13 June 2021 - We Are Resurrected Beings - Pastor Joseph Prince Sermon Notes - New Creation Church Sermon NotesPastor Joseph Prince showed us through Israel's crossing of the river Jordan that we are no longer on the wilderness side. God has removed all the waters of judgment and we have crossed over on dry land, to the side of the promised land. We are resurrected beings who are dead to the Law and forever alive to God, able to bear good fruit unto God! Praise and Worship Songs Performed:
Luke 4:19 - What day is it? It is now the acceptable year of the Lord. Jesus did not quote the whole Old Testament verse. He did not mention the Day of Vengeance. This is because His first coming was to save us from our sins. It is currently the age of Grace. There will be the Day of Vengeance upon the unbelieving world in the future, but the time has not come. “and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”” (Luke 4:19 WEB) 2 Corinthians 5:19 - God is now inviting all to be reconciled to Him through faith in Jesus Christ. “namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.” (2 Corinthians 5:19 WEB) 2 Peter 3:8 - As far as God is concerned, only two days have passed since Jesus’ birth and His subsequent death at the cross. “But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8 WEB) Luke 23:46 - Jesus did not die out of weakness. He dismissed His spirit in a regal manner like the king He is. “Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.” (Luke 23:46 WEB) John 14:16-17 - The Holy Spirit now permanently lives in us. “I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.” (John 14:16-17 WEB) 1 John 4:4 - The Holy Spirit in us is greater than the devil or any demon out there in the world. “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.” (1 John 4:4 WEB) Romans 6:6 - Our “old man” has been removed. Only the sinful flesh remains. The flesh is in us, but we are not in the flesh. God sees us in Christ. “knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.” (Romans 6:6 WEB) Romans 6:11 - To our human experience, sin seems alive in us. But to faith, we are dead to sin. We can count ourselves dead to sin because that is what truly happened. “Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:11 WEB) We cannot overcome the flesh on our own. We need to rely on the Holy Spirit. Having the flesh remain with us humbles us, so that we always remember that we need to depend on God. Our soul (will, mind, and emotions) realm is where we still need to be renewed through receiving God’s word. Galatians 2:19 - We are dead to the Law. Pastor Prince is for Law for the reason that God gave the Law. God gave the Law to expose man’s sinfulness. Not so that man can be justified through keeping the Law. “For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.” (Galatians 2:19 WEB) Romans 7:4-6 - Jesus did not save us just so that we can go back to Law-keeping. Jesus is the alpha and the omega—not just the means to an end. There is nothing wrong with the Law. It is perfect. However, the problem is that we are not perfect. The Law cannot die. It is eternal. We are the ones who died to the Law. We died with Christ when we placed our faith in Him. Since we have died, we can be married to Jesus, our wonderful Savior. Our union with Jesus bears good fruit unto God. “Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God. For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law, worked in our members to bring out fruit to death. 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.” (Romans 7:4-6 WEB) 2 Corinthians 3:18 - We are transformed by beholding Jesus, not by trying to keep the Law. “But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.” (2 Corinthians 3:18 WEB) Romans 7:6-8 - Paul is talking about the Ten Commandments—not the ceremonial law. Paul mentioned “you shall not covet” which is one of the Ten Commandments. The Law is a composite whole. If you break one commandment, you are counted as having broken them all. It is like a string of pearls. If you break one section, they will all drop out. Sin does not work by itself. It takes advantage of the commandment. “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.” (Romans 7:6-8 WEB) Romans 7:9-12 - God does not see sin on us, even though there is still sin in our flesh. The devil tries to bring us into bondage by manipulating us to keep the Law. Only the Ten Commandments were engraved on stones. The ceremonial law was not. “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. Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.” (Romans 7:9-12 WEB) John 1:17 - The Law was given (like from a distance), but Grace and truth came (closeness and intimacy) through Jesus Christ. “For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17 KJV) ![]()
Pastor Joseph Prince showed us through Israel's crossing of the river Jordan that we are no longer on the wilderness side. God has removed all the waters of judgment and we have crossed over on dry land, to the side of the promised land. We are resurrected beings who are dead to the Law and forever alive to God, able to bear good fruit unto God!
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