replace it with God’s word,
God’s word pictures, you change
the heart. Amen? So, the key is
this. How to put off this one?
The Bible says, “that you put
off concerning your former
conduct, the old man which grows
corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts, and be
renewed…” Where? “In the spirit
of your mind, and that you put
on the new man which was created
according to God…” Now, this new
man is created according to God
in what? “In true righteousness
and holiness.” You see, folks…
“Put off” is done deal. Finished
already. It doesn’t say, “You
are to put…” A lot of people
will turn it around and say,
“You see, you must put off, you
must put off, you must put off…”
It’s always this word, “you
must, you ought, you should…”
Watch out for that. That is a
try-harder Christianity. No,
it’s all by grace, people. We
already are what we are by
grace. Now, God is saying, “Walk
it out, walk out the fact that
you are a prince, you are a
princess, you are living the
high life.” Amen? Praise God!
You know, princess and
princesses, alright, in the
original form, does not look at
people that criticise them, you
know, and seriously start
scolding them and all that
because it’s beneath you to do
that. You are bigger than that.
In fact, when you focus on
people who criticise you, you
are giving them a leg up. You
are giving them a platform. You
are giving them attention, and
what you give attention to, you
give power to. I know it’s hard,
especially on the road. People
are trying their best. Be it
motivated by the devil or not,
people are trying their best to
change your… trying to control
your action. Don’t give them the
remote. Don’t allow them to. Say
that “I’m in charge”. You know,
Jesus says… do you know what it
means when Jesus says “turn the
other cheek”? Have you read
before? Jesus is saying, “be the
actor, not the reactor.” You
read, read carefully. It does
not say, “Christianity, I know
Christianity, you know it’s so
like milk toast. You know,
people slap you, you turn the
other cheek.” Read carefully. It
doesn’t say that. It says, “If
anyone smite you on the right
cheek…” Why the right cheek? Why
the right cheek? Mark, come up
here. Don’t worry, I won’t slap
you. You slap me, not I slap you
one. Amen? Okay, come to the
stage. Now watch this, okay?
Mark is gonna… I’m gonna slap
Mark, okay? It is time lapse.
Slow-mo. Watch this. Jesus say,
“If you slap someone… if anyone
slap you on the right cheek...”
You look at that in the sermon
on the mount. Look carefully.
Many people read it, “If someone
slap you on the cheek.” It
doesn’t say that. “Slap you on
the right cheek.” Now, most
people are right-hander. Most
people, normal people. Okay,
most people are, lah, it’s a
fact, okay? And even in those
days. So, watch this. If I slap
Mark… Which cheek? Left. So, to
slap him on the right cheek, you
know? What you do? You use the
back of your hand. In those
days, this is a challenge. Later
on, in Britain, across Britain,
you’d take a glove. You don’t
use your hand anymore. You’d use
your glove and you do this. That
is a challenge to a duel – with
a pistol. So, when someone does
this, it’s a challenge. Someone
horn behind you, alright, press
the horn for no reason, at least
you feel no reason, lah. We
always think it’s no reason,
lah. And whatever the reason is,
right, they are trying to press…
they are challenging you. React
angry because I am angry with
you. And the only way I can
control you is this way.
Alright? And then when he pass
by, you… Amen? Amen? Start
acting. Don’t react. Jesus says,
“Bless them that curse you.” So,
He is teaching us… this is a
challenge to a duel. Do not
respond to the challenge. Turn
the other cheek. So, I do this,
I challenge you, you turn the
other cheek. No, I already
slapped here already, so I slap
here right? You are turning the
same cheek. Okay, we’ll try
again. Okay? Slap. Turn the
other cheek. Yeah. You see? When
you turn the other cheek, all of
a sudden you turn the other
cheek, right? Who is in control
now? Alright? You are in
control. I want you to feel
angry. I want you to be
challenged, right? But then you
are saying, “No, I decide.”
Okay? I’m challenging you. Now
here is where the power of God
is released and most people
would not slap you because…
there was a guy who just got
saved. He was a boxer. Alright?
It was a well known story. He
was a boxer. He just got saved.
He didn’t learn about the Bible
much yet. And what happen is
that.. you know, someone came to
him, a non-Christian, and said,
“I understand it that you are a
Christian now…” You know, from
his circle and all that, and he
said that, “You know, the Bible
says if I slap you on the cheek,
you have to turn the other
cheek…” and PAH, he slapped him.
People do slap people, you know?
Nowadays. And it goes viral. So,
he slapped him you know? I hear
a Christian… slap him. And you
know what that guy did? He
turned the other cheek! He just
knew, alright? He doesn’t know
about what I am sharing… He
turned the other cheek! And you
know what that guy did? The guy
slapped him again on the other
cheek. And then after that, he
looked at the guy again, and the
guy says, “Aren’t you going to
react?” And the guy slapped him
again. Next thing you know, this
guy who slapped him was sprawled
across the ground with one loose
tooth or whatever. Alright. As
he looked at the guy on the
ground bleeding from his mouth,
he said that the Bible doesn’t
say what happens after that.
Thank you. So, it’s talking
about personal reaction. Talking
about personal reaction. Are you
listening? Are you with me so
far? So, what you do doesn’t
make you what you are. It is who
you are that makes you… and the
Bible says, “You are created in
the… This new man that you have
is created…” In what? “According
to God in true righteousness and
holiness.” Not this fake
righteousness… it’s true
holiness and righteousness.
People, listen! You are truly
righteous! And holy! Now, your
actions might not be holy.
Depending on when I find you,
early in the morning, you just
wake up, you might not be very
holy. Alright? It all depends.
When you catch people sometimes…
Their actions can line up, but
if you know who you are, you are
holy, but sometimes your actions
are unholy, you can line it up.
Amen? Praise the Lord. You are
not unholy. You are a new
creation in Christ. Are you
listening people? You learn
something, I’m bringing this to
a close. Is this helping here?
Do you understand what I am
saying so far? Now, it’s got to
be a seeing on the inside – you
must see it on the inside. Okay?
You got to be seeing on the
inside… don’t forget what I said
to you, that the heart… The
first mention of the heart in
the Bible, every time the Bible
mentions something for the first
time, the law of first mention,
and the first time heart is
mentioned, imagination goes with
the heart. Alright, we showed
you that last week. Look at
Genesis 6. Right, it says, “God
saw the wickedness of man was
great in the earth and that
every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.” So, this is
the first mention of the word
“heart”. First mention of the
word “heart”. Are you with me so
far? Alright, and what does it
tell you? Imagination. So, what
the devil wants to do is to
bombard your imagination with
unclean pictures, Amen? With
fearful pictures, with evil
pictures, and you know what you
are doing or not, people?
Everyday now? Ever since with
the advent of smartphones and
social media and all that, we
are actually being bombarded
every day. It says, “evil
continually.” Most of the images
you have, right, is not based on
God’s word. It’s not positive.
It’s not… the Bible says,
“Whatever things are true, pure,
holy, if there is any virtue,
any praise, think on these
things.” But we are thinking of
things, you know, that is not
holy. Not pure. Doesn’t give you
peace. It makes you restless,
and then later on you find, “Why
do I have problems sleeping? Why
do I feel depressed? Why do I
feel blah?” You are spending so
much time looking at other
people’s lives. You are
comparing, and comparing,
looking at their best pictures
that they post. Amen? With
makeup and what not, Amen? It’s
all been tampered with, and you
are looking at other people’s
lives, and the more you look at
other people’s lives, the more
depressed you become. We are one
of the most depressed people in
the… in this generation than any
other generation put together.
