god bless you we welcome you tonight
hey welcome
we're so glad to have you with us
tonight we love you appreciate you
coming out so excited to have pastor
Joseph in this beautiful
we're gonna have a great time tonight I
love the fact that you come with
expectancy ready to receive
now it's our prayer our declaration that
not one of us will go home the same way
we came up in here then I go out here
with more joy more peace more faith more
grace more victory so we welcome you
tonight and I know many of you came from
out of town and we just hope you make
yourselves at home
listen
and then some of your wondering why are
you still allowed we haven't even
started yet but you know what we're
excited about serving the risen Savior
excited about
yeah I've learned I've learned that
faith is
I've learned
you said phrases so they were crazy
whatever happened I'm gonna go on here
we go
I've learned that faith is contagious
you know just like you can you can get
around a bunch of negative people and
complain or if you kind of come away
kind of feeling down it's the same way
when you get in an atmosphere of
believers like this you're going to
catch faith and joy and peace and
victory so tonight I don't know if
there's anything that's trying to hold
you back but this is a perfect time say
God will let it all go
I'm not gonna go into a knuckle go into
a new week upset offended angry mad at
my neighbor mad at what somebody did 20
years ago and will let it all go and I'm
gonna start this new day this new week
off afresh in the nude like I said I
believe we're not going to go home the
same way we came in but we love you how
many of you are visiting if you just
slipped your hands up
if you lay that have you here let me
tell you you have finally made it to the
promised land Lakewood so welcome
you okay
we're keeping you well in it good to
know that no matter where you are across
this globe whether you're in Houston
Texas are if you're in Singapore the
name of the Lord will
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with the glory of God and we're gonna
occupy until he returns so you just
gotta know tonight that God is so glad
that you're here he's looking down on
you and he is smiling the Bible says
he's a rewarder of those who seek after
him and you know tonight we don't seek
after man but we sake you seek after God
don't we we are so glad that you're here
tonight and I know that we got to get
started because we got to get Joseph on
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let's bow our heads and open our heart
father we thank you for this evening we
thank you for every person that's
traveled to be here every person father
who is expecting something from you
tonight I thank you they will not be
disappointed because father you are a
God that delivers us you're a God that
restores us you are a God that is still
doing miracles today so father as we
offer our praise up to you we thank you
that the blessings are coming down in
Jesus name that everybody
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that's beautiful so beautiful come on
let's all stand together if you would
tonight we are so glad to have you with
us here at Lake one more time if you're
visiting could we just see your hands to
give you a special
our honor to have you here tonight we
love you very much
and we just appreciate you coming out
pastor Joseph is going to be preaching
three different messages now we want to
come back tomorrow morning at 8:30 we'll
make room for you somehow at 11 somehow
by faith we're gonna make room for
everybody
we're gonna have a good time and tonight
we're so glad that the Trinity
Broadcasting is going to be carrying
this and our friends Matt Laurie and
Kobe are right down here Matt Krauts and
Trinity Broadcasting and Laurie crowd
thank you all pastor Joseph is going to
introduce his beautiful wife but I'm
going to do it first beautiful Wendy is
here and their daughter Jessica is on
the front row right here
pastor Joseph as you know this is his
first time in America ministering of
course they've been here
so
we're so honored to have you here Joseph
and Wendy just appreciate you waiting
for the right place to come Lakewood so
that was good but we just as I said
earlier I met them in in South Africa
and just felt wow I said it on the
television earlier but I met pastor
Joseph and his wife in South Africa at a
conference and you know we just
developed a friendship and just I loved
the message of faith the message of
grace that he brings in just a simple
way I was
oh it's visiting with him and I think
now how did he get that other scripture
I've read that before but you know what
God gives everybody different gifts and
so you know what I love too is they're
building a fantastic facility over in
Singapore I think we have some pictures
of their new church there it's
it's not only a church building it looks
like the Jetsons doesn't it
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not only a church building but
underneath there's retail and a lot of
other things and it'll be used for a
city center as well so God's doing great
things the same god of America is the
goddess Singapore and the god of the
world is well anyway I don't want to
take all of its time come on tell pastor
Joseph Prince for new creation
hello
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America
love you all
love you bye
now would you be so kind as to double up
that shout for the one who gate is all
for us
About You Lord
hallelujah he's the one all together
lovely amen
you know when Jesus is tough
he doesn't hurt when he is kind he's not
soft
he steel and velvet servin and King he
is altogether lovely even close
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you may be seated love you back
I want to introduce the one that loves
me all the time when I'm good and when
I'm bad
sometimes when I'm bad I'm kind of good
she's blessed my lovely wife is here
Wendy
and she's 17 weeks pregnant
my beautiful daughter Jessica
and she'll be 12 years old next week you
know it's a real honor and privilege for
me to be here I don't say that lightly
because I know there is no lack of great
ministers of the word in America so for
Joel and Victoria to invite me is no
small thing to me I honor that I think
the sense of humility and responsibility
I'll make sure I do do you know Joel and
I we share a lot of similarities
we have ministries of grace and hope we
have beautiful wives lovely daughters he
has a handsome boy and the doctors tell
us that 70% my next child might be a boy
but the most striking similarity between
us both is that we are both darn
good-looking
at least we've been sold so much for
humility are you all ready for the word
luck okay never mind John chapter 1
verse 17 my favorite scripture verse
John chapter 1 verse 17 for the law was
given through Moses but grace and truth
came through Jesus Christ the law was
given you can give from a distance I
could send a DVD of myself from
Singapore but I came grace and truth
came through Jesus Christ
the law was given to his servant grace
came through the son the law talks about
what men ought to be grace reveals who
God is in the first miracle of Moses he
turned the water into blood resulting in
death in the first miracle of grace
Jesus turned the water into wine
resulting in life and celebration under
law God demands righteousness from
sinfully bankrupt men but under grace
God provides righteousness as a gift now
which one do you wanna be under I
thought you would and yet today we have
so confused we mixed up law and grace we
have some law and some grace Jesus said
you cannot put new wine grace into the
old wineskin because the new one would
ferment and you will lose both now under
law God said now by no means pass by
your transgressions but I'll visit your
sins to the third and fourth generation
but under grace God says I will be
merciful to your unrighteousness and
your sins I will remember
no more that's been a change that's been
a change Church and it's all because of
Jesus