When you fail, do you go to God telling Him what a lousy sinner you are? Or do you go to God boldly, believing you are still righteous in Christ? Joseph Prince shows you why it is the latter that will cause you to find grace to overcome your weaknesses and challenges. Get back on your feet again, walk tall, and be bold as a lion in life because Jesus has made you righteous. The victorious Christian walk, where you enjoy intimacy with the Father and reign over sin, begins with knowing how you are forever forgiven, righteous, and complete in Christ!
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excerpt from Joseph Prince calm
I started by saying in Christ dwells all
the fullness of the Godhead bodily and
you child of God you are complete in
Christ 30 states in Christ dwells all
the fullness of the Godhead bodily
and in God says but you know something
you are complete in Christ God has put
you in Christ and you are complete the
amazing thing church is this God says
you are righteous but they are preaching
going on in churches today that says you
know if you are holy enough one day
you’ll be righteous no no no my friend
you are not holy righteous and blameless
your actions might not correspond yet my
son does not walk like an adult because
he’s still a baby
but one day trust me here walking an
adult and he won’t want me to baby him
anymore so keep on feeding the people
amen
pastors and leaders keep on feeding the
people don’t beat the people feet and
they come to a place where their actions
were correspond but meanwhile the truth
is that whether you are rich or poor
Christian whether you are young or all
believer you are complete in Christ you
are not less complete than one who is 10
years Christian you are complete in
Christ and it cries dwells all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily so what
we have done is that we take the
starting post you are complete in Christ
and we have we have made it the
finishing post that’s the problem we
tell people one day the finishing posts
we think in the natural we think like a
human instead of reasoning from God
downwards we are reasoning from man
upwards God’s reasoning God’s God’s
reality is that you are completing
Christ even though you’re safe this
morning you’re completing Christ
now walk out that completeness and if
you’re fall and appear incomplete you
are still complete your fall
does not incomplete you because your
action in the first place did not
complete you
it was Christ so that’s the finishing
that’s a starting close the starting
posit your complete don’t make the
starting post the finishing post one day
you’ll be complete I wanna show you
right now how many Christians think and
that’s the reason you don’t see that
deliverance because there’s something
you know very profound
if you come to God if you’re a child of
God and you come to God like a sinner
God doesn’t respond to you because he’s
no more God to you his father even when
you fail you come to God as a sinner and
say God I have sinned God I’m a sinner
Lord I am a sinner saved by grace God
God have mercy on me be merciful to me
the sinner
and you think you’re copying the guy
that Jesus talked about who wasn’t even
safe now you’re confusing the issue are
you a child
addressing the father or are you a
sinner addressing God once upon a time
we were all sinners and we addressed God
as a sinner we addressed God we can
Satan to be merciful to me the sinner
and that’s right but God is no more just
God to us his father and we are no more
sinners to him we are his children and
our cry is ABBA when we teach things
like this the thing is the miracles
happen something about the truth that
the Holy Spirit bears witness with truth
you know when I push on rest in Jesus
faith for miracles I have a title clock
resting in 2008 I think I preach it I
don’t know when I preach it but anyway
rest in Jesus
rest in Jesus faith Jesus is faith for
miracles I’ll talk about when you know
you’re competing Christ what you do yes
there is no rest when you’re trying to
get something trying to get something
striving for victory praying for victory
but that’s not a rest when you’re
praying from victory you see pray by you
pray this time you pray must come to God
before you come to God don’t do that
don’t just come and throw your requests
so fast just come and know that he loves
you you’re coming to a father
don’t talk about the God of the universe
he isn’t God of universe but you must
not allow how people see him to be how
you see him you have a different
relation he’s your father a father that
loves to hear your voice in the song of
songs he says this let me hear your
voice but before he says let me hear
your voice he says let me see your face
let me see you by countenance and then
let me hear your voice notice the order
it is your presence that he wants not
just your voice it’s one thing for
Jessica to talk to me on the staircase
or in the living room and I’m in the