And yet, we have everything! At
our fingertips! Watch what you
see. Guard your heart. You know
where God speaks to you? In your
heart. Jesus says, “The Son can
do nothing except what He sees
the Father do.” He explained
that just after He healed the
pool of Bethesda, the impotent
man who has been there for 38
years. Jesus healed him, but
there were many other sick
people. Why didn’t He heal the
rest? He gave the reason. “The
Son can do nothing of Himself…”
That means my own initiative. “I
cannot do anything by my own
initiative, but by what I see
the Father do.” He is always the
obedient Son. You ask Him why?
The reason is not given. If God
wants to heal that man, make him
an evangelist, whatever, I do
not know, right? But Jesus saw
the Father healing, and Jesus
moved with that. Are you
listening, people? In the
ancient time, God speaks to
people, alright? We call them
prophets. They hear God better,
more accurately than any other
person in Israel, am I right?
Today, we are all, we all have a
prophetic ministry. Once upon a
time, there was only one king in
Jerusalem. And then, there are
many priests, but not all are
priests. Today, we are all kings
and priests. Jesus has made us
kings and priests. We should
expect that anointing. What is
the anointing of the king?
Whatever you speak happens. The
people of the world, your
colleagues, your friends, your
classmates and all that, you
know, when they speak, nothing
happens. But when you… Watch
what you say. The devil is after
your words. He wants you to use
your words against yourself.
“Oh, die lah, die lah, die la…”
No one says, “Live lah, live
lah, live lah.” “Die lah, die
lah… I’m dying for this, I’m
dying for that.” You know, he
has programmed death into your
language. “Ah, old lah, lao
liao, old, I’m getting old, you
know.” He’s programmed that,
because he knows he has no
power. The power of life and
death is in your tongue. It’s
not in his. Listen. It’s not
what people say about you. They
can say all kinds of things
about you, but don’t you ever
speak against you. You cannot
stop them from speaking. The
only one you have control of is
your own. Watch what you say.
So, in those days, right, they
have prophets. Today, we all
have prophetic ministry. We are
prophets, kings, priests. Having
the anointing of all these three
office. Back then, you want to
go to the king? Certain
location. If you want to hear a
prophet… By the way, prophet in
those days, watch this. 1 Samuel
9:9. “Formerly in Israel, when a
man went to enquire of God, he
spoke like this, ‘Come, let us
go to the…’”? Shout. The what?
The seer. “For he who is now
called a prophet was formerly
called a seer.” How does God
speak back then? Show the
prophet pictures. Do you see
that? By the way, this is in
reference to prophet Samuel. So,
how does God speak to us?
Because we are all… Today, we
are not all prophets, but we
have a prophetic anointing. All
of us. We have a kingly
anointing. We have a priestly
anointing. You see, all of us,
there is no such thing as clergy
laity. We are all kings and
priests when it comes to
worshipping God. Can I have a
good Amen? Are you with me so
far? Oh, my time is flying. I’m
not going to bind it anymore
already. I’ve learned to accept.
Amen? Because the clock is an
inanimate object. It cannot, it
cannot make me angry. You know?
“Oh I tell you, make me angry
you know? This person make me
angry, you know?” No one can
make you angry. If they can
make… I’ll close with this,
okay? If they can make you
angry… By the way I am just
starting a new series, have you
noticed that? The seer? On how
to hear God? I think we’ll
continue this because I got a
lot of teaching I’ve prepared
actually, Amen? And, we’ll
continue. But listen. No one can
make you angry. Let’s say
someone speaks bad about you.
Alright? You don’t know about
it. All of a sudden you’re
walking, you know, you are in a
shopping centre, and you are
just window shopping, just
looking around... “*gasp* I felt
hurt!” And you are walking with
Pastor Mark. “Pastor Mark, I
felt hurt! My feelings are
wounded.” Pastor Mark will say,
“What’s wrong?” “Somebody,
somewhere, spoke bad about me.”
Does that happen? No! You must
know what they say. In order for
you to be hurt, you must know
what they say! Either you read
their comments or what they
write to you or you … You must
know what they say, alright, to
be hurt. Who is the one
actually, making you hurt? If
that person can make you hurt,
even though you do not know what
they’re talking, all of a sudden
they say, “You know ah, this
person… lalala.” “Ugh, I feel
it. Someone just made me angry
with their words.” No, it
doesn’t happen like that. They
cannot make you. You make
yourself. It’s a bitter pill to
swallow but, today we are owning
up to who we are in Christ. So,
you know something? Don’t read
negative comments. Don’t fill
your heart with negative. We are
all negative based on the old
nature. Our propensity now is a
bit negative. We are learning to
renew our minds, to think
positive. Amen? When I say
positive, the Bible says, “A
helmet of the hope of salvation.
A positive expectation of good.”
“Pastor, you know a recession is
coming.” Let’s talk about God’s
provision. God’s grace always
exceeds sin. Therefore, His
supply will always exceed the
sin. Amen? The shortage. Whether
it is a recession is coming or
not, my God is El Shaddai. Amen?
He’s not “El Cheapo”, alright?
He’s El Shaddai. Amen? He is
more than sufficient. Amen? God
didn’t say, “Oh my goodness, my
goodness. Gabriel, you saw
there’s a recession coming or
not? No one told me, you know?
Michael! What have you been
doing? No one told me that a
recession will be coming…”
Alright? So, if it happens,
recession is round the corner,
let’s say you know, and it’s
coming fast and furious, you
know something? God will provide
for you. Don’t complain. Don’t
blame this and blame that and
all that. It doesn’t work. You
know that it will only make you
miserable! Have a greater faith!
Rise higher and say, “We are
going to see my God do miracles.
He always does that in famine.
I’m gonna see that happen in
Jesus’ name.” Hallelujah, praise
the Lord! We got so much more to
share, Amen? But right now, I
want you to say this, “I am a
new creation in Christ. Old
things are passed away. All
things have become new.
Regardless of how I feel, who I
am is who I am. My feelings, my
wrong actions do not define me.
God’s word defines me. I am the
righteousness of God in Christ.
When I feel angry, I am still
the righteousness of God in
Christ, and that anger comes
under my feet. I am a brand new
creation. From now on, in Jesus’
name, I’ll think a new way. I’ll
be renewed in the spirit of my
mind. I will watch my eye gate
and I’ll watch my ear gate, and
open them up only to things that
are wholesome, healthy, of
virtue, and of praise. In Jesus’
name,” and all of the people
said? Amen, Amen. Guard your
heart. Guard your eyes. Amen? I
wish I can tell you much more…
The world today is full of
negativism. You know? You need
to know the news, just read the
headlines, okay? The rest is all
just taking your time. Okay?
Amen? And just don’t spend too
much time with junk. Everything,
who is attacking who, who is
this and the death count and all
of the pandemic around the
world, of this and that… just
know the headlines, enough… and
then put your mind on things
that are wholesome. Where do you
find them? Images and all that,
this word “pictures”? God’s
word. Every head bowed, every
eye closed all across this
place, friend. Mmm, thank you
Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. There
is someone, you have just been
diagnosed with a… I think it is
in your intestines… something
has gone wrong and it showed up
recently and now you… I see you
filled with fear, Amen. But the
Lord has singled you out. Do you
know what it means? You are up
for your healing. Amen? In the
name of Jesus, I command that
condition to be healed, and I
command your body to be restored
to health in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Now, go back
to the doctor, alright? And see
what the Lord has done in your
body. And once you got the good
report, confirmed by the medical
report, just let us know. Send
it to us and let us know. I
believe God has done something.
In order for Him to single it
out, God has done something.
Now, stop, pause, and let me
tell you, this is how I saw. I
saw a picture. Okay? I was about
to close, then I saw a picture.
So, that means God is … Now,
that’s how I do it. It has been
my life for so many years now.
The word, the gifts of the
spirit also manifest as
pictures. Amen? Praise the Lord.
