30.117 --> 00:18:33.187
  • They are praying in tongues, the bible says.
  • 00:18:33.187 --> 00:18:35.156
  • And when the holy spirit filled them,
  • 00:18:35.156 --> 00:18:36.490
  • They were all speaking in tongues
  • 00:18:36.490 --> 00:18:37.892
  • And it's something that people can see and hear, amen.
  • 00:18:37.892 --> 00:18:41.262
  • This idea that you are saved and then you are baptized
  • 00:18:41.262 --> 00:18:43.965
  • In the holy spirit immediately is not scriptural.
  • 00:18:43.965 --> 00:18:48.035
  • Now, you have the holy spirit once you are saved.
  • 00:18:48.035 --> 00:18:50.671
  • Don't doubt that.
  • 00:18:50.671 --> 00:18:52.006
  • You have the holy spirit.
  • 00:18:52.006 --> 00:18:53.341
  • But it's one thing to have the holy spirit, it's another thing
  • 00:18:53.341 --> 00:18:55.276
  • For the holy spirit to have you.
  • 00:18:55.276 --> 00:18:56.811
  • I can drink water.
  • 00:18:56.811 --> 00:18:58.145
  • Water is now inside me.
  • 00:18:58.145 --> 00:18:59.547
  • But if i jump into--i dive into the swimming pool,
  • 00:18:59.547 --> 00:19:02.650
  • I'm now in the water.
  • 00:19:02.650 --> 00:19:04.252
  • Baptism of the holy spirit is you diving
  • 00:19:04.252 --> 00:19:06.754
  • Into the pool, amen.
  • 00:19:06.754 --> 00:19:08.756
  • Once you are saved, you have the water inside you but you--
  • 00:19:08.756 --> 00:19:11.626
  • You know, baptism of the holy spirit
  • 00:19:11.626 --> 00:19:13.194
  • Means immersed in the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:13.194 --> 00:19:14.595
  • Hallelujah?
  • 00:19:14.595 --> 00:19:16.163
  • So i wanna close with this.
  • 00:19:16.163 --> 00:19:18.599
  • We touched on this a little bit, but lemme just tell this.
  • 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:21.435
  • The life of the holy spirit is a wonderful life.
  • 00:19:21.435 --> 00:19:25.506
  • Many a times, you know, if you'll pray in the spirit,
  • 00:19:25.506 --> 00:19:29.110
  • You pray in tongues, amen, you will sensitize your spirit
  • 00:19:29.110 --> 00:19:33.748
  • To the holy spirit and you will live
  • 00:19:33.748 --> 00:19:36.317
  • By perceiving instead of reasoning.
  • 00:19:36.317 --> 00:19:39.487
  • Why people are defeated is because they are reas--
  • 00:19:39.487 --> 00:19:41.522
  • They reason a lot instead of perceiving.
  • 00:19:41.522 --> 00:19:44.492
  • God told adam and--adam before eve came, god told adam,
  • 00:19:44.492 --> 00:19:47.995
  • "of all the trees in the garden you may freely eat."
  • 00:19:47.995 --> 00:19:52.199
  • Akol to kel in hebrew.
  • 00:19:52.199 --> 00:19:54.902
  • The word akol akol appears twice.
  • 00:19:54.902 --> 00:19:56.537
  • Eat, eat.
  • 00:19:56.537 --> 00:19:57.872
  • That means freely eat.
  • 00:19:57.872 --> 00:19:59.507
  • Like, even, you know, in english, right,
  • 00:19:59.507 --> 00:20:02.043
  • We say eat, eat, eat.
  • 00:20:02.043 --> 00:20:05.313
  • We are very close to the hebrew.
  • 00:20:05.313 --> 00:20:06.947
  • So literally in the hebrew, freely eat.
  • 00:20:06.947 --> 00:20:10.351
  • God says freely eat.
  • 00:20:10.351 --> 00:20:11.686
  • So look at the generosity of god.
  • 00:20:11.686 --> 00:20:13.254
  • People say, "well, god forbade them the tree."
  • 00:20:13.254 --> 00:20:15.222
  • Why you--how come you focus on that one?
