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today with Joseph Prince you can't
justify yourself the only way is to say
I'm a sinner then God says no problem my
son is a savior of sinners
let's go right into the word of God I
want to tell you something about this
wonderful Bible that I hold in my hand
remember that this is the book you can
call it the manufacturer's handbook
all the answers in life is in this book
and everything that's preached must be
in line with this book amen it is God
all scripture is inspired of God in your
King James literally in the Greek in
and God breathe into man and Man became
a living soul and there is a an amazing
of reading the Bible that is this
mentioned in proverbs 4 it says that my
son attend to my words incline your ear
keep them in the midst of your heart for
they are life to those that find them
Health to all their flesh
I remember the first time as a young man
reading the Bible uh already coming in
touch with the Bible it was a new
testament someone gave me a new
testament and as I read it I look at the
stories of Jesus and the Very Things
That No One taught me no one taught me I
was a young boy of about maybe seven
years old six seven years old but when I
read the New Testament and it was the
gospels I remember telling the gospels
there were no pictures I used to read
there's nothing in the natural to excite
me but when I read about Jesus somehow I
saw a person who is not religious and
yet so attractive someone who uh you
know he came alive through the pages
unstopping deaf years raising the Dead
the miracles of Jesus I saw Beauty in
Simplicity because all the the people
then were simple people peasant folks
Israel was the backdrop and I guess
somehow it was the Holy Spirit teaching
all right to love the Bible
and I pray that that you will cherish
this Bible amen I have a Bible that I I
want to show you just a little bit and
some of the things I'm going to share
today is from my personal time with the
Lord so just excite you okay to uh to to
do something like this first of all
there is a preaching Bible that I use
which is always this one okay and uh
always find something you can read not
okay I know that many of you your Bible
is your your iPhone or your Android or
something like that but I still feel the
old feel is still good you know
um just that when I I have my own iPhone
um Bible app and all that it's just that
chapter here I can sometimes my eyes
were falling a verse here is a verse
that I need to see first of all if you
can your own personal Bible study uh I
recommend uh White margin Bible a white
margin Bible is like this Bible this is
okay I do my studies from you from the
Old Testament I mean the old King James
Rather and this is the Old Testament so
the notes on the side is all my notes I
didn't copy from a commentary I didn't
copy anything as I read verse by verse I
ask the Lord to speak to me okay and
then when he speaks to me something it's
very unique I'll write it down on the
site which many a times later on become
all right in fact you're going to hear
this sermon in a while's Time all right
so I I wrote all this a closer look okay
all right don't don't show them
everything now okay uh you get to see
all this later all right look up here
you get your own white margin Bible you
can write your own commentaries your own
notes because it becomes personal to you
and many times after that years to come
or even months to come you forgot what
you wrote what God gave you and during
your time of try you go back and you
read your own notes nothing like your
own notes that speaks in a special way
some of the commentaries they are biased
towards Miracles they are biased towards
healing they will say healing is past
these are modernists for example in
their thinking when it comes to these
kind of things so they don't put the
part but because you are you are
unbiased a man you've been taught well
you're able to see Revelations where
some of these people their own
biasedness will obstruct that okay so it
becomes your own Bible you understand
all right become very precious to you
but becomes yours the emails wrote for
example many years ago every Revelation
there was from my white margin Bible in
my time with the Lord okay I'm not
saying you cannot spend time getting
your Revelation from commentaries but
they had okay this is your opportunity
and your God will reveal things to you
amen another thing to remember is this
that in the Bible we have all the New
Testament there are a number of
covenants in the Bible but basically all
Covenant New Covenant law Grace that's
basically what we need to know amen of
course the other covenants David
Covenant noahi Covenant but what we need
to know is just all Covenant which is
law New Covenant which is Grace now when
I say oh covenants law I don't mean all
the way from Genesis the law started 450
years after after the time of Abraham so
but then it's still generally speaking
all right the Old Testament uh people