Thank you, Jesus. And, when I
mentioned about people taking
their life, it’s not like
someone is about to take his
life, but you are contemplating
on taking your life and what
it’s like. And in the name of
Jesus, I bind that darkness over
your head, Amen, in the name of
Jesus, and I bind all that
depression from off you in the
name of Jesus Christ, and I
command the devil to lose you
and let you go in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and let
the light of the glorious gospel
of hope, the glorious gospel of
grace shine into your heart and
mind. The good news – you are
loved, you are loved and God is
watching over you, and you are
not going through the valley,
you are not going through the
difficulty, you are not going
through this lack alone. I know
you feel as if you must provide
for your entire family, you need
to provide for everyone around
you and they might not know it,
they might not appreciate you,
but God sees it, and God is the
one you lean on, and God is more
than able to provide. In Jesus’
name, never let go of your life.
It’s a precious gift, and you
are loved. In Jesus’ name, Amen?
Praise the Lord. If you have
never made Jesus your personal
Saviour and Lord, I’d like to
pray with you right now. If that
is you, wherever you are right
now, just say this prayer from
your heart. Say, “Heavenly
Father, I thank you. Your word
says, if I confess Jesus Christ
as my Lord, and believe in my
heart that you have raised Him
from the dead, I’ll be saved.
Father, Jesus Christ is my Lord.
And I thank you, He is risen.
Death no longer has power over
Him. And what happened to Him
happened to me. Death is now
behind me. I am in Christ with a
new self, a new identity. I’m a
brand new creation. In Christ,
old things passed away, all
things become new. Jesus Christ
is my Lord. Thank you, Father.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.” Stand to
your feet, church. Thank you,
Lord Jesus. Praise the Lord. I’m
looking at the time. And,
someone with liver trouble, real
quick, you’ve been diagnosed
with a liver… in fact you went
to the doctor a few days ago,
alright? I see your liver
cleared. It’s like a hand just
peel off… I don’t know what it
is. There’s a peel, there’s a
thing being peeled off your
liver. Amen? You are healed, in
Jesus’ name. Lift up your hands
to the Father. This is what we
call the communion of the Holy
Spirit. Amen? He talks to you.
The Holy Spirit talks to you. We
will share more in the weeks to
come. Father in heaven, I thank
you for your people Lord, your
precious people and everyone
that’s tuning in online. Father,
in the name of Jesus’ I ask,
Lord, let your grace, the favour
of our Lord Jesus Christ, be
with each and every one of them
throughout this week, Lord,
experiencing Your favour
everywhere they go. Knowing that
they are favoured by God Himself
– they are God’s favourite,
expecting good things to come
out from that favour with God.
Amen? That You grant them favour
with man as well throughout this
week. And Father, let the love
of God be something they
experience, not just something
Lord, in printed form, but
something they will experience.
Give them a special experience
of Your love throughout this
week, they and their families,
and then their friendship, their
communion, Lord, that sweet
communion of the Holy Spirit, be
with every one of them, Lord. In
the name of Jesus, be with every
one of you. In the name of
Jesus, be sensitive to the word
pictures that the Holy Spirit
gives you. Amen? And act on it,
and you’ll see miracles happen.
You’ll see miracles happen.
Whatever He says to you, do it,
and the water will turn into
wine. In Jesus’ name and all the
people said? Amen. God bless you
all! We’ll see you again! Bye
bye!
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Never feel that you are just a
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Just because your
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Your worth is not
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Your worth must be set on
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And that's what God
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You don't do to become.
You are!
Now, you do what you are.
We already are
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Now God is saying:
"Walk it out!"
Instead of: "I'll try to
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"I'll try to avoid this feeling..."
You have lost before
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Want to say amen to all
the prayers prayed over all
the mothers, amen. And how many
are planning, just by a show of
hands, I just feel like asking
this – how many, you are married
of course, you’re planning to be
a mother any time soon. You have
not conceived yet but you’re
planning to be a mother. Let me
see your hands. Just wave.
Praise the Lord. Ok. Yup
Alright, how many of you, don’t
have to raise your hands for
this one, but you are, you’ve
been wanting to be a mother for
now more than two years to three
years and you’ve not had any
manifestation yet but you’re
believing God for it. Amen. I
want to tell you this – God
specifically spoke to me in my
time, in preparation and said
that it’s going to be your year
of miracle. Just like the year
of Rest and Acceleration, this
is going to happen. Now I don’t
always give this kind of words
as you know. I don’t say this in
every other service and all that
and it’s been some time since I
said that. But every time I said
it, it’s like that particular
year is going to be like a baby
boom. Amen. I don’t mean it’s
going to be like coming out
poop. I'm going to say that you
are in for a beautiful bouncy
baby. Amen. A booming bouncy
baby. Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah. Amen God is good.
God is good and the heart of the
Father is when God speaks to
Abraham, God speaks
generationally. Always have you
noticed that, when God makes
promises, He makes promises
generationally. He always said
that, “In your seed shall all
the nations of the earth be
blessed. And I shall bless your
seed and your seed’s seed.” And
the Lord always says in every
blessing, even in the psalms it
says may you live to see your
children’s children. Amen. It’s
not just long life for the sake
of long life like in Psalms 91.
It says, “With long life will I
satisfy him and show him my
salvation.” The first reason for
long life is to see Jesus. Just
like Simeon the prophet, the
Lord said to him that he will
not die until he sees Jesus.
That’s why when Joseph and Mary
dedicated Jesus to the temple,
old Simeon came and then he held
the Baby in his arms. And what
did he tell the Lord? Lord let
now your servant depart in peace
for my eyes have seen Your
Salvation. In Hebrew, he would
have said, my eyes have seen
your Yeshua. Your Jesus. Amen.
So I believe just like Simeon,
in the first coming of Jesus, in
the second coming of Jesus,
there’ll be a generation of
Simeons. Amen. They are advance
in years and yet they are not
dead yet. Why? Because they are,
they take into heart that
promise in Thessalonians, amen,
“You will not see death until
you see Jesus.” And that seeing
Jesus there is physical. To see
Jesus face to face. You see, as
believers we are not looking for
the grave. We’re looking to the
sky for the Lord to appear. And
then our bodies will be
transformed like His glorious
body. Amen. We’re not looking
for the undertaker. We’re
looking for the upper taker.
Amen. So, it’s not scriptural to
be looking towards death. The
Bible says you are to look to
the sky, to look to Jesus. Your
redemption and that redemption
there is bodily redemption. Your
redemption draws near. And all
the people said, amen. Praise
God. Smile to your neighbour and
say, “You are in for an exciting
time, especially you.” And look
at another person and say that,
“I don’t know what’s your
trouble, but your troubles will
melt like wax in the presence of
the Lord.” Amen. Praise the name
of Jesus. We are continuing our
teaching on the heart. How many
are blessed last week by the
word of the heart. And we were
trying to locate the heart
because everyone is after your
heart. Everyone. The world out
there, the social media, they
are bombarding you every day.
The advertisers, marketing –
they are all appealing where? To
your heart. And many a times
even when they are promoting
things like medicine or certain
kind of products. You don’t find
them talking so much about the
specifics or the detailed
explanation of what this product
or the ingredients of the
product. What they do is that
they give you a story, a short
story and then they tell you how
this person; they show you the
guy holding the pain at first.
Argh his hand, it’s very
painful. Then later on he take
this product, he’s smiling.
Amen. But the before picture is
always very grumpy one. Alright,
the after picture is always
smiling. Amen. This lady before
she use this shampoo, look at
the hair. Argh that kind of
thing. Now, she’s smiling. Amen.
It’s always like that. So no
mention of the ingredients of
the shampoo. What are they
doing? They are after your
heart. They are after your
heart. They know that your head
is not interested in the facts
so much as your heart. It
appeals to your heart. At the
end, many of us, we still look
at the facts because we are
mature and advance enough in our
life; older ones especially; to
want to look at the facts. But
now in the world that we live
in, sometimes facts are
confounded. We do not know what
is really facts. That’s why the
term “fake news” has been very
current, recently. Right?
