John 10:18 He chose to lay down His life for us John 10:18
14-18 “I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me. In the same way, the Father knows me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before myself, sacrificing myself if necessary. You need to know that I have other sheep in addition to those in this pen. I need to gather and bring them, too. They’ll also recognize my voice. Then it will be one flock, one Shepherd. This is why the Father loves me: because I freely lay down my life. And so I am free to take it up again. No one takes it from me. I lay it down of my own free will. I have the right to lay it down; I also have the right to take it up again. I received this authority personally from my Father.”
John 10
He Calls His Sheep by Name
10 1-5 “Let me set this before you as plainly as I can. If a person climbs over or through the fence of a sheep pen instead of going through the gate, you know he’s up to no good—a sheep rustler! The shepherd walks right up to the gate. The gatekeeper opens the gate to him and the sheep recognize his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he gets them all out, he leads them and they follow because they are familiar with his voice. They won’t follow a stranger’s voice but will scatter because they aren’t used to the sound of it.”
6-10 Jesus told this simple story, but they had no idea what he was talking about. So he tried again. “I’ll be explicit, then. I am the Gate for the sheep. All those others are up to no good—sheep rustlers, every one of them. But the sheep didn’t listen to them. I am the Gate. Anyone who goes through me will be cared for—will freely go in and out, and find pasture. A thief is only there to steal and kill and destroy. I came so they can have real and eternal life, more and better life than they ever dreamed of.
11-13 “I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd puts the sheep before himself, sacrifices himself if necessary. A hired man is not a real shepherd. The sheep mean nothing to him. He sees a wolf come and runs for it, leaving the sheep to be ravaged and scattered by the wolf. He’s only in it for the money. The sheep don’t matter to him.
14-18 “I am the Good Shepherd. I know my own sheep and my own sheep know me. In the same way, the Father knows me and I know the Father. I put the sheep before myself, sacrificing myself if necessary. You need to know that I have other sheep in addition to those in this pen. I need to gather and bring them, too. They’ll also recognize my voice. Then it will be one flock, one Shepherd. This is why the Father loves me: because I freely lay down my life. And so I am free to take it up again. No one takes it from me. I lay it down of my own free will. I have the right to lay it down; I also have the right to take it up again. I received this authority personally from my Father.”
19-21 This kind of talk caused another split in the Jewish ranks. A lot of them were saying, “He’s crazy, a maniac—out of his head completely. Why bother listening to him?” But others weren’t so sure: “These aren’t the words of a crazy man. Can a ‘maniac’ open blind eyes?”
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22-24 They were celebrating Hanukkah just then in Jerusalem. It was winter. Jesus was strolling in the Temple across Solomon’s Porch. The Jews, circling him, said, “How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you’re the Messiah, tell us straight out.”
25-30 Jesus answered, “I told you, but you don’t believe. Everything I have done has been authorized by my Father, actions that speak louder than words. You don’t believe because you’re not my sheep. My sheep recognize my voice. I know them, and they follow me. I give them real and eternal life. They are protected from the Destroyer for good. No one can steal them from out of my hand. The Father who put them under my care is so much greater than the Destroyer and Thief. No one could ever get them away from him. I and the Father are one heart and mind.”
31-32 Again the Jews picked up rocks to throw at him. Jesus said, “I have made a present to you from the Father of a great many good actions. For which of these acts do you stone me?”
33 The Jews said, “We’re not stoning you for anything good you did, but for what you said—this blasphemy of calling yourself God.”
34-38 Jesus said, “I’m only quoting your inspired Scriptures, where God said, ‘I tell you—you are gods.’ If God called your ancestors ‘gods’—and Scripture doesn’t lie—why do you yell, ‘Blasphemer! Blasphemer!’ at the unique One the Father consecrated and sent into the world, just because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I don’t do the things my Father does, well and good; don’t believe me. But if I am doing them, put aside for a moment what you hear me say about myself and just take the evidence of the actions that are right before your eyes. Then perhaps things will come together for you, and you’ll see that not only are we doing the same thing, we are the same—Father and Son. He is in me; I am in him.”
39-42 They tried yet again to arrest him, but he slipped through their fingers. He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and stayed there. A lot of people followed him over. They were saying, “John did no miracles, but everything he said about this man has come true.” Many believed in him then and there.
Definitions of revengeNoun1the action of inflicting hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands.other spurned wives have taken public revenge on their husbandsSynonyms:vengeance retribution retaliation reprisal requital recrimination an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) redress satisfactionVerb1inflict hurt or harm on someone for an injury or wrong done to (someone else).it's a pity he chose that way to revenge his sisterExamples of RevengeOne of his losses was to Akira Oguchi, on whom he gained his revenge when he knocked the Japanese boxer out in five rounds in Bangkok in September 1961.Synonyms of revengeNounvengeance vengefulness retaliationVerbavengeJeremiah 50:28-32 - The Humiliation Of Babylon28 There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, Vengeance for His temple. 29 "Summon many against Babylon, All those who bend the bow: Encamp against her on every side, Let there be no escape. Repay her according to her work; According to all that she has done, so do to her; For she has become arrogant against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel. 30 "Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, And all her men of war will be silenced in that day," declares the LORD. 31 "Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Declares the Lord GOD of hosts, "For your day has come, The time when I will punish you. 32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set fire to his cities And it will devour all his environs."Jeremiah 49:1-6 - A Message Concerning AmmonJeremiah 50:41-46 - The Conquest Of BabylonJeremiah 51:1-64 - God's Judgment On BabylonJeremiah 52:31-34 - An Allowance For JehoiachinJeremiah 66:27-32 - Jeremiah Rewrites The ScrollJeremiah 50:28-32 - The Humiliation Of BabylonLamentations 1:1-22 - The Desolate CityLamentations 2:1-22 - The Lord Is AngryLamentations 3:1-66 - Israel's AfflictionLamentations 4:1-22 - Zion Is PunishedLamentations 5:1-22 - A Request For MercyRelated TopicsRevengeRomans 12:19Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord.Deuteronomy 32:35'Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their calamity is near, And the impending things are hastening upon them.'Micah 5:15"And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath On the nations which have not obeyed."Isaiah 63:4"For the day of vengeance was in My heart, And My year of redemption has come.Luke 21:22because these are days of vengeance, so that all things which are written will be fulfilled.Hebrews 10:30For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY " And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE."Psalm 58:10The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.Ezekiel 24:8"That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on the bare rock, That it may not be covered."Proverbs 6:34For jealousy enrages a man, And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.Isaiah 34:8For the LORD has a day of vengeance, A year of recompense for the cause of Zion.Revelation 6:10and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"Jeremiah 51:36Therefore thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am going to plead your case And exact full vengeance for you; And I will dry up her sea And make her fountain dry.Ezekiel 25:14"I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance," declares the Lord GOD.Psalm 94:1O LORD, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth!Ezekiel 25:15'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,"Leviticus 19:18'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.Jeremiah 51:6Flee from the midst of Babylon, And each of you save his life! Do not be destroyed in her punishment, For this is the LORD'S time of vengeance; He is going to render recompense to her.Ezekiel 25:17"I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the LORD when I lay My vengeance on them."'"Lamentations 3:60You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.Isaiah 35:4Say to those with anxious heart, "Take courage, fear not Behold, your God will come with vengeance; The recompense of God will come, But He will save you."Genesis 4:15So the LORD said to him, "Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold " And the LORD appointed a sign for Cain, so that no one finding him would slay him.2 Corinthians 10:6and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.Isaiah 1:24Therefore the Lord GOD of hosts, The Mighty One of Israel, declares, "Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries And avenge Myself on My foes.Judges 15:7Samson said to them, "Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit."Judges 16:28Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes."Romans 12:21Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.2 Thessalonians 1:8dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.1 Samuel 24:12"May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you.Psalm 140:12I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted And justice for the poor.Jeremiah 15:15You who know, O LORD, Remember me, take notice of me, And take vengeance for me on my persecutors Do not, in view of Your patience, take me away; Know that for Your sake I endure reproach.Isaiah 59:17He put on righteousness like a breastplate, And a helmet of salvation on His head; And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.Jeremiah 50:28There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, To declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, Vengeance for His temple.Luke 18:7now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?Genesis 4:10He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.Isaiah 47:3"Your nakedness will be uncovered, Your shame also will be exposed; I will take vengeance and will not spare a man."Jeremiah 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many, "Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!" All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say: "Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him."Ezekiel 25:12'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,"Psalm 149:7To execute vengeance on the nations And punishment on the peoples,Jeremiah 20:12Yet, O LORD of hosts, You who test the righteous, Who see the mind and the heart; Let me see Your vengeance on them; For to You I have set forth my cause.Luke 18:3"There was a widow in that city, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Give me legal protection from my opponent.'Genesis 4:24If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."Jeremiah 51:11Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it; For it is the vengeance of the LORD, vengeance for His temple.Proverbs 24:17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;Numbers 31:2"Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people."Jeremiah 50:15"Raise your battle cry against her on every side! She has given herself up, her pillars have fallen, Her walls have been torn down For this is the vengeance of the LORD: Take vengeance on her; As she has done to others, so do to her.Psalm 44:16Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.From Thematic BibleRevenge » ForbiddenRevenge » Keep others from takingRevenge » Forbidden by our lordRevenge » Punishment forRevenge » Instead of taking, we should » Trust in GodRevenge » ExemplifiedRevenge » Instead of taking, we should » Exhibit loveRevenge » Christ an example of forbearingRevenge » Exemplified » By samsonRevenge » Instead of taking, we should » Overcome others by kindnessRevenge » Exemplified » By the chief priestsRevenge » Be thankful for being kept from takingRevenge » Instead of taking, we should » Exercise forbearanceRevenge » The wicked are earnest afterRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Philistines, toward israelRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Ahab, toward micaiahRevenge » Exemplified » Simon and leviRevenge » Exemplified » PhilistinesRevenge » Exemplified » EdomitesRevenge » Exemplified » HamanRevenge » Exemplified » AhabRevenge » Exemplified » JoabRevenge » Proceeds from a spiteful heartRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Herodias, toward john the baptistRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Jezebel toward elijahRevenge » Instead of taking, we should » Give place unto wrathRevenge » Instead of taking, we should » BlessRevenge » Exemplified » HerodiasRevenge » Exemplified » By absalomRevenge » Rebuked by ChristRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Haman, toward the jewsRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Jews toward paulRevenge » Exemplified » By herodiasRevenge » Rebuked by jesusRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Sanhedrin, toward the apostlesRevenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Nazarenes, toward ChristRevenge » Exemplified » James and johnRevenge » Exemplified » Chief priestsRevenge » Exemplified » By hamanRevenge » Exemplified » By the philistinesRevenge » Exemplified » By the edomitesRevenge » Exemplified » By ahabRevenge » Inconsistent with Christian spiritRevenge » Exemplified » By simeon and leviRevenge » Exemplified » By jezebelRevenge » Exemplified » By joabRevenge » Jesus an example of forbearingRevenge » Exemplified » By james and johnRevenge » Inconsistent withRevenge » ForbiddenRomans 12:19Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord.Romans 12:17Never pay back evil for evil to anyone Respect what is right in the sight of all men.1 Thessalonians 5:15See that no one repays another with evil for evil, but always seek after that which is good for one another and for all people.Leviticus 19:18'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.1 Peter 3:9not returning evil for evil or insult for insult, but giving a blessing instead; for you were called for the very purpose that you might inherit a blessing.More verses: Proverbs 24:29Revenge » Keep others from taking1 Samuel 26:9But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD'S anointed and be