Jesus: born to save you

Joseph Prince Christmas message:


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A time for miracles

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condemnation is the cause

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do not focus on judgement

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2 Corinthians 5:19

¹⁹ ...God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them…

On which two ancient cities did God rain brimstone and fire? If your answer is Sodom and Gomorrah, you are right. But if you think that God was all eager to destroy the two cities, you are wrong!

God wasn’t willing at all. He was not on a sin hunt. He was on a righteousness hunt so that He could spare the cities. (Genesis 18:23–32) And I believe that if Abraham had asked God, “What if You can find just one righteous man?” God’s answer would have been the same: “I will not destroy the place for the sake of one righteous man.”

Today, the righteousness of one Man — Jesus — has come. Jesus died for our sins and rose again for our justification. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not counting our sins against us!

Therefore, no judgment will fall on you today because it fell on Jesus 2,000 years ago at Calvary. And if God was gracious enough to remove Lot and his family before the judgment fell (Genesis 19:12–22), how much more will He do for you who are no longer under judgment!

And because God does not judge you, don’t be like Lot’s wife, who became a pillar of salt when she turned around to look at the brimstone and fire. (Genesis 19:24–26) She wanted to see God’s judgment, even though the angels had warned, “Don’t look back, lest you be destroyed.” (Genesis 19:17)

So don’t be judgment-focused and look back at the sins you have committed. God is not against you. He is for you and on your side. He remembers that He has already judged and punished your sins in the body of His Son. And because He is faithful to His Son and to what His Son has done, He will never judge or punish you. Any trouble that you might have today is not from Him. But He will show you a way of escape because He is on your side. He loves you and has your best interests at heart.

Beloved, God is not out to get you. He is out to bless you. And He wants you blessed more than you can ever ask or imagine! (Ephesians 3:20)

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read The Word differently

 I had this verse become real to me around 2000.

John 5:39

 "You search the Scriptures because you believe they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

If you read the Bible without the benefit of this revelation by Holy Spirit, you will see only The Law.  That will lead to a very unstable life--never settled---never at Peace.

John 6:63 It is the Spirit who gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Read the Bible without the Spirit's help and you find yourself 
in human effort.  NOTHING!

He that abides in the doctrine of Christ, he has both the Father  and the Son.(2 John)

Receive the gift of Holy Spirit to receive revelation of Jesus is the Word, and don't preach anything but Jesus and The Grace of God in order to have communion with The Father                 and The Son...




then there is Peace.


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Faith and law

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new joseph prince sermon

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Passover, Easter: Gospel of John The Resurrection

John 20

 Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. 

 "They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!" 

Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. 

The other disciple outran Peter and got there first.  He stooped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in. Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.  Then the other disciple also went in, 

and he saw and believed -- 

for until then they hadn't realized that the Scriptures said he would rise from the dead. 

Then they went home. 

 Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in. She saw two white-robed angels sitting at the head and foot of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. "Why are you crying?" the angels asked her."Because they have taken away my Lord," she replied, "and I don't know where they have put him."  

She glanced over her shoulder and saw someone standing behind her.

 It was Jesus, but she didn't recognize him. 

"Why are you crying?" Jesus asked her. "Who are you looking for?"

 She thought he was the gardener. "Sir," she said, "if you have taken him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will go and get him." 

"Mary!" Jesus said.She turned toward him and exclaimed, "Teacher!" 

 "Don't cling to me," Jesus said, "for I haven't yet ascended to the Father. 

But go find my brothers and tell them that I am ascending to my Father and your Father, 

my God and your God." 

 Mary Magdalene found the disciples and told them, "I have seen the Lord!" Then she gave them his message.

That evening, on the first day of the week, the disciples were meeting behind locked doors because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Suddenly, Jesus was standing there among them!

 "Peace be with you," he said. 

As he spoke, he held out his hands for them to see, and he showed them his side.

 They were filled with joy when they saw their Lord! He spoke to them again and said,

 "Peace be with you.

 As the Father has sent me, so I send you." 

 Then he breathed on them and said to them,

 "Receive the Holy Spirit.

If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven. If you refuse to forgive them, they are not forgiven."

  One of the disciples, Thomas (nicknamed the Twin ), was not with the others when Jesus came. They told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he replied, "I won't believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my fingers into them, and place my hand into the wound in his side." 

Eight days later the disciples were together again, and this time Thomas was with them. The doors were locked; but suddenly, as before, Jesus was standing among them. He said, "Peace be with you." Then he said to Thomas,

 "Put your finger here and see my hands. Put your hand into the wound in my side. Don't be faithless any longer. Believe!" 

"My Lord and my God!" Thomas exclaimed. Then Jesus told him, 

"You believe because you have seen me. Blessed are those who haven't seen me and believe anyway."  