Especially these last, only
happen like this last decade, it
came to prominence. Why? Because
you have to decipher through the
facts. But there’s one thing, my
friend that you can be sure of –
the Word of God. This book here,
this book here, listen
carefully, outlast….Truth, it
has truth. It outlasts facts. So
when the doctor says that, yes
the x-ray, the MRI and all that
shows that you have this
condition. We’re not saying
that’s not a fact. It is a fact.
But the fact, listen, may not be
permanent. Most of the time,
they’re not. But God’s truth
outlast the fact. God’s truth is
forever. Can I have a good amen?
And once Jesus died on that
cross for all your sins,
everything that’s between you
and God and especially the
barrier of sin. Because sin is
what separates man from God has
been removed. That is a truth.
Amen. So therefore, the facts in
your body. The facts that say
that hey, you still have sin.
You still have sin in your mind,
in your body, predominantly
that’s where it manifests. You
still have that anger, you still
have that bitterness. But here
is where a lot of scholars may
differ from what I believe is
the Word of God’s teaching –
because they will teach like,
you are a…you still have your
sinful nature. NIV especially
talks about the flesh. Where it
says the “flesh”, it says sinful
nature. Amen. Now how many of
you know that a lot of your
problems today, even when you
sit down there is because of
your flesh. Now, is the flesh
the sinful nature? No. Once upon
a time, you had the sinful
nature. But once you believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ, you
believe Christ died on that
cross for your sins, amen. And
the divine exchange took place.
God made Jesus who knew no sin,
He did no sin, in Him is no sin.
At the cross, God made Jesus to
be sin with your sins. He bore
your sins so that you can become
the righteousness of God in Him.
Jesus did not commit sin to
become sin at the cross. He
carried your sins. You don’t
commit righteousness to become
righteous. Amen. We’re not saved
by our works. Amen. We receive
His righteousness. And therefore
we are now the righteousness of
God in Christ. Can I have a good
amen? Are we or are we not? So
here, here’s where the battle
takes place. There’s a branch of
Christianity that teaches we
still have the sinful nature.
Now I teach that we still have
the flesh. What is the flesh?
The flesh is the carry over and
the residue of the sinful
nature. But they’re not the
same. That’s why I don’t agree
with the NIV, which is a great
translation by the way. The
Bible, the original word. Listen
there are many translations,
right, depending on what Bible
you want to use. I suggest you
use a few when you study the
Word. But original is inspired.
Translators may differ in the
way they translate one verse,
but listen carefully, the
original, and I’ll endeavour to
always show you the original,
ok. The original says sarx which
is flesh. The word ‘flesh’
there, the NIV put ‘sinful
nature’. So today, it tells you,
“Put to death your sinful
nature.” The idea is that you
still have your sinful nature.
But the Bible says that if
anyone is in Christ, he’s a new
creature. I say you are a new
creature. Turn to your neighbour
and say, “What a creature!”.You
are a new creature. That’s the
Old King James and the New King
James for creation. New
creation. That’s a nice name for
a church. New creation. If
anyone is in Christ, he’s a new
creation. I'm so glad we chose
that name – New Creation Church.
Amen. “Therefore, if anyone is
in Christ, he is a new creation.
Old things are passed away. All
things have become new.” So the
Bible says that, “All things
have become new.” Where has it
become new? In your spirit man.
Amen. One day when we see Jesus
face to face, we’ll have a new
body. A body that will never
grow old, never die. Forever
young, forever healthy, forever
strong. Forever is a very long
time, my friend. Make sure you
are saved. Amen. Don’t leave
this to chance. Hallelujah. And
it’s not hard to be saved. Jesus
did all the tough part. He
suffered for us at the cross.
Our part is to believe. Amen.
When you believe because why?
Why believe is important?
Because the mother of all sin,
the root of all sin and it all
happened back in the garden is
man’s heart of unbelief. That’s
the root of every sin. It is not
pornography, it’s not lying,
it’s not murder. Long before all
these manifest and these are
sins, these are the works of the
flesh. Long before all these
manifest, it is a heart of
unbelief. When a person’s heart
is not believing God, that’s
when it gives rise to all these
manifestations of the flesh.
These are just manifestations.
Are you listening people? But
once you are a believer, you are
no more the old creation. You
are a brand new creation but you
have the flesh. The flesh is
like the lifestyle that you
still have the bad habits and
the proclivities and the
sensations even of the old
sinful nature that does not
exist anymore. But it feels so
real. Amen. And your failures
tell you, look, you still, you
are still the old sinful nature,
nothing has changed. Nothing
could be further from the truth.
God’s truth tells you. These are
just facts. Right? And those
facts is that you sin. When you
sin, we’re not saying you didn’t
sin. You lost your temper,
you’re angry with someone on the
road, amen. That’s sin. Amen.
And none of us commit it, I can
see you all look so
sanctimonious. You all sit down
there, you all look so holy.
Especially Pastor Mark down
here, you look so holy. But all
of us, every day, we are true to
ourselves, amen, if we are
honest, we will just say that we
all have this propensity, we
still have this proclivity
towards sin. This side of heaven
until we receive our new body.
And what does that tell us? In
heaven, once we see Jesus in the
rapture, our bodies are
transformed like His body.
Forever strong, forever healthy.
Forever. It’s a forever body.
And it’s still a body of flesh
and matter. Amen. Flesh and
bones. Just that it’s forever
flesh and forever bones. It’s
called glorified body. And all
of a sudden when you receive the
body, you don’t have any more
sinful tendencies. So what does
that tell you? That tells you
the sin is in the sarx, in the
flesh; not in your…. Let me say,
your body is not dirty. God says
your body is the temple of the
Holy Spirit. Your body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit. If I
want to go one step further, the
Greek there actually refers to
the - which part of the temple?
There is three parts of the
temple. There’s the outer court,
there’s a holy place and there’s
a holy of holies. Do you know
that when the Bible says your
body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit, it actually refers to
your holy of holies, the holy of
holies of the temple. The place
where God dwells. Now it did not
say your spirit man is the holy
of holies. It says your body is
the holy of holies. Don’t you
know your body has been bought
by Jesus’ blood? Amen. You see
the value of the thing is how
much you’re willing to give up
for that thing. If you buy a
house for example, you bought it
for, let’s just give a ballpark
figure, let’s see you bought it
for $100,000. Amen. Previously
you bought it for $100,000. Now
you want to sell it. It all
depends on what people are
willing to pay out there.
Nowadays you hear stories of
people looking at houses that
cost $100,000, for example and
they are willing to pay
$200,000. What does it tell you?
The value of the thing is how
much a person is willing to pay
for it. It’s not even what is
the value in the market.
Actually the real value is the
person willing to pay for it. If
the person is willing to pay for
it, that’s how he values that
property. Are you listening?
You, when you were lost,
hopeless, in the uncircumcision
of your flesh, dead in your
sins, God paid with the blood of
His Son to redeem you. Your
value is shown there. Never feel
that you are just a face in the
crowd, just because your
circumstances has failed, just
because you experienced a
setback in some area, it’s no
reason to take your life. It’s
no reason to go down the
doldrums of depression and say
that I’m useless, I’m worth
nothing. Your worth is not cut,
it’s not tied, listen my friend,
it’s not tied to your occupation
or to what you do. Your worth
must be set on something
unmovable. Jobs are movable.
Amen. Qualifications are
movable. Amen. You cannot base
on things that are movable. But
unshakeable, eternal and that’s
what God says about you. And no
one sees reality like God. So
are you listening, people? So we
have this problem right? They
say that you are a new creation
but you are not a new creation.
Are you righteous, am I
righteous or not? Yes the Bible
says you are righteous in
Christ, but, amen, it is a
position. Ok what talk you now?
