23 May 2018 - Encounter Night: Times of the Gentiles (ABCs of Bible Prophecy) - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed:
To receive healing, just offer a simple prayer or a simple act of faith. Don’t over-complicate matters. God’s ways are simple but powerful. Don’t trust in dieting or exercise more than you trust in the Lord, for your health. We need to study Bible prophecy because it strengthens and stabilizes us. Wisdom is the stability of your times. It is wrong to think that it will all pan out anyway so there’s no need to study Bible prophecy. Luke 21:24 - Times of the Gentiles: from AD 70 until 1967. “And they will fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” (Luke 21:24 NKJV) God sent Israel prophet after prophet to tell them not to worship idols or forsake Him. When Israel stopped offering sacrifices, there was nothing to cover Israel’s sins anymore. Then King Nebuchadnezzar came in to destroy Jerusalem and capture the Jews for exile to Babylon. God wanted Israel to be an example of blessing when people obey the Lord. He wanted to provoke the other nations to jealousy. Israel was supposed to be a lighthouse. However, they rebelled against God so God raised up Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom as a world power instead. Daniel and his three friends Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah were some of the young Jews who were exiled to Babylon. This message will help you to tap into the wisdom of the Lord to get the answers you need.
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20 May 2018 - Know Your Eternal Calling from God - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed:
God’s calling for us is eternal and it goes beyond this life. God has prepared Heaven, Paradise, the New Jerusalem or whatever you want to call it, for us to dwell in and enjoy forever. God has designed our new spiritual bodies to be able to enjoy the pleasures and blessings of our eternal call. Jesus redeemed us by His blood, but there are still enemies who refuse to leave. The land has been purchased but the tenants are still staying in the squatters. Soon the Lord will come back in power to evict the enemies. I Kings 4:29-34 - God called the Jews and because of their calling, He is able to bless them with the wisdom to tap into their brainpower. The wisdom from God is not received through education. Education just allows us to accumulate knowledge. Wisdom is the ability to use the knowledge which we have. The Book of Proverbs says that the spirit of a man is the candle of the Lord. The Lord can give you inspiration through your spirit. “And God gave Solomon wisdom and exceedingly great understanding, and largeness of heart like the sand on the seashore. Thus Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt. For he was wiser than all men— than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the surrounding nations. He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. Also he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, of birds, of creeping things, and of fish. And men of all nations, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom, came to hear the wisdom of Solomon.” (I Kings 4:29-34 NKJV) Proverbs 2:6 - Knowledge and understanding come from the breath of God. “For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;” (Proverbs 2:6 NKJV) II Timothy 3:13-17 - The words “inspiration of God” means God-breathed. It was the breath of God that made man a living being. If the word of God is God-breathed then we need it for every area of our lives. We can read the Bible and receive the breath of God. We live in times where people say right is wrong and wrong is right. We need to define things correctly for our children, if not the world will teach them its values. Holiness is not about looking down on people and saying “don’t come near me because I’m holier than you”. Holiness means uncommonness - it means being set apart for God’s plans and purposes. When people walk with you, they are able to sense that you’re homely and approachable, but there’s something morally different about you: When most people are crushed and looking for answers, you walk certainly because you know who made you. When most people are anxious and fearful, you have peace. The Big Bang Theory which excludes God from creation can’t be true: Everything that is blown up goes into chaos and disarray - it doesn’t result in order. We live in a world with lots of suppositions but we know the truth: In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The word wise in “able to make you wise” is “Sophizo” in Greek. In Hebrew it is “Chokmah”. The word of God is able to give you the wisdom to be saved from whatever trials you’re facing. It is able to supply whatever you need. “But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (II Timothy 3:13-17 NKJV) 13 May 2018 - Find Rest in Being Quick to Listen - New Creation Church Sermon Notes - Pastor Mark Ng Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed: Hearts on Fire - New Creation Worship Wonderful (Grace Made Real) - New Creation Worship On and On - Housefires Build My Life - Brett Younker Power of your Presence - Jodie Teyna Whatever God calls for, He will definitely supply and bless. Mothers have a special blessing to supply them for their parenting role. God wants to bless the ‘Marthas’. Martha is an elder sister so she’s used to sacrificing, giving and serving. It comes from a place of love. But she forgot that Jesus was in her home and that she can receive and rest in Him. Miriam was Moses’ elder sister. She was running by the riverside to make sure that Moses was safe. Miriam told the Egyptian princess about her mum who can nurse Moses for her. Miriam was worried and looking out for Moses’ well-being. Elder sisters must learn how to let go when God comes into their lives. James 1:19-20 - Sarai became Sarah. She was a domineering woman and she needed to know that she is a princess (Sarah means