23 December 2018 - Christmas Service: The Story of the Gospel - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon Notes ​

23 December 2018 - Christmas Service: The Story of the Gospel - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon Notes ​

Praise and Worship songs performed:

1. Oh Come Let Us Adore Him
2. Mary’s Boy Child 
3. Joy to the World 
4. Feliz Navidad
5. Silent Night
6. Mary Did You Know

Jesus was not actually born on December 25th. He was most likely born around two months ago, around the time of the Feast of Tabernacles. 
But we can be thankful that God has given us a day to celebrate Jesus’ birth. 

God gave us free choice. He will not use His power to affect or influence our free choice. We are a free, moral being. 
God didn’t want to create robots to worship Him. He wanted us to choose to love Him out of our own free choice.

We are free to choose, but we can’t choose the consequence of our choices. 

Adam and Eve had access to everything good in the Garden of Eden. They were free to enjoy the lavish abundance there.
God made man last during Creation so that man could enjoy everything that He had created.

God made one tree called the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He told Adam not to eat from that tree, if not he would surely die. 
Death is something foreign - God did not design man to grow old and die.
God calls Death an enemy. 

God’s dream is to make man the recipient of all His blessings. 

God created the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil so that man could exercise his free choice. 
If there was no alternative choice, free choice wouldn’t be true. 

Satan was an outlaw spirit and he had no jurisdiction on earth at that time.
Therefore Satan possessed the body of the serpent and tempted Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Adam and Eve ate, fell and Death came into the world.
Man bowed his knee to Satan and gave the earth to Satan. 
The earth which God gave to man was given to Satan. 

When you follow God you will always win. Satan can never beat God.
Before the earth was created, Lucifer rebelled against God and was cast down to where the earth was and banished from heaven.
Lucifer was very jealous because the earth was his domain before he fell, and now God had created man to dwell in his domain. 
God told Adam and Eve to replenish the earth. That means that the earth was once ‘plenished’. 
Lucifer and his angels once dwelled on where the earth was. 

No one actually forces us to do anything. Even being angry is a matter of choice. 
When Adam sinned, he said “the woman you gave me made me eat” - he blamed God and Eve at the same time.
Eve blamed the serpent. We tend to play the ‘blame game’.

God made man from the dust of the earth. God breathed a spirit into man and he became a living being. 
When man dies, his shell of a body returns to dust, but his spirit lives on forever and must be housed somewhere - either heaven or hell. 

Genesis 3:15 - This is the first prophecy in the Bible. 
At the cross, Jesus crushed Satan’s head and Satan bruised Jesus’ heel. Jesus was hurt in the process of defeating the devil. 
For God to create man, He only had to speak. For God to redeem man, He had to bleed. 
Jesus is the prophesied ‘Dragonslayer’/‘Serpent Destroyer’.  

“I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”” (Genesis 3:15 WEB)

Jesus is the only One who could choose where to be born: either in a palace or in a humble manger. As He removed His royal regalia, angels looked on and worshipped Him. The Infinite became finite, in a baby’s body.

Satan kept trying to prevent Jesus' birth

Under the Law, a sinner would bring an unblemished lamb to the temple. The sinner’s sinfulness would be transferred to the lamb upon laying his hands on the lamb’s head. On the other hand, the lamb’s righteousness was transferred to the sinner and he walked away righteous before God. 
It was not a true payment - it was a payment by credit. The true payment was paid at the cross by Jesus’s death.

Satan is not omniscient (all-knowing). He thought that Abel was the prophesied seed who would destroy him, so he incited Cain to kill Abel. 
However Abel wasn’t the one that God chose for the seed to come through.
Don’t follow Satan or yourself - we are just finite beings. 
God is all-knowing. Follow Him! 

Jesus, the Creator of all beings, Who holds all creation together, was held in the arms of a virgin woman as a vulnerable baby. 

God did not send Jesus to teach men morals and commandments. He sent Jesus to be a Savior - not a judge or lawgiver. 

