22 December 2019 - On A Starry Night - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship Songs Performed: 1. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Edmund Sears 2. Joy to the World 3. Go Tell It On The Mountain - John Wesley Work Jr. 4. What Child Is This 5. O Holy Night 6. Star of Promise - New Creation Worship Jesus came to save the world, not to judge it. He will return as a Judge, but now is the time for salvation. Your soul is worth more than a billion dollars or anything on this earth. What good is it for a man to gain the world and lose his soul? We don’t practice astrology—that’s demonic. But it’s true that God made the stars. The next major event that is to happen is called “harpazo” in Greek, which refers to the snatching away of the church, also known as the Rapture. Just as Jesus ascended back to Heaven bodily, He will return for us bodily. Our faith rests on the authority of Scripture. The word of God is God-breathed. He breathed His word into the Scriptures. Voltaire said that after he dies, there will be no more Bible. After he died, his house was turned into a Bible-printing house. The word of God will last forever. Thenumber one best-selling book of all time, even today, is still the Bible. God has ordained it. Everything you need for this life is found in the Scriptures. We want our children to be strong, healthy and to prosper in all things. We want them to be well-off financially—so that they have plenty of money to love people, not love money and use people. Jesus took our sins and sicknesses on His own body at the cross. God is self-existent. He never was—He always is. That’s why He is “I AM”. God being love wants an outlet to express His love. Love is not expressed until it is given. There are hierarchies of angels that were created. Lucifer was created as a cherub and archangel—the most powerful creature in existence and a guardian/steward of God’s righteousness. Michael and Gabriel are the other two cherubim archangels that God created. In the tabernacle, there was the Ark of the Covenant, and on the ark, there were two archangels covering the mercy seat. These archangels represent Michael and Gabriel who stand beside God’s throne. Lucifer still has his gifts and anointings but they have been corrupted. One of the gifts that Lucifer has is the gift of writing songs. Now instead of writing songs that worship God, he writes songs that worship himself. Genesis 1:28 - Pastor Prince believes that before God created Adam, God had cut Lucifer and his rebelling angels down to the earth. When God made Adam, He told Adam to be fruitful and “replenish” the earth (based on the KJV translation). “Re” means that the earth was once filled with creatures—a pre-Adamic race of creatures that were probably wiped out by Lucifer and his fallen angels. “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:28 KJV) No one can make you do anything. It’s still you choosing. God didn’t make robots. He created us with free will. God didn’t intend for man to die. The fall happened because man used his free will to rebel against God’s commandment. When Adam sinned, death came into the world, and that’s why people become sick, weak, old and dead today. Why did God make the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? There must be one thing that allows man to exercise his free will—to be able to choose to rebel against God. If there’s no choice, then it’s not really free will. God gives us boundaries for our own good. When we obey Him, we are kept safe. When your children fail/are disobedient and you show them love when they are most undeserving of it, it can be a powerful moment for them. It proves that your love for them is not based on their performance, but that you love them for being your children. Even when you discipline them, do it from a place of love, not to vent your anger or frustrations. The wages of sin is death. The soul that sins must die—not just physically, but first spiritually. Adam died spiritually immediately when he sinned, but his physical death was 900 over years later. God cannot allow sinful man to live in His presence. Sin is like cancer—it spreads. It must be killed off. God loves the sinner but He hates the sin that is harming the sinner. How much do you hate the cancer in your loved one? It depends on how much you love the person. God hates sin because He loves you. Sin destroys—God’s way is always best. The devil is always watching. He wants God to deviate from righteousness and he thinks that he’s next in line for God’s throne. Under the Law, a sacrificial lamb would be brought to the priest in Israel. The sacrificial lamb represents Jesus. It has to be unblemished. After the priest examines the lamb and approves of the lamb, the offerer lays his hands on the lamb’s head as a form of identification. The lamb receives the offerer’s sins — now the lamb bears the offerer’s sins. Now the offerer is handed a knife and he must kill the lamb — represents Jesus’ death at the cross. The offerer walks away with something he never had before—the righteousness of the lamb. Jesus pre-existed with God the Father from the beginning. He was the only baby that could choose where to be born. If we could choose where to be born, we would likely choose to be born in a wealthy family. But Jesus chose to be born in a humble, lowly stable. Lucifer was angry that God made man to have dominion over the earth. Lucifer who inhabited the earth before Adam schemed to take the rulership of the earth from Adam. Adam bowed his knee to Satan the outlaw spirit and lost his position of rulership over the earth.
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