Jesus' disciples saw him do many other miraculous signs besides the ones recorded in this book.  But these are written so that you may believe that 

Jesus is the Messiah, 

the Son of God, 

and that by believing in him

 you will have life.

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Passover, Easter: Gospel of John continued

John 2: 1-13

 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the celebration. The wine supply ran out during the festivities, so Jesus' mother spoke to him about the problem. "They have no more wine," she told him. "How does that concern you and me?" Jesus asked. "My time has not yet come."  But his mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."  Six stone waterpots were standing there; they were used for Jewish ceremonial purposes and held twenty to thirty gallons each.  Jesus told the servants,"Fill the jars with water." When the jars had been filled to the brim,  he said, "Dip some out and take it to the master of ceremonies." So they followed his instructions.  When the master of ceremonies tasted the water that was now wine, not knowing where it had come from (though, of course, the servants knew), he called the bridegroom over.  "Usually a host serves the best wine first," he said. "Then, when everyone is full and doesn't care, he brings out the less expensive wines. But you have kept the best until now!"  This miraculous sign at Cana in Galilee was Jesus' first display of his glory. And his disciples believed in him.  After the wedding he went to Capernaum for a few days with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples.  It was time for the annual Passover celebration, and Jesus went to Jerusalem.

What do we think of as we start to read this?  Third day is the day of resurrection.  Jesus was here as "an also invited"--not an honored guest.  Jesus went against his own desire and brought honor to the bridegroom just as he went against his desire and converted sin into righteousness at the cross.  And all of this happened in the time of the Passover.

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blessings

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hearing and doing revisited

The doctrine of doing is very much a part of the church.  The video here by Joseph Prince speaks the truth that makes sense with The Gospel message. It is Finished---Jesus.
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Andrew Wommack on Galatians 3:10

Andrew Wommack Bible Commentary for Galatians 3:10
Paul is bringing out a very important point which those who preach performance conveniently fail to mention. Deuteronomy 27:26 says, "Cursed be he that confirmeth not ALL the words of this law to do them." Those who trust in the law must keep every word of the law perfectly or they come under the curse (Dt. 28:15-68) instead of the blessing (Dt. 28:1-14). Since all have sinned (Rom. 3:23), no one can ever attain to the blessing of the law through his own effort. We must put faith in the grace of God and receive the blessing as a gift (Rom. 6:23).


Come out of the mix of religion and receive HIS GIFT!


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Jesus' Blood

Jesus' Blood.

tsunami earthquake

Why are there calamities(tsunami, earthquake) in the world?

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what is sin? -what is salvation?

I saw this question on a comment to a Joseph Prince devotion.  I endeavor to make it short and sweet.

Original sin was disobedience(rooted in pride in self) to the only law God gave in the garden to Adam.  From that point onward every man had sin.

God gave the Ten Commandments amending the Covenant made to Abraham (faith) for the Israelites to be God's chosen people.  Sin was any action that broke one of these Laws or any of the 613 Levitical laws. 

Jesus said:

   John 16: 9 The world's sin is unbelief in me. 

Salvation:

Jesus said:
   John 3 :  ¹⁶ “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Paul said:
   Romans 10:   ⁹ If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


Of sin and Salvation Paul said:
   Romans 5:¹⁹ Because one person(Adam) disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person (Jesus)obeyed God, many will be made righteous. 

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Ananias And Sapphira

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daily grace from the rock

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hebrews 8 9 10

Joseph Prince hits Hebrews 10.  HEAR THIS and Receive it.

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grace and truth

Jn 1:17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came           through Jesus Christ.


How do you balance Grace and Truth?  
   This is an impossibility.  To balance you must have something to put on the other side of the balance beam.


The only "balance" would be to put Jesus on one side and Grace and truth together on the other.  As the verse pasted above says Jesus brought us both grace and truth.


The truth is The law was given through Moses by God,  it is inflexible, written in stone and no man can keep it.


Grace is a free gift of God that came through Jesus "The anointed ONE."  The ONLY way to keep the law is to believe that Jesus did it.


All this searching for truth in the scripture should lead to one truth.
        
       Jn 5:39-40
39 "You search the Scriptures because you believe they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me! 40 Yet you refuse to come to me so that I can give you this eternal life. 


Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount was showing the Law in its truth.  (ckellett3 paraphrase) You want to hold to this--well this is what it means.  Can you do it?  


The Israelites at Mt. Sinai said that they could keep all the law and do anything that God commands of them.  In less than 40 days, they broke the first commandment and built an idol. 


Only One Man has ever kept the law.  
   There is only One obedient Man and One perfect Sacrifice. 
Preaching law today is nothing different than what the pharisees did in Jesus day.


Grace and Truth is Jesus--the Word made man.  When you search the Word, and you don't see Jesus---you may be looking for the wrong thing.  
                      The law does not bring eternal life---


                           ---------JESUS DOES-----
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