It is a position. Ok what you
are is that you are still
sinning but your position before
God is that you are righteous.
But you know something that is
just a position. What you need
to do, what you ought to do,
what you must do – you must
give, you must obey, you must
forgive, you must, you must. And
all these things are good, don’t
misunderstand. But what is evil
and what is subtle in this
teaching that has produced
instead of the true holiness and
a victorious lifestyle that we
believers are believing for. As
a result, we see failure after
failure after failure. Why? It’s
based on a false premise.
Listen, you don’t do to become.
You already have become so that
you can do. It’s something
called, which one comes first?
The command or the become? What,
who you are. What you do and
what you is. You don’t do to
become. You are. Now you do what
you are. Amen. Are you
listening? When Queen Elizabeth
was growing up, she used to be
very playful. Amen. Now she’s
facing what ah silver jubilee? I
know it’s some sort of jubilee,
ok. And amazing lady. Thank God
for her. We pray for her to live
longer. Amen. And when she was
younger, she used to be very
playful until someone sat her
down. Look at her in the eye and
said, respectfully, princess at
that time, you are to be the
queen, you are the princess of
the royal family of Britain.
That the time has, they boast
that the sun never sets on the
empire. And you will rule
Britannica. Amen. You are a
princess and you are a queen.
Amen. All of a sudden, she
changed her mentality. Alright.
Now when she changed, did she
become a princess? Or she’s
already a princess? The mind
change is just to realise who
you already are but the
bombarding of the teaching is
always try harder to b… the idea
of the ‘try harder’ mentality or
the ‘try harder’ Christianity is
not based on the New Testament
teaching. ‘Try harder’ is to
imply you’re not there. So every
temptation that comes, is the
devil giving you a lie. You see,
you see, you have bitterness in
the heart. You can feel it. It’s
a fact. You can feel it. I’m not
saying that you don’t feel it,
ok. You can feel it. But you
see, because you feel it, you’re
the same old person and you get
depressed. Or whatever you do to
get back in fellowship with God.
Instead of realising then and
there based on the Word of God,
you already are holy, you are
created in righteousness and
true holiness. Are you
listening, my friend? There is
something, a term used in Bible
theology, which is like the…
even the writings of the New
Testament, where Paul’s letters
for example. He uses the
indicative many a times before
he uses the imperative. What is
indicative? Indicative is who
you already are. Alright, what
is imperative? Command. So Paul
will say things like, “Since you
are risen with Christ, imagine
that, you are on the other side
of the grave.” Church, you are
on the other side of the grave.
Alright, death and judgement are
behind you. Say, “Death and
judgement are behind me.” Now
see it. See it. We learn about
the imagination of the heart,
Amen? Imagination with God is
real. Now see it because you are
not trying to see to become, to
make it real. You are seeing
something that is real. Where is
death and judgement? But many of
us, where do we see death and
judgement in our imagination, in
our heart, in front of us? Where
is death and judgement? Behind
us. Are you listening, people?
And what is in front of you?
Grace and glory. Glory!
Hallelujah! Amen. You are now on
the other side of the grave. You
are on the other side of the
grave. You are not, you know,
looking at death in front of
you, you know? I got nowhere to
go, you know, my life is now at
this juncture. I think the only
way to look at, you know, it’s
just the grave. No, no, no, the
grave is behind you. Death is
behind you. So are you saying
Pastor Prince that people who
believe that won’t die? No, for
us, listen carefully, even the
Christian term “die”, the Bible
says, “The believer falls asleep
in Jesus.” If the Lord should
tarry… You know, when I take
Communion, I always say, “Lord
if You should tarry, alright, if
You should tarry… By Your
stripe, I will live to… There’s
a certain age that I live, which
is very personal between me and
the Lord. It’s not for you to
know. Alright, because if I
reach that age right, you will
say, “Aye you are of this
age…you know, some secrets… And
I wish that Samson learnt this,
some secrets are not meant to be
shared publicly. I don’t know
why some of you love to share
everything on Twitter, on
Instagram, you know and
everything about your life. Help
yourself. Alright but don’t cry
when people criticise. Amen.
Don’t expose your life for the
enemy to hit you. Learn to have
some root life. Don’t just have
the branches and the flowers and
the fruits for display. In fact,
how good those things are, is
how great your root is and root
life is hidden life. You find
yourself feeling empty is
because you might not have a
root life. And that root life is
life with Jesus behind closed
doors. Spending time with the
Word just enjoying the Lord,
seeing what He wants you to see.
Okay, back to this again. It’s
something called indicative
which is who you are. Since you
are this, now do this. Since you
are risen with Christ, Amen, put
to death the manifestation the
deeds of the body, which is
fornication, blasphemy, lying,
bitterness. Notice that? We say
that, “Do this first!” “No,” God
says, “Realise who you are,
since you are risen with Christ,
you can put to death all these
things. Don’t let these things
bully you. Just because the
bitterness button is being
pushed, alright, you got to be
bitter. No, you are risen. Amen
they are under your feet.”
Praise the Lord. Are you
listening? For example, we look
at a verse like this, right, in
Romans chapter six. Look up here
in Romans chapter six. It says,
“Therefore do not let sin reign
in your mortal body, that you
should obey it in its lusts.”
Now we hear this teaching very
often right in the Christian
life? And we hear it preached
but it’s a verse taken out of
context. You cannot just say,
“Stop sinning, don’t let sin
reign.” It is out of context.
Why? Because, notice the word
“therefore”? Can you see the
word, “Therefore do not let…”
Therefore do not let… That means
there’s a previous verse telling
you something. Therefore do not
let… Alright, if you got a
problem watching pornography or
you got problem with forgiving
people or you’re always
bad-tempered or even depressed.
Or even you know, you’re always
in a state of unbelief or you’re
very very, you know, what you
call… always doubting,
reasoning, second guessing. Your
life is miserable. Sin will make
you miserable. But how do you
overcome sin? “Just don’t do it
lor!” That’s the try harder
mentality. The Bible doesn’t
teach that way. Alright, so I’m
gonna ask you again. Class, why
is the “therefore” there for?
Why? Okay one more time. Why is
the “therefore” there for?
Kenapa? Why is it there? So you
see, you cannot take a verse out
of its context. But people
understand this verse. Therefore
people usually don’t see what
God wants them to see the
reality the way God sees it.
Therefore, “Ergh! Just give me
the practical!” They love the
book of James. They say that,
“James is practical.” Means Paul
is not. What do you mean? Paul’s
letters are not? “Ergh! I don’t
understand this “seated with
Christ in heavenly places” right
now. Right now I’m in Ang Mo
Kio! You understand or not?”
What is this “seated with Christ
in heavenly places”? See, they
don’t see. Their imagination
don’t see so they say that James
is practical. James talks about
what to do. “Give me something
to do, give me something to do.
And that’s why there are people
who loves sermons that tell you
what to do. Right? Now are there
things to tell you what to do?
Yes! The Bible is chock-full of
it. Amen! But when the Bible
teaches you something, it’ll
always tells you because you
have received now. Got it?
Sometimes it puts the cause in
front. Sometimes it puts the
cause behind. For example,
behind is like this. We love. We
all want to love. We want to be
loving people. Amen? Love our
families. Love people around us.
As believers we are called to
love Amen? Love God most of all
but why do we love? We love
because… Now the cause is put at
the end. Because He first loved
us. So which one happened first?
You’ve got to experience God’s
love. You got to know how much
God loves you and then you can
love. Your life of loving is an
outcome, is an outflow of your
life of being loved. When you
live loved, Amen always live
life, when you wake up in the
morning, know that you are
someone loved, dearly loved. And
you know how God has made you.
God has made you holy,
blameless, Amen and in other
words, He has made you lovable
in His sight. You are lovable in
His sight. Amen. Not based on
your actions. This is something
very hard for us to do but back
to this before we go on. Are you
all learning so far? Mothers,
are you all learning? More than
anything else, the devil loves
to attack women for some reason.