  • 00:20:15.222 --> 00:20:16.757
  • You know how many trees there are that god says
  • 00:20:16.757 --> 00:20:18.159
  • You can freely eat?
  • 00:20:18.159 --> 00:20:19.727
  • "but to show you honor me and my lordship, to show
  • 00:20:19.727 --> 00:20:23.597
  • That you acknowledge me as god--"
  • 00:20:23.597 --> 00:20:25.099
  • That's what the tithe is all about, all right?
  • 00:20:25.099 --> 00:20:27.435
  • You don't have to tithe, you get to, all right?
  • 00:20:27.435 --> 00:20:31.405
  • It's for people with revelation.
  • 00:20:31.405 --> 00:20:32.807
  • So acknowledge don't eat from this tree,
  • 00:20:32.807 --> 00:20:36.944
  • But it's a tree that god gave,
  • 00:20:36.944 --> 00:20:38.546
  • God planted, but it's meant to--for men to--
  • 00:20:38.546 --> 00:20:42.249
  • Always not eat from it
  • 00:20:42.249 --> 00:20:43.584
  • To show god's ownership, god's--man is a steward.
  • 00:20:43.584 --> 00:20:46.487
  • Amen? are you listening?
  • 00:20:46.487 --> 00:20:48.789
  • But if we go deeper, what's the nature of the tree?
  • 00:20:48.789 --> 00:20:50.858
  • What's the name of the tree called?
  • 00:20:50.858 --> 00:20:52.460
  • Knowledge of good and evil.
  • 00:20:52.460 --> 00:20:55.129
  • So what is wrong with the knowledge of good?
  • 00:20:55.129 --> 00:20:58.399
  • It's as deadly as the knowledge of evil.
  • 00:20:58.399 --> 00:21:01.402
  • "the day that you eat of it," god told adam--
  • 00:21:01.402 --> 00:21:04.472
  • Dying in the hebrew--dying, you die slowly.
  • 00:21:04.472 --> 00:21:08.075
  • You die spiritually and you die slowly.
  • 00:21:08.075 --> 00:21:10.544
  • Dying you shall die physically one day.
  • 00:21:10.544 --> 00:21:13.748
  • Dying you shall die in the hebrew.
  • 00:21:13.748 --> 00:21:15.516
  • In our english, "thou shall surely die."
  • 00:21:15.516 --> 00:21:17.351
  • So today man is still eating
  • 00:21:17.351 --> 00:21:20.821
  • From the tree of knowledge and good.
  • 00:21:20.821 --> 00:21:22.189
  • They ask themself, "is this good and--or evil?"
  • 00:21:22.189 --> 00:21:24.258
  • That's not the question.
  • 00:21:24.258 --> 00:21:25.593
  • Is this what the spirit is saying to do?
  • 00:21:25.593 --> 00:21:29.663
  • Are you listening?
  • 00:21:29.663 --> 00:21:31.332
  • Mark 2 real quick. all right.
  • 00:21:31.332 --> 00:21:34.201
  • "when jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic,
  • 00:21:34.201 --> 00:21:36.070
  • 'son, your sins are forgiven you.'"
  • 00:21:36.070 --> 00:21:38.005
  • Drop down.
  • 00:21:38.005 --> 00:21:39.340
  • "and some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning
  • 00:21:39.340 --> 00:21:41.442
  • In their hearts--" where were they reasoning?
  • 00:21:41.442 --> 00:21:43.778
  • Reasoning.
  • 00:21:43.778 --> 00:21:45.112
  • The greek is dialogismos.
  • 00:21:45.112 --> 00:21:47.848
  • Dialogue, your english word from--logic, dialogismos,
  • 00:21:47.848 --> 00:21:54.288
  • All right, is the greek word here.
  • 00:21:54.288 --> 00:21:56.190
  • They are reasoning, reasoning, reasoning.
  • 00:21:56.190 --> 00:21:58.526
  • When you live by reasoning, you cannot live
  • 00:21:58.526 --> 00:22:01.462
  • The abundant life.
  • 00:22:01.462 --> 00:22:02.963
  • We live by the spirit.
