Saturday, May 26, 2012

Awake To Righteousness

"For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."  ~ This was spoken by Jesus and what He meant is that, no one can be made righteous through law abiding and no one can be more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees except the law Giver Himself - our Lord Jesus Christ.

We were a dead man, because we were sinful and were not God's people. But God let Christ make us alive, when He forgave all our sins. God wiped out the charges that were against us for disobeying the Law of Moses. He took them away and nailed them to the cross. Through His finished work at the cross, Christ defeated all powers and forces. He let the whole world see them being led away as prisoners when He celebrated His victory. Christ is our wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. This is grace, the unearned, unmerited, undeserved and unconditional favor from God.

Therefore I say, awake to righteousness..., awake to Christ's righteousness not our own righteousness. Christ’s righteousness is revealed through His finished work at the cross while our own righteousness is seen at what we do in accordance to the Law's requirement.

Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:34: "Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God!" To God, the lack of this knowledge about Jesus Christ is our righteousness is a sin; and the meaning of the knowledge of God is to know that Christ is our wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Paul, the Apostle of grace, spoke of this to the shame of his own people in Romans 10. He desired and prayed to God for Israel was that they may be saved. For he bore them witness that they had a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge - the knowledge of Christ as their  righteousness. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness through law abiding, had not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness! We are righteous in God’s eye through believing not through our performance. We have the right standing with God the moment we put our trust in Christ. 

That is the reason why, we are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because the Gospel of Christ 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.

Therefore, believers having being established in the righteousness of Christ; we are far from oppression and we are not afraid of terror, for it shall not come near us. No weapon formed against us shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against us in judgment, Christ had already condemned at the cross! This is the heritage of the children of God because our righteousness is from Christ, says the Lord of Hosts!

Yo.. Awake to righteousness... Awake to the righteousness of Christ, not our own righteousness!

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Mille Crêpe

Mille crêpe is a French cake made of many crêpe layers. The word mille means "a thousand", implying the many layers of crêpe. 

The common ingredients include flour, eggs, milk, butter, and a pinch of salt. Its sandwich with pastry cream or other flavourings (coffee, lemon with pitted cherries, orange with raisins, oreo chocolate, yam with red bean, green tea with red bean, durian, strawberry, mango) in between the layers, usually presented in slices. 

Mille literally means a thousand, but in this case, there were 18 layers of crepe that made up this dessert.

 Orange Raisin Mille Crêpe

 Lemon Pitted Cherries Mille Crêpe

 Oreo Chocolate Mille Crêpe

 Coffee & Chocolate with Walnut Mille Crêpe

Yam with Red Bean Mille Crêpe

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Disproportionate Grace For All Your Challenges!

Faced with an insurmountable challenge? Here's the good news: God's grace is attracted to your area of challenge, and He pours it out on you in disproportionate—superabounding—measure! Join Joseph Prince as he delivers an awesome message on how there is, right now, God's superabounding grace in your area of challenge. Find out how you can walk in this disproportionate grace so that the power of Christ can rest on you to empower and transform you. Because God is unfairly gracious to you, you can say goodbye to that bad habit or challenge, and reign over every sin in your life!


Pastor Joseph Prince

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Are Sinners Forgiven Too?

Author: Paul Ellis
Website: Escape To Reality
Post Title: Are Sinners Forgiven Too?
Written on:  18.08.2011

I get asked more questions about forgiveness than any other subject. “Am I really forgiven? What if I sin and don’t repent? What if I don’t confess? What if I backslide?” I have written numerous posts on all these points, but forgiveness seems to be a blind-spot for many. We just can’t get it into our heads that God might forgive us without any action on our part. That just sounds too good to be true. What are you trying to tell us? That God is good? That the gospel is actually good news?

If you’re uncertain about God’s forgiveness, your faith will be weak and unproductive. So to demolish any uncertainty, I want to ask a bold question: Are sinners forgiven? You would have to agree that if God has forgiven sinners, then surely He has forgiven Christians who don’t repent or who forget to confess some of their sins? If we can see from scripture that sinners are forgiven, then just maybe we’ll be able to rest assured that we are forgiven too.