without guilt?"1 Samuel 24:10"Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the LORD had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD'S anointed.'1 Samuel 25:24-31She fell at his feet and said, "On me alone, my lord, be the blame. And please let your maidservant speak to you, and listen to the words of your maidservant. "Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. "Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has restrained you from shedding blood, and from avenging yourself by your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal. read more.Revenge » Forbidden by our lordProverbs 24:17Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;Leviticus 19:18'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.Proverbs 24:29Do not say, "Thus I shall do to him as he has done to me; I will render to the man according to his work."Revenge » Punishment forAmos 1:11-12Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke its punishment, Because he pursued his brother with the sword, While he stifled his compassion; His anger also tore continually, And he maintained his fury forever. "So I will send fire upon Teman And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah."Ezekiel 25:15-17'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity," therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, even cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seacoast. "I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they will know that I am the LORD when I lay My vengeance on them."'"Revenge » Instead of taking, we should » Trust in GodRomans 12:16Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly Do not be wise in your own estimation.Proverbs 20:22Do not say, "I will repay evil"; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.Revenge » ExemplifiedActs 7:54Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him.Acts 23:12When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.Judges 16:28-30Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left. And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he bent with all his might so that the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life.Judges 15:7Samson said to them, "Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit."Revenge » Instead of taking, we should » Exhibit loveLuke 6:35"But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.Leviticus 19:18'You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the LORD.Revenge » Christ an example of forbearingIsaiah 53:7He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth.1 Peter 2:23and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;Revenge » Exemplified » By samsonJudges 15:7-8Samson said to them, "Since you act like this, I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will quit." He struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.Judges 16:28-30Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left. And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" And he bent with all his might so that the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed in his life.Revenge » Instead of taking, we should » Overcome others by kindnessProverbs 25:21-22If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For you will heap burning coals on his head, And the LORD will reward you.Revenge » Exemplified » By the chief priestsActs 23:12When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.Acts 7:54-59Now when they heard this, they were cut to the quick, and they began gnashing their teeth at him. But being full of the Holy Spirit, he gazed intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God." read more.Revenge » Be thankful for being kept from taking1 Samuel 25:32-33Then David said to Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me, and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.Revenge » Instead of taking, we should » Exercise forbearanceMatthew 5:38-41"You have heard that it was said, 'AN EYE FOR AN EYE, AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.' "But I say to you, do not resist an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. "If anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, let him have your coat also. read more.Revenge » The wicked are earnest afterJeremiah 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many, "Terror on every side! Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!" All my trusted friends, Watching for my fall, say: "Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him And take our revenge on him."Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Philistines, toward israelEzekiel 25:15'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,"Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Ahab, toward micaiah1 Kings 22:27and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this man in prison and feed him sparingly with bread and water until I return safely."'"Revenge » Exemplified » Simon and leviGenesis 34:25Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male.Revenge » Exemplified » PhilistinesEzekiel 25:15'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,"Revenge » Exemplified » EdomitesEzekiel 25:12'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,"Revenge » Exemplified » HamanEsther 3:8-15Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain. "If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries." Then the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. read more.Revenge » Exemplified » Ahab1 Kings 22:26Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king's son;Revenge » Exemplified » Joab2 Samuel 3:27So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.Revenge » Proceeds from a spiteful heartEzekiel 25:15'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,"Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Herodias, toward john the baptistMatthew 14:8Having been prompted by her mother, she said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist."Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Jezebel toward elijah1 Kings 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."Revenge » Instead of taking, we should » Give place unto wrathRomans 12:19Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord.Revenge » Instead of taking, we should » BlessRomans 12:14Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.Revenge » Exemplified » HerodiasMark 6:19-24Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death and could not do so; for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him. A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee; read more.Revenge » Exemplified » By absalom2 Samuel 13:23-29Now it came about after two full years that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons. Absalom came to the king and said, "Behold now, your servant has sheepshearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant." But the king said to Absalom, "No, my son, we should not all go, for we will be burdensome to you." Although he urged him, he would not go, but blessed him. read more.Revenge » Rebuked by ChristLuke 9:54-55When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Haman, toward the jewsEsther 3:6But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Jews toward paulActs 23:12When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.Revenge » Exemplified » By herodiasMark 6:19-24Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death and could not do so; for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him. A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee; read more.Revenge » Rebuked by jesusLuke 9:54-55When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Sanhedrin, toward the apostlesActs 5:33But when they heard this, they were cut to the quick and intended to kill them.Revenge » Revenge, the spirit of, manifested » Nazarenes, toward ChristLuke 4:29and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff.Revenge » Exemplified » James and johnLuke 9:54When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"Revenge » Exemplified » Chief priestsActs 5:33But when they heard this, they were cut to the quick and intended to kill them.Revenge » Exemplified » By hamanEsther 3:8-15Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain. "If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries." Then the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. read more.Revenge » Exemplified » By the philistinesEzekiel 25:15'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to destroy with everlasting enmity,"Revenge » Exemplified » By the edomitesEzekiel 25:12'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,"Revenge » Exemplified » By ahab1 Kings 22:27and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this man in prison and feed him sparingly with bread and water until I return safely."'"Revenge » Inconsistent with Christian spiritLuke 9:55But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;Revenge » Exemplified » By simeon and leviGenesis 34:25Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male.Revenge » Exemplified » By jezebel1 Kings 19:2Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "So may the gods do to me and even more, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time."Revenge » Exemplified » By joab2 Samuel 3:27So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.Revenge » Jesus an example of forbearing1 Peter 2:23and while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;Revenge » Exemplified » By james and johnLuke 9:54When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?"Revenge » Inconsistent withLuke 9:55But He turned and rebuked them, [and said, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of;Topics on RevengeRevenge, And Retaliation45;12;19Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY," says the Lord.Revenge, Examples Of42;6;11But they themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together what they might do to Jesus.
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Your heart is the place where
God teaches you wisdom.
That's where the voice
of God comes from.
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We are depending so much
on people's advice!
We are looking so much
to social media for direction.
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Instead of listening to
what God is saying on the inside.
Let your logic serve you.
Don't let it lead you.
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Jesus perceived! That is a
seeing on the inside.
You see it long before
you can reason it.
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You see it long before
you can logic it out.
God has given you a new heart
and He has given you a new spirit!
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My voice is a confirmation to what
God has already said in your heart!
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Where wisdom dwells!
What is God saying
about your situation?
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Whoa, thank you, thank you.
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Hey, I like the boy.
Thank you very much.
I receive your love, people.
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You may be seated.
How often does it happen, right,
exactly on the birthday is a Sunday?
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It comes like, what?
Every seven years?
So I felt that I need to preach, amen, on
a Sunday. Amen.
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Also, you know, I was born on this day,
which is an eventful one because
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Israel came back as a nation, amen?
In 15 May, they became a nation
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again, and this is after 2,000
years of what Jesus prophesied,
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that Jerusalem will be under the
hands of the Gentiles until the
times of the Gentiles be
fulfilled. So they came back in
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1948. On the 15th of May was the
official day, right, which we
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celebrate. And 15 years after
that, now you all know my age
already. Fifteen years after
that. And it's all 15, because
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15 in the Bible is the number of
rest, all right? It's a multiple
of five times three. So in the
Bible, Scripture numerics carry
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meanings, amen? So 15 is a
number of rest, which is grace,
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grace, grace, amen? I believe
that. And May is which month? So
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don't wonder why Pastor Prince
preach so much on rest. I was
born to preach rest, amen?
Praise God. And you know, I was
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just reading in the Word of God
that every time God talks about
the seven feasts of Israel,
right, like the first time God
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introduced that in the book of
Leviticus, which many of us, the
pages are still stuck together
after a few years, right, of
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purchasing the Bible, it's still
stuck. In Leviticus 23, it talks
about the seven feasts of
Israel, but it starts off with
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the first one. When many people
teach on the seven feasts, they
don't teach on the very first
part before the seven feasts,
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which is the Sabbath. The
Sabbath rest must come first
before you can celebrate
anything, amen? And then in
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Exodus 35, we have a list of all
the people that work in the
Tabernacle. We have one man
called Bezalel, and God says He
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anointed him. And the very first
thing in Exodus 35, before God
talks about all the workers and
all those who are
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willing-hearted, God talks about
the Sabbath rest. Why? Because
you cannot work unless you know
how to rest, at least not
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effectively for the Lord, all
right? And again, you cannot
celebrate without knowing how to
rest, because some people, they
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celebrate so that they can rest.
You know, it's like it's a key.
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If you learn to praise God,
right, if you learn to praise
God, then this thing will
happen, that thing--no, no, no.
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We see what God has done and
then we praise Him, amen? We
don't turn like, you know, I'm
twisting God so that I praise
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You long enough, then You give
it to me. All right, for too
long, you know, that has been
taught, but let me tell you
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this. Even after you praise Him
for what He has done, He still
blesses you again, amen, because
you can never out-give God. And
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again, the other day I was just
reading about David and how
David and Jonathan, they are
best friends, covenant brothers.
