29 July 2018 - Grace is the Cure for Bitterness and Sexual Immorality - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon Notes

29 July 2018 - Grace is the Cure for Bitterness and Sexual Immorality - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon Notes

Praise and Worship songs performed:
(I missed out some songs before this)

1. Tremble - Andres Figueroa
2. No Longer Slaves - Bethel Music

This world is a hurting world. When Jesus walked on earth, He saw the multitudes as sheep without a shepherd. He had compassion on them.

God’s heart is so big compared to ours and He’s so generous. He wants to give, give and give again.

He wants our obedience and trust in Him because the benefits are for us.
When He tells us to do something, it’s for our good - He can see into our future and help us avert dangers.

The Lord is the One who teaches us how to profit.

When the children of Israel followed the cloud in the wilderness, they prospered and succeeded in their ways.

Lovers don’t yell at each other. They speak softly and lovingly in whispered tones to each other.

A soft answer turns away wrath. The Lord speaks to us in a quiet whisper.

Elijah encountered God back at Mount Sinai.
When Elijah went there, God asked him “Why are you here Elijah?”.
Elijah thought that God would thunder down from Sinai in the fire, wind and earthquake, but God was in the still, small voice.

God doesn’t discipline us with accidents. Accidents happen due to our own negligence or attacks from the enemy.

God disciplines us through His word or through other people who are like us, but worse, so that we despise that same trait that we see in others.

Hebrews 12:9-11 - When we submit to God’s discipline, we will live.
Fatal car accidents are not God’s discipline because we won’t live.
We partake of the Lord’s holiness by identifying ourselves with His holiness. Example: by declaring “The Lord Jesus is my holiness”.

“Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” (Hebrews 12:9-11 NKJV)

Turn your back on Mount Sinai and face Mount Zion fully. Then you won't fall short of the grace of God!

Grace is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ

Look to Jesus and don’t be distracted by the others around. 
Jesus is the Author (the source) and the Finisher (the completer) of our faith.
Faith is heaven’s currency. 

Child-training (God’s discipline) happens when we take our eyes off Jesus. 
If you’re a believer living in adultery, God loves you too much not to lead you out of it.

There are two camps nowadays: one for grace, and the other for holiness. 

There is actually no animosity between grace and holiness. Let’s not create one.
Grace is the root and holiness is the fruit.

Hebrews 12:14 - This verse doesn’t mean that you can lose your salvation. You will learn later in this sermon how to serve God in true holiness. 

“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:” (Hebrews 12:14 NKJV)

The world values things like integrity and character. 
You don’t marry charisma - you marry character.
Charisma is like the froth on top of the tea - It has no substance. It’s the tea that tastes good. 

I Peter 1:13-16 - The words “to be brought to you” in Greek is actually “that is being brought to you”.
The word “at” is actually “in”. It should be “in the revelation of Jesus Christ”. 
Listen to sermons that unveil the Person of Jesus. 
When you see Jesus, that is being an obedient child. 
The opposite of holiness is commonness. The word holy in Hebrew is “kadosh” which means separated. 
Holy things are separated because they are precious. 
We are separated unto the Lord because we are not common.
Don’t dress to lure people and get attention. That’s cheapening yourself. Don’t do that because you are precious, holy and dignified. 
God wants you uncommon.
When the world is fearful, you are not.
When marriages are breaking apart, yours is not.
Dare to be uncommon. 
Madras crabs pull the other crabs around them down when they try to climb up. That’s what the world does. 
When you see Jesus in God’s word, and you heart feels warm, that is grace being brought to you.
If the people in the Old Testament could be holy by their own works then Jesus would not have to come. 

“Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”” (I Peter 1:13-16 NKJV)

I Peter 1:13 - Young’s Living Translation is accurate here.

“Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,” (1 Peter 1:13 YLT1898)

Pastor Prince shared a testimony of a woman who listened repeatedly to his sermons. 
She initially led a life of smoking, drugs and promiscuous sex. She was infected with genital herpes but she kept feeding on God’s word through the sermons and believing that has received her healing because of what Jesus has done.
She went for a checkup and found out that she was freed from the incurable sexually-transmitted disease! 

Sometimes you need to have a vacation and holiday to just saturate yourself with God’s word and feed on anointed sermons. 
You will come back as a better worker, parent, spouse, etc.
Wives let your husbands have the time to do that if they need it. 

