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josephprince.com. This year, this is
what God said to me. Now, when you hear
it, you know, you're going to say, "Wow,
Pastor Prince, you have preached on that
sermon before." I know. But God is
saying that this is his year for this to
happen. You ready? is the year of his
restoration.
is the year of his restoration.
Everything that was robbed, defrauded,
cheated, taken from you, be it man or
devil, God will restore.
Now notice I I I did not say the devil
himself will restore. Many of times we
involve the devil in all this uh act
one, act two, act three until the he's
always around somewhere. Okay. Honestly,
God treats him as a nobody.
Yes, he is present. I'm not saying the
devil doesn't exist. He is behind a lot
of uh bad things that's happening. All
right. But people, we learn that when
Christ died on the cross, it some
someone said that Christ was paying the
devil who was a slave master to release
all of us from the prison of sin. No.
No. No. No.
The devil is not that powerful. He's not
in the equation at all. Christ on the
cross is the love of God, paying ransom
to the holiness of God, to the justice
of God. It's still God.
God is love. God doesn't want to destroy
us. God wants us blessed. More than
that, God wants us blessed in every way.
It's heart of love. But God's
righteousness, God's holiness says
because God is holy, God cannot pass one
iota, one jot or title of sin. But
because God is a God of grace, he can
forgive it all.
Amen. Pretend it does not exist in your
life, God cannot. God doesn't trifle
with sin. But what he cannot he can what
he can do that he cannot is that he
cannot pass by sin but he can blot it
out and he has done it righteously
through the cross of Calvary can I have
a good amen now folks that's accurate
preaching
so that's why we can give thanks for the
remembrance of God's holiness why
because Christ's death at the cross when
he shed his blood all the divine claims
of God's righteousness and holiness are
fully met on our behalf through the shed
blood of the lamb. Today, God's justice
is satisfied. There is no sword in God's
hand. There is no judgment hanging over
our head. We have no more condemnation.
Uh we have a favor that can never be
broken.
Unceasing favor with God. Can I have a
good amen? It's going to be a year of
his restoration. And when he said his
restoration, I saw the word restoration
and and the word his restoration. And
God says this is my restoration. It's
not man's restoration. And it reminds me
of the all the sermons I preached on
restoration. How uh even in the '9s I
preached on restoration.
Even in the ' 90s, people and I still
remember the one of the first
revelations God gave me about
restoration is this. When you when man
restores, and I use this illustration in
the '90s, when you restore a chair, when
man restores, it's never the same as the
original. Something is gone. When you
repair a jacket, it's no more the same
as original. You look carefully, the
teaching is out, you know. But when God
restores,
it is always greater in quality or
quantity
or both. Amen. In some case, you kind of
have quantity. You lost a wife. You lost
a loved one. All right? You lost a
husband. God won't give you seven
husbands.
Amen. And guys, wishful thinking. You
won't have five wives. Amen. Okay. God
will give you a
quality relationship.
That is seven times better.
Amen, people. So, we know that. And
today, we're going to show you the basis
of that. But let's let's plunge right
into into this uh year of 2015 and see
what God has for us. Are you ready
people? All right. First and foremost,
he's going to restore to you. Only God
can do this.
No
professional, no one you go to, there's
no professional today that can do this
for you. Joel 2:25, God says, "I'll
restore to you the years.
I will give back to you the years that
the locust has eaten, the cankerworm,
the caterpillar, the palmer worm, my
great army which I sent among you. God
says you rebel against me, you sin
against me. You do not know that when
whenever you do that, I'm still God. I
love you. Time doesn't exist with me.
Time though exists with you. Every time
you indulge yourself in sin, every time
you allow sin to you set yourself back,
the times you spend in sin are wasted
time. The years you spend in sin are
wasted
years. But God is so good that God said
that if you return to him, if you trust
him, he can even restore to you the
years.
Is it plural, people? Yes, it's plural.
the
years. When God says he restore the
years, I'm telling you people, he will
restore the years. And I feel like
stopping here and preaching to you how
some some of the people uh the
humanists, they try to find fault with
the scriptures and they say that uh uh
the scriptures here in Judges uh and
what is mentioned here in Acts, it seems
like it differs because there are some
missing years, some missing years. Well,
guess what? All the missing years are
years when Israel was in
bondage before God raised another judge.
They were in bondage for 20 years or for
50 years. Then God raised another judge
like Samson. You you put all the years
of bondage together, you find the
missing years that the critics are
saying that is missing. In other words,
as far as God is concerned, when his
people are out of fellowship with him,
the people are not, you know, with him.
Um those are wasted years. Those are
wasted time. Well, our team for this
year 2015, we're going to say no more.
Amen. No more. Amen. And and and this
verse I'm about to show you right now
came to me um first on restoration. I
think uh I was awake after that when I
saw the word restoration. And uh I'll
tell you more about my dream in a
while's time. But one of the verses that
came is this. God is saying I heard this
verse saying ringing my spirit. And I
know I read it somewhere in the past
because uh it's not like it came for the
first time. But honestly, I didn't
really bother about it. But this verse
keep on uh ringing in my spirit and no
one is saying restore. No one is saying
restore. Feel God is saying you know
it's a cry of his heart. God is God is
saying my people do not believe I can
restore. Many of them are thinking
naturally. All right. None is saying
restore. Therefore they're in bondage.