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You know, when Jonathan met
David in the woods, the Bible
says they cut a covenant again,
and they both cried because
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David knew that he and Jonathan
would be separated because the
father is on the hunt, all
right, to kill David. And
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Jonathan, by the way, is the son
of the king at that time, which
means Jonathan is slated to be
the next king. But Jonathan said
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to David, "You will be the next
king." So look at the friendship
they had. No wonder when
Jonathan died, David wept and
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wrote a song out of his time of
mourning called the Song of the
Bow. It's very interesting. "How
are the mighty fallen." And he
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talk about Jonathan as well. And
over there when they met, the
Bible says they wept, and I love
this part where it says that,
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"And David wept more." All
right, there's one version that
says, "Overwept." He cried more
than Jonathan. So you think
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about David, right? David is a
picture of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Everything about--we
know that Jesus also came from
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the lineage of David, but
everything in the story of David
is a picture of our Lord Jesus
Christ, amen, in different parts
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of his life. You know, when he
was wandering in the wilderness,
that speaks of Jesus right now.
He's rejected. Predominantly,
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the whole world has rejected
Jesus Christ, both the Jewish
world and the Gentile world, the
non-Jews. When Jesus was here,
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it was-- we know that at the
end, it's our sins that He bore
at the cross, but it was the
Roman Gentile that passed the
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sentence. It was the Jewish
leaders that delivered Him up,
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amen, through Judas. And there
He was on that cross, rejected
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by man. Generally speaking, the
whole world today still rejects
Jesus Christ. So you and I are
like the mighty men that
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followed David, amen? So when
you study all the mighty men
that came to David during that
time, everyone was in debt,
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distress, discontented. The
three-D army, remember? And they
all became mighty men because
they were-- they came to him in
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his rejection. They didn't come
to him after he became king. One
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day he will be king, amen? The
greater Son of David is coming
back. Have you noticed how many
people came to him that were
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Gentiles? So it speaks of the
time that we are in right now.
So many that have come to David
at that time were Gentiles. One
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of them he made
commander-in-chief over a third
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of his army. He divided his army
into three sections and one of
them was run by a man called
Itai. You know who is Itai? Itai
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is a Philistine, same tribe as
Goliath. But Itai, at the time
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when David ran away from Saul,
he spent some time with the
Philistines. Can you believe it?
And he had so much favor with
the king of the Philistines that
somewhere along that way, Itai,
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just like Jonathan, wanted to
cut a covenant with David. And
when the time came that David
was rejected, even by his own--
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his son, Absalom rejected the
father, usurped the throne, and
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David was wandering-- David told
Itai, "Go back. Go back to your
family. Go back to your friends.
Go back to your tribe," which is
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the Philistines. You know what
Itai says? "My children and I,
we have left everything to
follow you." And when that--you
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know, can you imagine the kids
asking, "Daddy, why are we
moving again? Jerusalem is a
nice place for us to live. Why
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are we moving?" He says, "We
don't know where we are going,
but our eyes are on the king. We
are following the king, all
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right?" When David came back
after Absalom died, David made
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Itai commander-in-chief over
one-third of his army. All this
speaks of you and I during this
time when our
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Commander-in-Chief, our Lord
Jesus Christ, amen, is in
rejection. One day He will come
and He will rule on earth. The
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Bible talks about the kingdom of
God on earth. And when that
happens, the wolf and the lamb
will lie down together. Even
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children will wanna
play--children will play at the
adder, you know, the snake, the
poisonous snake, and the hole of
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the snake. "There'll be nothing
that will hurt or destroy in all
My holy mountain." No more
disease, no more sickness, amen.
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And Jesus will rule on earth,
and we'll be there ruling with
Him because He said that if
you-- Jesus one time told his
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disciples, "You are they which
continued in My trials." It
means, "During My time of
rejection, you continued with
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Me." Then He said this, "And you
will sit on thrones, ruling." So
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David, the same, all right? He
gave positions of authority,
amen. He rewarded all those that
were faithful to him. The time
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is soon coming Jesus is coming
back, hallelujah. You ready to
continue where we left off last
week? Okay, let's dive right
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into the Word. We talk about the
heart. We've been talking about
the heart for some time now, and
the heart is the place-- once
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you locate the heart, you know
that you can monitor that area,
because that's where the voice
of God comes from. That's where
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God deposits His wisdom for
anything in life. It's in the
heart. Look at Psalms 51. Look
up here, Psalm 51. It says,
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"Behold, You desire truth in the
inward parts, in the hidden part
You will make me to know
wisdom." "In the hidden part You
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will make me to know," what?
Wisdom. Where in the hidden
part? The ESV puts it like this,
"And you teach me wisdom in the
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secret heart." Your heart is the
place where God teaches you
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wisdom, where wisdom is found.
Where does God put it? In the
heart. In the heart. Now,
perhaps some of you sitting down
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here think, "Pastor Prince, you
know, I got some financial
problem and looks like the world
is now going into a crisis, and
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you know, the price of
everything is going up." I just
heard in the news yesterday that
India has stopped exporting
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wheat. Now, that's dangerous.
Where will my chapati come from?
You know, I mean, I love
chapati. How many of you love
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chapati, amen? Someone should
stand up right now and shout,
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"Pastor, man shall not live by
chapati bread alone." You all
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know what chapati or not?
Chapati is a round piece of
bread. You pluck a piece of it,
you scoop it, and it you take
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that dal, bro, all right? And
once you eat that dal in that
chapati, never a dull moment
anymore in your life, amen? Dal.
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Lentil is Bible food, man. I
know a guy, a brother who gave
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up his birthright just for that
lentil dal, I'm telling you. Are
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you all hungry, amen? So the
importance of having wisdom is
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so vital. Before we talk about,
you know, the needs that the--
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right now, currently that we are
faced with, we ask ourself, "How
does wisdom play a part?" Well,
wisdom plays a part in a lot of
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things. You will know the
timing. You will know how
to--what to spend, what not to
spend. And you will know how to
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pray in a way that supply will
be forthcoming. You will know
where--what God is doing and
flow with Him. And when you flow
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with God-- How many of you know
when you flow with God, it is
always supply? It is always
paths of abundance. You see, it
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doesn't say, "The Lord is my
Savior, I shall not lack. I
shall not want, be in want." It
says, "The Lord is my Sh--" What
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is that? What is shepherd? What
do sheep do with the shepherd?
They follow him. What he feeds,
they eat. Where he leads, they
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follow. Just do that and you
don't have to worry about India
not exporting wheat anymore, all
right? Praise God. All right,
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whatever it is, the Bible tells
us during times of famine, God's
people are supplied, okay? So
wisdom gives you five things.
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Length of days, which is health,
amen, length of days, and as
well as longevity. Riches,
that's in the Bible, people. Not
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Pastor Prince. Okay, you all
don't--you all look at me like,
"Are you sure or not?" Yes,
don't listen to people who tell
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you that something is not in the
Bible when it's in the Bible,
amen. Look up here. It says
here, "Happy is the man who
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finds wisdom." So you can change
your name to Happy Chong, Happy
Lim. Then you can say, "Happy is
the man who finds wisdom." Every
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time you see, "Happy is the
man," you say, "I am the one."
"Happy is the man who finds
wisdom, and the man who gains
understanding; for her proceeds
are better than the profits of
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silver, and her gain than fine
gold. She's more precious that
rubies, and all the things you
may desire cannot compare with
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her." Now, here it comes, the
first blessing. "Length of days
is in her right hand," number
one. Right hand is always the
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hand of priority. Benjamin,
yamin, hand. "Length of days is
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in her right hand, in her left
hand riches and honor." So God
puts health before riches and
honor. So wisdom has two hands.
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In her right hand is length of
days, which is health,
longevity. You cannot have
length of days without health.
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It's obvious, all right? So
health is there, length of days.
In her left hand, what? Riches
and honor. Would you say, even
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these three, the world is
pursuing this? Where is it
found? With wisdom. What wisdom:
worldly wisdom, man's wisdom,
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man's ideas, man's innovation?
No, God's wisdom. Very clear.
And then, "Her ways are ways of
pleasantness." Her ways, the
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ways of wisdom, are ways of
pleasure. Literally in the
Hebrew, it's pleasure,
pleasantness. "And all her paths
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are shalom peace," amen." So it
gives you what? Length of days,
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riches, honor, pleasure, peace.
Say it, "Length of days, riches,
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honor, pleasure, peace." Always
remember these five that wisdom
gives you. If anyone tells you
that, well, you know, you cannot
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believe God for health or you
cannot believe God for-- when I
say "riches," you all know that
I don't mean, right, everyone
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become a
multi-multi-millionaire, all
right? You can be a
multi-millionaire and not be
happy or not have honor. We're
talking about riches, supply,
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amen, to the point that you have
more than enough to be a
blessing to others. See, people
who are just satisfied with
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enough, they are selfish. They
have no vision of blessing
multitudes, helping the work of
God to go forward. Okay, so we
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need that. Riches, honor. Honor
is what everyone is looking for,
amen. Some people are looking
for fame and all that, but what
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they are looking for actually is
honor, and that comes from God.
Pleasure, "Your paths are paths
of pleasure," doesn't mean
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there's no trials. In fact, the
Christian life, there's a lot of
trials. And if you are a
Christian you will suffer
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persecution because you are a
Christian, because you bear the
name of Jesus, but your paths
are pleasant. Your yoke is easy.
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Your burden is light, amen? When
He leads you, like just like--
as long as-- like Itai told his
children, "As long as we follow
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the king, amen, he will take
care of us. There'll be more
than enough. We do not know
where we are going, but we are
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following the king," amen? And
the children saw their father
promoted. The children saw the
father wasn't shortchanged. They
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saw their father blessed, amen.
