15 November 2020 - The Benjamin Generation Receives Five Times More - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince taught that Benjamin was first introduced when the earth was going through a worldwide famine, just like it is today because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Just as Benjamin received five times more food, clothing and provision than his brother, our generation is about to receive more outpouring of supply from God than all previous generations of believers! Amos 3:3 - We need to be in sync with God’s plans and purposes. God does things for the good of His church and for Israel. “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?” (Amos 3:3 WEB) Our foundation needs to be on what is unshakable—Jesus and God’s word. Proverbs 4:18 - Your days ahead can only get brighter and brighter. “But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.” (Proverbs 4:18 WEB) Galatians 1:6 - Jewish advocates of the Law were telling the Galatian believers that after being saved by Grace they needed to keep the whole Law and be circumcised. This is ‘another gospel’—a false one. “I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;” (Galatians 1:6 WEB) 1 Corinthians 10:11 - What happened to the Jews in the Old Testament are types for us to learn from today. “Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.” (1 Corinthians 10:11 WEB) Luke 24:27 - The Old Testament contains shadows and types which point to the substance and realities in the New Testament. We have to see Christ in the Old Testament. It is more important to see Jesus in the Scriptures than in person—this gives us all the same opportunity to see Him today, in God’s word. “Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” (Luke 24:27 WEB) Galatians 4:21-31 - Ishmael was born by human effort and Isaac was born by God’s promise. Even people in the Bible are types which point us to Jesus. We are born again supernaturally by the Spirit. It is by God’s promise, not by our human effort. Those who advocate the Law persecute those who live by Grace. The attempt to keep the Law stirs up the sinful passions of the flesh. The flesh profits nothing. When we were born-again, we became sons. We have the spirit of sonship. Do not go back to that spirit of slavish fear which was under the Law. Those who live by the Law have Hagar as their mother, while those who live by Grace have Sarah as their mother. Like Isaac and Ishmael, we have the same Heavenly Father, but not the same mother. Law and Grace cannot be mixed. The new wine will cause an old wine skin to burst. We need to completely cast out the old system of the Law of Moses and live by Grace alone. “Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don’t you listen to the law? For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman. However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, “Rejoice, you barren who don’t bear. Break out and shout, you that don’t travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband.” Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.” So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.” (Galatians 4:21-31 WEB) Hebrew 12:18-22 - It not about doing things to be saved, but to rest in Jesus’ finished work. It is done. God has moved mountains—from Sinai to Zion. Preachers must move their pulpits from Sinai to Zion. “For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, for they could not stand that which was commanded, “If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned”; and so fearful was the appearance that Moses said, “I am terrified and trembling.” But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,” (Hebrews 12:18-22 WEB) Hebrews 5:13 - Those who are babies think that righteousness is about action—doing to become righteous. Those who are mature know that righteousness is a gift. “For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.” (Hebrews 5:13-14 WEB) Genesis 21:8-10 - We cannot inherit by human effort—only by grace through faith. Sarah’s words became Scripture. “The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking. Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”” (Genesis 21:8-10 WEB) Jeremiah 3:19 - Call God “Abba” and you will inherit your possessions in Christ. It is by the spirit of sonship. ““But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’” (Jeremiah 3:19 WEB)
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