Four prophets

So are sinners forgiven? I’m going to call on four great prophets to answer this question. Here’s David:

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. (Psalm 103:12)

When David sinned with Bathsheba, everyone knew about it. It was a public sin that led to death for at least two people and brought David pain and regret. He said, “I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me” (Psalm 51:3). By all rights, David should’ve been executed for his sin. The law covenant under which he lived had a legitimate claim on his life (Leviticus 20:10). But David appealed to the One who is greater than the law. “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving-kindness” (Psalm 51:1, NKJV). David was not trying to excuse his sin – he knew full well that he had done a terrible thing. But he had a revelation of a compassionate Father “who does not treat us as our sins deserve” (Psalm 103:10). He asked God to “blot out my transgressions” (Psalm 51:1), and through the prophet Isaiah, God said He would:

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. (Isaiah 43:25)

Isaiah 42-45 is a four chapter advertisement for the new covenant. Isaiah 42 tells us about the coming Savior and Isaiah 43 tells us about the “new thing” that He will do. What is the new thing? “I will blot out your transgressions and remember your sins no more.” What an amazing new thing! Under the old covenant, sins were recorded and remembered (Leviticus 4-6). But under the new covenant they would be blotted out and remembered no more. Isaiah was not the only one to see this coming. Here’s Jeremiah:

This is the covenant I will make… I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more. (Jeremiah 31:33-34)

Imagine hearing this while living under the old law covenant. I would’ve asked, “When, Lord? When will you do this great new thing?” Well by the time we get to Hebrews we learn that God has already done it. Jesus appeared “once for all… to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself” (Hebrews 9:26). “When this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down” (Hebrews 10:12). When Jesus did away with all sin, the prophecies were fulfilled. Hebrews even quotes them just to make sure we don’t miss the connection: “Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more” (Hebrews 10:17). Jesus didn’t die just for confessed and repented sins. He died for all sin. Just look at the words of our fourth prophet, John the Baptist:

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29)

Whose sin did Jesus take away? The sin of the world! Does the world include sinners? Yes! Then sinners are forgiven. Their sins are no longer being recorded:

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. (2 Corinthians 5:18-19)

Men have sins but God is neither counting them nor remembering them. How can you say such things! Sinners aren’t saved! I didn’t say they were. But they are forgiven:

When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins… (Colossians 2:13)

When were your sins forgiven? When you were dead in your sins! In other words, you were forgiven before you repented, before you confessed, before you were born again. In fact, you were forgiven long before you were born. How is this possible? I didn’t do anything to merit His forgiveness. Exactly! That’s why it’s called grace.

Don’t believe the bad news

God doesn’t need your permission to forgive you. His forgiveness is entirely based on the finished work of the cross. Those who claim we must do stuff to be forgiven are saying that Jesus needs to come and die again, that once wasn’t enough. This is called bad news and it’s not in the Bible. Don’t believe it. Jesus didn’t die for some sin but all sin. His one-time sacrifice for the sin of the world was perfectly perfect and completely complete in every respect.

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (1 John 2:2)

Paul, you sound like you’re preaching universalism. I’m not – I’m telling you the same good news that the prophets foretold and the apostles declared: God the Son has done away with sin! Neither God the Father no God the Holy Spirit remembers our sins anymore! This is the gospel truth. Do you believe it?

Put your faith in the good news

Jesus said that forgiveness of sins is a gift that must be received (Acts 26:19). Two kinds of people will never receive this gift: (1) Those who don’t think they’re sinners in need of a Savior and (2) those who think they must do things like confess and repent to earn God’s forgiveness. (In case you’re wondering, 1 John 1:9 is directed to those in the first group – see 1 John 1:8.) The grace of God can only be received through faith (Ephesians 2:8). Everyone is forgiven but not everyone believes that they are forgiven. Those who don’t believe reject the gift that God offers them.

