5 January 2020 - Vision Sunday: The Year of Time and Space - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince revealed that 2020 is the year of time and space. God is going to manipulate time and space in your favor to bring you higher, faster as you trust Him by taking one step at a time. The secret of the winding staircase will take you higher into the wider rooms of provision, rest and glory. Praise and Worship songs performed:
It’s going to be an amazing year for God’s people. There’s always a theme whether you want to admit or not. This is true for both in the church and in the world. God knows what is the emphasis for each year. The theme of the year adds on. God doesn’t take it away. So it’s also still the year of the latter rain. It’s still raining blessings for God’s people. When the whole world is full of darkness, even a small flicker will look very obvious to all. You’re going to walk through the valley of the shadow of death. A shadow of a tiger never killed anybody—you won’t die from your trials. God teaches you to profit and the way you should go. God doesn’t teach you to lose. God is holy and sinful man can not enter God’s presence without perishing. It’s like how mud dries up and turns into clay when the sun shines on it. When Jesus returns for us, our mortal bodies will be transformed. Our new incorruptible body will have flesh and bones, and yet it transcends matter. It can pass through walls and travel between places instantaneously. God created the heavens and the earth by speaking. The Big Bang Theory is false. No order comes out of chaos. No beauty comes out of destruction. The tabernacle of Moses is a picture of Grace whereas the temple of Solomon is a picture of glory. When people look at the temple of Solomon from outside, they can’t see the gold. The gold is inside, in the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies. When your friends and colleagues look at you, they can’t see the glory of Christ inside you. God leads you from inside you. You have been perfectly cleansed by Jesus’ blood such that the Holy Spirit can dwell inside you. God can use world leaders to speak prophetically. Queen Elizabeth said this during her recent Christmas address, “Giant leaps come from small step...small steps bring lasting change.” Whatever she said in her speech is highly-related to the theme of the year 2020. When God gives us a theme of the year, He wants it to be evangelistic as well. It can’t be so obvious and direct like “the year of favor” or “the year of goodness”. The theme of the year is also a conversation opener to give you opportunities to share the Gospel. The stones used to build Solomon’s temple were cut and hewn at the quarry in the darkness and brought out to the temple location. It’s just like us who were called out of darkness and brought into God’s marvelous light to become living stones in His temple. Someone had to go into the darkness to bring the stones out. They cannot come out themselves. We cannot redeem ourselves through the Ten Commandments. 1 Peter 2:4-5 - Jesus is a living stone chosen by God but who was rejected by man. You are precious and unique, made by God. “coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 2:4-5 WEB) 1 Peter 2:9 - A king’s word has power. A priest is someone who gives glory to God. We believers are all royal priests who go into God’s presence and come out with power. True holiness is royalty. Jesus was dressed ordinarily but He exuded a mint of royalty. There’s no one who brings more joy to God the Father than His Son Jesus. Sentimentalism is not good. Don’t spoil your children just because they are precious to you. Children need to be disciplined. Jesus is truly kind and humble, and yet He’s not servile. When Jesus is firm, He’s not harsh. Jesus is altogether lovely—more excellent than every other man. Man looks at the outer appearance, whereas God is more concerned with what is inside your heart than how you look on the outside. When people see the glorious light upon your life, they’ll want to be like you. God’s going to bring you to a greater place of Biblical prosperity this year to glorify Him. The greatest prosperity is to know Jesus. “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:” (1 Peter 2:9 WEB) The moment you believe in Jesus, God treats you like Jesus. God doesn’t see your flaws and sins. He sees you overlaid with Jesus’ righteousness. Just like how the stones in the temple are laid with cedar and overlaid with gold. 1 Chronicles 28:11-12 - God gave David the blueprint for the temple. It was not David’s own design. “Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat; and the plans of all that he had by the Spirit, for the courts of Yahweh’s house, for all the surrounding rooms, for the treasuries of God’s house, and for the treasuries of the dedicated things;” (1 Chronicles 28:11-12 WEB) God wants to bring His people to a place of greater rest. People are so stressed out nowadays. 1 Chronicles 28:19 - This verse is not talking about automatic writing such as playing with an ouija board. When you deal with an evil spirit, it will always take from you. God will not bypass our personality. It is David writing, but God giving the inspiration. God speaks through His people. When you have a prompting from the Holy Spirit, God will also confirm it through His people. ““All this”, said David, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”” (1 Chronicles 28:19 WEB) We don’t need new year resolutions because those are by your own resolve (self-effort). When Pastor Prince prepares sermons, he receives a verse or passage from God and writes it down. That triggers off more and more revelation for the rest of the sermon. Psalms 29:9 - You are glorious because you are God’s temple. You are a walking temple of the Holy Spirit. “...In his temple everything says, “Glory!”” (Psalms 29:9 WEB)
Pastor Joseph Prince revealed that 2020 is the year of time and space. God is going to manipulate time and space in your favor to bring you higher, faster as you trust Him by taking one step at a time. The secret of the winding staircase will take you higher into the wider rooms of provision, rest and glory.
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