room daddy
yes you know but I would love for her to
come in my presence I don’t want to talk
I can hear her voice so the Bible says
God wants to see your face and then hear
your voice so you come to God you have a
prayer request you know just and just
know that he loves you when you come to
his presence stop there and just say
just know he loves you he’s a God who
gave Jesus to die for your sins but now
he’s your father and talk to him say
father have a continent you know the
presence of the one who loves you
infinitely he finds no fault with you
and he delights that you are coming to
him he delights that you’re trusting him
he’s your prayer requests see that and
see your prayers are not answered
because when you come in a lie you come
to him like he’s God you sense distance
it’s a lie everything is a lie God
cannot own that lie God cannot answer an
own that life for God to give you an
answer is to own that lie and there’s
the reason why you don’t see results
sometimes it’s not the words you say
it’s just coming to his presence if
father and we know this he loves you the
new carbons about your love for God is
but his love for you in Hindi note that
he wants to hear my voice he wants to
see my face father you know many times
when I pray for the father I usually
start off by saying father thank you for
loving me have you ever thanked him for
loving you thank you for loving me it
gives me a sense that he loves me long
before I bring my prayer request I must
have that sense I’m ahead of center he
– to have me in his presence to hear my
voice to see my face first then to hear
my voice I’m telling you these a
confidence we have in him if we know he
hears us we know that we have the
requests we desired of him
hmm it’s amazing how we you know that
this testimony here I just want to share
real quick
hey you’re blessed this is from Honolulu
the director in 1993 this brother from
Honolulu he said that is a short one in
1993 I was in a car accident that
injured my spine messing up my fourth to
fifth lumbar vertebrae as I could not
walk I had to undergo back surgery in
1995 the operation only made my
condition worse and I was in pain every
single day some days worse than others
even my right knee and right shoulder
were affected for 15 years my daily
prayer was for healing and released from
this excruciating pain then in 2008 I
listened to a teaching by Pastor Prince
vital rest in Jesus’s faith for miracles
even the faith of miracles you don’t you
don’t come with it
I need the faith I need the faith you
know it’s like so much strife you’ll be
your complete means what it’s faith
lacking no it’s not just rest in him if
I need faith he was supplying not the
analogy of the vine and the branches
whatever is in the vine flows in the
branches the only way to stop that SAP
is for the vine to try to tighten up I
must try my best
nothing flows you know okay he says that
for 15 years my daily prayer was for
healing and released from this
excruciating pain then in 2008 I
listened to a teaching chorus and Jesus
paid for miracles by Pastor Prince I
shared it with my husband we were both
excited and blessed by what we had
learned and it revolutionized my
thinking about faith I began to repeat
that’s all she did I began to repeat
what pastor Prince taught about Jesus
faith but I
wasn’t praying about anything in
particular that night 15 years
excruciating pain that night as I
prepared for bed my back made this snap
crackle and pop sound twice when I bent
slightly over the sink crawling into bed
I noticed that my back didn’t really
hurt when I awoke the agony in my back
was gone what a miracle praise God
hallelujah amen no hula Balu jumping up
and down you know like commanding all
the time just resting just repeating
what I said to her husband when I at the
day progress at work both my knee and
shoulder became free of pain as well I
was even able to walk up and down two
flights of stairs I’m so thankful for
the teachings on grace by pastor Prince
what a blessing now the praise God thank
you Jesus you know church you gotta be
careful with this man’s teachings even
your friends your colleagues I can tell
you this this is not natural teaching
grace it’s not natural what is natural
is this do your best to please God and
one of these days if God sees that you
are sincere enough you’re earnest you
know you know maybe you’ll be more
complete than John over there then Lucy
over there you’ll be better off
hallelujah I’ll tell you I might
exaggerate a little bit here but that’s
what people think it is it is it boggles
your mind to say you’re complete to
start off now with that sense of
completeness walk out I’m gonna show you
something back-to-back okay III don’t
know why my ministry is such that you
always give me ministries back-to-back
chapters back-to-back and I’m a
contextual preacher which means I preach
things in context in the way it appears
in the Bible in John chapter 19 is a