Jesus said the Holy Spirit would convict the world of sin because men do not believe in Me (John 16:8). Sinners don’t need the Holy Spirit to tell them that they’re sinners. If their own consciences don’t condemn them, the law will (Romans 3:20). The Holy Spirit is here to convince the world that our sins been blotted out and removed as far as the east is from the west. The Holy Spirit is here to reveal Jesus and the finished work of the cross.

I want to add my little voice to the mighty Holy Spirit and shout the good news from the rooftops: You are forgiven! You may be the worst sinner on the planet but by the grace of God you are forgiven! You may be a saint who has drifted into sin but you are forgiven! Whether you have confessed everything or nothing at all; whether you have repented or are still senseless in the pig pen – you are forgiven! Whether you believe or don’t believe the gospel – you are forgiven!

A proper response to this good news is to turn to God and put your trust in His amazing grace. This is called repentance. We don’t repent to get forgiven; we repent because we are forgiven. If you are still unsure about this, review the scriptures above and then tell yourself, “I am totally forgiven because of Jesus.” All the blessings that are ours in Christ – His acceptance, righteousness, holiness – flow from the revelation that we have been completely and eternally forgiven through the precious blood of the Lamb. See Jesus sitting down at the right hand of the Father. He’s not running around cleaning up your sins. His redemption work is done and He now invites you to enter His rest.

Friday, May 11, 2012

Grace Leads To True Repentance

What is true repentance? Is it being mindful of your sins, and beating yourself over them with much remorse and sorrow? Join Joseph Prince in this must-hear message as he shows you what true repentance is in the new covenant. See for yourself from the Scriptures how genuine, new covenant repentance comes and how it effects victory over sin in your life. This revelation-packed message will correct all legalistic and erroneous notions of repentance, unveil the infinite goodness of your Father's heart and set you on the path to live a glorious life for Him.


Pastor Joseph Prince


Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Finished Work

We cannot preach FAITH without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach HOPE without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach LOVE without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach PEACE without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach HEALTH without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach PROSPERITY without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach WISDOM without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach GRACE without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach RIGHTEOUSNESS without preaching His Finished Work.
We cannot preach REST without preaching His Finished Work.


For without the preaching of His Finished Work at the cross is mere religions and human efforts... Through His Finished Work at the cross two thousand years ago, He had gone ahead of us by dying on our behalf. 

Ephesians 1:4 ~ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

God is not like people, who lies; He is not a human who changes his mind. Whatever he promises, He does; He speaks, and it is done. He is not going to go ahead of our days to solve our problems... He had already solved our problems! He had gone ahead of us in time two thousand years ago and He accomplished the Father's will on that rugged cross. We are now living in His future when He died at the cross. That is how He had gone ahead of us, and what we need is the revelation of His Finished Work to usher us into His rest...

1 Kings 8:56“Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses.

It is His Finished Work on redemption that brings us REST; just like God rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Monday, May 07, 2012

The Meaning Of Wilderness and 40 Days & 40 Nights

Jesus was led by the Spirit up into the wilderness, to be tempted by the Devil. And when He had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, He was afterwards hungry. 

Understand what the Bible means by wilderness and the number 40, and you will have a different point of view on this highly controversial topic in the body of Christ...


Friday, May 04, 2012

It Is Good For The Heart To Be Established With Grace

Do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.


Thursday, May 03, 2012

Revelation on Fasting in The Light Of New Covenant

It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.", for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. So do not be carried about with different and strange doctrines, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace, not with foods, in which those who have walked in them were not helped.




The revelation on fasting came to me about 3 years ago before we started our first teaching session in Celebration Bible School in Medan, Indonesia. This revelation took the Lord a flick of a second to reveal but it is by no mean conclusive and the revelation on this contractual topic in the body of Christ is still growing.

This is the link to the original post on the topic of FASTING written on 13th February 2009.

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Established In Jesus' Righteousness

Christ is the end of the law for righteousness for everyone who believes and the just shall live by faith. It is the glory of God to hide a thing; but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.