9 September 2018 - Possess your Mountain of Inheritance - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed:
Home and church should be places where you can love one another without hidden motives of earning a profit. These places should be a place of hope, refuge - an oasis of love. When you husband comes home from work, tell him “You’re a special man, truly a man to me”. When he thinks about you and compares you with other women, he will think “Yes this other woman may have an attractive outer shell, but can she say such lovely things like my wife?” You will become more attractive to your husband. He needs your encouragement too. Pastor Prince briefly mentioned about the following (which I took from Wikipedia): "Pardes" refers to (types of) approaches to biblical exegesis in rabbinic Judaism or to interpretation of text in Torah study. The term, sometimes also spelled PaRDeS, is an acronym formed from the same initials of the following four approaches: ▪ Peshat (פְּשָׁט) – "surface" ("straight") or the literal (direct) meaning. ▪Remez (רֶמֶז) – "hints" or the deep (allegoric: hidden or symbolic) meaning beyond just the literal sense. ▪Derash (דְּרַשׁ) – from Hebrew darash: "inquire" ("seek") – the comparative (midrashic) meaning, as given through similar occurrences. ▪Sod (סוֹד) (pronounced with a long O as in 'lore') – "secret" ("mystery") or the esoteric/mystical meaning, as given through inspiration or revelation. During Moses and Joshua’s time, a guilty person would be killed as an example to the others, to keep the others from sinning. However today the body of Christ doesn’t do that. We operate by the principle of grace. Don’t go to court immediately which is to seek the ways of the world. Go to wise men in the church first for godly counsel. There is victory and safety in a multitude of counselors. You find them in the house of God. Individually Jesus has promised that He will never leave us nor forsake us. So why does He say “Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am in the midst”? It is because there is a special corporate anointing when believers are gathered together. In His grace, this anointing is present with just the smallest plurality - two. Galatians 4:1-7 - Many people see God as an authority figure who wants to arrest them for a crime. They flee from God even though God wants to bless them. It’s sad because there’s so much land that’s yet to be possessed. The church is not fully possessing their possessions. The servant can drive his master’s car, but the son who is still a little child cannot drive his father’s car yet. The word “child” in the passage is “Nepios” in Greek that means “a little, infant child”. The Jews have a ritual called “Bar Mitzvah” where a child goes through it and is seen as an adult after that. The Ten Commandments are the “ABCs” of Israel, not something deep or advanced. When we become born-again believers, we are immediately made sons of God. You can figuratively “drive your father’s car”. Jesus came to reveal this name of God: “Father”. The Lord’s prayer is not a New Covenant prayer. After that in the upper room, Jesus said to His disciples “up till now you have asked nothing in My name”. What does that mean? He’s obviously talking about a different kind of prayer. You can’t get New Covenant blessings with an Old Covenant slavish mentality. Believers are our family. We forgive each other because we are family. The devil doesn’t want you to learn about sonship because it’s about inheritance - he wants to continue controlling the earth. There are two types of believers: Abraham and Lot. Both Abraham and Lot are righteous by faith. But one was victorious and another was defeated. When the fires came, everything that Lot had was destroyed. Whereas Abraham was high up on a safe place, and enjoyed fellowship with God. Lot lost his wife, and in a sense his two daughters - they thought the world was ending so they slept with him to have children. Lot was a believer who was deeply steeped in worldly things. We shouldn’t touch such things. Don’t let your children watch or read Harry Potter things and other New Age things. They promise power but they are all empty and evil. Don’t bring the devil’s things into your house. Not even porn - it brings strife, disharmony, chaos. You will think that it’s your spouse but it’s actually you who is the source of the evil entering your house. Believers can’t be possessed but they can be oppressed. “Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.” (Galatians 4:1-7 NKJV)
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