27 September 2020 - Receive Double Portion for your Losses - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught today that God wants us to believe that we are righteous, and to feel at home in His presence. For everything that Satan has stolen from you, you can confidently declare that "This is mine" and expect God to give you double restoration for your losses! Praise and worship songs performed: 1. King of my Heart - Sarah Mcmillan 2. Rain Upon my Life - New Creation Worship You can receive healings and breakthroughs through prayer, even from a distance. Space is not a limitation for God. Jesus compressed time in an instant by turning water to excellent wine at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. That was Jesus’ first miracle. The second miracle He did was healing the nobleman’s son from a distance. These two miracles show that Jesus is the Lord of Time and Space. Cana means “to acquire or to get”. Galilee means “a circuit”, like the winding staircase. We receive from God as we walk in a circuit, up the winding stairs. Another incident of Jesus healing someone from a distance: the healing of the Roman centurion’s servant. Jesus healed just by speaking a word, without laying hands upon the servant. When you believe that you will receive your healing as the word goes forth, without anyone laying hands on you, Jesus calls that “great faith”. God is not limited by time or space. We have to preach the rhema word of God out of the logos. Rhema is the “now word”, the quickened “word in season” for us. Romans 7:6-11 - Pastor Prince is not against the Law. He is for the Law, for the reason that God gave the Law. If a nation lives according to the Ten Commandments, that nation will be prosperous. But once the law keeping systems fall, you will you see anarchy, rioting and looting. The Law only gives behavior modification, but not heart transformation. It is the Gospel of Grace that transforms us from the inside out. If you break one commandment in the Ten Commandments, you are counted as having broken them all. When the children of Israel boasted in their ability to keep God’s commandments, the next thing you see is that they made the golden calf. The Law stirs up sinful passions, making one sin more. When you remove the Law, it’s like you’re removing the stone from Lazarus’ tomb, allowing him to step forth. Are you removing the stone from decaying flesh (an unbeliever), or a person who has been resurrected like Lazarus (represents a born-again believer)? For the case of a believer, the Law is a hindrance. Grace makes you exceed the requirements of the Law. There is no such distinguishing between moral law, ceremonial law and sacrificial law. The context in the passage below is talking about the Ten Commandments—“you shall not covet” is one of the commandments. Sin takes advantage of the commandments of the Law, like a base of military operations, to produce all sorts of sinful passions in your flesh. The strength of sin is the Law. The more you try not to do something, the more you are doomed to do it. Sin is in a dormant state in the flesh without the Ten Commandments. “But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter. What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead. I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death; for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.” (Romans 7:6-11 WEB) 2 Corinthians 3:7 - The Ten Commandments is the only part of the Law that was engraved on stones. It is the ministry of death. When a person placed himself under the Ten Commandments, he subjects himself to death. The devil is never more subtle than when he comes as a religious spirit. “But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,” (II Corinthians 3:7 NKJV) Romans 3:19-24 - The purpose of the Law is to close every mouth from saying that they can be righteous by their own performance. To keep the Law perfectly means to not sin in both thoughts and deeds. No mortal person can do that. On the Mount of Transfiguration, Elijah (a picture of the prophets) and Moses (a picture of the Law) testified of Jesus. Everyone has sinned, so everyone is qualified to receive the free gift of righteousness through faith in Jesus. Universalism is a heresy. The gift of righteousness is available to all (to receive), but it only comes on all who believe. Lordship salvation is a heresy too. Some people teach that “if Jesus is not Lord of all, then He is not your Lord at all.” This puts a lot of pressure upon people to earn salvation by works. Salvation is received freely by faith alone. Jesus’ death made a way for us to come out from the marriage to the Law. Believers may fall into sin but they won’t live in a lifestyle of sin. If you’re saved you won’t live in sin. Your default mode will be wanting to please God. “Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God. Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin. But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction, for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;” (Romans 3:19-24 WEB) Romans 10:3 - You can’t establish your own righteousness by your works. The only way is to receive righteousness by faith in Jesus. “For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.” (Romans 10:3 WEB) You cannot sin away your salvation. The gift of righteousness cannot be lost. When you were an unbeliever, your righteous works couldn’t make you righteous. Now that you are saved, your sins cannot make you unrighteous again. What Jesus the last Adam did is greater than what the first Adam did.
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