under the law and New Testament is Grace
and when I say New Testament his grace
is not Matthew 1. all right Matthew 1 is
still appear under the law Christ was
born but when the church on the day of
Pentecost came into being that's the
amen but nonetheless it's important for
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now in the old Covenant I like to say
like this in the old the new is hidden
in the new the all is open
I can say in the all the new is
concealed in the new the all is review
for example Jesus stole a Nicodemus
in the old Covenant you'll find types
Shadows figures amen many of you when
you are young you love to spot the
hidden image or hidden items you know
you like to play that I know Justin
likes to play that all right look for
the hidden items now God knows our
nature the Bible says it's the glory of
God to conceal a matter it is the Glory
to search it up amen so that excites us
because the Bible is like that you find
the code the key you can unlock the code
for example John 3 Jesus was speaking to
the Pharisee his name was Nicodemus he
was hungry for the Lord he came to Jesus
by night he was ashamed to come in the
daytime last his colleagues see him so
he come he came to Jesus by night and he
says uh Lord you know we know that
you're a teacher come from God no one
can do these Miracles that you do in
Jesus you must be born again then he
started you know uh remonstrating the
Lord about how can a man be born and
Jesus says you're a master of Israel
either not know these things then Jesus
says even by the way it was the
conversation that Jesus says for God so
loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son that whoever believes in
him should not perish but have
everlasting life and that came from the
and Nicodemus was privileged to hear
that then he said this even as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness
so must the son of man be lifted up so
in the Old Testament we have the story
of uh the people of Israel they were
murmuring and complaining and then
serpents came and bit them you see all
the while the serpents were there in the
desert in the desert there are many many
just like in Arizona and all that there
are rattlesnakes the serpents were
always there but it never bit them until
they start complaining okay in other
words they broke down the H they broke
down the protection and the snakes bit
them by the way I found out that the
Hebrew word for complain is the word
in Hebrew in other words if you complain
spend the night another night
in it in the plane you complain you stay
you praise God you praise you got to
raise amen all right so if you want to
get out of it don't complain
singaporeans are famous for complain
so complaining is a guarantee you'll
stay the same situation and have plenty
of it so they were complaining and broke
down the Hedge and the snakes came in
bit them and then God told Moses make a
bronze serpent put it on a pole so the
pole he lifted up you know to have a
bronze serpent you got to have a cross
for it to blend around okay so he lifted
up the cross and the bronze serpent on
it and the Bible says that whosoever
looketh liveth doesn't matter how bad
they were bit by the serpent doesn't
matter at what stage they were bit uh
bitten all right whether it's the first
day second stage whoever looketh will
heal whoever live all right straight
eyes cross eyes blue eyes brown eyes at
one eye as long as they look those who
did not look those who look at their
wounds and say how terrible it is look
it's getting swollen they died those who
look at their symptoms die those who
look away from their symptoms to the
bronze serpent on the cross lived the
easiest thing for people to do is to
so you're looking at me right it's the
easiest thing to do to look so the Lord
just says look look to the bronze
serpent on the cross so Jesus told
Nicodemus that was the Old Testament
happening so Jesus said to Nicodemus all
right even if Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness so the son of
man must be lifted up so Jesus is that
bronze serpent now you know some people
would love to put a bronze Lamb on the
cross but it wasn't a bronze lamb it was
a bronze snake why why is Jesus typified
as a bronze snake because God wants to
know that at the cross Jesus became what
that you might become what he is amen
second Corinthians 5 21 tells us God
made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin for
us that we might become the
righteousness of God in him amen so
we're going to see our disease on his
definitely your disease loses power amen
and it will die amen it cannot be in two
places at one time the judicial justice
system of God says that the law the law
of Double Jeopardy says that you cannot
try the same crime twice if and all
diseases is a result of sin doesn't mean
your sin directly but it all comes back
from Adam's sin okay amen when there was
no sin there was no disease so once you