Amazing, a Philistine. Anyway,
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wisdom, that's--but where is
wisdom found when you ask God
for wisdom? So we learn that
Solomon-- and I've shared this
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in my series on wisdom, but I'm
gonna share something even
further today because I felt
that the Lord wants to tie it
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with the heart. So when wisdom
was given to Solomon, how was it
given? He just ascended the
throne. David had died. He was a
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very young man. Scholars differ
on exactly how old he is, maybe
17 to 22, around there
somewhere, okay? So at night,
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God appeared to him in a dream
and God says, "Ask what I shall
give you." And Solomon says
what? "Just give me five
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digits." Or is it four digits
nowadays, four numbers? "Give me
just four numbers, Lord. I'll
ask no more," amen? And I've
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said before, a lot of people
want the phone numbers not
because of the phone number. Is
it still four? Never mind, all
right? I don't play it, so I do
not know. So whatever numbers
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you want, or you play Toto, you
pray to God in Jesus' name, "Let
the Toto come in," wow, you
know? And that's using the
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Lord's name in vain, because
nowhere does it promise, you
know, you gamble and then you
win. Listen, what are you after
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when you go for that? Why you
want your number to come in?
It's not exactly the numbers you
want. You want what the numbers
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can bring, right? Your first
prize, right? Your lottery
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ticket comes in, what does it
give you? The money. But is it
exactly the money you want?
"Yes, Pastor Prince." No, you
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are blinded to think it's the
money you want. Money cannot
satisfy you. It doesn't. You're
after what you think the money
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will give you. The money will
give you security, you feel. Not
necessarily so. The money will
give you happiness in your
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marriage, in your family life.
Not necessarily so. We all know
a lot of marriages break up
because of money, and lots of
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money, amen. Even siblings don't
talk to each other, you know?
Things are just broken, so
there's no guarantee, all right?
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So what are you after? The money
will bring me--you know, I can
go for vacations and all that.
Well, God can still supply that
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for you. All right, what else?
Money can give me health. People
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fly in from all over the world
to Singapore because we got one
of the best medical, you know?
Why? Because they think that
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money can give them the very
best health, but health doesn't
come from medication. Medicine
can treat the problem, can
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remove the tumor. Doesn't
guarantee health. It doesn't
guarantee it won't come back.
Doesn't guarantee that this
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thing is permanent. Doesn't
guarantee there are no effects.
You know, health comes from the
Lord. You can run every day, you
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can be fit, but fitness is not
health. Health comes from the
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Lord, amen? So you're after what
you think that thing can get
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you, but at the end of the day
you're actually after those
things: security, riches, honor,
a life of pleasantness,
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pleasure, peace. That's what you
are after, amen? Peace in your
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family relationships, well-being
for your children. Isn't it so?
Isn't that what you want? Huh?
How 'bout you bypass go. Don't
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collect $200. Just God bring you
straight away to the blessings
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of length of days, riches,
honor, pleasure, peace, without
having to buy Toto or lottery.
For those overseas and all that,
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Toto is a local lottery thing.
Is it still Toto? Okay,
whatever, Toto, or Titu, or
Tito, or whatever, okay? I don't
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know. The last time I saw Pastor
Mark lining up, I didn't ask him
anymore, "What's the name of
it?" God can just bypass all
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that and give you all that you
want. Know exactly what you
want. Don't be deceived to think
this thing will bring this and
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this and this, okay? So where
does God put wisdom? God put it
in the heart. So this young man,
in his sleep, he asked God for
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wis-- God asked him first, "What
shall I give you?" amen? What
can a man have unless God first
gives it to him? I think it
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takes more grace to receive than
to give. But Pastor, Jesus says
it's more blessed to give than
to receive. That is horizontally
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with people. With people, it's
more blessed to give than to
receive from people. But with
God, it's more blessed to
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receive than to give. Even the
greatest gift, salvation, is
received by-- Sometimes I look
at people, and it looks like we
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need more grace to receive. We
love to give, but you can also
give out of pride. It takes more
grace to learn to receive, to
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say thank you to God for a
finished work. It takes
humility. It takes more grace to
receive, amen? Smile at your
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neighbor and say, "I love you,"
amen. If it's someone you don't
know, opposite sex and all that,
and you are both single, it's
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okay, all right? Maybe this is
the moment. If it's somebody
else, just say, "I love you with
the love of the Lord," so the
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person knows, amen? And say
something good to the person
next to you, okay? Say something
good right now, amen. Say
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something good. Okay, okay. Did
you say thank you? Did anyone
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say thank you? Did anyone say
thank you, or you return the--
you know, you feel
uncomfortable. Someone says
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nice--okay, enough already. Say
one sentence, not a paragraph or
chapters. Okay, when you say
that, how do you feel? You feel,
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"I must say something back. I
must say something good," right?
Okay, just small--this is
nothing actually, but it's a
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small example of showing that,
you know, we--sometimes we need
to stop and say thank you first.
Learn to receive. Learn to
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receive, especially from the
Lord. Can I have a good amen? So
ask, "What shall I give you?" He
asked God for--listen carefully,
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he asked God. In your Bible, it
says, "Give me-- Therefore give
to Your servant--" Solomon is
praying-- an understanding what?
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Heart. It's in the heart. It's
in the heart. He knew something.
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His father David in Psalm 51
said what? "You have put wisdom
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in the heart," in that hidden
part, in the inward part, in the
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heart. ESV says, "In the secret
heart." He knew that, so he
asked God for an understanding
heart. In the Hebrew, a hearing
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heart. Leb shama, heart hearing,
exactly in that way. He asked
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God, "Give me a leb shama," a
hearing heart, or heart hearing,
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amen? A heart that hears, a
hearing heart. "'That I may
judge Your people, that I may
discern between good and evil.
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For who is able to judge this
great people of Yours?' The
speech pleased the Lord, that
Solomon had asked this thing."
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And God--go to chapter 10. "So
King Solomon surpassed all the
kings of the earth." Surpassed
all the kings of the earth. You
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can read all about the kings of
the earth during that time, even
in all the Chinese dynasties and
all the dynasties all over the
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world. "King Solomon surpassed
all of them in riches and
wisdom. Now all the earth sought
the presence of Solomon to hear
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his wisdom," which God had put
where? Watch that. Where did God
put it? So if we can isolate it,
we can locate it, we can focus
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on it, perhaps we can draw from
it. So today, there's always
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someone who will say, "But
Pastor Prince, the heart is
desperately wicked. Don't you
know the heart is desperately
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wicked?" How many have heard
that? Wave. I don't know-- since
I was attending church-- after I
was born again, I attended
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church in my teenage years--
I've been hearing this verse
more about the heart than any
other verse, "The heart is
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desperately wicked," so I dare
not trust my heart. Don't--and
there's another verse that says
in Proverbs, "He that trusts his
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own heart is a fool," all right?
How do you explain all this?
"The heart of man is desperately
wicked." So how can I trust my
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heart when my heart is
desperately wicked. It is true
if you're not a believer. It's
true if you're not born again,
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but it's not true for the child
of God. In fact, David's prayer
is that, you know, "Create in me
a clean heart, O God, and renew
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a right spirit." What did he
pray? "Create in me a clean
heart." Now, this was said in
Psalms 51. He prayed this prayer
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after he committed adultery with
Bathsheba and also murdered her
husband, amen. What a terrible
time for David, amen. And he
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knew that the problem lies
where? In his heart. The problem
is that it's my heart. It's not
so much you can tell me that
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because I lack discipline, I
this and that, but the bottom
point, the bottom line is that
it is in my heart. I need a new
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heart. So David prayed, "Create
in me," what? "A clean heart,"
and renew what? "A right spirit
within me." Do you know that God
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answered that prayer? And God
brought a new covenant where?
When we are born again, we have
a new heart and a new spirit. In
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fact, God prophesied this after
David through the Prophet
Ezekiel. Many years after David
died, all right, has gone on to
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be with the Lord, God raised
Prophet Ezekiel to prophesy
about our generation, and this
is what God said, all right, in
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Ezekiel. "I will give you a new
heart." Say, "A new heart." "And
a new spirit within you; I will
take the heart of stone out of
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your flesh and give you a heart
of flesh." See, I'll take the
heart of stone. That's your
desperately wicked heart. Would
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I--am I all right to say that?
And give you what? A heart of
flesh. So God has given you a
new heart and has given you a
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new spirit. He has taken your
heart of stone out, so even your
wife says, "You got a stony
heart," never mind, she's just
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angry, amen? You are born again.
You have a heart of flesh. But
sometimes you don't act
according to the heart of flesh.
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You act according to your old
nature, amen, which don't exist
in your anymore. But the life,
the lifestyle of it, the habits
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that you have acquired down
through the years is still
there, but it doesn't mean the
nature is there. The old nature
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has gone. "Therefore if anyone
be in Christ, he's a new
creation. Old things are passed
away." What is left is called
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the flesh, which is the sin
principle, bad habits and all
that, that you acquired from the
old man, which is gone. Like you
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hear a bell, you know, a
monastery bell keep on ringing
all the time, "Bang, bong, bong,
bong." After one hour of that,
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even the bell has stopped
ringing, wherever you go, you
hear, "Dong, dong, dong, dong,"
in your mind. Am I right? But
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it's no more in existence. It's
no more a reality, but your
flesh has acquired that. Are you
listening, people? So sin is in
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the flesh, but your heart is now
a new heart, and God has put
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wisdom in the heart. Can I have
a good amen? I'm gonna share
with you something real quick
about the Greek words for the
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two parts of your brain. Now, I
don't like to talk about the two
parts of your brain, because it
seems like there's only two
parts. Pastor, I think I only
have one-quarter, okay? So maybe
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one day they'll discover there's
another submerged part, there's
another part. You know, the
right brain is supposed to be
more creative. Those who design
things and they imagine things,
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so that's your right brain. They
say you're more right-brained.
Some people left brain, amen?
Some people no brain. No, all
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right, left brain. Left brain is
more logical. They are more
reasoning things and all that.
And you'll see how this applies
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to wisdom, okay, because God
made us. So you have a right
brain, you have a left brain.
Hopefully you have both, all
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right? So left brain is what?
More analytical. That's where
you do your mathematics and all
that, right? It's more
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reasonable, more logical. And
the right brain is more
imaginative, more creative,
okay? You need both. But I tell
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you something, all right? So as
we are monitoring how God's
wisdom comes, you can talk about
hearing God's voice in this. But
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actually, when you talk about
God's voice, people always think
of voice outside, right? So I'd
rather talk about wisdom inside,
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but that's actually God's voice.
But God doesn't speak
thunderously. A lot of people
expect God to speak-- you know,
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knock you on the head and say,
"This is God," you know? But God
speaks in the gentle stillness.
