26 August 2018 - The Tenth Sanctifies the Whole - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPraise and Worship songs performed: (I may have missed out songs before this)
This message is a continuation of Pastor Prince's previous sermon "Draw the Blood Line of Protection". God has increased New Creation Church numerically, the church has increased financially, and people in the church have blossomed into families. Every time Pastor Prince is preparing for a message, he feels overwhelmed because he wants to preach the word that is from the Lord. For preachers and teachers, never preach according to people’s faces. If you have a word from the Lord, you have to release that. Preachers cannot just preach any message because the message must be from the Lord. It can’t just be scriptural - it has to be a word in season, a prophetic word. Pastor Prince had received word from the Lord to preach this message that you're reading but he felt uncomfortable to preach about the topic, so he proceeded to prepare a different message. Then at 12am, he felt like he wasn't happy about the message he had prepared, so he was obedient to prepare the original word that the Lord has for us. It's an uncomfortable topic for Pastor Prince because the message is about how to prosper, and he doesn't want to receive criticism or people labelling and condemning him as a 'prosperity preacher' who is preaching the 'prosperity gospel' or 'health and wealth gospel'. God’s is concerned about us, and it is His desire that we should prosper in every area of our lives. The word for prosper used in the Old Testament is the Hebrew word “Saliak”. If Pastor Prince preaches himself happy it’s because he has released the word that God wants him to preach. Isaiah 60:1-5 - There will be a Millennium where Christ rules on earth. Christians won’t have to hide while worshipping God. This passage is not referring to the Millennial Reign of Christ because there won’t be darkness covering the earth during that time. This passage is talking about our time. It seems like the devil knows that his time is short and that Jesus is coming back soon. Despite the deep darkness, the glory of the Lord will be visible upon us. Potiphar, a heathen, could see the glory of God upon Joseph. It’s a visible token. Familial reconciliation will take place for us too. The wealth of the Gentiles will come to us too. Study the life of Joseph because what has happened for him will happen for us too. Study the lives of Abraham and Lot - one is a victorious believer and the other a defeated believer. Which one do you want to be? “Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising. “Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, And your daughters shall be nursed at your side. Then you shall see and become radiant, And your heart shall swell with joy; Because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you, The wealth of the Gentiles shall come to you.” (Isaiah 60:1-5 NKJV) I Corinthians 10:11 - The Old Testament has value for us today. God has hidden great truths in it. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but it is the glory of king to search out a matter. The Old Testament is the New concealed. The New Testament is the Old revealed. Everything that happened in the Old Testament happened as an example for us. “Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.” (I Corinthians 10:11 NKJV) Romans 15:4 - Hope is a confident expectation of good. Even if you receive a negative report from the doctor, you can still have hope. Hope is seeing brightness where darkness was. When God created the earth, He saw darkness on the face of earth, and He said “Light be”. He called forth what He wanted to see. On the night of the tenth plague in Egypt, the blood of the lamb was applied on the lintel and the doorposts, outside the house. The blood of Christ is not for us to see, it’s for God to see. Even if we don't feel the protection of the blood of Christ on us, it is still as effective because God sees it. Only God can correctly estimate the value and preciousness of the blood of His Son. It’s not about how great your faith is. It’s about the greatness of the Person you’re putting your trust in. If you have trust in the right Person, even touching the hem of that Person is enough for you to be healed. The work of Christ on the cross makes you safe, but it is the word of God (“when I see the blood I will pass over you”) that makes you sure. “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.” (Romans 15:4 NKJV)
God is our Senior Partner and yet He only asks for 10%. You can give more than that but 10% is the minimum. When you give 10% to God of whatever you have (money, time, energy, etc.), He sanctifies the other 90%. Tithing is only for those who have received the revelation of it. Whatever is holy, the devil cannot touch.
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