see us your sin judge the disease judge
whatever this is in your body you're not
to look at it you're not to be conscious
of it just lift it across and keep on
thanking the Lord that's what communion
does for us remember the Lord's death
can I have a good amen people amen but
remember this that that you have been
made the righteousness of God in him
now there are those who who oppose what
I teach and they say that we are giving
people license to sin we're telling
people they are righteous you know and
and it's almost like a call that that
every church service has got to be
helping people to become more sin
conscious that is making them more holy
now I I cannot understand this reasoning
because this is not uh a new testament
reasoning this is not the Primitive
Christianity that the Apostle Paul
writes about that the early Believers
lived in okay they had a revelation that
once they were Sinners you know what you
know what Peter did when he stood up to
in the book of Acts he says you it's all
the people of Israel you denied the Holy
One he told them he told them to their
faces you denied the Holy One actually
not too long ago he denied the Holy One
right but he was so free of sin
Consciousness he could tell them you
denied the Holy One amen and they
you know and that was Peter the one that
so there was they were so free from sin
Consciousness that that uh they could
actually be free to preach the good news
and the good news that God made Jesus
who knew no sin so how did how did Jesus
who didn't commit sin become sin he
received our sin how did you and I who
commit no righteousness become righteous
we receive his righteousness when Jesus
received our sin God judge him God
punished him when we receive Jesus
righteous Jesus is our righteousness
God blesses us God favors us can I have
a good amen Jesus didn't deserve to
become sin I you and I don't deserve to
be righteous but he became sin and we
became righteous so Proverbs 17 tells us
very clearly that he who justifies the
wicked and he who condemns the just both
of them alike are an Abomination to the
anyone that condemns the righteous
is an Abomination the Bible says
Abomination is a stronger word than sin
is the worst type of sin there is it's
an Abomination now what about when you
condemn yourself have you been made the
righteousness of God in Christ
well when you condemn yourself you're
it's an Abomination that's why things
don't work when you are in condemnation
When you pray things the oppressed are
not heard it seems like there's a short
circuit and people don't understand it
doesn't mean that you are bad you are
you are you are you are uh you have a
hidden motive and you you are you are
indulging in fleshly last or whatever
right it's just that you are not owning
up to what Christ has made you
there has been a change and you are
saying there's no change you are trying
you you are you are saying that I'm a
sinner all right when God says you are
be made righteous now once upon a time
you were a sinner so the first one says
if you justify yourself once upon a time
you are wicked all of us through and
true you know we we point our fingers to
the ones with overt sins like The
Prostitute you know we look at them we
despise them but many of us you know we
we may be indulging in pornography in
our heads you know we might be entering
last in our heart but no one sees it all
right to God they are the one in the
same sin all right just that some people
know how to cover it some don't so we
are all Wicked we are all sinners amen
so when we were Sinners and we justify
ourselves we always have justification
but I did this I did this good thing I
did that good thing well you know what
you're still justifying the wicked you
can't justify yourself the only way is
to say I'm a sinner then God says no
problem my son is a savior of sinners
he comes and he saves you right amen if
you say you're righteous you say I'm not
for you I came to call sinners right
remember that so now that you are safe
okay if you condemn no no you're safe
you're no more a sinner but if you
condemn yourself you are doing exactly
what you did last night all right and
this is hypocrisy but the devil wants to
persuade you to to say if you do what
the word of God tells you that you are
the righteousness of God in Christ
you're actually a hypocrite because you
know in your feelings you don't feel
righteous right and you experience you
know you're not righteous in fact last
night you did this all right this
morning you had these thoughts in your
mind you're not righteous you know that
and that's why this righteousness is by
faith the Bible says because no one sees
as accurately as God does and God sees
you perfectly and if God pronounced you
righteous who can say otherwise
so the problem is that we are condemning
ourselves and things don't work when you
condemn yourself because it's an
Abomination amen likewise how about
others are you condemning other
Christians but Pastor Prince he did this