Princess) in Christ, that she can rest. We need to learn to be quick to listen, and slow to speak. This is humility and helping to improve the family connection. God wants a woman to woo her man: to respect her husband and have a great relationship with her husband. Don’t only talk with him about the kids. Remember that you and your husband are important too. This will prevent loneliness in the future when the kids are all grown up and when only you and your husband are left at home. “So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” (James 1:19-20 NKJV) You need the Lord in every step of your life. Students who are believers have an unfair advantage: parents can’t follow them into the exam hall but the Holy Spirit can. God wants to be unfairly good to you. God is kind and merciful: He also knows how you feel and your pains. God calls us endearingly by name: Martha, Martha. He knows that we are concerned about many things. God wants us to stay young. Even though we grow in age, we can still have the same youthful appearance. The power of Christ in us has the ability to do that. What is the good part that Mary chose? Mary saw Jesus as the Almighty God who came to serve us. Mary could do the right thing at the right time: she was the only one who anointed Jesus for His burial before His death. 29 April 2018 - How to be Blessed: God’s Way - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed:
When people need healing, they tend to look for verses on healing and expect to be healed right away. However many times God is more interested in first bringing you out of occupation with self and bringing you into occupation with Christ. After hearing and hearing messages about Jesus and His loveliness, all of a sudden you realize that the faith you need to be healed is there. Genesis 12:2-3 - God wants to bless us to be a blessing. You are a blessing going somewhere to happen. This is the first place in the Bible where “blessing” is mentioned. Blessing (a noun) is first mentioned in the story of Abraham. The word for blessing in Hebrew is “Barak”. It is made up of three Hebrew letters. The first two Hebrew letters in the word is “Bar” which means “Son”. The last Hebrew letter in the word is a picture of an open hand. Together it means “the Son of the open hand”. Blessing in Hebrew is “Barakah”. It has an additional Hebrew letter “Hei”. Together, the Hebrew letters have the meaning of “The Son of the Open Hand of Grace”. Since Israel rejected God’s plan for them to be an example of blessing, God made them an example of cursing. Through the Law, no one can be blessed because man cannot keep the Law. If you come under the Law, you’ll be cursed. “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”” (Genesis 12:2-3 NKJV) The definition of “blessing” by John N. Oswalt : To bless means to endue with power for success, prosperity, fecundity (fertility), longevity, etc. When God blesses you, He endues you with power. God is the only Source of blessing. A curse is an enduement of power for failure. Everything is heaven cannot be lesser than earth. Everything there is enhanced. For a believer, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Jesus is still a Man today in heaven. He is a Man in glory. Blessing will reverse the curse in your life. It doesn’t just remove what is negative, but it adds on what is of heaven. In heaven there is no shortage and there is nothing hurtful or destructive. At the end of the Book of Judges, it says that everyone did what was right in their own eyes. That’s what is happening today as well, especially on social media. No matter man’s opinions, we can’t change God’s ways of doing things. 25 April 2018 - Everything Good and Bad will Give God Praise - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Encounter Night Sermon NotesEven when things don’t seem to be working in your favor, God is working behind the scenes. Many times we don’t thank God for protection or help rendered that we don’t know about. Esther received favor from God. We need to receive and rely on His favor. Testimony: There was a student who memorized the whole Book of Proverbs and he received straight A’s for his school exams. When you touch God’s word, you touch the way to prosper you. When you meditate on God’s word, you will have good success and make your way prosperous. Psalm 1 - Those who meditate on God’s word will prosper in everything they do. Their leaf will always be green — renewal of youth and health. We need to listen to God’s word and not the news. The news says that as your days increase, you will get weaker and older. God’s word says that as your days increase, your strength will increase. That’s the opposite of what the world says. Don’t accept what the world says so easily. In the Book of Esther, the name of God is not mentioned. The name of God doesn’t appear in it, and yet you see God working behind the scenes. The Book of Esther is a book of God’s provision, not so much of His miracles. In Greek, “Provideo” - “Pro” means before, “video” means to see. God sees your need and provides the supply before you even know of your need. An acrostic: GRACE - God’s riches at Christ’s expense There are four hidden acrostics of the name Yahweh in the Book of Esther. Everytime an acrostic appears, it is a pivotal point in the story — a game-changing moment. Yahweh in Hebrew is made of the four Hebrew letters: Yud hei vav hei. English reads from left to right but the Hebrew language reads from right to left. Even when you don’t understand God’s word, you are still cleansed as you read or listen to it. One of the appearance of God’s name is God name “I AM”. Psalm 96:11 - This verse is an acrostic with Yud hei vav hei. Without the Lord, the heavens cannot be glad and the earth can’t rejoice. “Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice. Let the sea roar, and its fullness!” (Psalms 96:11 WEB) 22 April 2018 - Wise as Serpents Harmless as Doves - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes OnlinePraise and Worship songs performed:
