1 April 2018 - Resurrection Sunday: Our Leprosy was Perfectly Cleansed - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes Online

1 April 2018 - Resurrection Sunday: Our Leprosy was Perfectly Cleansed - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes Online - New Creation Church Sermon Notes Online

Praise and Worship songs performed:

1. How Great is our God - Chris Tomlin
2. The Lion and the Lamb - Brenton Brown
3. Glorious and Beautiful - New Creation Worship
4. The Sweetest Name of All - Tom Coomes
5. I Love you Lord - Laurie Klein
6. Because He Lives - Gloria Gaither
7. Love So Divine - New Creation Worship ​​

Jesus conquered Death, grave and Hell and rose from the dead.

It was never God’s plan for man to die. God loves man and gave him free choice.
Man can freely choose their actions but they cannot choose the consequence of their actions.
God calls Death an enemy.

The shortest verse in the Bible says: “Jesus wept”. Jesus wept at Lazarus’ tomb because it was never God’s plan for man to die.

God is a Judge. He is a loving and generous God but He also has to exact justice.
God is Love but He also has to preside as a Judge.
Man chose to sin against God so Death, sickness and every bad thing came into the world as a consequence of the sin.
God hates sin but He loves the sinner. To the degree which God loves us, He hates sin.

No one could dream of God’s plan to send His Son to die for us so that He can be righteous in making us righteous.

Man sins because they are sinners. Sin is hereditary in the blood because of Adam’s sin. A child doesn’t have to be taught to lie - they know it already.

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Jesus' death at the cross has perfectly cleansed us of our leprosy of sin. His resurrection from the dead is the proof that we are justified and righteous!

Jesus' resurrection is the proof that we have been perfectly cleansed of our leprosy of sin  

Romans 4:24-25 - The cross changed everything. 
Before Jesus died for us, man was under the Law. 
If we don’t know that we have trespassed, we won’t know that we need a Savior.
The Law shows man up. Just like how a mirror reflects who you are accurately. 
The Law is holy, but by the Law is the knowledge of sin, not righteousness. 
If you break one of the Ten Commandments, God counts it as breaking all of them. 
None of us can keep the Law - we were all dead in our sins. 
Jesus didn’t come to make bad people good. He came to make dead people live. 
Under the Law, God demands righteousness from man. Under grace, God gives righteousness to man as a gift. 
Jesus became surety for our sins. “Surety” has the idea of bail. Jesus became the personal guarantee for our liabilities. 
When Jesus hung on the cross, God poured out all His wrath upon Jesus. Now God has a righteous foundation in making us righteous.
The veil in the temple was torn - God can now welcome us into His presence as His children.
It would be a sin for God to punish the same sin twice - it’s called the “Law of Double Jeopardy” in the courts of law. 
Since our sins were already punished in Jesus’ body at the cross, God can’t punish us again for them today. 
The fact that Jesus rose from the grave is the proof that we are justified and declared righteous by God. 

“but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification.” (Romans 4:24-25 NKJV)

The devil is the one that kills, steals and destroys. 
There is nothing that hurts or destroys in heaven. There are no hospitals or courts of justice (because there’s no crime). That is God’s plan for man. 
Jesus came so that we could have life and have it more abundantly. 

Numbers 5:1-3 - Under the Law, the lepers had to be put out of the camp because they were considered unclean. 
Jesus cleaned the leper, He stopped the discharge of the woman who had the issue of blood for 12 years, and He raised Lazarus from the dead. 

“And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: “Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse. You shall put out both male and female; you shall put them outside the camp, that they may not defile their camps in the midst of which I dwell.”” (Numbers 5:1-3 NKJV)

Leviticus 14:1-7 - Leprosy represents sin. The priest represents our Lord Jesus Christ and the one bringing us to the priest is the Holy Spirit. 
The two birds: one bird represents Jesus’ death and the other bird represents Jesus’ resurrection. 
The earthen vessel represents man. The running water represents the Holy Spirit.  
The cedar wood represents the cross. 
The scarlet represents the scarlet robe that the soldiers put on Jesus' bruised and bloodied back. By the time they stripped Him, the blood would have dried up and stuck on the robe and it would have been excruciating for Jesus to have the robe torn from His flesh. 
The hyssop represents the sponge soaked with vinegar on a hyssop stick (John 19:28-30) that the soldiers offered to Jesus when Jesus said that He thirsted. 
Therefore the elements mentioned in the cleansing of the leper in Leviticus - cedar wood, scarlet, hyssop and the blood of the bird that was killed - portrays fully the picture of Jesus at the cross.
In the Bible, 7 is the number of perfection and completion. The seven times of sprinkling of blood represents perfect cleansing.  
The living bird represents Jesus and the one who is to be cleansed from leprosy represents us. 
The living bird is only let go when the leper is cleansed - Jesus cannot be let out of the prison of Death until we are pronounced clean by God. 
It’s like Jesus and Death got into a battle and Jesus arose but Death did not. 

“Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “This shall be the law of the leper for the day of his cleansing: He shall be brought to the priest. And the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall examine him; and indeed, if the leprosy is healed in the leper, then the priest shall command to take for him who is to be cleansed two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop. And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water. As for the living bird, he shall take it, the cedar wood and the scarlet and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water. And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose in the open field.” (Leviticus