Notice his first attack was
towards Eve? Alright he knows
that if he can get the woman…
Women have, you know, a greater
tendency to want to take things
in their own hands to help the
family, especially when the man
is not being the head, they take
over. You can’t blame them. It’s
in their nature. They want to
help the family. Amen but then
that opens them up to what? More
failures. The devil will say,
“All these years, you see, all
that you put in, your kids don’t
even care about you. Amen, look
at that. Your husband takes you
for granted. Look at that, they
didn’t even say ‘Thank you’.”
Look at that. Look at that. Look
at that. Imagination. Look at
that. See in your mind. “You are
not appreciated. You are this.
You are that.” So the devil
attacks, especially women. Amen.
Are you listening? That’s why
the disciples were shocked when
Jesus looked at the woman at the
well and talked to her. Even she
herself was shocked, “Why is it
that You being, you know, a Jew
(She made it into a racial
thing), You speak to me, whom
I’m a Samaritan. But also the
fact that she is a woman. The
disciples were surprised. They
themselves, they are Jewish and
they are surprised that Jesus is
talking to the woman and this
woman had five husbands.
一，二，三，四，五. 五. 五. Five husbands.
Satu, dua, tiga, empat, lima.
Lima laki laki tahi? Terok man.
One laki2 already wo! Amen?
Imagine five Mark Ng Tian Xius
to take care of. One is enough
man. It takes a whole lifetime
for a woman. You ask Carol.
Amen? Five! That poor woman is
suffering but for the religious
mind mentality, “Ah! She’s
terrible. How can she??” She’s
looking for love in all the
wrong places. So she had five
husbands and then Jesus told
her, “The one that you are
living with…” So he’s the sixth
man. So she had five husbands.
That means what? All divorced,
right? “So the one that you are
living with now, that is not
married, that you are not
married to, the one that you are
living with now, is not your
husband. That means she’s living
now with the sixth man in
adultery. So Jesus did not say,
“Ergh, this woman is terrible, I
won’t talk to her. I’ll bypass
her, like the Pharisees, like
the Sadducees.” No, He took time
to talk to her. “Mmmm so the one
that you are living with, the
sixth one, is not your husband.”
Then He says… She asked, “Who is
the one?” Later on, He says,
“But the Messiah will come.”
Right, she said, “And will teach
me all things.” Jesus says, “I
who speak unto you. I am He. The
seventh Man and her rest is
found in that seventh Man. She’s
finally fulfilled. That is the
living water. That seventh Man
gives you water that will quench
you. No one else can give you
that kind of water and her
journey came to an end all these
years. Amen. She met the seventh
Man. By the way if you count
that portion of Scripture. Amen
the Holy Spirit records exactly
seven words of Jesus to her. In
the entire episode at the well,
you count the number of times
Jesus spoke to her or answered
her question. It’s exactly
seven. He’s the perfect man.
Have you met the seventh Man?
“Now Pastor, nowadays you know,
no more seven exist... 70th man
already, Jesus. Finally Jesus
came along was 70 years man. No,
you know Pastor it’s Like, you
know, but as long you meet the
Man and seven in the Bible is
the number of perfection. Number
of perfection. Can I have a good
Amen? So Jesus would treat men
and women even those who are
social outcasts with respect. He
calls them by name. There’s a
guy… You talk about social
outcast, it is Zacchaeus because
Zacchaeus collects taxes. He’s a
tax collector – collects taxes
for a country that Israel at
that time was under, the Romans.
Amen, so he’s the … He lived the
high life, Amen and he can
collect as much money as he
wants, even some extra for
himself. So the people of that
day hated the tax collectors.
When Jesus saw him up on the
tree, when Jesus passed by
Jericho. What did Jesus say?
“Zacchaeus!” Don’t forget a
crowd was around Jesus. Many of
them would love for Jesus to
call their name, wouldn’t you?
None of them had the honour,
except for a person who is a
social outcast. “Zacchaeus! Come
down. I must eat at your house.”
“I must eat at your house.” A
necessity, just like the woman
at the well. The Bible says
there’s another way of going –
bypass. Most Jewish people
bypass the city of Samaria
because they don’t like the
Samaritans. Right, so they
bypass the city of Samaria. The
Bible says Jesus must needs.
Must needs go through Samaria.
It is not a must of geographical
necessity. It is not a must of
convenience because they have to
eat. Jews don’t want to go
through Samaria. Jesus must go
through. Why? For one. Just for
one. He’ll do the same for you.
He doesn’t treat you like a
crowd, you know, in a face in a
crowd. He treats you. He knows
what you are going through and
He loves you. “Hey you don’t
serve a dead Saviour! He’s
risen! He’s alive today! Amen!
And He is with you, by His Holy
Spirit and one day we’ll see Him
face to face. Hallelujah! Praise
the Lord! Are you with me so
far? Are you learning this? So
just to say, “Don’t sin! Don’t
sin! Don’t sin!” No that’s not
the language of the Bible. The
Bible says, “Therefore do not
sin.” So what is that? Why is
the “therefore” there for?
Always find out why the
“therefore” is there for and
you’ll find the secret for the
“therefore”. “Therefore do not
let sin…” Okay, don’t forget.
That’s the idea here but look at
the context, then we come to
verse nine. “Knowing that Christ
having been raised from the dead
dies no more, death no longer
has dominion over Him.” How many
agree that Jesus, once He is
risen from the dead, death is
behind Him? Death no more has
power over Him. It’s a beautiful
sound. Death no longer has
dominion. What a beautiful
sound. One of the things that
cause a lot of tears in this
world is death. And Jesus, (The
shortest verse of the Bible,
“Jesus wept.”) was at a funeral.
Amen. Now He knew He’s going to
raise Lazarus from the dead. Why
did He cry? He cried because He
knew that when the Father and
Him planned for man to live this
wonderful life, just enjoying
God’s blessings, death was never
in the agenda. Death was
something like an outside thing
that came in because of man’s
sin. Man sinned and the wages of
sin is death. So remember that
death is not part of God’s plan.
God hates death. God considers
death as an enemy. Okay, don’t
forget that. Okay so here it
says, “Once Christ is raised
from the dead, death no longer
has dominion over Him. Now watch
this, for the death that He
died, He died to sin once for
all. Hapax in the Greek, means
once and for all. So when the
death that He died, He died to
sin. How long did He die to sin?
Did Jesus die to sin gradually,
or once and for all? Once and
for all. Is it in the past,
folks? Alright, when you come to
church, remember this. Bring
along your brain, okay? We want
to reason as well. Okay? In fact
I want to talk about the two
parts of your brain today, if I
have time. And it’s very
interesting, but bring along
your understanding part, Amen
the logical part but that’s not
how we live life with God. We
live… Okay I’m getting ahead of
myself. But listen church. Jesus
died to sin once and for all.
Not gradually. This idea of like
we are all dying to sin slowly.
Everyday we should be dying more
and more to sin. It’s not in the
Bible. The Bible says, watch
this now. Jesus died to sin,
what? Once and for all! There’s
not gonna be a future repeat.
Okay? Now, it’s talking about
Jesus, Pastor. Yea it’s talking
about Jesus, I agree. For the
death that He died, He died to
sin once and for all but the
life that He lives, He lives to
God. So death is behind Him. Now
He lives His life to God. Look
at verse 11, “Likewise you also.
Reckon yourself to be dead
indeed to sin but alive to God
in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Hallelujah likewise the way
Jesus died to sin. How did He
die to sin? Gradually? No! Once
and for all. Done deal! Amen,
likewise you yourself, reckon.
The word “reckon” is an
accounting term to say as the
facts are, alright, esteem it,
account it according to the
facts. For example, if you have
1,000 dollars in the bank, you
must esteem, reckon you have
1,000 dollars in the bank. Now
your reckoning that you have
1,000 dollars in the bank don’t
put 1,000 dollars in the bank.
