1 November 2020 - Heirs of the World Through Faith - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught us how to walk in the blessings of being heirs of the world through faith, apart from the works of the Law. It is time to live with a spirit of sonship instead of a fearful, servile mentality of a slave! Praise and worship songs performed: 1. 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) 2. Wonderful (Grace Made Real) - New Creation Wordhip Joshua 14:11-14 - Caleb had faith in God’s promises. Even when he was eighty five years old, he was as strong as he was four decades ago. “As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in. Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said.”” (Joshua 14:11-12 WEB) Yesterday was Reformation Day—a celebration of the reintroduction of the Gospel of Grace. Martin Luther used the words “the righteous by faith will live”. He was referring to justification by faith. Galatians 3:22-26 - The dispensation of the Law is not permanent. It lasted until Jesus came. Now that Jesus has come, we are justified by faith. The rich Greek and Roman families in the past would have tutors who train the sons of the house. Now that Christ has come, there is no need for the Law to be our tutor anymore. “But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:22-26 WEB) Romans 4:13-15 - The word “world” is “cosmos” in Greek which means all the privileges and endowments of creation. Adam sinned and gave his rulership to Satan, making Satan the “god” of this world. We became the heir of the world through the righteousness of faith because we are in Christ—the promise was given to Abraham and his “offspring” who is Christ. You can't walk in your position as the “heir of the world” when you are sick and broke. Provision and health are lesser blessings included in the position of "heir of the world". Many believers are trying to gain blessings through the Law and that is why they do not see God’s blessings. Pastor Prince is not antinomian (against the Law). He is for the Law for the reason that the Law was given. “For the promise to Abraham and to his offspring that he should be heir of the world wasn’t through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of no effect. For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.” (Romans 4:13-15 WEB) Genesis 22:12 - Satan cannot challenge God’s decision to bless Abraham because there is a covenant relationship between God and Abraham. “He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”” (Genesis 22:12 WEB) Romans 7:4-8 - Trying to keep the Law causes your flesh to stir up sinful passions. Holiness cannot come from trying to keep the Law. When you try to keep the Law, you will bear fruit to death. When you are led by the Spirit, you will bear fruit to God. We have died with Christ and we are also dead to the Law. Now we are risen with Christ and seated with Him in Heaven. “Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.” (Romans 7:4-8 WEB) Teach your children by their identity in Christ, not by giving the Ten Commandments. “You are a Jesus boy. A Jesus boy does not bully or hit people.”
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