  • 00:22:02.963 --> 00:22:04.298
  • The spirit is faster than the mind.
  • 00:22:04.298 --> 00:22:06.867
  • You know things before your mind
  • 00:22:06.867 --> 00:22:08.302
  • Can logic it out.
  • 00:22:08.302 --> 00:22:09.637
  • In fact, it takes mind sometimes even days before we come
  • 00:22:09.637 --> 00:22:13.174
  • To the conclusion, but the spirit
  • 00:22:13.174 --> 00:22:14.542
  • Can get it real fast.
  • 00:22:14.542 --> 00:22:16.377
  • I'm coming to something very exciting here
  • 00:22:16.377 --> 00:22:17.845
  • And it's almost time, all right?
  • 00:22:17.845 --> 00:22:19.713
  • So i think we gotta have a conference.
  • 00:22:19.713 --> 00:22:23.083
  • Amen? a whole day conference.
  • 00:22:23.083 --> 00:22:25.619
  • "why does this man--" the pharisees, the scribes says,
  • 00:22:25.619 --> 00:22:28.422
  • "why does this man speak blasphemous like this?
  • 00:22:28.422 --> 00:22:30.825
  • Who can forgive sins but god alone?"
  • 00:22:30.825 --> 00:22:33.461
  • All right, logismos, logic out, okay?
  • 00:22:33.461 --> 00:22:36.263
  • And they are right.
  • 00:22:36.263 --> 00:22:37.665
  • Only god can forgive sins, and the man is god.
  • 00:22:37.665 --> 00:22:42.503
  • "but immediately, when jesus perceived in his spirit
  • 00:22:42.503 --> 00:22:45.306
  • That they reasoned thus within themselves,
  • 00:22:45.306 --> 00:22:49.376
  • He said to them,
  • 00:22:49.376 --> 00:22:50.711
  • 'why do you reason about these things in your heart?'"
  • 00:22:50.711 --> 00:22:53.981
  • Jesus perceived in his spirit that they reason.
  • 00:22:53.981 --> 00:22:57.051
  • Jesus said to them, "why do you reason about these things
  • 00:22:57.051 --> 00:22:59.854
  • In your heart?"
  • 00:22:59.854 --> 00:23:01.188
  • Jesus perceived in his spirit.
  • 00:23:01.188 --> 00:23:02.690
  • You know, many of you, sometimes you know things
  • 00:23:02.690 --> 00:23:05.092
  • Before your mind can play catch-up.
  • 00:23:05.092 --> 00:23:07.895
  • You're about to sign a deal, you're about to go somewhere,
  • 00:23:07.895 --> 00:23:10.097
  • You just feel so--or someone talks to you and he's very nice,
  • 00:23:10.097 --> 00:23:12.600
  • He compliments you, he flatters you more than compliment,
  • 00:23:12.600 --> 00:23:15.669
  • But inside--you know, ladies, you have met
  • 00:23:15.669 --> 00:23:18.339
  • Those kinda guys before, amen?
  • 00:23:18.339 --> 00:23:20.007
  • Something is scratchy inside here.
  • 00:23:20.007 --> 00:23:21.342
  • You don't feel good, but whatever he's saying
  • 00:23:21.342 --> 00:23:23.277
  • Is all good, whatever he's saying is all nice.
  • 00:23:23.277 --> 00:23:25.479
  • Have you been there before where your spirit--
  • 00:23:25.479 --> 00:23:27.681
  • Have you been in places--okay, let's use this illustration.
  • 00:23:27.681 --> 00:23:30.150
  • Have you been in situation whereby you say,
  • 00:23:30.150 --> 00:23:31.819
  • "actually, i knew it.
  • 00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:33.320
  • I knew it.
  • 00:23:33.320 --> 00:23:35.456
  • I don't know why i didn't do it.
  • 00:23:35.456 --> 00:23:36.790
  • I knew it."
  • 00:23:36.790 --> 00:23:39.994
  • When you look back, you say, "actually,
  • 00:23:39.994 --> 00:23:41.862
  • Something told me not to go there.