he did this yes I know he did but
remember this this pronouncement of
righteousness doesn't mean it's got
nothing it's got nothing to do your
actions it's independent of your works
good or bad it's all based on the work
of Jesus can I have a good amen so it's
the same when you condemn another
brother another sister is an Abomination
are you with me so far that's been a
change people and this is true
um in the book of Hebrews chapter 10 the
Bible says that for the law having a
shadow of good things to come and not
the very image of the things can never
with the same sacrifices which they
offer continually year by year which is
on Yom Kippur all right the Jewish
people back then and even today they
celebrate but today they can't celebrate
properly because they don't have the
temple they don't have animal sacrifices
but every year during the time of Moses
all right uh they would uh offer a
bullock all right uh on the day of Yom
Kippur which is a day of atonement every
year and it covers their sin it covers
their sin every year annually until the
day comes that Jesus will come and John
the Baptist says Behold the Lamb of God
who takes away not cover takes away the
sin of the world Amen but until then the
blood of bulls and goats is an inferior
blood but it only covers covers covers
like a Visa card it's not real payment
but it it is considered as payment for
the moment until the real payment is
made so Jesus came and he's the real
payment can I have a good amen but every
year now he's telling you this
now those sacrifices they offer cannot
make those who approach perfect and
perfect here has got to be a conscience
not your behavior not your conduct not
your actions the previous chapter
chapter 9 talks about uh perfect
pertaining to the conscience let me
let's say I I have borrowed money all
right from from Pastor Gabriel who made
the announcement just now and I borrowed
from him let's say ten thousand dollars
and I promised him I'll pay him by first
of April 1st of April came and went I
could not pay him so every time I see
him okay not because I hate him not
because I whatever but it starts with I
I want to avoid him why because I have
debt on my conscience the more I see him
the more I am conscious of the debt
that's a story of humanity they want to
put God out of their minds because
conscience cannot lie conscience deep
down in you is independent you try to
drown it with your your your drink your
alcohol and and drugs and all that is
still there wherever you go your
conscience goes amen your conscience is
the part when Adam took the three of the
fruit of the tree of knowledge of good
and evil men had a conscience amen and
and and you can't run away from a
conscience you can try to drown it data
knit is still there okay it might be
weight but the voice is still there and
it tells you what is right it tells you
what is wrong amen so uh men try to
avoid God because they know they have
debt on their conscience but what if I
tell you that someone came to me all
right and told me that they have paid my
debt all right instead of ten thousand
dollars which I owed Pastor Gabriel
someone came and paid one million to
Pastor Gabriel all right for my debt now
Pastor Gabriel has become a Gainer
because of me so next time when I see
him will I have debt on my conscience no
way I'll say hey come on man give me a
treat right I'm not afraid to approach
him anymore so likewise Jesus is an
overpayment because of the value of that
one man you know he's an overpayment
he's like a one million dollar uh a
payment for a ten thousand dollar debt
amen that's why the Bible says we have
much more much more in our our Christian
life now because of what Jesus did
praise God so we should by all depends
on the messenger who came and tell me
you know how how clearly how how uh uh
how completely he shares the message
it's vital he comes and say well
somebody paid your debt like some money
like they get some money uh I think you
owed to pass the table or something
right uh and and someone paid something
and unfortunately that's the message
that a lot of people hear from preachers
uh we are forgiven yet we're not
forgiven but we are forgiven you'll make
it but you gotta be careful
you know they kind of it's not clear
it's not a a loud Clarion call of good
news preaching the Good News the good
news is that your sins are forgiven amen
because of that one man not because
you're good or bad or ugly amen
don't look around I'm just happening to
you know to say that kind of thing
because it it is a a western Trinity
last time the Good the Bad and the Ugly
God wants you to know that he's he's got
nothing against you come home amen the
son paid for everything can I have a
now that you are mid righteous because
not because of who you are all right
when you were a sinner nothing good you
do can make you a good man
because when you pile up your your
Badness outweighs your goodness you're
still because the factory is wrong when
you're born again you are the