Let’s say it’s zero. I reckon I
have 1,000, then peng! 1,000
happens. A lot of people think
faith is like that. No! Faith is
not seeing what you have but God
says you have it. Amen. Then you
agree with God, you reckon that
God, whatever God says that you
have, you have. That’s reckon.
It’s based on facts, spiritual
facts. Reality is based on the
truth. Amen. God says, “Likewise
reckon yourself, account
yourself, esteem yourself like
Jesus. “Likewise” means what? In
the same manner. Like your gym
instructor will say, okay watch
this now. Watch this okay? Now
when you carry your weight,
alright? Notice I used my back
muscle, I don’t use my arm
muscle. I used my back. Have you
noticed? Now, go, look at my
muscle at the back. Amen.
Alright, now likewise. What’s he
telling you likewise? In the
same way. In exactly the same
way. So what in the same way? In
the same way, Jesus died to sin
once and for all. The life He
lived, He lived to God. He’s not
looking to die to sin anymore.
“Now Pastor Prince, if that is
so that I still feel angry, I
still feel frustrated.” Well,
it’s just feelings. (sings)
Nothing more than feelings. I
know you’re trying to forget all
feelings of anger, rage.
Feelings! Oh, oh, oh feelings!
Aye can you all sing this song
and not get depressed? I rather
sing “10,000 reasons to praise
the Lord.” Amen! Praise God! No
wonder you sing songs like this,
“Why does the sun (I know it’s
an old song, you know.) go on
shining?” Jialat man! As far as
the person is concerned, he’s
not based on reality. She’s
reckoning all wrong. The sun is
still shining. Even you don’t
see the sun shine outside, it’s
a rainy day. The sun is still
shining behind the clouds. Amen.
So God is saying, “Alright
reckon based on spiritual
reality.” So Christ died to sin,
so what happened is that when
you feel the temptation, when
you feel it, you’re saying,
“It’s a lie, this is not real.
This is not who I am. I am not
defined by this. Amen. I am a
new creation. Amen created in
righteousness and true
holiness.” So God says,
“Likewise reckon yourself dead
indeed to sin, the way Jesus
died to sin, once and for all,
you should reckon yourself dead
to sin, once and for all and the
life that you live, you live
unto God. Therefore do not let,
therefore do not let. Likewise
reckon yourself dead, once and
for all, therefore do not let.
You know what it’s saying? If
you really esteem that, you have
become, you will not let. You
see, when you see I don’t let my
dog go too far. Who has the
power? The dog or the… Ask
Caesar Milan. You must be the
alpha male. You must be the one
handling the dog. Not let the
dog handle you. Are you
listening? Many years ago, I was
stopped when I just got my car.
You know, I was stopped on the
highway and the policeman was a
very nice man. Even taught me
how to drive. He looked at me,
looked at my license, you know
and all that. And he says, “You
know,” He said this to me. I’ll
never forget, until now. How
many years ago was that? “No,
Pastor, that was last week.” No,
it was many years ago. Was many
years ago. You know what he said
to me? “Don’t let your car
control you. Control your car.”
And he gave it back and he
walked away. Gave me a chance.
Of course I was speeding la and
I passed by him. He took over
and this is what he said, “Don’t
let your car control you.”
Untill now, I still remember
don’t let my car control me.
Control your car. Are you
listening? You know what is
meekness? People think of
meekness as, oh people run, walk
all over you and they bully you.
You say nothing. Meek means like
you know, you’re a bit hunched
alright, you know, you walk down
like that, you’re afraid of
people. That’s a person who is
meek. M-E-E-K, meek. But the
Bible meekness is different.
Bible meekness is strength under
control. You can hit back but
you don’t hit back. You’re the
greater one. Amen. People push
your buttons, doesn’t work
because you are in control. It’s
you are meek, strength under
control. Amen. We have all kinds
of ideas in church you know.
Years ago, when I was in my
previous church as a teenager. I
remember my friend said, “Wah
this… There was a speaker, an
elderly man. This speaker is
very humble.” I said, “Hah?” “Ya
you watch. I’ve listened to him
preached before. See the way he
walks, okay?” And then he went
up, he went up the pulpit. Now
I’m not saying he’s not humble.
Alright I’m just saying about
the walk. He came up the pulpit
like this. Now what is that
about humility? It’s his
personality. He wants to bend
down. My concern is that you
bend down, you don’t maintain a
good posture, one day you’ll
find it’s hard to be
straightening up. Alright, I
find Jesus healing people who
are bent down. He never said,
“Hey Mark, bend down a bit, you
are very proud, you know huh?”
He never says that. Right Mark?
He never says, “Mark, bend down
a bit.” Right? No. He always
raises people up. So I’m just
saying, you cannot judge based
on looking at someone like that.
So I look at… “So that’s
humble?” I said to my friend,
“That’s being humble?” “Ya lor!”
So in front of him, I never
walked straight again. When he
talked to me, I say… That’s
humble. Okay, watch another
scenario. Okay, watch another
scenario. David, right and
Goliath and Goliath, “WHAHYA!”
Very hard for me to impersonate
Goliath. Mark come. “WHAHYA!”
Right you know. “Today I’ll give
your body to the fowls of the
air. HAH” And David says, “You
come to me with a spear and a
sword but I come to you in the
name of the Lord of hosts, the
God of the armies of Israel whom
you have defied. Today all the
earth shall know that there is
an Elohim in Israel, a God in
Israel. Hallelujah. Now stop the
picture and think and look at
this guy. This boy is about 17.
Goliath, wah, man of you know.
Some of you will go down there,
“Uncle ah? 大哥, aye brother!” You
will try your best to you know,
you use nice terms. David didn’t
even use nice terms. He says,
“Today God will deliver you into
my hand.” In fact he says, “Who
is this uncircumcised
Philistine? That’s language,
very intimate language -
uncircumcised Philistine. Strong
tough talk. Right? But you know
something? God was with David.
So for us, this is not humility.
This is pride. But no. In God’s
eyes, it’s boldness and boldness
is predicated on faith in God.
It’s because you have faith in
God, you are bold. Don’t think
for one moment that sometimes
the appearance and all that, it
can be flesh. Like some people,
you know. “Pastor Prince, you
look at this lady, she’s so
holy.” Holy is based on what?
“Look at her, she has a sungo,
she has a bun right, she doesn’t
makeup much. You can see that
she’s holy.” So she’s holier
than the lady who has makeup?
“Yah.” I happen to know the
lady. “Huh?” I am the Pastor, I
happen to know the lady. She’s
got a lot of problems with
people. Alright. She looks like
she’s got no makeup, alright
that the sungo is very tight
right? You know, she blinks, the
whole thing shakes, that’s how
tight it is. Alright but she can
sit in the living room and lick
a spoon in the kitchen. That’s
how long her tongue is you know?
The things that she say about
people. “Everybody is … Haiya
everyone who goes to church is a
hypocrite.” You ever hear that?
“Everyone who goes to church is
a hypocrite.” Aiya you come also
lah, one more won’t make a
difference. So we go by
appearance. “Oh he must be
proud.” Have you ever considered
the fact that you dressed up
because you are meeting the
President? You’re meeting the
Queen? You dressed up because
you respect her. You respect the
occasion. Yah there are people
who would go crazy and they
dressed up just to flaunt and to
show off and all that. I’m
talking about honouring the
occasion. I think honestly, I
think this is not important,
okay but I think it should
reflect our Sunday’s best
because we are going into the
house of the Lord. Amen, I know
the house is not building, it’s
us coming together. Still it’s
the house of the Lord. We are
all coming together. Amen. Are
you listening people? I don’t
know why I’m saying this but
it’s important, okay? Alright.
