Faith

Faith (right believing) always see the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

and FAITH enable us to see the things which are not seen and are of the eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:18
while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

John 8:56
Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.”

Mustard Seed

My "work" in responding to His Gospel by believing is just a mustard seed as compare to His Finished Work at the cross...

Luke 17:6 ~ So the Lord said, “ If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Simple English Lesson for Today

Simple English lesson for today... 

Isaiah 53:4-5

Surely He has borne our griefs (present perfect tense) 

And carried our sorrows (present perfect tense);

Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted (past tense).

But He was wounded for our transgressions (past tense),

He was bruised for our iniquities (past tense);

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him (past tense),

And by His stripes we are healed (present perfect tense).

To endorse these 7 tenses, He declared, "It is FINISHED!"

The Good News

Christianity is nothing about our work. It is about Jesus' Work at the Cross. 

Our work is bad news (of which we witness in every day's newspaper)... and this bad news continue. Jesus' Finished Work at the Cross is Good News and it is finished and final..!

For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ (the Resurrected Jesus). It is the power of God at work (His work), saving everyone who believes (not who work) — the Jew first and also the Gentile. This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight (we are already right in His sight). This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life.” (Romans 1:16-17 NLT)

Saving Private Ryan

Private Ryan could have gone home by GRACE... but he chose to EARN it and costing massive loses of the live who came to save him...

We too, we could have live our "CHRISTIAN" life by GRACE... and many a time we wanted to EARN it and facing the same consequence...

It is the self-righteousness of man that betrayed the grace of God... No wonder when Prophet Isaiah had something to say about our own righteousness..., he said: "But we are all as the unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as a menstruation cloth. And we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. " (Isaiah 64:6)

Declare His Finished Work

He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destruction.

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness (Mercy and Grace), And for His wonderful works (Works that Jesus finished at the Cross) to the children of men!

Let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving (Like Apostle Paul had said, give thanks always), And declare His works (Finished Work at the Cross) with rejoicing.

(Psalms 107:20-22)

Our Work is To Speak Forth the Word of Christ!

Our problem is not that we are not doing or have not done enough for the Kingdom of God. Our problem is, we are not believing the truth at all.

Our Heavenly Father is so humble that, He made the Holy Spirit our Helper, our Counselor, our Comforter and our Teacher and yet, we are not humble enough to let the Holy Spirit does the job...

We are indeed a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that we might speak of the praises of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light...

A king speaks forth while a priest blesses...! Both are given the power to speak and God see this kind of speaking, "our work"! To God, faith without work is faith without SPEAKING forth the Word of Christ...!

The Kind of Faith We Need

We do not need FAITH to know that we are a sinner; but we do need FAITH to know that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

Thank you Jesus for the Holy Spirit convicted FAITH.

John 16:8

~ And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

John 16:10 

~ of RIGHTEOUSNESS, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more;

The Holy Spirit convicts us of our RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in Christ Jesus.

We do not need FAITH to know that we are a sinner; but we do need FAITH to know that we are the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in Christ Jesus. 

This FAITH is not natural but supernatural. This FAITH comes by hearing, hearing by the words of Christ.

Romans 1:16-17

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

That is why we need to hear and keep on hearing the Gospel of Christ/the Word of Christ/the Message of Grace.

We do not need FAITH to know that we are a sinner; but we do need FAITH to know that we are the RIGHTEOUSNESS of God in Christ Jesus. 

This faith is to BELIEVE and God see us as a doer of the word...

James 1:22-25

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death.

The doer of the word is the one who BELIEVE the word of Christ/the Gospel of Christ/the Grace message.

Reversing The Curse Through The Holy Communion

By just one act of eating from the wrong tree, man fell into sin, which brought forth disease and death. But did you know that by the same act of eating, we can reverse the effects of sin? Join Joseph Prince as he expounds on the power of the Holy Communion to give us health and wholeness. Learn how you can partake of the tree of life—Jesus—through the eating of the bread and drinking of the wine in the Communion. Begin to take this meal with newfound revelation and faith and see every symptom of the curse reversed in your life!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-08-26 Reversing The Curse Through The Holy Communion

Giving To Jesus Who Keeps On Giving

What does the Lord do with what you give to Him? Is anything that you give to Jesus out of a revelation of His goodness ever a "waste"? Join Joseph Prince as he answers these pertinent questions and mines nuggets of truth on giving to Jesus from the New Testament account of the upper room preparation. Be enlightened as you see how you can never outgive the One who keeps giving to you. See how your gift placed in His hand can only be multiplied back to you. This message will forever change the way you feel about giving to Jesus!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-08-12 Giving To Jesus Who Keeps On Giving