story of the cross right
what did Jesus cry the cross it was the
end it is finished all right it is
finished John 19 verse 30 he cried it is
finished am i right
that’s way all starts where he cried
finished we start we start our Christian
life with the finished work when Jesus
says it is finished what is finished the
cup that he prayed in the Garden of
Gethsemane full of our sin full of our
curse full about judgment he drank he
drank it he drain it dry last dregs
finish the judgment is gone there’s no
more judgment for you and me
what about God’s law satisfied what
about God’s holiness magnified because
God’s holiness takes it is sin you die
somebody died God did not say okay never
mind I’ll compromise my holiness no
Jesus died in our place God’s holiness
is magnified God love expressed for men
for sinful men it’s finished his first
words recorded in the Bible when he was
12 years old was this didn’t you know it
was father and mother didn’t you know I
must be about my father’s business his
first recorded works his last work was
finish in the Gospel of John his earthly
life what was finished the father’s
business to have our sins forgiven
righteously on a judicial foundation hmm
then this job John 19 right then he rose
from the dead on the third day the
disciples were afraid they were in the
upper room they were hiding behind
closed doors Jesus appeared and by the
way he’s not a ghost he told one of them
to touch him flesh and bones that’s the
kind of body you and I how I have and
it’s flesh and bones yet it can
transcend time
and meta you can understand everything
not because we are so confined in this
world but in the world to come in the
body gonna have is a body that’s
physical we and you and I can shake
hands yet will transcend time and matter
and that’s why when the rapture happens
he transforms us first before he
raptures us because in our new body two
things you can transcend matter even
though you’re in a cinema even though
you either star your your body can
transcend number number three many of us
can take the height in our body we are
afraid of heights so it changes a new
body where there is no fear
I think solar the last five okay so when
he rose from the dead after it is
finished he meets them and he shows them
his wounds which is the righteous
foundation for him to say this peace be
unto you so peace be with you comes next
John 20 that’s John 19 it is finished
John 20 in the next chapter peace be
with you huh peace is founded on the
finished work and then the next chapter
we are going to John 21 now one week
after he rose from the dead he was
walking by the lake of Galilee the
fisherman his disciples were fishing in
the lake of Galilee y’all know the story
he made breakfast to them after he
finished breakfast with them he asked
this question do you love me do you love
me next chapter John 21 look at the
sequence do you love me comes after it
is finished
peace comes based on the finished work
then he asked do you love me I’m going
in other people the all of the Holy
Spirit and at the end of that chapter 21
he look at Peter and say you follow me
you follow me you got it now the true
Christian life starts with is predicated
on it is finished you’re completing
Christ is finished your sins are
forgiven past present and future you are
the righteousness of God in Christ amen
now you should possess the
he says peace be with you receive it
therefore being made righteous with God
we have peace therefore being justified
by faith we have peace with God okay
possess it then after that he asks you a
next question after you are resting the
finished work after you were enjoying
the peace with God you know that there’s
not no more war between you and there’s
nothing you know between you and God
anymore God is your father you’re so
close to him yes after all that I’ve
done for you is there anything in me
that you see they would cost you to love
me
it’s a question we say yes then he asked
do you love me and then when you say yes
Lord I love you then he says follow me
got it
I’ll tell you what traditional
Christianity teaches start from here
begin by following Christ you people too
lazy to follow Christ and I’m lazy to
wake up in the morning lazy to do this
lazy that must begin to follow Christ
only those who follow Christ will be
raptured
depending on your doctrine your
background only those who follow Christ
will make it don’t think easy
Christianity is sloppy agape greasy
crazy and get you into heaven okay it
sounds so amazing it sounds of wow man
this guy’s preaching the fire yeah what
fire is it
it’s strange fire starting on the wrong
foundation begin the teacher began to
follow Christ alright and do your best
to love him
do your best to love him and then you
have peace
when the work is finished don’t laugh
how many of us still believe this and
I’ve shown you the the sequence of
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