Elijah found that God spoke in
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the still small voice, amen?
Where's that? Deep down. You
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just know. And all of you know
that. All of you know that,
okay? He speaks to you like
that. And that's why we must not
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neglect times of solitude,
quietness, and meditation.
Today, modern Christianity, if
you tell me what's the biggest
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problem, the biggest problem is
that we have become so busy, all
right? Even when we are in our
room by ourselves, we wanna be
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involved, looking at the social
media. We are always wanna be
busy in our minds but we do not
know how to contemplate. We do
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not know how to meditate. Times
of meditation with the Lord,
you'll find those are the
moments that God speaks here in
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your heart, in your spirit. And
what God speaks is more
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important than you talking to
God. We talk so much sometimes
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in our prayer, then we say we've
done our prayer time. How 'bout
a time where you just sit down
there and just meditate on His
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beauty, His lovely--His
loveliness, and just be in tune
with what He's saying. Just one
word in that moment of
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meditation, you go out there,
you will do exploits for the
glory of God. But people don't
see that all this gotta do with
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the root life. There's a root
life. They see the plant
flourishing, blossoming,
verdant, beautiful. The fruits
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are juicy and ripe and huge.
They don't see the root life.
That's your root life, amen?
Find time for your root life.
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Find time where you can
contemplate, calm down. Your
stress level will calm down
also, amen. And you'll find it
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takes some time. You're not used
to it, it takes some time
because your mind is terribly
busy. How many understand that
you can be still in your body
and still be busy, right? So
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take time for contemplation,
amen. And don't--and sometimes
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during those moments, you don't
have to talk to God all that
time. You know, what you say to
God, okay, it's important, your
needs and all that, but it's
more important God talk to you.
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That's when things happen. When
God speaks, things happen. Good
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things, amen? So Ezekiel
prophesied there'll come a time,
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a generation, they have a new
heart, a new spirit. God take
out the stony heart, amen. So my
ministry is also right--to
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write-- You see, Paul said this
in 2 Corinthians 3, verse 3.
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Paul says, "Clearly you are an
epistle of Christ." You know
what epistle? It's a letter. In
those days, they called letters,
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right, epistles. Epistle of Paul
to Colossians, the Epistle of
Paul to Ephesians, right? So you
are a living letter, all of you.
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All of you are a living letter.
You are living, walking,
breathing, moving letters of
Christ, amen. New Creation
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Church! Okay, I speak to New
Creation Church and Grace
Revolution Church, amen, over in
Dallas. I speak to you, all
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right, as living letters. So
every time I'm ministering, like
the Apostle Paul, I'm writing on
you by the-- not by ink, but by
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the Spirit of the Living God on
your tables of flesh, not on
tables of stone. Here it says
very clearly, "Clearly you are
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an epistle of Christ," a living
letter, a letter of Christ,
"ministered by us, written not
with ink but by the Spirit of
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the living God, not on tablets
of stone but on tablets of
flesh, that is, of the heart."
So when I speak, I'm writing on
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your heart. As long as my words
are anointed by the Spirit, I'm
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writing on your heart, and then
you become a living letter. Then
you go out there, and people say
that, "Hey, that guy is-- why is
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he so kind to me? That guy, I
know him. He's from New Creation
Church, amen. That lady did this
for me, why? Well, she shared
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her testimony before. She was on
drugs and now the Lord delivered
her. That's why she wants you
set free as well. She genuinely
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loves you. They are from New
Creation Church. They are from
Grace Revolution Church." I
cannot say it about every church
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around the world, okay, so my
time is limited on my birthday,
all right? So I mention these
two, can? There are many other
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great churches, amen. It's my
privilege to talk about these
two. So people look at you and
they don't read their Bible.
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This is the living letters of
God. They don't read that. Many
people don't read that. Many
Christians don't even read that
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unfortunately. They read you.
You read that, the Word of God,
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and they read you. When they are
reading you, your life and all
that, they see the peace of God,
the joy unspeakable, amen, in
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your eyes, in your life, your
radiant life, your radiant
personality, the moral power you
have by that resurrection life
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in you. You know what they'll
say? "Wow, I believe in God," or
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"I want to know this God." Can I
have a good amen? It's like God
blessed you to the point that
the Philistines are envious of
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Isaac because of the blessings
in his life. And those would
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have to also include physical
blessings because Philistines
cannot discern spiritual
blessings. Ah, okay? But when
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your friends see you, you know,
they see in your eyes the glory
of God shining through. They
sense genuine love. They can
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sense it, amen. They are reading
the Word of God. Can I have a
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good amen? So look at Jesus. I'm
gonna teach you something right
now, okay, about the right
brain, left brain. Hope I have
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enough time to share that. But
how many of you think that you
are right-brained? Let me see
your hands. Real high. Okay,
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wave, wave, because such a
crowd, you know, you gotta,
okay, have some movements so I
can see. Very few people
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right-brained, imaginative.
Left-brained, left-brained. Who
are more left-brained? Look
around. More left-brained.
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Serious? I think it's about one,
two, three, four-- one, two,
two, three, four, five, six.
Okay, so you are more
analytical, right? No wonder you
are so good at math,
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Singaporeans. So very few. One
more time, right-brained? A bit
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more now. One, four, five, six.
Okay, now, if you look at what
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the Bible says in Ephesians 1,
the prayer that I've been
encouraging you all to pray
since last year, is this prayer
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that Paul is praying for the
Ephesian Christians. And this
prayer that's good for them is a
spiritual prayer that's also
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good today, amen? It's ageless.
So pray this prayer, "That God
give to you the spirit of wisdom
and revelation in the knowledge
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of Him." So how does the spirit
of wisdom and revelation
operate? "The eyes of your
understanding being
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enlightened." "Enlightened" is
the word "photizo," from where
you get the word "photo." The
light comes on your
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understanding. And notice the
phrase, "The eyes of your
understanding." So your
understanding have eyes. So
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which part of your brain or your
mind have eyes? This is part of
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your heart, people. The brain is
physical, the mind is not. I'm
referring to the mind of the
heart that God is talking about.
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Are you with me? So which part
has eyes? Your--you talk about
your brain. It is your right
brain, right? Right? So this,
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"Eyes of your understanding,"
the word "understanding" here is
"dianoia," all right? In the
Greek, it is "dianoia." Say,
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"Dianoia." Very good. That's
"dianoia," okay, the eyes of
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your understanding. Why is this
important? Because there is
another word called
"dialogizmos," all right, or in
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its verb form, "dialogizomai."
Let me show you where it
happened. After Jesus, they
lowered the--you know, the
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invalid, and then Jesus says,
"Your sins are forgiven you."
The Pharisees around them
started reasoning among
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themselves, saying, "How can
this man forgive sins?" Exactly.
He's no ordinary man, amen. He
is the Savior of the world, the
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Messiah to come. He's here now,
praise God, amen? And this is
what the Bible says, "Jesus--
When Jesus saw their faith, He
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said to the paralytic, 'Son,
your sins are forgiven you.' And
some of the scribes were sitting
there and reasoning in their
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hearts." Reasoning in their
hearts. "Why does this Man speak
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blasphemies like this? Who can
forgive sins but God alone?"
Now, reasoning in their where?
Reasoning--show them that.
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"Reasoning in their hearts." So
your heart can reason. Now, this
is a bad heart. Don't forget,
not born again. And what--how
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does it function? The word here
is "dialogizomai." They
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are--see, "dialogizomai" is not
"dianoia." "Dianoia" is
imagination, and God uses that.
The prayer for the spirit of
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wisdom, the spirit of wisdom
operates by God flooding your
imagination, the eyes of your
imagination, "dianoia," with
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light. I see it! Sometimes when
you sit down there and Pastor
Prince shares something, you
say, "I see it," right? Others
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may not see it, but you see it.
So your eyes has become flooded
with light, "photizo,"
"photizo," enlightened. Are you
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with me so far? "I got a
situation here in my family,
Pastor Prince." Ask God for
wisdom. Don't ask what God can
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give you from within, amen. Man
may give good advice. Some may
work, some may not work.
Anything that's of man may or
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may not work. From God, it will
always work. You need God's
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wisdom, amen. So here, look at
what Jesus--when--drop down.
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"But immediately, when Jesus
perceived in His spirit," stop.
Jesus perceived in His spirit.
Where did Jesus perceive? In His
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spirit. Jesus perceived. The
word "perceived" here,
"epiginosko," is to see clearly,
fully. You say, "I see it,
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Pastor." Where do you see it?
Show it to me. I can't explain
it, but I see it. Sometimes the
Word, I can't dialogizomai, but
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I see it in my dianoia. So watch
this now. "Jesus perceived in
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His spirit that they--" the
Pharisees-- "reasoned thus
within themselves, He said to
them, 'Why do you reason about
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these things in your hearts?'"
The word "reason," "reason,"
here is all the word
"dialogizomai," or
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"dialogizmos." Now, it's the
opposite. It's the other brain.
The--your word "logic," logic,
reason, logic, come from
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"dialogizomai." See that?
Dialogizomai. "Pastor, are you
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saying that when you come to
church or, you know, we live
life and all that, we put our
brains at home?" Not a bad idea
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actually, you know? The problem
is this. We need to take our
brains out of a drawer, wash it
with a detergent of Jesus'
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blood, turn it the other way,
and we are all walking in the
kingdom of God, the way God--
'cause a lot of things are the
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opposite. The kingdom of God, it
operates on the opposite. The
world says, "Look for number
one." We look for the One above
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the number ones, the very One,
our Lord Jesus. And then the
things that people are pursuing
in the rat race--they call it a
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rat race. You know, you become
number one, you become number
one rat. So all the rat race for
fortune and fame, they pursue
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that, and they spend so much of
their health to get that,
sometimes 30 years and all that,
40 years. Finally, they realize
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their health is gone. They spend
all their riches that they have
gotten then to get back all the
health they lost. That's a
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futile life. That's a life of
vanity, amen. Make sure you
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enjoy the journey. Jesus came to
give you life and life more
abundantly, amen. Now,
dialogizomai and dianoia,
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"dianoia" is to see. Jesus
perceived. That is a seeing on
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the inside. Paul perceived that
that man had faith to be healed.