righteousness of God in Christ you might
do wrong it doesn't Define you
but it doesn't Define you you are still
the righteousness of God in Christ
amen amen a butterfly once he was a
caterpillar then he got born again okay
like a picture born now he's a butterfly
sometimes a butterfly may fall among
the rubbish hip he does not become
it does not transform back into a
caterpillar because he fell among Rabbi
ship he's still a butterfly
that fell among rubbishop
you understand okay a gold bar the value
of gold by the go by the gold bar right
but if it is thrown among the rubbish
can and all that and it's defiled and
all that it's still a gold bar the value
is still there you understand that's how
and when you sin all right now I'm not
encouraging sin of course all right but
I'm telling that you must understand
it's independent of your actions once
you know you are the righteousness of
God in Christ and you declare it you see
Miracles happening in your life I've got
testimonies of testimonies that you can
read all about it in my books as well as
also on josephprince.com you can go to
the website and look at all the
testimony of the letters of people who
are in bondage the other day I was
reading about a guy who was hooked on
drugs in America and uh and all kinds of
vices they share the two or three vices
they was in and he says that there's no
way he tried his best to stop it he
cannot and then he got hold of my
teachings and he started declaring after
he's safe I am the righteousness of God
in Christ notice that all right the
confession is in line with what God has
made him amen he's going to confess
things at first it became worse but then
all of a sudden one day he said his drug
and only that he woke up one day and
realized hey there's no withdrawal God
had delivered him he didn't even know
about it amen and he says that right now
he's sharing the good news with as many
people as possible so we are seeing a
manner writing in saying that while they
are watching pornography they're
confessing I am the righteousness of God
in Christ and guess what many of them
had got delivered from pornography and
and pastors and leaders are trying to
find a way to help people out of this
addiction out of this bondage and many
men are in this bondage and it is a
bondage don't don't say I can stop any
time okay people smoke for example you
can say I can stop anytime but they
can't and the best way out of it the
only way out of it is to acknowledge you
amen and you confess I'm the
righteousness of God in Christ where the
devil wants you convinced that you are
dirty you are filthy all right and the
fact that you're doing this now you are
filthy you are dirty and the more you
confess that the more you see yourself
as that the more you're in this
abomination of condemning yourself and
all that you'll never get out of
pornography I'm showing you the way out
and there are those who accuse me of
saying I'm giving people license to sin
have you noticed that people are sinning
all right we need license to buy a car
we need license okay to do many things
Even in our our country but there's one
thing we don't need licensed for
to sin people do it all the time okay
I'll tell you something that comes to
close the license of sin First
Corinthians 15 56 the strength the
well you bring people under the law the
strength of sin is going to work
all right this whole thing tells us that
the gospel of grace is amazing amen and
there's been a change people
I said there's been a change
the Bible tells us look at this all
right let's finish this but then will
they not have ceased to be offered Those
Old Testament sacrifices for the
worshipers once purified the word once
in the great is hapaks which is once and
for all the Believers the worshipers
once and for all purified would have had
no more consciousness of sins this is
true Christianity this is the organic
extra virgin primitive Christianity in
the book of Acts amen this is what they
believe they you don't find them always
seem conscious amen praise God like I
accused the people of Israel denying the
Lord amen and he was so free of sin
because when you are still conscious you
are negating what Jesus did you are
saying you didn't do a good job I don't
believe you did it I need to do it
myself amen because I'm still conscious
like for example someone paid the
million dollars to uh uh Pastor Gabriel
but somehow you know the news didn't
travel to me it is still paid
but the news has not been communicated
to me when I see him I'll still have
let me understand that and unfortunately
that's where Christendom is a lot of
them think that they still have this
payment and they pay as you go kind of
thing you pay as you go all right your
past tense are forgiven but from now on
you pay as you go no my friend Jesus
amen and that doesn't give you license
to sin in fact whoever knows they are
forgiven much will love him much and all
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