21 April 2019 - Resurrection Sunday: Jesus Took My Sins and Gave Me His Righteousness - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed:
John 1:16-17 - This is Pastor Prince’s favorite verse. It defines his ministry — to differentiate Law and Grace. Many Christians are mistaken that God is stern and angry with them. God the Father does not look like an old man. Up in heaven, no one is old. Pastor Prince heard God say in his heart, “Up here we are forever young”. Growing old is because of sin. If you live in Him, you’ll be forever young. Those in hell also live forever, but not with the quality of life like believers have: eternal life. Moses is a servant but Jesus is the Son. A servant doesn’t have the same standing and position as the Son. The Law was given from a distance — God gave it from a mountain and through intermediaries: angels. The mountain was shrouded in darkness, fire, thunderings, causing even Moses to fear and tremble. But we are not under Law. We are under Grace. Grace came — that speaks of closeness and being personal. The first miracle of the Law done by Moses was to turn water into blood, resulting in death. The first of miracle of a Grace done by Jesus was to turn water into wine, resulting in celebration. Under the Law, God visits the sins and inquiries of a person up to the third and fourth generation. Under Grace, God remembers our sins no more. There has been a change. At the cross, the Law’s holy and righteous demands were fulfilled and God’s love for man was magnified. The Ten Commandments is to be obeyed in both in the actions and in the heart. The Law was given to bring man to the end of himself, so that he would know he needs a Savior. Don’t mess with sin — sin will cost you more than you’re willing to pay. “From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:16-17 WEB) We were all born in sin. Our lives are intricately linked to our ancestors — we received sin in our blood from them. God made a garden and placed the first man and woman in there. God told them that they are free to eat from any tree except for 1 tree: the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God made man with free choice. That tree existed in the garden to allow man to exercise their free choice. Man chose sin — you can choose sin but you can’t choose its consequences. The wages of sin is penalty. If God forgave man without a righteous basis, He would be loving, but not righteous. He can’t just sweep our sins under the rug and say that boys will be boys, and just acquit us of our sins. Jesus wept at Lazarus’ tomb because He knew that it’s not God’s plan for man to die. Death is foreign to us. We hate to talk about death. Death has been conquered for us. Jesus didn’t rise up spiritually — He rose bodily! Sin has been put away, in the body of Jesus. God hates sin, but God loves you. Sin is destroying everything good in your life for you. God hates sin so much because God loves you very much.
How do you know that a prisoner has been cleared of all his charges? When he is released from the prison. That’s what happened when Jesus rose from the dead — it proves that all our sins were forgiven. We have been acquitted! You have to use your free choice to believe in Jesus as your Lord and Savior.
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