When it was time for Mary to give birth, there was no place for them to stay, so they rested in a stony manger of an inn. 
The inn was actually David’s house - an inheritance of his. Mary and Joseph’s ancestry can be traced back to David. They unknowingly went back to their ancestral home. 
Mary placing  baby Jesus in a stony manger signifies that Jesus was born to die. 
Jesus went from a virgin womb to a virgin tomb. He was laid in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb - it was a last minute arrangement - no one had been laid in that tomb before Jesus was.

Jesus’ blood washes us clean from our sins whiter than snow. 

God’s angels can take on human form. The fallen angels (demons) co-habited with human women and the women gave birth to giants. 
Satan instigated the fallen angels to do that because he wanted to stop the prophesied seed from coming. 
If human was corrupted into a half human- human angel species, then the prophesied seed cannot come.
Only Noah and his family had pure human blood and DNA left. 

God brought a flood of judgment to destroy all living things to preserve the pure human stock of Noah’s family.

From Ham, Shem and Japheth, the whole earth was populated with humans. 
Satan observed and saw that Abraham was the chosen lineage and he tried to stop Sarah from giving birth to the promised seed. 

Years on, Israel grew as a nation and God raised up warriors like David to destroy the remaining giants on earth like Goliath. ​

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​Jeremiah 22:30 - From David’s lineage came an evil king called Jehoiachin. He worshipped false gods and practiced child sacrifice. 
From Jehoiachin came an evil king called Jeconiah. God cursed Jeconiah’s house to have no heir.
“childless” doesn’t mean having no descendants but having no heir. 

“Yahweh says, “Record this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his days; for no more shall a man of his offspring prosper, sitting on David’s throne, and ruling in Judah.”” (Jeremiah 22:30 WEB)

Isaiah 7:14 - Mary was probably only 14 or 15 years old. They married very early in those days. 
Jesus cannot be born from Joseph because Joseph’s blood had sin and his house was cursed when God cursed Jeconiah’s house.
Science has discovered that not even a trace of blood comes from the mother when a foetus is in a woman’s womb. 

“Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14 WEB)

Jesus was the only One born King. Royal sons are usually born as princes. 

The very first question God asked man in the Bible in the Book of Genesis is “Where are you?” when He said that to Adam. 
The very first question in the New Testament is “Where is He, born King of the Jews?” in the Gospel of Matthew.
When you find Him, you will find you. 

Matthew 2:3-12 - Five times the passage says “the child and his mother”, not “the mother and her child”.
As a child, Jesus is born. That’s his humanity. As a son, Jesus is given since He always existed. That’s His deity. 

“When King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. Gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he asked them where the Christ would be born. They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet, ‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’” Then Herod secretly called the wise men, and learned from them exactly what time the star appeared. He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.” They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Being warned in a dream that they shouldn’t return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.” (Matthew 2:3-12 WEB)

The Devil tried to kill Jesus by pushing Him off a cliff through the people pressing against Him, but no one can take Jesus’ life from Him. He laid it down willingly.

If you declare that you have no sins, you have no title to Jesus. Jesus is only Savior for people who have sins. 

On the cross, Jesus took our sins and laid them on Jesus, and they were all punished in Jesus’ body. 
We’re not washed by our good works, morality or by our own blood. Only Jesus’ blood can wash us from all our sins. 

Jesus is the only One who could choose where to be born: either in a palace or in a humble manger. 
As He removed His royal regalia, angels looked on and worshipped Him. The Infinite became finite, in a baby’s body. 

Nicodemus, a spiritual leader of Israel at the time came to Jesus by night and wanted to know how to be saved. 
Jesus told him that he needed to be born again by the spirit.
We need to be born again by believing in Jesus as our Savior if not we won’t be able to see the kingdom of God.

Jesus paid for all our sins and as believers, we can expect blessings ahead of us. There is no more punishment in our future. In 2019, you can expect blessings and more blessings.

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