Therefore. Notice the indicative
comes before the imperative. The
“who you are in Christ, dead to
sin once and for all, alive to
God in the new creation”. That
is what helps you. The becoming
happens before the acting. Are
you listening? You know why you
try harder? Do you try hard to
speak your mother tongue? Okay
you all don’t want to talk to
me, I won’t talk to you. Let’s
see who wins. “Oh Pastor, that’s
your flesh!” Yes! So talk to me.
Answer. Mark, answer! Huh? Easy!
Mark’s language you know, just
fluent. In fact he tells me,
“English, he has problem. Amen.”
Now I have problem speaking
Chinese. What he finds so easy
is hard. What I find easy, Amen
is hard for him. Your mother
tongue, you just flow right? Are
you listening? So the idea if
anyone tells you, “Try harder.”
They’ll say, “Well Pastor Prince
teaches like you know like,
people can be passive and God
will do everything. You know, if
they want to label it like that,
you know, they can label
anything you want to label.
Alright just calling a dog a
cat, doesn’t make it a cat. It’s
still a dog. “Woof.” You know
what I’m saying or not? Alright,
you can label it what you want,
Amen. You hear, “try harder”,
that means you are not… you are
not there, it is not you. You
are try… so try harder to become
what you are not. So, actually
the problem is that the more we
let go, the more we rest and
relax, the more who we are in
Christ will come forth. Amen?
So, the message of rest…
Actually, rest because, the
devil will say, “You are not…
See, you are not… holy. See, you
are not loving, alright? You
have that bitterness, alright?
You have that anger just now
when that lady spoke and all
that you had that bitterness
towards her or you have that
jealousy in your heart towards
her and all that. See, see, see…
See, you are still that same
person.” Amen? What you need to
do, instead of “you know, I try
to suppress this feeling, I try
to avoid this feeling, I’m…” You
know, you have lost before you
began, because you are acting
based on a lie, and the lie came
from the enemy. But you feel it,
you feel it… you feel it doesn’t
mean it’s truth. Most feelings
come and go. Learn to handle
your feelings, even bad
feelings, depression, you know,
negative feelings, anger and all
that, like you are on a tour
bus. Alright? When you are on
the tour bus, you look at all
the scenery, some sceneries are
beautiful. “Woah, look at that!”
Those are like feeling good.
Enjoy it, feel good, but you
know what? Very soon the “feel
good” pass by and you see an
area where it looks horrible.
People that had abused the
plants down there, they have
abused the forest there. It’s
burned down. You see the abuse
and you feel angry. Alright? And
then you pass by that scene to
another more beautiful scene
again. You see, your feelings
come and go. See your feelings
like fleeting things. You may
experience it, but it is not
you. So, right now the devil
says, “You feel depressed,
therefore you are depressed.”
Throw it back at him. “I am the
righteousness of God in Christ.
I am a new creation in Christ.”
Amen? “I am not depressed. I
feel depression at times, but I
am not depressed.” “You are
gonna lose your mind…” “No, I
have the mind of Christ.” That’s
why we need to know the word. We
need to study and renew our
minds. That’s why the Bible says
in Ephesians 4, “that you put
off, concerning your former
conduct, the old man which grows
corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts.” Notice, it’s
telling you, “put off’, and this
is past tense, “that you put
off,” past tense, aorist tense,
“concerning your former conduct,
the old man which grows corrupt
according to the deceitful
lusts.” Now it is not saying,
“you have an old man now, put
him off.” No, no, read
carefully. “You have put off.”
In Colossians, it says it like
this, “Seeing that you have put
off the old man.” Amen? In
Colossians, it says “Seeing that
you have put off the old man.”
So, what you are putting off is
your former conduct. So, it’s
like this, the former conduct.
You know, you go on a… Have you
all been on a cruise? On a ship?
“Mmm. Two years, Pastor, two
years.” Alright, imagine, okay?
How many of you have experienced
this? After some time on the
cruise somewhere, okay, you are
three hours, even three hours is
enough, or two hours on that
cruise. You come back on land.
Now it is solid land, am I
right? The truth is, it’s solid
land. But, your feelings, you
still feel the sensation of
being on the boat, on that
cruise, right? On that cruise
ship. You feel like going up and
down, you feel like… Even planes
sometimes, if it’s bumpy, right?
After you step in the airport,
alright? You are now on solid
ground. Terracotta, solid, firm.
Firma.. And terra-firma… You are
on solid ground, but you still
feel that sensation for how
long? Quite some time, right?
You don’t want to talk to me?
Did I offend you? I talk for so
long you all don’t want to talk
to me? Vy (Why)? Do you all feel
that or not? I’m the only one..
I’m the only one. “Something
wrong with you ah, Pastor!” You
must reckon you are on solid
ground! “Oh no, I feel this way,
I’m depressed. Oh no, I feel
this way, it could be that… Is
there a symptom in my body? Is
it a sign of something more
sinister happening in my body
that I am feeling dizzy, I’m
feeling this…” No, no, no, no.
You are just experiencing the
former conduct, the former
emotions, the former sensations
of a past experience. Sometimes,
past experiences are so real,
that even though it has passed…
At that time it was very
traumatic for us, even when we
were small. Now we are 50, 47,
but things happen when you were
5 years old. There are guys who
are afraid of bugs, and many of
them are afraid of lizards or
whatever, and they are macho
men, you know? Alright? And…
don’t look at me. I’m one of
them! If there is a lizard
somewhere, alright? I know those
guys are friends. Alright? They
destroy all the insects that
would, you know, mosquitoes and
all that. More lizard maybe less
dengue, huh? Alright? But for
some reason when I see a lizard,
right, even small ones, I mean,
I’m telling you. There was one
time, I was studying, I was
reading, and all of a sudden, I
felt a sensation on my leg, so I
thought it was just my… I got a
hairy leg, you know? So, I
thought… I was scratching and
all of a sudden there was this
small lizard crawling on my leg!
Then, I jump, I jump on the
sofa, you know, I make the sign
of the cross, I did all kinds of
things, and I bind it in Jesus’
name… and who do you call? When
the lizards come crawling
around, who do you call?
“Darling!” And the first one
that comes running will be
Justin. He always know he is in
for an action. And does he help?
No, he will be in one corner
laughing. “Go, call mama, go.
Call mama.” Then one day I sat
down and ask myself, “Why, why
am I… I’m bigger than that… that
thing is so small!” Because I
heard when I was 5 years old, I
don’t know how true is it, that
when you are sleeping at night…
I think my mother or the cousin,
when I was young, told me that
these things, right, they will
shed their tail and the tail
will come finding you, and the
tail would go into your ear. The
image is so real, the
imaginations of the thoughts of
my heart. At a young age… Be
careful what you program down
there. And now, I am 35 years
old, and I’m still, I’m still
afraid of a stupid lizard! All
of a sudden, you forget Jesus…
you forget, “Though I walk
through the valley of the shadow
of lizards, I will fear no evil,
for you are with me.” We forget
all of that, you know? And what
is so true of many years ago is
still there. Why? In the
imagination, it was put into
your heart. Is it based on
facts? Is it based on truth?
Now, no. But you can just…
that’s why, imaginations…
Listen. Imaginations replicate
reality. That’s what the power
of imagination, it replicates
reality. Your imagination
represent those events to you
now. Where do you see them? In
your imagination. Right? Now,
think of the word “represent”.
It represent today. The word
“represent” is made of two
words. “Re-”, r-e-, means
repeat, “-present”, make it
present again. Make it present
again. So, the devil wants to
activate your imagination. Now,
fear of these things and all
that, I mean, you know, we all
can like laugh about it, but
there are even degrees of fear
that has crippled people
emotionally. Their life… They
are not willing to get married
because of certain fears, that
they had trauma, when they were
a child, many years ago. And
that’s why, when you change the
imagination, you change, you