I've asked God to teach me this
many years ago, and I can tell
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when people stand in front of me
who is ready to receive healing.
It's just inward--it's hard to
say seeing. It's a seeing, it's
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a perceiving, but where? Where
do you perceive? Not in your
mind, in your spirit. Sometimes
people talk, and you know, they
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talk and talk, and the more they
talk, the more I sense something
in my spirit. Ladies, be
careful. Nowadays, right, there
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are guys who will try to say
everything that they have
learned from the dramas that you
watch to win your heart, but
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they are not like the guy, you
know? And then they clear your
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savings account. I just told my
daughter the other day, any
time, no matter how good the
reason is, when you are dating
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someone, all right, if that
person ever asks you or even
present a story of, you know,
needs money and all that, run. I
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don't care how pitiful you feel
for the person, run. A good guy
who loves you, even though he is
in dire straits financially, he
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will not ask from you, all
right? And you know, we are all
in countries where there's a job
provided if you want to work,
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and I respect a man like that.
It's not a matter of having
millions, it's a matter of
willing to work, amen? But you
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can sense it when they talk. You
can sense it. People who are out
to con you, you can sense it.
They can say, "We are doing this
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for God. We are doing this for
the kingdom of God," but you can
sense, no, no, it's not. You're
not doing it for the kingdom of
God. You have believed it so
much you even deceive yourself,
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justifying it. It's not for the
kingdom of God. It's for your
own pocket. Pocket, pock-eet,
pocket. Yeah. Don't put God's
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name in it. You can sense it. So
when you sense this, listen to
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this more than your logic.
"Aiyah, I logia. No, this guy,
everyone knows him, you know?
So-and-so knows him. They also
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invested. That person also
invested." But all the while
there's a green light. Have you
heard of a Ponzi scheme? How
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famous people, even celebrities
are involved in Ponzi schemes
and all that, only to find later
on it's the crowd and the famous
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and even the experienced and the
experts can fall for that. But
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one thing they cannot touch is
your wisdom in the heart. You
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can sense it long before you can
logic it out. I don't know, I
cannot reason. Explain why you
don't wanna invest. Because I
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cannot explain. I cannot
dialogizomai. You understand
dialogizomai? I see it in the
eyes of my dianoia. You "noia"
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or not? What did you learn in
New Creation today? Dianoia,
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dialogizomai. My oh my. No, we
are not sharing this so that,
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you know, you boast about these
things, but you use them. Can I
have a good amen? Jesus
perceived, they reasoned. Jesus
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perceived, they reasoned. Jesus
perceived, they reasoned. Jesus
perceived, they reasoned. And
Jesus says, "Why are you
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reasoning in your heart?" So
don't use your heart
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for--listen, reasoning is part
of God. Dialogizomai is part of
God. But just something very
interesting, I made a study of
this word, "dialogizomai." It's
never used of Jesus. Does that
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mean that Jesus never logicked
things out? No. I mean, God gave
us both brains, or else He would
just give you half a brain,
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right? I believe the study of
brain is not complete yet. We
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are still discovering things
about the brain. Your brain can
grow, you know? Now they call it
neuroplasticity, right? Your
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brain still can grow. They just
discovered that. Based on the
established science years ago,
your brain cannot change in
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terms of neuroplasticity, but
now they found out it can. What
else will they find out that the
Bible already has the answer?
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The Bible said, long before
science said the earth is round,
the Bible says, "He that sits on
the circle of the earth." Circle
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of the earth. In the book of
Leviticus, which is the oldest
book besides Job. Job is the
oldest, but book of Leviticus
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says that the man's life is in
his blood. And until 1800s, they
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were still blood letting,
thinking that when blood-- more
blood goes out, your disease
goes out, only to find many
people died. That's how George
Washington, the first President
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of U.S. died, because of blood
letting, and all he had was a
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throat condition. They believed
that in those days. You see, the
Bible is already there. The Word
of God is already there. Are
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y'all with me so far? All right,
so watch this now, dianoia. So
God--see here, "Jesus perceived
in His spirit. They reasoned
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thus." And why do you reason?
Again, the word from
"dialogizomai," right,
"dialog--" the word "logic"
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there, and "noia" is the word
"mind" for the imagination. It's
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more important you see it than
you understand it. Many a times
our understanding comes later,
all right? But you see it long
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before you can reason it. You
see it long before you can logic
it out. You see it before you
can explain it to other people.
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Many a times we cannot explain,
but we see it. Stop trying to
explain to your friends or to
your colleagues things of the
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spirit, because the natural man
receive not the things of the
Spirit of God. And stop arguing
with people, all right, telling
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them about archeological
discoveries or scientific
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discoveries, and using mind
against mind, dialogizmos with
dialogizmos. There's no win.
Speak to the heart. The guy
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knows he's lost and he's trying
to throw all this logic in front
of you, hoping that you will not
answer and that will persuade
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him. Or they see that, "I don't
think there's life after death.
He cannot answer me this
question." No, no, no, no, don't
answer that. Go for the heart.
The heart knows it has sinned.
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The heart knows there is a being
out there. Most people do, I'll
tell you this, even the
atheists. When the atheists come
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right to the corner where, you
know, during the wartime and all
that, there's a saying that says
there are no atheists in the
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foxhole. They cry either for God
or for their mama and daddy.
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This is real war, huh? At the
end, the reality is there. Many
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of them on their deathbeds, you
read accounts where they are
struggling, and they realize
that they are not ready for it.
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'Cause deep down, the spirit
knows there's life beyond this
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grave--beyond the grave. They
know it. Are you with me so far?
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Okay, watch this. God made a new
covenant with us. Am I right? I
said God made a new covenant
with us, okay? And what did God
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say? "Behold, I make a new
covenant, not according to the
covenant that I made with
Israel. Mount Sinai, I gave them
the Ten Commandments. Not
according to that covenant, but
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this is a new covenant I'll make
with the house of Israel, the
house of Judah in those days,
amen. I'll put my laws in their
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hearts and on their minds."
Let's read that. Okay, this is
your covenant, people. I said
this is your covenant, okay?
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"This is the covenant that I'll
make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the LORD:
I will put My laws in their
mind." Now, these laws obviously
is not the Ten Commandments.
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That's outside, amen? These laws
are not man's advice. That's,
again, outside. These laws are
God's instruction. The will of
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God will be known from now on on
the inside, amen. Are you
listening? And it says this, "I
will put My laws in their minds
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and write them on their hearts."
Write them where? On their
hearts. "Put My laws," where?
"In their mind and write them on
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their hearts." Obviously both of
them are about the same location
for God to mention this. "And I
will be their God, and they
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shall be My people. So I'll put
My laws on their mind and write
them on their hearts." Now, look
at this, "I'll put My laws, My
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instruction." For example, the
Ten Commandments don't tell you
how to treat your children, how
to parent them, how to deal with
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a crisis situation. It doesn't,
amen. But today, you--because of
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the Resurrection life of Jesus,
you have the moral power to do
more than don't steal. You give.
You can don't steal and still be
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a stingy person. The Ten
Commandments don't cover that.
You can don't commit adultery
and not be in love with your
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wife, your husband. So we have
gone beyond that. The life
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within will tell you to love.
The life within will impel you
to give. But again, I use the
word "impel." Actually, it's
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like the love of Christ
constrains us. You know what's
the word "constrain"? You know,
like, you are walking this way,
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you know, you are going this
way, and then the crowd comes up
from the stadium. As you walk
in, they walk out. So when they
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walk out, you cannot go in
anymore, amen? Amen, you do a
moonwalk, amen? This is my best
attempt on this special day. Why
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you laugh so loud, Lawrence?
Huh, you can do it? Come. Come,
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come, come. So you are pushed
back. You know what's that
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called? The crowd constrained
you. You are constrained by the
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crowd, the flow. Or you are
swimming upwards, and all of a
sudden you turn one corner and
there's a strong current. I
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don't care how good a swimmer
you are, you are constrained by
that stream. Now you understand,
"For the love of Christ
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constrains us." And where does
it come? From the heart. You
feel compassion. That's how I
give to people that sometimes I
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don't even know, you know? If
you listen carefully, sometimes
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even the one that cleans your
table and, you know, moves your
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used cutlery and all that, you
know what I'm talking about. And
this more for Singapore, all
right? We have them, don't we?
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Cleaning the table and all that.
And you're supposed to clear
yourself, by the way. Sometimes
you look at them and the world
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ignores them. You know, you got
something in your heart, give
them something. Give them
something. And probably they
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remember you more than, you
know, all the faces they see.
But let the love of Christ, you
know, teach you when to give,
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when not to give. There are
people who come to you with a
sob story and all the while you
don't feel like giving, but you
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feel like as a Christian, logic,
it's a logic-- as a Christian, I
must give. But what does your
heart say? Your heart says no.
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But very pitiful and all. His
story is very pitiful. Look,
look, and it's Pastor Mark and
all. Okay, I must give a
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disclaimer. Just for
illustration. Pastor Mark never
asks from anyone. He just takes
it from me. Now, I'm just
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kidding. No, no, he never-- No,
I'm just-- I like teasing him.
You all know that, right, amen?
I love this guy, amen. And the
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guy who just laugh at me just
now when I did my moonwalk.
Anyway, you know why? You know
why it was unsuccessful, I
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cannot do a good moonwalk?
Because as a Christian, I'm not
supposed to backslide. There is
no-- There is no flow. There's
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no flow in backsliding. There's
only a flow, all right, in
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front-sliding, amen? We gotta
walk with Jesus. Don't look
backwards, amen? Amen, praise
the Lord, hallelujah. Thank you,
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thank you, thank you. So look at
this word. "I will put My laws
in their mind." What do you
think that word "mind" is? Look
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and behold, it is the word
"dianoia." Dianoia. God is not
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gonna talk through your logic.
God is gonna put His wisdom
where? In your dianoia. That's
where you say, "I see it." This
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is the normal Christian life.
This is the life of a believer
on earth. We are depending so
much on people's advice. We are
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looking so much to the social
media for direction. We are
looking so much to authorities
outside us instead of listening
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to what God is saying on the
inside. We have a condition in
our body, we google it. After we
google it, we are more fearful
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than before we googled it, all
right? And then this advice
comes from this person, but this
advice contradict the first
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advice, but both of them are
doctors. Now you are more
confused and more confounded.
