27 August 2017 - The Truth About Tithing in the New Testament - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes OnlineYou don't have to wait for the word of knowledge or gifts of healings to flow in order to be healed. That's not the norm. The norm is to be healed as you read/listen to the word of God on your own. Create that spirit of expectancy in your heart when you're receiving prayer for divine healing. The anointing oil is also a way to be healed. Positive thinking is good but it will not bring you the miracle of God. You need a point of contact with Jesus, like all the ways mentioned above. The priests in the Old Testament were busy, busy, busy and their work was never done. However, Jesus, with one sacrifice, sat down at the right hand of the Father forever. Our Father does not desire burnt offerings like in the Old Covenant - that's just a shadow of the substance. Jesus' finished work at the cross is the substance. All our sins have been forgiven by that one work on the cross. God is not confined in time and space. God looks at our entire life and sees that our sins have been removed. Foundations of Christianity:
When believers die, they feel even more alive and will be perpetually happy. The encumbrance of the flesh is gone. When Jesus died, I died with Him. When Jesus rose from the dead, I rose with Him. When Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Father, I sat down with Him. That's true Christianity.
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26 July 2015 - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes Online - Pastor Joseph Prince Hillsong Conference Europe 2015 Sermon - In The Order of MelchizedekWe have a divine mandate from God to rest in Jesus's finished work. When you work, God rests. When you rest, God works. Hebrews 4:1 - The Bible says 365 times not to fear. But only this one time, we are told to fear leaving God's rest. "Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest, let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it." (Hebrews 4:1 NKJV) The work is already DONE. The devil is already defeated! The devil wants to trick you into leaving God's rest. That which is visible is temporal, but that which is invisible is eternal. In the Old Testament, the high priest represents the people to God. A prophet represents God to the people. Jesus loves you right where you are now. He doesn't wait for you to clean yourself. He is the bath that makes you clean. We don't become a better man to get saved, we get saved to become a better man! Jesus is our High Priest forever. He has no successor. Whether we are accepted by God or not is not determined by how good we are, but it's about how good our High Priest is. We are not transformed by beholding our own 'gory'. We are transformed by beholding Jesus's glory. Psalms 110:4 - "Melchizedek" means "King of Righteousness". Jesus is our High Priest and King of Righteousness forever. "The LORD has sworn And will not relent, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”" (Psalms 110:4 NKJV) People glorify the strong and the talented, whereas God glorifies the lost, the last, and the least. 25 January 2015 - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes Online - Draw Near to God with a Heart in Full Assurance of FaithWhen God restores, it's either greater in quality, quantity or both! A true celebrity is one who has Jesus at the center of his or her life! True success is when your family is serving The Lord. There is no point being a public success but a private failure. Hebrews 10:15-25 - God wants us to come with a full assurance of faith in our salvation. Faith does not deal with conjectures or uncertainties. It is sure. Jesus's work righteously paid for all our sins. The Holy Spirit's witness is that God remembers our sins and lawless deeds no more - He was there at Calvary and witnessed The Father put all the sins of the world upon Jesus! The Holy Spirit convicts the unsaved of sin, reminds us as believers that we are righteous, and convicts Satan of his judgement. The Holy Spirit does not nag at us, but He guides and leads us. Under the Law, the priests approached God with fear and trepidation because they could drop dead if they were unclean before the holy God. But now, God has opened a new and living way for us where we can approach God with confidence and full assurance of faith. Under the Law, the standing of the people of Israel were wrapped up in the standing of their high priest before God. They didn't have a sure assurance of faith because their high priests were subject to change and making mistakes. But now, under Grace, we have a perfect High Priest, our Lord Jesus Christ, forever! If we still act as though we are unclean as believers, it is a great insult to the perfect work of Jesus that purchased our complete forgiveness and salvation. When we assemble ourselves together, it will result in the fruits of faith, hope and love. "But the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us; for after He had said before, “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,” then He adds, “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” Now where there is remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." (Hebrews 10:15-25 NKJV) Hebrews 10:1-4 - The sacrifices carried out under the Law are shadows of the true substance, Jesus Christ. The people of the world avoid God because they have a sin debt on their conscience. Man gained a conscience through partaking of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and that voice cannot be repressed. Our conscience can only be perfectly satisfied through the perfect sacrifice for our sins, the work of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. "For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins." (Hebrews 10:1-4 NKJV) 4 January 2015 - The Year of His Restoration - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes OnlineGod is a God of divine order. God's word and God's will are one. They don't contradict each other. The devil is trying to stop you from believing Psalm 91 and its promises of divine protection. Stop focusing on how you're at a forty-fold manifestation, and keep your eyes on the eventually hundred-fold manifestation. Everything from God is received by faith. When God shows you something, He wants you to do something about it. If He asks you to pray, do it, and be sure that there is a blessing in store for you. Pastor Joseph