29 November 2020 - How to Live Holy Under Grace - New Creation Church Sermon Notes - Pastor Lawrence LimPastor Lawrence Lim taught us how to live in true holiness through Grace which produces heart transformation and not just behavior modification through the works of the Law. If you want to live above sin and reign in life, this is a great sermon to meditate on. Praise and Worship songs performed: 1. Give Me This Mountain - New Creation Worship 2. Blessed Assurance - Fanny Crosby and Phoebe Knapp 3. Shout to the Lord - Darlene Zschech 4. O Come O Come Emmanuel - John Mason Neale Matthew 7:11 - We have a good Heavenly Father who gives us good gifts. “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:11 WEB) 1 Corinthians 15:3 - The forgiveness of our sins is the greatest blessing we have received. You have been delivered from the penalty of sin. “For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,” (1 Corinthians 15:3 WEB) Ephesians 1:7 - “According”, not just “out of”—God has forgiven us so graciously. “in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,” (Ephesians 1:7 WEB) Romans 1:16-17 - Gospel means “good news”. We need to pay attention to the good news of Jesus Christ and not the bad news in the world. The Gospel doesn’t just save you from Hell—it also brings you protection, preservation and provision. It is when we receive and believe the Gospel that we experience the power of God for salvation. “For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”” (Romans 1:16-17 WEB) Sin carries a penalty. The Bible says that the soul that sins must die. Our God is holy—He must judge sinful man for sins. This created universe is established upon justice and righteousness. Jesus took our sins upon Himself and was fully punished for them at the cross. God initiated this so that He would not have to punish us. Romans 4:5-8 - Our righteousness comes apart from works. It was received by faith. God shall not impute sin to you because He imputed it to Jesus. “But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness. Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”” (Romans 4:5-8 WEB) 1 Corinthians 1:30 - The grace of God upon our lives empowers us to live with moral excellence and character success. God wants us to live lives that glorify Him. Only the Gospel of Grace leads you to true holiness—transformation from the heart. Sin is never okay. Pastor Joseph Prince and New Creation Church believe in holiness and living lives that glorify God. “Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:” (1 Corinthians 1:30 WEB) If you want to know a trustworthiness of a ministry, look at its results. You can read all the testimonies shared on Pastor Prince’s website. A tree will be known by its fruits. Romans 6:14 - Have hope in your heart that your sinful habit will not remain. You are under Grace, so sin will not have dominion over you. “For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.” (Romans 6:14 WEB) 2 Peter 2:7-8 - Compare Abraham and Lot. Both were called righteous men, but Lot compromised. He lived in Sodom which was subsequently destroyed by God. Abraham cultivated a relationship with God. He built altars and tithed, but there is no record of Lot ever doing so. Lot was blessed. He had huge flocks and herds. Lot left Abraham—a picture of leaving the Gospel of righteousness by faith. Lot was tormented in his soul when he saw and heard all the lawless deeds done in Sodom, but he never left the city—he compromised. “and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked (for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):” (2 Peter 2:7-8 WEB) 1 Peter 1:15-16 - We are all for holiness, but how can we be holy in our behavior? “but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”” (1 Peter 1:15-16 WEB) 1 Peter 1:13-14 - Rest your hope fully on the Grace of God. Doing that is to be obedient children. When you know and believe that you have been forgiven and that you have a new identity in Christ, you can live a holy life. “Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ— as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,” (1 Peter 1:13-14 WEB)
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22 November 2020 - What “Falling From Grace” Really Means - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught us what it means to "fall from Grace". It is not falling into sin as many people think. When you fall from Grace, Christ becomes of no effect to you, and you cannot even receive a trickle of God's favor. Understanding this truth will set you free to bear much good fruit in your life! Praise and Worship songs performed: 1. Anthem of Grace - New Creation Worship 2. With All I Am - Hillsong Worship 3. You’re My Glory - Terry MacAlmon 3 John 1:2 - This is God’s will for us. “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be healthy, even as your soul prospers.” (3 John 1:2 WEB) Galatians 4:30-5:1 - The old system of the Law has been cast out, so we can stand fully in Grace. We can only live in a truly holy way when we live by Grace. “However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.” So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman. Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1 WEB) Galatians 5:4 - Christ becomes of no effect to you when you try to be justified by the Law. It is not people who sin that fall from Grace. It is those who have been saved by Grace and then try to be justified by the Law. These people think they have to go through the Law first in order to reach Christ. The multitudes touched Jesus and received healing. They were sinning and could still be healed. It is not sin that stops you from receiving God’s power—it is those who try to become righteous through the Law that could not receive from Jesus. The word “alienated” is the same word as is translated as “destroy” in Hebrews 2:14. The devil’s power to inflict death has been totally removed from him. When you are alienated from Christ, you cannot receive even a trickle of God’s power in your life, even though it is always flowing towards you. GRACE: God’s Riches at Christ’s Expense. You cannot take credit for any part of your salvation. Your role is to be a beneficiary and depository of God’s blessings. Long before someone falls into sin, he has fallen into Grace. Before the Law was given, the children of Israel did not build a golden calf and there was no temptation to do so. But once the Law was given at Mount Sinai, they built a golden calf. “You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.” (Galatians 5:4 WEB) Luke 11:46 - Your sins are not what is blocking your healing, provision, or whatever breakthrough you need. Man-made religion teaches that if there is some sin in your life, you cannot receive from God. “He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.” (Luke 11:46 WEB) Isaiah 26:3 - When Christ is effective for you, you receive His shalom—perfect peace. “You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.” (Isaiah 26:3 WEB) John 15:5 - Branches do not struggle to bear fruit. When the branch is not constricted, the sap flows freely, producing the fruitfulness to bear fruit. It is your struggling that prevents you from receiving God’s power. When you rest in Christ, God’s power flows freely through you. “I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5 WEB) 2 Peter 3:18 - Grace is your fertile soil to grow in. “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.” (2 Peter 3:18 WEB) 15 November 2020 - The Benjamin Generation Receives Five Times More - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught that Benjamin was first introduced when the earth was going through a worldwide famine, just like it is today because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as Benjamin received five times more food, clothing and provision than his brother, our generation is about to receive more outpouring of supply from God than all previous generations of believers! Amos 3:3 - We need to be in sync with God’s plans and purposes. God does things for the good of His church and for Israel. “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?” (Amos 3:3 WEB) Our foundation needs to be on what is unshakable—Jesus and God’s word. Proverbs 4:18 - Your days ahead can only get brighter and brighter. “But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18 WEB) Galatians 1:6 - Jewish advocates of the Law were telling the Galatian believers that after being saved by Grace they needed to keep the whole Law and be circumcised. This is ‘another gospel’—a false one. “I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;” (Galatians 1:6 WEB) 1 Corinthians 10:11 - What happened to the Jews in the Old Testament are types for us to learn from today. “Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.” (1 Corinthians 10:11 WEB) Luke 24:27 - The Old Testament contains shadows and types which point to the substance and realities in the New Testament. We have to see Christ in the Old Testament. It is more important to see Jesus in the Scriptures than in person—this gives us all the same opportunity to see Him today, in God’s word. “Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke 24:27 WEB) Galatians 4:21-31 - Ishmael was born by human effort and Isaac was born by God’s promise. Even people in the Bible are types which point us to Jesus. We are born again supernaturally by the Spirit. It is by God’s promise, not by our human effort. Those who advocate the Law persecute those who live by Grace. The attempt to keep the Law stirs up the sinful passions of the flesh. The flesh profits nothing. When we were born-again, we became sons. We have the spirit of sonship. Do not go back to that spirit of slavish fear which was under the Law. Those who live by the Law have Hagar as their mother, while those who live by Grace have Sarah as their mother. Like Isaac and Ishmael, we have the same Heavenly Father, but not the same mother. Law and Grace cannot be mixed. The new wine will cause an old wine skin to burst. We need to completely cast out the old system of the Law of Moses and live by Grace alone. “Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.” Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.” So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.” (Galatians 4:21-31 WEB) Hebrew 12:18-22 - It not about doing things to be saved, but to rest in Jesus’ finished work. It is done. God has moved mountains—from Sinai to Zion. Preachers must move their pulpits from Sinai to Zion. “For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”; and so fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,” (Hebrews 12:18-22 WEB) Hebrews 5:13 - Those who are babies think that righteousness is about action—doing to become righteous. Those who are mature know that righteousness is a gift. “For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.” (Hebrews 5:13-14 WEB) Genesis 21:8-10 - We cannot inherit by human effort—only by grace through faith. Sarah’s words became Scripture. “The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”” (Genesis 21:8-10 WEB) Jeremiah 3:19 - Call God “Abba” and you will inherit your possessions in Christ. It is by the spirit of sonship. ““But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’” (Jeremiah 3:19 WEB) 8 November 2020 - Receive your Inheritance by Grace Alone - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught that through the Law of Moses, we cannot inherit what Christ purchased for us at the cross. We can only receive it by Grace through faith. Through the Holy Spirit in you, arise to the spirit of sonship, for you are no longer a slave to sin! Praise and worship songs performed: 1. Here is Love - Robert Lowry 2. I Will Come and Bow Down - Ron Kenoly 3. The One Thing - New Creation Worship Galatians 3:5 - The word translated as “supplies” below is in the present continuous tense. God is constantly supplying the Spirit and doing miracles. Receive miracles through hearing of faith, not by the works of the Law. “He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you, and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?” (Galatians 3:5 WEB) Luke 24:47 - Jerusalem is the guiltiest city for it rejected and crucified Jesus Christ. The Gospel began spreading from there—this is God’s Grace. Where sin abounded, Grace super-abounds! “and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.” (Luke 24:47 WEB) God ordained for the Romans to be in power during Jesus’ time on earth. The Romans built good roads. It was on these roads that the Apostle Paul embarked on his missionary journeys. The Greek language was the most widely used language in the world during Jesus’ time. Greek is the most exact and precise language. Example: for one word in English, love, Greek has many words to differentiate the type of love: phileo (brotherly love between friends), agape (the God kind of love), eros (sexual and romantic love). Matthew 24:38 - The devil caused the COVID-19 pandemic, but God allowed it, causing the Gospel to go forth further than ever before, online. Souls are being saved at a greater rate than before the pandemic. Physical church gatherings will eventually resume. Before the coming of the Lord, life will be back to normal, with no pandemic. “For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,” (Matthew 24:38 WEB) Galatians 4:6-7 - We are not bondservants under the Law. We are sons (in Greek: huios) and therefore heirs of God through Christ. Israel was under the Law which is the fundamental principles—like ABCs. Now under Grace, we are full-grown adult sons. When the son of the boss of a company goes to the office, he works with a different spirit. If an office worker forgets to switch off the air-con, the son checks and turns it off. He has a personal stake in it because he is going to be the heir. When we live with a spirit of sonship, we will work more excellently. The Holy Spirit in our hearts teaches us to see God as our Father, producing the appropriate affections in our hearts. “And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” (Galatians 4:6-7 WEB) Romans 8:14-16 - God is most pleased when you approach Him as “Father”. You don’t have fear Him or feel distant from Him. Own the spirit of sonship. The “fear of the Lord” is not slavish fear as if you are a slave. It is having a reverential, worshipful awe towards God. We sense the leading of the Holy Spirit through this spirit of sonship. The Spirit will never lead you to break the Ten Commandments. In fact, He will lead you to exceed its requirements. Instead of being stingy, you will be generous. Instead of having a loveless marriage, you will love your wife the way Christ loves His church. The Holy Spirit guides you as you get moving—take a step of faith. It is hard to guide a parked car. The Holy Spirit leads you from within. You will know when to do something, and when not to. If you don’t do something He leads you to do, you will feel an inward frustration. After you do it, you will sense the peace within. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God. For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;” (Romans 8:14-16 WEB) James 2:10 - The Law is a composite whole. If you break one commandment out of the Ten Commandments, you are counted as having broken them all. It is like a pearl necklace. When one part of the string breaks, all the pearls fall out. “For whoever keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.” (James 2:10 WEB) No one can love God with all their heart, soul, strength and mind. Only God does that towards us—He proved it by sending Jesus to die for us. We must know that He loves us, so that we can love one another. The Old Testament is the new concealed. The New Testament is the old revealed. When you read the Law, let the Holy Spirit reveal Jesus to you from within. Romans 10:4 - Jesus already fulfilled the Law on our behalf. “For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.” (Romans 10:4 WEB) Matthew 5:17-18 - Jesus didn’t destroy the Law—He already fulfilled it through His finished work at the cross. ““Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.” (Matthew 5:17-18 WEB) |
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