28 June 2020 - How God Really Sees you Today - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught that when God looks at a born-again believer today, He doesn't see sin, but the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. God identifies you in your righteous reborn spirit, not the sinful flesh! Praise and worship songs performed:
Make sure you’re listening to God’s word expounded in its context. That’s the word that heals, saves, restores and changes lives. 1 Peter 1:24-25 - God’s word endures forever. “For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls; but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.” (1 Peter 1:24-25 WEB) God’s people will prosper in the time of darkness. Abraham and Isaac both prospered greatly during famines. When there was a seven year-long famine, Joseph caused the land of Egypt to prosper because of godly wisdom. We need God’s wisdom and not the counsel of ungodly man. Many believers think that forgiveness of sins is just at the beginning of the Christian walk. They then mistakenly go on to try and keep the Law. We need to know in our hearts that we are forgiven, and not just knowing it in our minds (mental assent). Romans 7:18 - We still have sin in our flesh, even after we are born again. The flesh will stay with us until we see Jesus face to face. “For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.” (Romans 7:18 WEB) Romans 8:9 - God doesn’t identify us in the flesh, but in the born-again spirit. We are to judge our behavior by our standing before God, which is that we are the righteousness of God in Christ. What God sees is beyond human limitations. He sees the truth as it is. Humans are confined to their five senses, time and space. When sinful tendencies rise up in us, judge it and know that it is not you (the spirit)—it is the flesh. “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.” (Romans 8:9 WEB) God told Abraham to “Take your son, your only son,” when Abraham had actually two sons: Ishmael and Isaac. God only identifies with what is born of the spirit. Ishmael was born according to the flesh, but Isaac was born according to the spirit. When you fall into sin, you need to know that you’re still forgiven and righteous in Christ. God will still talk to you like you never sinned. We are living in post-cross times. We cannot think like the Old Testament saints, as if our sins are still unforgiven. They lived before the cross. Romans 4:6-8 - David was a king and also a prophet. He saw into the future and saw us—the people living under the New Covenant of Grace whom God will not impute sin to. God doesn’t impute sin to you because God imputed all our sins to Jesus at the cross. Then in turn, God set Jesus’ righteousness to our account. When you know that God doesn’t impute sin to you, you will have boldness in drawing near to God. There is such restfulness in knowing that all your sins are forgiven. You can be at ease in God’s presence and enjoy it. “Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works, “Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whom the Lord will by no means charge with sin.”” (Romans 4:6-8 WEB) The Song of Solomon says “My beloved, there is no spot in you!” God doesn’t see us in the flesh, but in the spirit. The more you acknowledge yourself in the flesh, the more the flesh will manifest. Arguments between husband and wife is caused by acknowledging each other in the flesh, and a vicious cycle of fleshly manifestations continues. Choose to acknowledge each other in the spirit. 2 Peter 1:5-6 - These are desirable qualities that we want to have, but how do we manifest them? “Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;” (2 Peter 1:5-6 WEB) 2 Peter 1:9 - When you forget that you’re a forgiven person, you will lack moral excellence and the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Being forgiveness-conscious will cause you to live a righteous life. “For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.” (2 Peter 1:9 WEB) Isaac’s eyes were dim and he mistakenly gave the firstborn blessing to Jacob instead of Esau. The last judge, Samson, was blinded by the Philistines. The last king of Judah (thus far), Zedekiah, had his eyes removed. The reign of the patriarchs, judges, and kings all ended in blindness. The last church of the seven churches of Asia was called “blind” as well. Blindness is a picture of forgetting that one has been forgiven by God.
|
Love this Blog?Milton Goh's Blog Archives
January 2024
AuthorHi I’m Milton Goh, I'm 31 years old and i'm a blogger who writes about Christianity, Parenting, Life Lessons that I learn from Movies/Shows, and Lifestyle. |