You do not know what to do, why?
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Because you are not supposed to
be looking outside. Now, I'm not
talking about going to doctors
and all that, amen. Even then,
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listen on the inside who to
go--where to go. God will still
lead you. But you start
depending outside. And it says
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here very clearly, "I will put
My laws in their--" not
dialogizomai, but in their
dianoia, in the imagination
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realm, where you see it on the
inside, all right? "And I'll
write them on their hearts. I
write them on their hearts." In
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one of the--I showed you just
now that Paul says, "You are the
epistles of Christ, ministered
by us." So, many a times God
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also writes as the preacher,
like Paul said, "I'm preaching
and God is writing." Stay under
the writing, amen? But also on
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your own, listen. Guidance comes
from within, deep down. Your
mind says something, but you can
sense the mind is more
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superficial. You can sense it.
The logic part, the reasoning
part is more-- Your spirit is
faster than your mind. You meet
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someone, you don't feel good
about this person, but the
person is oozing honey, oozing
sweetness, oozing gula melaka,
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oozing all kinds of diabetes,
you know? He's sweet, but
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something inside you say, "Ugh,
ugh." Something is not right.
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Wives are very good at this.
They are more sensitive. That's
why the devil went for the wife.
The guy is like, "Mmm, mmm. Oh,
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I see," you know? He knew that
she's more perceptive, so he
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went for the heart, amen. It's
like women have a spiritual
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affinity. And my wife, and I'm
sure your wife also, they are
the first one that says, "I
don't sense this is right." What
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do you mean, baby? The guy is a
Christian, you know. And these
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people endorse him, amen? Yeah,
what's wrong with this
investment? What's wrong with
that? "I don't feel good." And
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every time she says that and I
don't listen to her, but she
never come back and say, "I told
you." She's a lovely woman,
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amen? So they sense things and
we--most men. I know it's the
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other way as well. Most women
perceive, men reason. What is
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God saying about your situation?
Is God telling you to eat
lesser? Then stop going to
Google. Stop asking for this
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expert. What is God asking you
to eat? God is telling me once
in a while eat a bit of sweet.
I've cut off all sweetness from
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my life. If God tells you once a
while you can take something
sweet, go ahead. Follow when God
says, "Go ahead." But as a law,
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I will not anything sweet. It
will make me fat, fat, fat. The
1:00:39
Bible says, "Eat honey." Honey
is sweet. The land flowing with
milk and honey, amen? Now, if
you have a medical thing and all
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that, listen. Of course, if you
listen to your spirit, God will
tell you also most likely the
same thing the doctor is telling
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you. But for the ultimate
resolution to your problem, it's
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actually listening to your
spirit. Because you can see that
you still have this condition
after all these years. You need
1:01:08
to ask God, "What do I need to
do?" It might not be eating. It
might not be exercising. It
might be something else. Maybe
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it's a stress and you don't even
know you are being stressed. You
do not know why that triggers.
By the way, you know something?
1:01:22
When you follow the spirit,
right, every time you follow the
spirit, oh man, I'm telling you,
it sort of, like, frees you from
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stress. Like for example, do you
know you can be stressed like--
I look at all of you, right, and
you all are very hungry
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spiritually. You know, you all,
you are hungry for God's Word,
right? I'll try again. I'll try
again. Okay, I'll try GRC. All
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right, you are all hungry for
God's Word, right? You are all
hungry for God's Word, amen? So
because of that, that puts
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pressure on me sometimes. If my
mind is not right, it puts-- am
I right, Lawrence? It can put
pressure on you, right? Is
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it--am I right, Mark? It puts
pressure. Before you know it,
right, you are demand-minded
instead of supply-oriented, and
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you always need to be reminded
what grace is all about. But
because of that, it's like, you
know, "You better give me a good
1:02:15
sermon, all right? Forget about
all the moonwalk. We're not
looking at that. Give me a good
sermon. Every week, every week
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must be good. Every week has
gotta be--" you know? And I used
to have that pressure on me, and
I'm telling you, it's not easy.
1:02:30
I began to have symptoms like
irritable bowel, you know,
syndrome, you know, IBS. You
need to rush to the toilet all
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the time. I do not know why, but
it happened during a time when I
felt stressed about preaching.
Then it's not so much--you know,
1:02:45
but preaching is part of--it's
my ministry. It's the ministry
God has given me, right? But you
need to prepare, days and days
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in preparation. So when I
prepare, I found out that the
stress happened in my
preparation because there are
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times--I've learned that down
through the years. There are
times that I'm preparing and I
get so intense in my study
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preparing that I find that the
joy is no more there. It's like
you are just doing it
mechanically. Am I right, Mark?
1:03:13
Am I right, Lawrence? All right,
these are people who preach the
Word of God, so they understand.
It become mechanical. And then
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you hear the-- how I wanna call
it, right, God put his laws on
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your dianoia. You see it. God is
saying, "Get up, leave it aside,
1:03:32
go outside. Play with Justin. Go
outside, look far. Look at the
1:03:39
trees," amen. But I need--I
cannot be lazy. I must really
1:03:44
be-- God say, "Look out there,"
amen? Or He will tell you,
1:03:49
"Spend time with your family,
just a while," amen? Then you go
1:03:56
back, right? It becomes a flow.
So what is God doing? God is
trying to relieve me from that
stress. Before I realize it,
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even something good, you can get
stressed by it. You ladies, for
example, you have ten lists.
Okay, maybe 20. More, yeah, 20.
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Singaporeans, 50 on their
grocery list. Fifty items to
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buy. You go to buy, right? And
after that, halfway, you spent
three hours, maybe four hours at
the mall and then you start
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feeling a bit tired, but you do
not know you are tired, right?
But there's a leading within,
"Enough already. Enough, time to
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go back," right? That's a--you
know, you know what I'm saying
or not? Many of you know what
I'm talking about. How many of
1:04:45
you, without putting up your
hands, when you're talking to
your wife or your husband,
you're talking, and there's a
1:04:51
place where it becomes a bit
heated? Just a bit. It's coming
to a place where it's a bit
heated, right? And then you know
1:04:59
you heard it, "Stop here. Stop
talking." But the way you
1:05:06
interpret God's Word is like
this. When God says, "Stop
talking," that means I can put
in three more sentence or four
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more. And that was the killer.
That was the killer. How many
1:05:19
have been through this before?
Don't put up your hands. If your
spouse is beside you, just say
in your heart, "Amen," because--
1:05:30
You hear this all the time,
"Stop now." But one more word,
1:05:36
Lord. I know it means stop. I'll
stop after this. How many of you
have been watching TV, all
right, and they-- now there's
1:05:43
whatever Western shows, Asian
shows, whatever it is, they
always have a series now and it
ends on a cliffhanger, right?
1:05:54
And then the next one hangs--I
mean, hangs. It ends with
another cliffhanger and another
cliffhanger. And you keep on
1:06:02
watching, and you keep on
watching, but there is something
inside-- your health is more
important. God loves you and God
1:06:09
is telling you, "Enough. It's
enough. Now, come away with Me.
1:06:15
Contemplation, meditation,
solitude. Time for you to relax
and receive from Me." And now
you can't even sleep because of
1:06:24
all the screen light and the
blue light. And you are--you
1:06:32
wonder why I can't sleep well.
You know, I go to the doctor, I
can't sleep well. He gives you
medicine, a sleeping tablet or
1:06:38
whatever. That is not gonna help
you in the long run. It can make
an addict actually out of you.
So here you are, you know? All
1:06:47
the while, it's because-- it can
be resolved. God loves you. He
gave you, "Stop now." And when
you get up, you realize, "Oh my
1:06:53
goodness, it was an addiction."
Whenever you follow the Lord, He
1:06:59
frees you from stress. All His
paths are peace. When you follow
1:07:10
Him, it means you're following
the paths of peace, not stress.
1:07:17
Are you with me so far? Are you
learning, people? So God writes
1:07:23
His laws on your dianoia. You
see on the inside. Expect that.
1:07:29
"So Pastor Prince, you've shared
on this before. And I've tried
to sense, you know, from within,
but I sense nothing, leh." You
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do sense it. If you're a child
of God, you do know it. You do
know when you say something,
there's something restraining
1:07:50
you not to say that or gossip
about someone. Have you heard--
you know, you can't-- you just
cannot wait to just bring that
1:07:59
topic to the gossip thing. And
then all of a sudden, "Don't.
Don't do that. Don't do that.
Stop right now." But then I got
1:08:08
nothing interesting to say
already. And that's the life we
1:08:14
live, you know? Some people's
life is like that. When they get
together, it's nothing but
gossip. That's not good. Don't
1:08:24
let God demonstrate that to you
by putting you on the receiving
end of that gossip. Then you
know it's best you don't. Are
1:08:41
you all with me so far? Are you
all learning, amen? The Bible
tells us that, never verse, this
new covenant, "None of them
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shall teach his neighbor, none
his brother, saying, 'Know the
LORD,' for all shall know Me,
from the least of them to the
greatest of them." So you don't
need--listen, you don't need
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direction from outside. Now,
many times even my life today
1:09:05
even, we need confirmation from
outside. Notice what I said,
1:09:10
confirmation, not direction.
Sometimes someone says
something. Wow, that's what the
Lord's been saying to me. How
1:09:17
many of you, again, your wife
says something, doesn't know
that you're meditating along
these lines and you are thinking
1:09:22
about a change in your life or
doing something, and your wife
happen to say something or your
friend happen to say something
1:09:28
that, "Why do you say that," you
ask them, "out of the blue? It's
exactly what I've been thinking
about." That--take that as a
1:09:33
confirmation of what you already
have inside. So today, don't
1:09:40
receive it if a so-called
prophet come to you and say,
"God told me that you are to do
this and do that." It doesn't
1:09:46
have any confirmation in your
spirit. It doesn't ring a bell.
You know what? Say bye-bye. If
he tells you to go to Korea, he
1:09:54
tells you to go to Japan, he
tells you to go to America, go
to Africa, wherever you-- and be
a missionary there, but there's
1:10:00
no confirmation in your spirit,
you don't sense it, you never
heard that before from the Lord,
and it's a direction but you're
1:10:05
afraid because this person is a
reputed prophet, so-called
prophet and all that, then I
suggest you bring him along.