Hesed wisdom is “grace wisdom”. The most often used word for “wisdom” in the Bible in Hebrew is “chokmah”. In Greek, it is “sofia”. Proverbs 3:13-17 - In the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom is personified as a woman. When you embrace wisdom, you get five things: long life, riches, honor, pleasure and peace. “Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.” (Proverbs 3:13-17 NKJV) James 1:17 - Good gifts are for the world but perfect gifts are for believers. Ideas given to non-believers are good gifts whereas ideas given to believers are perfect gifts. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.” (James 1:17 NKJV) James 1:5-8 - If you are a wise person, you will always know that you lack wisdom. If you ask God for wisdom, He will show you the root that’s causing your problems in life right now. If you’re working in a company, your first duty is to make sure your company does well. Witness and minister to your colleagues in your free time only, not during work hours. That’s wisdom. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:5-8 NKJV) Deuteronomy 8:18 - God won’t zap and make money drop from the sky - that’s counterfeit money and God doesn’t deal in counterfeit money. God does not give you wealth. He gives you the power to get wealth. The word “get” means to create. It’s talking about God giving you ideas to get wealth. ““And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.” (Deuteronomy 8:18 NKJV) I Kings 3:4-28 - This is a burnt offering, not a sin offering. Sin offering is for the atonement for sins. Burnt offering is where the righteousness of the lamb offered is transferred to the offerer. The word of God calls the sin offering the most holy offering whereas burnt offering is just called holy - The sin offering represents what Jesus did on the cross. That’s the most pleasing thing to God. King Solomon didn’t have to offer 1000 burnt offerings - he could have just offered 1. It shows his great appreciation for Christ. Long life (in wisdom’s right hand) for Solomon was conditional - based on whether he kept God’s commandments. He was still under the Law. However we believers who are under grace have Jesus to give us long life - He is the Son of the Right Hand. Ask God for length of days and you can freely receive it. When you get Jesus you get everything. Solomon was worshipping God at Gibeon but the Ark of the Covenant wasn’t there. The Ark was in the City of David. The Ark represents Jesus. The gold on the Ark represents Jesus’ deity, the wood represents Jesus’ body of flesh and the blood on the mercy seat represents the blood that Jesus shed for us. Solomon worshipping at Gibeon where the Ark wasn't there is a picture of religion - where Jesus is not in the center. The first thing Solomon did after he woke up from the dream is to worship where the Ark of the Covenant was. The first sign of a man who has received wisdom: he appreciates the Lord’s presence. The first thing Solomon said after he had heard the two women talk was “Bring me a sword”. In the Bible, the “Sword” refers to the word of God. In the Hebrew alphabet, “Aleph Tav” (A and Z) is the divine signature of Jesus. Jesus has the final word in your life. “Divide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the other.” - In this phrase there are three occurrences of Aleph Tav. God gives us the power to get wealth - God never gives you anything that makes you sinful. Capitalism is something from God. Communism is not from God. Jesus bore our sins in His body and His soul. Not in His spirit. There is something greater than the love of a mother - God sent His only begotten Son to die for us on the cross. “Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?” And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?” The speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.” Then Solomon awoke; and indeed it had been a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants. Now two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him. And one woman said, “O my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth while she was in the house. Then it happened, the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we were together; no one was with us in the house, except the two of us in the house. And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him. So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. And when I rose in the morning to nurse my son, there he was, dead. But when I had examined him in the morning, indeed, he was not my son whom I had borne.” Then the other woman said, “No! But the living one is my son, and the dead one is your son.” And the first woman said, “No! But the dead one is your son, and the living one is my son.” Thus they spoke before the king. And the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son, who lives, and your son is the dead one’; and the other says, ‘No! But your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’ ” Then the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So they brought a sword before the king. And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to one, and half to the other.” Then the woman whose son was living spoke to the king, for she yearned with compassion for her son; and she said, “O my lord, give her the living child, and by no means kill him!” But the other said, “Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him. ” So the king answered and said, “Give the first woman the living child, and by no means kill him; she is his mother.” And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had rendered; and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.” (I Kings 3:4-28 NKJV) The Body Cycle of Blessedness: How a Believer can Enjoy the Abundant Life - A Daily Devotional18/4/2018 The Body Cycle of Blessedness: How a Believer can Enjoy the Abundant Life - A Daily Devotional |
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