Fine Pearl Of Great Value

I have been sitting under Pastor Joseph Prince’s teaching since early 2003. If Pastor Prince claims that it was on the shoulders of great men of God like Kenneth E Hagin that he is able to see further into the Word of God today, then it is my honor to say that I am on the shoulder of Pastor Joseph Prince that I can see further in the revelation of the grace of God. He is indeed my mentor… and I will not have so much revelation on the mystery of Christ if I did not sit under his teaching through his tape ministry. For this, I praise the Lord for He chose to reveal His heart to me in this special way…

In these seven years of his ministry on Gospel Revelation, I have been playing his tapes or CDs in my car day in and day out. Pastor Prince not only making Jesus our friend and our center focus, in a way he himself has become a friend to our family because through his messages, we know quite a lot about him, his beloved wife Wendy, cute little Jessica, his awesome church and his band of leaders… especially Pastor Henry… but one thing for real is that, Pastor Prince does not know us… :)

As a preacher, Pastor Prince has done a marvelous job in pointing us to Jesus. From the way he shares the Gospel of Grace, I always have a feeling that what Pastor Prince has shared is only a tenth of what he had received… hmmm, this is from the principle of tithing. My spirit just tells me that he has a lot of revelation that he cannot reveal because we are not ready yet. The Gospel of Grace will be revealed from glory to glory and our life will be transformed from glory to glory... That is why he always says: “Feed the sheep, not the giraffe!” Now having said that, as I grow under his ministry, the Lord would ask me from time to time where my focus is. Am I focusing on Him or on Pastor Prince…?

Though it is a simple question, it took me years to understand… There were times I would tell the Lord that my focus is on Him… but the Lord showed me that whenever I shared His Word then, instead of quoting from the Bible, I always quoted from what Pastor Prince had said. Instead of quoting what the Apostle Paul had said, I quoted what Pastor Prince had said… For this reason alone, the Lord rebuked me by telling me: “Did Pastor Prince quoted from the Bible? Is he not quoting from what Apostle Paul had said in the Bible? If you can quote Pastor Prince’s name, why can’t you quote Apostle Paul’s name?”

My dear friends in Christ, Pastor Prince has been facing tremendous attack for revealing and sharing the Gospel that Apostle Paul preached. He has been crowned with all sorts of funny name just like our Lord Jesus who had the honor to be crowned by the Pharisee and Sadducee during His ministry on earth. It is a spiritual battle between grace and law..., nevertheless, grace had won this battle 2,000 year ago.

2 Corinthians 3:14-16 ~ 14But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away. 15Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts. 16But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

Those who have their faces unveil know that Pastor Prince preaches the truth in the light of the New Covenant. The problem is with those whose faces are still covered with veil and they cannot see what the truth is. Praise be to our Lord for He is still gracious and patience with each and every one of us and He has the time for each and every one us the same way he had for the Apostle Paul, a onetime church prosecutor…

1 Corinthians 3:3-9 ~ 3You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men? 4For when one says, "I follow Paul," and another, "I follow Apollos," are you not mere men? 5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe — as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

As we have been enlightened by the grace of God, we are spiritual and mature enough to handle solid food instead of milk. Being acquainted with the teaching about righteousness, we should be wise enough to quote direct from the Bible for what the Apostle Paul had said instead of what Pastor Prince had said. In this way, we divert the tension to Apostle Paul (who is gloriously with the Lord) and protecting Pastor Prince (who is alive and gloriously preaching the Good News) from any fiery drat. If people still wish to attack, they are attacking Apostle Paul and the ascended Jesus who revealed this mystery to Apostle Paul… Friends, even Apostle Peter who was with the Lord day in and day out for three and half years, also find Apostle Paul's teaching hard to understand ...

2 Peter 3:16 (Amplified Bible) ~ Speaking of this as he does in all of his letters. There are some things in those [epistles of Paul] that are difficult to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist and misconstrue to their own utter destruction, just as [they distort and misinterpret] the rest of the Scriptures.

I am not sharing this purposely to side Pastor Prince but to share with you what the Lord has revealed and taught in my heart… a new wine is to be kept in a new wineskin. Be gracious as He is gracious… Be patience as He is patience…

Once we were like any other ordinary Christian, considered as the hidden treasure in the field with a general identification as "hidden treasure". But now, the Merchant has come to look for fine pearl; and our Lord by His grace and mercy, handpicked us one by one among the hidden treasure. We have been handpicked and identified as fine pearl, pearl of great value because He chose to enlighten us with His grace. Because of His grace, we are now a glorious shining pearl because pearl by itself is already a finished product. Those who have been enlightened by His grace are now crowned with a specific identity call the "Pearl of Great Value" to magnify His finished work. We shine as fine pearl of great value because His finished work shines from inside of us. We are now raise up as Royal Priesthood to administrate blessing of His grace with kingly authority. We are no more under the the curse of the law which administrating condemnation...

Shalom... we love because He first loves us…!