  • 00:23:41.862 --> 00:23:44.365
  • In fact, something told me not to enter into a contract
  • 00:23:44.365 --> 00:23:47.568
  • With this person or into a partnership with this person.
  • 00:23:47.568 --> 00:23:50.137
  • Something inside.
  • 00:23:50.137 --> 00:23:51.472
  • Now, thank god i obeyed."
  • 00:23:51.472 --> 00:23:52.873
  • Have you all been there before?
  • 00:23:52.873 --> 00:23:54.575
  • You will say, "i knew it."
  • 00:23:54.575 --> 00:23:55.910
  • That's the spirit.
  • 00:23:55.910 --> 00:23:57.378
  • Never mind, don't condemn yourself.
  • 00:23:57.378 --> 00:23:58.712
  • Go ahead. the blood has cleansed it.
  • 00:23:58.712 --> 00:24:00.114
  • Move on. amen?
  • 00:24:00.114 --> 00:24:01.482
  • Learn from now on.
  • 00:24:01.482 --> 00:24:02.950
  • I just wanna share with you this.
  • 00:24:02.950 --> 00:24:04.385
  • The spirit bears witness with your spirit.
  • 00:24:04.385 --> 00:24:06.787
  • It will never violate god's word,
  • 00:24:06.787 --> 00:24:08.422
  • But it will always lead you in paths of peace
  • 00:24:08.422 --> 00:24:12.693
  • And rest and it will bring you
  • 00:24:12.693 --> 00:24:14.762
  • Into plenty, into a large land.
  • 00:24:14.762 --> 00:24:17.898
  • Announcer: pastor joseph prince will return in a moment
  • 00:24:17.965 --> 00:24:20.434
  • With a special prayer to close today's program
  • 00:24:20.434 --> 00:24:22.469
  • Right after this.
  • 00:24:22.469 --> 00:24:24.004
  • Announcer: enjoyed today's message?
  • 00:24:24.004 --> 00:24:25.506
  • Joseph's book, "god's way to making good choices,"
  • 00:24:25.506 --> 00:24:28.342
  • Is packed with strong, scripture-based advice
  • 00:24:28.342 --> 00:24:31.178
  • To help you navigate life's decisions
  • 00:24:31.178 --> 00:24:33.147
  • With confidence and peace.
  • 00:24:33.147 --> 00:24:35.015
  • Request your copy today for a gift of any amount
  • 00:24:35.015 --> 00:24:37.518
  • To the ministry.
  • 00:24:37.518 --> 00:24:38.852
  • Call or text the number on your screen
  • 00:24:38.852 --> 00:24:40.287
  • Or visit josephprince.org to get started.
  • 00:24:40.287 --> 00:24:43.991
  • Announcer: and now, a closing word
  • 00:24:44.058 --> 00:24:45.626
  • From pastor joseph prince.
  • 00:24:45.626 --> 00:24:47.227
  • Joseph prince: this coming week the lord bless you
  • 00:24:47.227 --> 00:24:49.563
  • With the blessings of abraham.
  • 00:24:49.563 --> 00:24:52.132
  • The lord himself protect you and your families
  • 00:24:52.132 --> 00:24:56.937
  • From every harm, danger, accident;
  • 00:24:56.937 --> 00:25:01.075
  • From disaster; from tragedy.
  • 00:25:01.075 --> 00:25:03.877
  • The lord himself prosper you in everything that you do.
  • 00:25:03.877 --> 00:25:07.915
  • The lord himself favors you and caused you to be led
  • 00:25:07.915 --> 00:25:11.885
  • By the spirit in everything that you do.
  • 00:25:11.885 --> 00:25:15.189
  • In the name of the lord jesus, amen, amen.
  • 00:25:15.189 --> 00:25:18.125
  • God bless you. we'll see you again.
  • 00:25:18.125 --> 00:25:20.661
  • Female: i told my son. i said, "i found my people."
  • 00:25:20.728 --> 00:25:23.430
  • I was so excited.
  • 00:25:23.430 --> 00:25:25.299
  • Announcer: church-- male: hey, everybody.