Imperfect Faith Not A Barrier to God's Grace

You don't need perfect faith to receive from Jesus! Even if you have doubts, if you reach out to Him, He will forgive your doubts and reward whatever faith you come to Him with! Be uplifted by this powerful message from Joseph Prince, as he shows you biblical examples of how our imperfect faith is never a barrier to God's grace. Learn also how seeing the Lord's grace in the Word imparts life and health to every part of your body. Whatever you need from Jesus today, don't let your imperfect faith stop you from running to Him to receive!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-07-22 IMPERFECT FAITH : NOT A BARRIER TO GOD’S GRACE

Blessings Flow Through Grace

When does God's blessings flow unhindered in our lives and churches? When His grace takes center place in these areas! Join Joseph Prince as he shows you how God wants you to live conscious of, and put your trust solely in His grace. Unpacking revelatory truths through the biblical story of Hagar and Ishmael's dismissal from Abraham's household, Joseph reveals how grace makes you a mature son of God, skilled in the word of righteousness and able to enjoy your inheritance. Get ready to live like an heir of God when you listen to only the voice of grace!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-07-15 BLESSINGS FLOW THROUGH GRACE.

Keep Your Eyes On Jesus

What do you do when a storm comes blowing into your life? Keep your eyes on Jesus and walk above the storm! Join Joseph Prince in this uplifting message as he shows you the simplicity and power of keeping your eyes on Jesus. Learn from Bible names how beholding Jesus' beauty and love will drive out fear, cause you to ride effortlessly over the storm and transform you into His likeness. Begin to turn your eyes away from your circumstances and keep them fixed on the Son, and see Him do the impossible in and through you!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-06-10 KEEP YOUR EYES ON JESUS [2nd svc review - 'live' and unedited].

The WWW of God

The WWW of God is of  the different dispensation in the Bible. The dispensation of the Father, the dispensation of the Son and the dispensation of the Spirit. In the dispensation of the Father, we see the WILL of the Father. In the dispensation of the Son, we see the WORK of the Son and in the dispensation of the Spirit, we see the WITNESS of the Holy Spirit. In the WILL of the Father, we see the WORD of God. In the WORK of the Son , we see the WORD of Jesus. While in the WITNESS of the Spirit, we see the WORD of Christ.

WWW is the Will of the Father, the Work of the Son and the Witness of the Holy Spirit.

WWW is also the Word of God, the Word of Jesus and the Word of Christ.

John 14:17 ~ the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not see Him nor know Him. But you know Him, for He dwells with you and shall be in you. 

John 14:18 ~ I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

I will not leave you orphans means we are not to live our Christian life depending on ourselves. The Father had sent the Holy Spirit to live in us and help us...

By knowing the WWW of God, we are able to study earnestly to present ourselves approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

The Word of Christ is the Gospel

In the beginning, the earth was without form and empty and darkness was on the face of the deep. The Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. In Creation, God spoke (Word of God) and the Spirit moved.

In New Creation, and we are all New Creation in Christ, when we speak the Word of Christ, the Spirit moves... for the gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 

The Word of Christ is talking about the Finished Work of Christ. The Word of Christ is the truth witnessed  by the Spirit of Truth - the Holy Spirit. The Word of Christ is affirmative, encouraging to us because of what Jesus had done at the cross. Indeed, man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceed from the mouth of Christ. Faith does not come through obeying the law, faith only comes by hearing, hearing by the Word of Christ.

The Word of Christ is about the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Word of Christ is the Gospel! 

Safely Dwell In Jesus Your Refuge

Feel in need of protection, strength and steady support today? Then run to Jesus, your eternal and unfailing strong refuge! Joseph Prince expounds on the six cities of refuge in the Old Testament and shows you how they speak of Jesus as your safe haven. See how Jesus wants to protect you and provide you with the best, even when you're in a trouble of your own making. Find security and rest for your soul as you allow Jesus, your good shepherd, to gladly carry you on His shoulders and lift you up with His grace and power!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-05-20 SAFELY DWELL IN JESUS YOUR REFUGE [NCC 2nd svc review]

We Eat Through Our Ears

Every living creature needs to eat and as human being, we also need to eat to stay alive. Being a born again believer, we are a spiritual being. We are born again in the Spirit the moment we believed in Christ; and because of this, the Word said we are a new creation; a creation that is so new that it has never been existed before. As a believer, a new creation, we also need to feed our spirit men.

It is written that man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God and the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. In Jesus’ dispensation, He had to use the word of God in the account of Matthew because He was still under the dispensation of Law. As for our dispensation after Jesus had completed His work at the cross, we are to use the word of Christ for Paul wrote in Romans 10 verse 17 that, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of CHRIST! Jesus who completed the Father’s will at the cross is now a resurrected Jesus, and He is CHRIST. Therefore, do not carry about with various and strange doctrines, for it is good that our heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

Isaiah 55
2 ~ Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in abundance.
3 ~ Incline your ear and come to Me, Hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you – The sure mercies of David.