And I quickly uh uh you know start
looking for that verse that shows that
that verse even though I I I may have
read it before. I believe I've read it
before but I don't really know where
it's from, which book it's from. It's
not a book. It's not a verse that we
expound on. I found it. And guess what?
God is right on the fact of what he's
saying. But this is a people robbed and
plundered. Have you felt robbed and
plundered lately? All right. We don't
care whether it's man or devil. Okay.
All of them are snapped in holes and
they are hidden in prison houses. They
are for prayer and no one delivers for
plunder. And no one says restore. That's
the one I heard. No one says restore
because for you to say restore you got
to believe that God is a restoring God
you know. So since then uh this past few
weeks um this past uh days rather you
know since I I received that word
everything that happens you know in my
life I'll just say Lord restore you know
uh if I if I forget things God says uh
son say restore restore my mind restore
restore everything I just say restore
because only one word only none says
restore
and I was I was playing with the idea of
uh restore in terms of R E S. Then
there's a cross in the center. O R E.
Thought that's kind of cool. The year of
restored, however, will not cut it.
Anyway, look up here. This is the year
of his
restoration. Praise God.
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It will all come together. All the
broken pieces, everything that you have
lost will all come back. Amen. For the
year of his
restoration.
Okay. Another area God wants to restore.
Now, he's going to restore all the areas
of your life. Okay. But predominantly,
these are the areas he's going to focus
on. If you are in these areas, the next
one is he resto the years. The next one
is he'll restore your soul, your mind,
your emotions. If it's out of sync with
the flow of Holy Spirit, all right, it's
up. It's no more, you know, it's
depressed all the time. You're thinking
negative all the time. He's going to
restore your soul this year. All right.
Psalms 23. He restores my soul. Nephesh.
He restores my soul.
Nephesh. Amen. The third area he's going
to do for you is this. And it's quite
interesting because uh I'll tell you
right now, the third area is Jeremiah
30:17. It says, "I will restore health
unto
you and heal you of your wounds, sayeth
the Lord." Now, when I saw this verse,
God is my witness. When I saw the word
heal you of your wounds, I heard in my
spirit, God said, "These are people that
have believed and believe and believe
and they are saying, where is the
manifestation?"
wounds here are chronic sicknesses,
chronic conditions, chronic
ailments. Now, I I I just saw the word
wounds, but God is telling me even
before I check the Hebrew, all right,
God is saying this wounds refer to
chronic problems. So, I started
searching the word of God and guess what
I found? This word wounds is not the
usual word of Christ took our kohi. It's
not kohi, our sicknesses. It is the word
actually that's used in uh Deuteronomy
28. For those who rebel against God,
disobey his laws, God says these curses
will come on you. All right? You have
great and prolonged
plagues. The word great and prolonged
plagues is exactly this word
wounds. Which means before even I search
the Hebrew, God spoke to me. He's going
to heal those of you who have long-term
conditions. You almost gave up already.
You you believe God for other areas, but
this area you say, "No one can do
anything about it. Doctor says it's
going to be, you know, I'm on medication
for life." Well, God is saying, "Is it
okay? I'll restore
health to you and I will heal you of
those wounds." So, get ready people. Get
ready.
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Why are we studying the high priest?
Because for 2,000 years, Jesus Christ
has been our high priest. God said to
Jesus after he rose from the dead, God
says, "You are a priest
forever." After the order of Mechisedc,
how long will Jesus be priest? Forever.
Even after we all in heaven, he will
still be high priest. It behooves us
then to study on the high priest and
find out as much as we can because yes,
he's savior. All right? But in heaven,
he's going to be high priest forever.
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As you study the garments of the high
priest, don't think that Jesus is
wearing this in heaven because
everything that is outward is for our
benefit to learn. All right? All that is
true of Aaron the high priest of Israel
is true of Jesus intrinsically. The
Bible says the high priest has a golden
plate that says holiness to the Lord
that they the people may be accepted. In
other words, God is not looking at your
thoughts to judge you or to accept you.
God is looking at your representative
before him to receive you. And praise
God, his thoughts are always
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holy. This breastplate of judgment is
the most expensive of all the vestments
of the high priest. Why?
In the natural is the most expensive. In
the spirit is the most precious because
it points to our savior's
heart. And in the whole universe,
there's nothing more precious to God
than to look into Jesus' heart. And you
know what God sees in Jesus'
heart? God sees you and I as precious
gems.
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when he used his humanity to cry, he
cried on behalf of suffering people. He
didn't cry for himself. In fact, when he
carried the cross, remember he told the
people around, "Don't cry for me." And
that's original, by the way, with
Jesus.
Amen. Everything that he
is is to serve
you. If God gave him glory and honor and
he says all authority is given unto me
in heaven and earth, it is for you. It's
for your
benefit. Are you listening? Oh,
hallelujah.