1:10:14
Whenever, you know, the supply
doesn't come, ask him how. You
heard that I should come here.
Now hear how to get the supply.
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And you must hear him when to go
back also, because if he tells
you when to go, he must tell you
when to come back. Better bring
him along. He doesn't want to
go, okay, then I tell you this,
1:10:29
all right? Stone him. He's a
false prophet. Okay, we don't
1:10:35
stone people anymore, okay? All
right, so be careful. And people
1:10:41
come to you, right, they want
you to invest. You know what
they use on you? Christians,
sheep, baa, sheep. All sheep are
1:10:50
like my mother, Baba family.
Baa, baa, Baba, okay? We look
1:10:58
innocent, but we have a good
Shepherd who watches us. We look
gullible. Christians sometimes
look gullible, but we have a
1:11:06
good Shepherd who will lay down
His life for us. Don't mess with
us. We might look like we are
defenseless, but I'm telling
1:11:13
you, we got the greatest power
in the whole universe behind us,
amen? But people come to scheme,
especially Christians, and you
1:11:20
know how they do it? They use
God's name. They use God's name
on you because they know only
God's name will get your heart.
1:11:31
There's a lot of things going on
in the name of charity or name
of God, and for us, we determine
we will not allow that in this
1:11:40
church. We'll not allow that. If
something is genuine, you wanna
give to a missionary, give
direct, amen? But our church is
1:11:50
here as a safeguard. It's the
life of the church. If you do
not--not sure about the person,
amen, is it valid or not, you
1:11:57
can direct it to that place and
let it go through us. We will
make sure that they receive
every dollar. By the same time,
1:12:04
if it's something that we know
about that side, we'll come back
to you and say no. I remember
last time our church got, you
1:12:10
know, really caught up about
evangelizing Israel, getting
them saved and all that, so
we--people start putting money
1:12:16
there, and they start even
putting money on one ministry in
Israel that the person talks the
Christian lingo. He speaks the
1:12:24
Christian lingo. This is in
Israel. And he's getting a lot
of a money from America and all
over the world, you know, for
1:12:30
his work. And now, his work is
charitable work, but he use
Christian lingo. He knows how to
get the Christians. Only when I
1:12:36
talk to him face-to-face--he
came to Singapore to get
support. I talked to him
face-to-face and I asked him
questions about Jesus and
realized that he doesn't see
1:12:44
Jesus as the Messiah. He doesn't
see Jesus as Son of God. How in
1:12:50
the world can this be turned to
someone gets help, he will point
him to Jesus. No, he will point
that person to himself. Are you
1:12:58
listening, people? There's a lot
of things going on out there.
There's safety in the church. So
when you give, you are still
1:13:05
giving to them, but you give
through the church, we can watch
over your giving to make sure it
goes on good ground. Now, just a
1:13:12
sidetrack here, but back to
this. God confirms things where?
In your spirit. How many of
you--okay, I'm bringing this to
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a close. How many of you when
I'm preaching, all right, it's
not the first time you heard it,
you know? Maybe it's the first
1:13:24
time you heard it, but it's, "I
felt this before. I know this.
1:13:30
This is right. I can't logic
things out. I know grace is real
and this is what God's been
telling me. I've been looking.
1:13:37
I've been looking for a church
like this." That's probably what
you said when you received the
grace message. How many of you
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are in that category? Now I want
a show of hands. You actually
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knew it long before you heard it
outside. You knew it inside. And
1:13:54
what you heard outside only
confirmed what you have on the
inside. So 1 John 2, we'll bring
this to a close. It says, "You
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have an anointing from the Holy
One, and you know all things."
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Wow, you know all things. You
know, not reason all things,
logic all things, think all
things. You know. "I have not
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written--" Now, watch this. "I
have not written to you because
you do not know the truth, but
because you know it, and that no
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lie is of the truth." Came
again, me preaching to you. I'm
not preaching to you because you
do not know the truth, but
because you know it. I'm
preaching because you know it.
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My voice is a confirmation to
what God has already said in
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your heart where wisdom dwells.
His wisdom, amen? Church, start
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locating that. Start being more
conscious of that in all your
1:14:56
dealings. And when, you know, if
you find it was a mistake, you
1:15:02
thought it was God, it wasn't
God, don't be discouraged. Get
up and walk again. When you
first learn to walk, all right,
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you fall down. But then, "I'll
never walk again," in your baby
mind. "I'll never walk again.
I'll never walk again, Mama.
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I'll never walk again, Dada.
That's it! Today I fell five
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times. Yesterday I fell seven
times. Don't you know seven is
1:15:31
the number of perfection? I fell
perfectly, Mama. And today five
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times, which means I fell from
grace. I'll never walk again.
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I'll never walk again." Did you
do that? "Yes, Pastor." No, you
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got up. Your mother always
encourage you, "Come, come,
come," right? "You can do it.
It's okay." "Waaah!" You start
1:15:59
crying, right? "Get up, walk
again." Can you just apply the
same wisdom to your walk with
the Lord? Don't be discouraged.
1:16:08
Just because, "Oh, from now on
I'm not gonna listen to the
wisdom in my heart. It doesn't
work," so you start depending on
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social media. Ooh, what a place
to get stupidity. You start
1:16:25
looking for outside-- in fact,
it tells you no one-- no one
1:16:31
need to teach you in this new
covenant how to know the Lord,
all right? The Lord is like
this. You know why? You will
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know it. Every time I describe
Jesus, many of you already see
it inside. You say, "Pastor
Prince, you're right. That's how
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I see Him." Or you see somebody
else preaching another Jesus,
you can say, "This doesn't sound
like the Jesus I know." You see
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it inside. I'm not preaching
because you do not know the
truth, but because you know it,
amen? You drop down, it says,
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"These things I have written to
you concerning those who try to
deceive you," those who try to
scam you, those who try to
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manipulate you. You see, the
anointing is there. "But the
anointing which you have
received from Him." This word
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here, "anointing," is a gerund.
Gerund, G-E-R-U-N-D, which is
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actually a verbal noun. A verbal
noun, all right? It's a noun,
but it's a verbal noun. That
means it's a name--it's a noun,
1:17:30
but it's a movement noun. This
anointing is always anointing.
It's always anointing. Even
right now as you sit down there,
1:17:37
you know, your heart probably
is-- you say, "Mmm, yeah, yeah.
This is the new covenant. Yes,
this is what God wants me to
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receive. Yes!" And there's many
times as you say, "Amen!" right,
at the end, amen? So the Bible
says, "The anointing which you
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have received from Him abides in
you, and you do not need that
anyone teach you; but as the
same anointing--" Now, that
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doesn't mean you don't need
teachers, because the Bible says
when Jesus went up, he gave
apostles, pastors, teachers,
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evangelists, prophets, right? So
pastors, teachers are there,
right, but they only confirm
many times what you have. They
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delineate, make it clear what
you receive on the inside, amen?
In fact, many a times God also
writes, like Paul says, on you
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letters of Christ through us.
"You do not need that anyone
teach you; but as the same
anointing teaches you concerning
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all things, and is true, and is
no lie, and just as it has
taught you, you will abide in
Him." The key to Jesus' saying
1:18:45
in the upper room, "Abide in Me
and you will bear fruit, more
fruit, much fruit." It's the
same word "abide." How to abide?
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By the anointing within. Every
time you follow the anointing,
not your logic. Let your logic
serve you, don't let it lead
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you. After everything is done,
you can logic out how to plan
for this, how to plan, but
that's okay. No problem at all,
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but let that not be the dominant
factor in your decision. Listen
1:19:13
within. Before COVID hit-- I'll
close with this-- we canceled an
1:19:21
already-established appointment
for groups to go to Israel. At
that time, there was nothing. It
was the year before, 2019. They
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keep on asking me, and many of
them are witnesses here, the
leaders, "Pastor, let's confirm
the date for Israel next year."
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I said, "I don't know why, every
time I think about it, there's
something telling me no, not to
go." Right, Mark? Right,
1:19:41
Lawrence? Something telling me
not to go, not to go. So we
canceled it, only to find later
on, thank God we canceled it.
1:19:50
Like, more money would be lost,
you know, people would be
disappointed, but they realized
all of a sudden God is in the
1:19:56
house. I've lived my life like
that. I pray in Jesus' name that
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you'll be more conscious of that
and live your life like that.
Will you? Amen, give praise to
Jesus. Hallelujah, amen. Every
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head bowed, every eye closed all
across this place and everywhere
that's watching this, all those
in MBS and all those in GRC.
1:20:20
Praise the Lord. Now, your heart
has been touched by this
1:20:26
wonderful Jesus. Deep down, the
Holy Spirit's been ministering
to you throughout the sermon but
you have never made Jesus your
1:20:34
Savior, your Lord. You've never
made that quality decision to
say, "Yes, Jesus is my Lord from
now on and I accept all that He
1:20:43
did for me on that cross," which
is He bore your sins, took your
condemnation in your place, and
gave you His righteousness, His
1:20:52
right-standing with God. So that
if that is you and you say,
"Pastor, pray for me. I want to
be saved. I want Jesus Christ to
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be my Lord and Savior," pray
this prayer with me right now.
Say, "Heavenly Father, I confess
Jesus Christ is my Lord, and I
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believe in my heart You raised
Him from the dead. Thank You,
Father, You have forgiven me of
all my sins. Remove them
1:21:21
forevermore. And I thank You. I
stand before You as the
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righteousness of God in Christ.
And that's my identity from now
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on, in Christ. In Jesus' name."
And all the people said, "Amen."
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So if you prayed that prayer,
you're now a child of God. Old
things are passed away. All
things have become new. Stand to
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your feet, church. Praise the
Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Thank
You, Lord. Amen, amen, amen.
Have you been blessed? All
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right, praise the Lord. Lift
your hands all across this place
and everywhere that's watching
this right now. Say, "Heavenly
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Father, I thank You You write
Your instructions, Your leading,
1:22:07
Your law in my heart, on my
mind. And I thank You I can
1:22:14
fully expect to walk in it, to
abide in Christ throughout this
1:22:20
week. In Jesus' name, amen."
Will you start practicing that?
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Will you start doing that? Amen.
All right, God bless you. You
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are dismissed.
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