  • 00:25:25.299 --> 00:25:27.701
  • Announcer: --it's not a place-- male: hey, everybody.
  • 00:25:27.701 --> 00:25:30.270
  • Announcer: --it's a people.
  • 00:25:30.270 --> 00:25:31.639
  • Male: good to see you guys. welcome, everyone.
  • 00:25:31.639 --> 00:25:34.975
  • Male: we get people asking us, you know, "how in the world
  • 00:25:34.975 --> 00:25:37.378
  • Do you do an online church?"
  • 00:25:37.378 --> 00:25:39.013
  • And, you know, we gather in our living room
  • 00:25:39.013 --> 00:25:40.914
  • And we sing and we praise
  • 00:25:40.914 --> 00:25:42.516
  • And then we sit there and we take in the word,
  • 00:25:42.516 --> 00:25:44.551
  • And then afterward you can talk about it.
  • 00:25:44.551 --> 00:25:46.453
  • Announcer: church is not four walls;
  • 00:25:46.453 --> 00:25:48.656
  • It's one body of christ.
  • 00:25:48.656 --> 00:25:51.225
  • Male: we just feel so plugged in now.
  • 00:25:51.225 --> 00:25:52.793
  • We feel planted.
  • 00:25:52.793 --> 00:25:54.128
  • It does take some getting used to a little bit, you know,
  • 00:25:54.128 --> 00:25:56.030
  • Doing the online church; but, i mean, right now
  • 00:25:56.030 --> 00:25:57.898
  • We're speaking to you all and we're, you know,
  • 00:25:57.898 --> 00:25:59.900
  • Transcending time and space.
  • 00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:01.468
  • Announcer: from live streams to lifelines.
  • 00:26:01.468 --> 00:26:04.638
  • Female: my best friends are in the chat, in the chat host.
  • 00:26:04.638 --> 00:26:08.676
  • And when i was sick i had people praying for me,
  • 00:26:08.676 --> 00:26:11.245
  • I had people taking communion for me.
  • 00:26:11.245 --> 00:26:13.614
  • They're right there when you need it.
  • 00:26:13.614 --> 00:26:15.449
  • Announcer: because church is not where you meet,
  • 00:26:15.449 --> 00:26:17.951
  • It's who you meet.
  • 00:26:17.951 --> 00:26:19.987
  • Female: join a digital church and learn to feel love
  • 00:26:19.987 --> 00:26:23.190
  • From people we can't see and we're not
  • 00:26:23.190 --> 00:26:25.059
  • In the same room as.
  • 00:26:25.059 --> 00:26:26.460
  • It helps us to make that connection that,
  • 00:26:26.460 --> 00:26:29.296
  • "i can't see god and i'm not in the same room
  • 00:26:29.296 --> 00:26:31.331
  • As him, but he loves me."
  • 00:26:31.331 --> 00:26:32.700
  • Announcer: find your people, find your church.
  • 00:26:32.700 --> 00:26:36.770
  • Joseph prince: i believe that there is a corporate anointing
  • 00:26:36.837 --> 00:26:39.406
  • Whenever we come together to worship the lord
  • 00:26:39.406 --> 00:26:41.775
  • As the body of christ, even online.
  • 00:26:41.775 --> 00:26:44.211
  • Announcer: visit josephprince.org/church or text
  • 00:26:44.211 --> 00:26:46.880
  • "church" to 71239 today.
  • 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:49.516
  • Announcer: thank you for being with us today.
  • 00:26:51.251 --> 00:26:53.220
  • Join pastor joseph prince next time for a fresh word
  • 00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:55.989
  • From the lord.
  • 00:26:55.989 --> 00:26:57.524
  • Announcer: joseph prince ministries
  • 00:26:57.524 --> 00:26:58.892
  • Is a section 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,
  • 00:26:58.892 --> 00:27:02.329
  • And your gift is tax-deductible for the amount that exceeds
  • 00:27:02.329 --> 00:27:05.099
  • Any fair market value of the materials
  • 00:27:05.099 --> 00:27:07.468
  • You receive from us.
  • 00:27:07.468 --> 00:27:09.136
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:27:10.204 --> 00:27:10.204