These two verses from Isaiah 55 is supportive to this revelation and is releasing revelation knowledge. We are a new creation and the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new! We have an important task to perform. We have our spirit man to feed and our spirit man is eating through our ears. In the second verse of Isaiah 55, The Lord told Prophet Isaiah to LISTEN carefully to Him, and EAT what is good, and let his soul delight itself in abundance. The Lord is saying that our spirit man is EATING through our EARS!

Every matter in the word of God is important; but when God mentions a matter twice, we know that it is very important, so take heed...! He went on to instruct Isaiah to incline his EAR and come to Him, HEAR, and his soul should live; and He would make an everlasting covenant with him, that is the covenant of grace that we are now enjoying, the sure mercies of David. This sure mercies is the grace of God that king David praised so much in the Book of Psalms. That is why the Lord called him “A man after God’s own heart”, because he knew about the grace of God in the dispensation of Law!

At the garden, Adam fell short of the glory of God by eating from the wrong tree – The tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He caused the human race to fall with his mouth. Because of the finished work of Christ, we can now receive restoration by partaking from the right tree – the Tree of Life. We eat through our ears to receive restoration that our Lord had brought for us at the cross…. because faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of CHRIST.

The word of CHRIST is the gospel and the word of CHRIST is the power of God and in the word of CHRIST, the righteousness of God revealed. The word of CHRIST gives you the revelation of how righteous you are in CHRIST and the revelation of who you are in CHRIST. That is why Jesus personally reminded us in the Sermon on the mount that we are to seek first the kingdom of God (Christ) and His righteousness, and all these things (things mentioned before this verse) will be added to us! The good news is this, He had already done it at the cross two thousand years ago. Our Father in heaven through the finished work if Christ, had blessed us with every spiritual blessings in the heavenly in CHRIST!

Therefore, take heed how you hear. For whoever has revelation of who he is in CHRIST, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have revelation of who he is in CHRIST, even what he seems to have will be taken away.

Beloved, in regard to all things I pray that you prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

Do Not Eat Of The Lamb Raw

Our Lord Jesus was the Lamb of God, the Lamb that took away the sins of this world as proclaimed by John the Baptist.  In the Old Testament, God instructed Moses and the Israelites not to eat their lamb raw during the Feast of Passover.  In their dispensation, God was using the Feast of the Passover to point them to Jesus’ finished work at the cross. Jesus Himself was the Lamb of God to be burnt at the cross. He was the Burnt Offering...

Incidentally, the word "LAMB" in the Chinese Character is actually showing us the picture of a  lamb being burnt by fire. The strokes that made up the word "LAMB" in the Chinese Character is depicting a young sheep that is being roasted by fire.

The word "LAMB" in Chinese Character

The upper part of this character "LAMB" is a picture of a young “sheep” and the lower part is the picture of “fire”. It indicates a young sheep is being roasted by fire. This combination of a young sheep on top and fire at the bottom is depicting a "LAMB".

This young Sheep was roasted at the cross. This young Sheep was judged at the cross. This young Sheep was the Burnt Offering prepared by the Heavenly Father.

Exodus

12:8 ~ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. 

12:9 ~ Do not eat of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inward parts. 

12:10 ~ And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning. And that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

As a New Covenant believer, do not eat of the Lamb raw… Do not meditate on the Jesus that was before the cross. We are to meditate on the Jesus that is after the cross… after He was being roasted... after He was being burnt... after He was being judged... after His Finished Work.  We are to listen to the word of Christ, because Apostle Paul revealed that our faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of Christ. When we listen to the Word of Christ, we are not eating the Lamb raw, we are eating the well roasted Lamb. We are eating the Lamb Who was being completely judged. We are eating the Burnt Offering well pleasing to God...

Do not eat of the Lamb raw...!

JESUS ~ The End Of Your Struggles

Do you find yourself doing what you don't want to do, and not doing what you want to do? Apostle Paul had this struggle too, but he finally found the answer. It doesn't lie in a "what" but "who"—Jesus! Join Joseph Prince as he delivers a powerful message on how your struggles finally end only when you come to the end of yourself and humbly receive Jesus as your true identity. Learn what your "flesh" is and what being "in Christ" means. Let Jesus Himself set you free and end your struggles as you discover who you really are in Him!

Pastor Joseph Prince 

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: 2012-02-12 JESUS – THE END OF YOUR STRUGGLES [Ncc first service notes by Gav !]

Rest And Receive At Jesus' Feet

Come boldly to Jesus, rest at His feet and receive all that you need today! Joseph Prince shows you how you can receive effortlessly when you seek Jesus Himself instead of just His blessings. Learn from the Old Testament love story of Ruth and Boaz the power of resting at Jesus' feet and allowing Him to deal with your problem. When you rest, He works—and He will not stop until He has resolved your matter! Be encouraged as you see His love and care for you, and His willingness to protect you, provide for you and redeem you out of all your troubles!

Pastor Joseph Prince

Sermon note from Tycm's Blog by Terence Yeo: REST AND RECEIVE AT JESUS’ FEET [Notes of 1st service of 5 Feb 2012]