Prince's dream that he received from God - Images of a lot of mayhem, and claws that represent nations trying to squeeze tiny Israel. Zechariah 12:3 - Nations that rise against Jerusalem will find themselves afflicted in their own home country. "And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it." (Zechariah 12:3 NKJV) We must deliver the message that God wants us to deliver. For New Creation Church congregation all over the world: God adds on to your life. The yearly themes of New Creation Church add on to your life, year by year. Theme of the year: The Year of His Restoration. Not man doing the restoration, but God doing the restoration. When God restores, it's always greater in either quality, quantity, or both. God treats the devil as a nobody. Christ on the cross is the Love of God, paying ransom to the Holiness of God. God is a righteous God. He cannot sweep one iota of sin under the carpet, but He can blot the sins out through what Christ has done for us. Joel 2:25 - The time and years that you spent in sin are wasted time. But God is so good that He will restore the years for you. "“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you." (Joel 2:25 NKJV) Isaiah 42:22 - Few people believe that God is a restoring God. "But this is a people robbed and plundered; All of them are snared in holes, And they are hidden in prison houses; They are for prey, and no one delivers; For plunder, and no one says, “Restore!”" (Isaiah 42:22 NKJV) Psalm 23:3 - God wants to restore your soul. The word, "soul" here, refers to your emotions and your mind. "He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake." (Psalms 23:3 NKJV) Jeremiah 30:17 - this word, "wounds" in Hebrew, refers to long-term health conditions. God will heal you of afflictions that have been with you for a long time. "For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds,’ says the LORD, ‘Because they called you an outcast saying: “This is Zion; No one seeks her.” ’"(Jeremiah 30:17 NKJV) 30 November 2014 - Overflowing Life And Health—Keys From The Story Of Elisha - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes Online
Before we become self-righteous, we all have those times where we are low on faith too. Even these great Men of God, Elijah, even David. Then what about us? Moses spent 40 days and 40 nights on Mt Sinai - it took 7 chapters to write about it, whereas Creation is only 1 chapter. God talked with him about His Son in types, figures and shadows, and gave Moses the two tablets of stone (with The Law) only on the last day. God loves to hear about and talk about Jesus. He who has The Son (Jesus), has all other blessings too. Because of the cross, God is righteous in justifying sinners. God's righteousness is satisfied because of His Son. He is so satisfied that He makes us His sons! The way to teach the Bible is to unveil Jesus in the Scriptures. Why were Cleopas and the other disciple prevented from recognising Jesus in person on the Road to Emmaus? Why didn't Jesus just show them the marks in His hands and feet to make them believe? Revelation given to Pastor Joseph Prince: It's more important for us to see Jesus in the Scriptures than to see Jesus in person while alive, so that all generations would have the equal chance to see Jesus in the Word. Elijah and Elisha appeared during the most corrupt period in Israel, during the reign of King Ahab who married the witch, Jezebel. There is a succession to priests and kings, but not for prophets. God can raise a prophet from anywhere. The only instance of prophetic succession is Elijah to Elisha. Elijah (His name means "My God saves") reminds us of John the Baptist whereas Elisha reminds us of Jesus. Elijah's miracles are miracles of judgement whereas Elisha's miracles are miracles of grace. Elijah's first miracle was to prevent rain in Israel. Elisha moved among the common folk and was easily accessible. Elijah dressed roughly and differently. Luke 1:17 - John the Baptist comes in the spirit of Elijah. "He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”" (Luke 1:17 NKJV) Elijah's ministry was cut short. One of the most famous incidents regarding Elijah is when he confronted the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel. The prophets of Baal were cutting themselves - God will never ask you to mutilate yourself. God heals. Elijah put twelve stones together representing the twelve tribes of Israel. God's fire descended from heaven consumed the sacrifice and even all the water surrounding it was gone. Under the Law, the judgement is greater than the sacrifice. Under grace, the sacrifice (Jesus) is greater than the judgement. At the cross, Jesus consumed all the judgement of God and was still alive. Luke 7:33-34 - Legalism cannot be satisfied. They will either say you're too strict or too licentious. They said that John was to severe and Jesus too indulgent. The words that they used as an accusation towards Jesus becomes a wonderful accolade for us today. Jesus is our friend (we were all sinners before receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior). Jesus is a ready, gracious friend. He always meets our needs. "For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’" (Luke 7:33-34 NKJV) We would have thought that after the confrontation at Mount Carmel where the Lord proved that He is the true God, Israel would have turned back to the Lord, but they did not. Elijah was greatly discouraged. There's nothing more crushing than failure in ministry. When Jezebel heard that Elijah killed the prophets of Baal, she swore to kill him, and Elijah in fear, ran away to escape from her. When you take your eyes off Jesus, things become bleak. Keep your eyes on Him! Elijah threw himself under a juniper tree and told the Lord, "Let me die!" If he really wanted to die, he could have waited for Jezebel to come and kill him. When we take our eyes off God, we become a walking contradiction. We should make small our problems, and make God big! Instead of answering Elijah's prayer, God put him to sleep. Aren't we glad that God doesn't answer all our prayers? He sees our needs and supplies us with what we lack. God sent an angel and prepared food and drink for Elijah, and after eating, Elijah went back to sleep again. After Elijah woke up again, the angel fed him again. Jesus is the only Food that nourishes us. Spend time to feed on Him through reading the Word.
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