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We are on Mount Zion, not on Mount Sinai

​Hebrews 12:14-29 - Long before you see someone having bitterness, they had already fallen short from the grace of God.
Before the children of Israel made the golden calf, they already had fallen short of the grace of God. 
When the children of Israel murmured and complained against God in the wilderness, God just provided the supply. 
It’s only after the Law was given at Mount Sinai that the golden calf was set up. 
You need to know what your children are watching online. 
They are too precious for you to let the world out there educate them in the wrong ways.
There is a lot of witchcraft out there in children’s shows. 
Don’t do things your way. Do things God’s way and the God-kind of results will be in your life. 
Long before there’s fornicators (in Greek it is “pornos”), pornography, sexual immorality, or profanity, a person has fallen short of the grace of God. 
Esau was a person that was bitter and given over to sexual immorality in his life. 
He sold his birthright to his younger brother Jacob for a morsel of food. 
When you’re fallen from grace, you have bitterness and evil thoughts, and/or committing sexual sins like adultery and watching pornography. 
Having a root of bitterness is the opposite of having peace with all men.
In place of holiness, you have fornicator/profane. 
These occur because a person has fallen short of the grace of God. 
The gospel is that God is coming to man in grace. 
Only grace can bring a Holy God and sinful man together. 
Grace is actually the highest holiness. Grace is not natural. Grace is undeserved favor. 
Esau fell from grace because he was performance-oriented. He thought that his father loved him because of what he did. 
What was the result? He had bitterness and problems with sexual immorality.
The “darkness” that surrounded Mount Sinai is the same word in Isaiah 61 for the deep darkness that will cover the world but the glory of God will be seen upon us. 
How can fire and darkness be in the same place? It can - like in hell and the lake of fire.
We have not come to Mount Sinai, but to Mount Zion. 
We’re now all in the heavenly Jerusalem that cannot be touched. It’s invisible but eternal. 
Pastors have to move their pulpits from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion. 
We have to move our families from Mount Sinai to Mount Zion. 
Everything in Mount Zion is for you. Everything is good and bright. 
Everything in Mount Sinai is against you. 
Abel’s blood cried out for vengeance. Jesus’ blood cries out for mercy and forgiveness.
Turn your back fully on Mount Sinai and face Mount Zion fully.
Jesus’ blood speaks better things: healing, provision, forgiveness, shalom, etc. 
The voice of the grace of God is shaking everything that is man-made, so that all the things which cannot be shaken (well-being, peace, health, etc) will remain. Don’t be afraid of the shaking - it’s for your good. 
Only by grace can we serve God with reverence and godly fear. 
God is a consuming fire on those who reject His Son and what He has done. 

“Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears. For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”) But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:14-29 NKJV)

Galatians 5:4 - When you fall from grace, it means that you’re trying to be justified by the Law. You’re Law-conscious.
The Pharisees who boasted in the Law couldn’t receive from Jesus.
But the sinners, prostitutes, and lepers could receive from Jesus. 
There are things that God cannot do. 
God cannot force you to pay your tithe. 
God cannot lie. It’s not that He won’t lie - He really can’t lie. 

“Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” (Galatians 5:4 KJV)

Luke 15:28-31 - Lessons from the Parable of the Prodigal Son. 
Sometimes the worst thing you can do is to give food to the prodigal son in the pig pen. 
The pig pen was child-training (disciplining) for the prodigal son. God was dealing with him and led him to grace. 
As long as you take a step towards God, He will run towards you regardless of your motive. You will fall in love with Him later.
The older son was Law-conscious. That’s why he had a root of bitterness.
He didn’t want the young goat to celebrate with his father, but with his friends. He had no heart for his father.
The older son said that his younger brother spent all the inheritance on harlots, but the younger son spent it on riotous living - it doesn’t say harlots. 
The older son was conscious of harlots - he had a problem with lust. 
This was also because he had fallen short of the grace of God.
Actually everything that the father had already belonged to the older son. 
Why didn’t he kill the young goat for himself? He could have. 
When you are Law-conscious, you are demand-minded and see God as distant and far away. 
When you are under grace, you are conscious of God’s supply. 

““But he was angry and would not go in. Therefore his father came out and pleaded with him. So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, these many years I have been serving you; I never transgressed your commandment at any time; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends. But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’ “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours.” (Luke 15:28-31 NKJV)

Luke 15:22-24 - God loves it when you come back to grace. 
In Greek, the father called the younger son a “huios”, a son.
In Greek, he called the older son a “child”. 
When Israel was under Law, they were children. But when grace came, believers are made sons. 
Religious people cannot understand what singing and dancing are about - they even have to ask what it's about. 

““But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet. And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry; for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ And they began to be merry.” (Luke 15:22-24 NKJV)

If you’re facing problems in your life, find out where you have fallen short of the grace of God.

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