4 October 2020 - Freely Receive Healing from God - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince preached a powerful sermon about healing. God wants you to be healed and healthy. When we believe the true Gospel which is the Grace of Christ, it will be easy to freely receive healing! Praise and worship songs performed: 1. How Great is Our God 2. I Stand in Awe of You 3. I Stand in Worship - New Creation Worship 4. Shackles (Praise You) 5. I Cast All My Cares Upon You Pastors can discern the needs of their congregation in the spirit. We are Tripartite beings—spirit that have a soul and live in a body. 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 - Our spirits are born again—new creations. When Jesus returns for us, He will transform our vile bodies into glorified bodies. The resurrected Jesus has flesh and bones. The glorified body is touchable, and yet transcends matter, time and space. The ministry of reconciliation is a ministry that every believer has. God took the initiative to reconcile the world to Himself. Back when Jesus was on earth, He was not imputing the people’s trespasses to them, and today He isn’t doing that either. We are not in the age of God’s judgment. COVID-19 is not God’s judgment upon the world. When Jesus was on earth, as many as touched Him were made whole. They were all sinners, and yet their sins did not disqualify them from receiving healing from Jesus. Jesus was not counting their sins against them. God is already reconciled to us. The father in the parable of the prodigal son was always scanning the horizon for his son, before his son had decided to come home. The problem is not God, but us who need to be reconciled to God by believing that God loves us. Grace is not cheap, but Jesus paid it all so that it is free for us. Freely you have received, freely give. If you don’t believe that you receive healing freely, you will put conditions upon others before they can be healed. At the cross, Jesus called the Father “My God, My God” so that we can call the Father “My Father, my Father”. There was a divine exchange at the cross. Jesus received our sins apart from His actions, and gave us His righteousness. We received His righteousness apart from our actions. “Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-21 WEB) Mark 16:15 - The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for every human to freely receive. “He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.” (Mark 16:15 WEB) Acts 20:24 - The Gospel is called the Gospel of Grace. “But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.” (Acts 20:24 WEB) Galatians 1:6 - The Grace of Christ is the Gospel. “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) Acts 20:21 - The Gospel is to be believed. Repentance towards God means to change your mind about God. For example, you used to think that God was angry with you, and after repenting, you believe that God is always for you. “testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.” (Acts 20:21 WEB) What the world needs is not morality preaching. Morality is a fruit, but not the root. The root is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God saves individuals, one at a time, not nations. Saved individuals can impact their societies and eventually transform nations. Matthew 9:36 - Some people who are profit-minded would think how much money they can get from that multitude. However, Jesus saw the multitudes and He was moved with compassion for them. He saw them as sheep without a Shepherd—that is God’s beautiful heart for the world. “But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.” (Matthew 9:36 WEB) 1 John 4:19 - We cannot love God with all our strength, mind and heart. Only God can do that towards us. The Law exposes our weaknesses and shows us that we need a Savior. “We love him, because he first loved us.” (1 John 4:19 WEB) Luke 4:19-20 - The “acceptable” year of the Lord is “dektos” which means the age where the favors of God are freely flowing towards us. We are not in the day of God’s vengeance. Jesus was reading from the book of Isaiah, but He closed the book and didn’t finish reading the verse. We must learn to rightly discern the dispensations. “and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” He closed the book, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.” (Luke 4:19-20 WEB) Isaiah 61:2 - This is the part that Jesus did not finish reading. The dispensation will change once the Tribulation begins (the church won’t be here because we will be raptured first). “to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;” (Isaiah 61:2 WEB)
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