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excerpt from Joseph Prince calm Martin
Luther by the way is the father the
Reformation great man of God and God
restored the truth of justification by
faith to Martin Luther but there were
some things that he taught that I never
knew that he taught until it took time
to study and what a strong reinforcement
for what God is doing all over the world
today that the things that some of the
things that got revealed to me got
revealed to him for example
Martin Luther he he would be he’s just
like me he believed in confession of
sins so much I believe that if you don’t
confess your sins you are not in
fellowship with God therefore God won’t
hear your prayers so I make sure that I
was very quick to catch my sins
you know this is talking about my life
as a believer some of you have my
testimony and I would confess unbelief I
would confess even fear I will confess
every wrong part you know if I
exaggerated a little
our confess to God and my life was so
fearful that that I was out of
fellowship they were confessed to God
you know all the time until I nearly
lost my mind always thinking that
there’s always some more sins to confess
I don’t understand these people teach
that 1 John 1:9 is for the believer and
unless you confess your sins God has not
forgotten or forgiven I can understand
people believe there and teach that and
yet I don’t see them confessing their
sins all the time you know and I was I
was a strong believer of that and I and
I practice that to the point that I was
always self opieop i hours introspective
I was depressed and Martin Luther was
the same Martin Luther was a German monk
and there was no self
there was no sacrifice there was so
there was no self-abnegation there was
no self-mutilation there was nothing
that he do to torture himself it is ever
enough to please God or else I mean
that’s how he felt and he will be in the
snow sleep in the snow just to make
himself suffer
thinking that he is creating merits with
God and he would confess his sins to the
Father you know he would go to their
father and spend six hours confessing
his sins and then when it comes out
he believes still that there’s some of
sins so I saw that the father that he
was confessing to the so-called church
father told him Martin go and sin proper
leading some Bank confess he was he was
fed up you know and and finally they
found something that to keep him
occupied they felt he was too too
introspective they gave him a job and he
was a scholar he was a professor the in
fact he specialized in the original
language of the Bible Greek of which our
New Testament is written and Hebrew our
Old Testament and they gave him a job as
a professor in a Bible School it was
there his life was changed because he
studied the New Testament in Greek and
and of course I always knew for years
that the verse that changed his life was
when he read his book of Romans in Greek
where it talks about the just shall live
by faith but I didn’t know this and in
this island during my time with the Lord
that he actually came across this word
repent and let me know they have been
teaching repent from the Greek word
Metanoia repentance is nothing more than
change your mind repentance in the Greek
is Metta Noah change mind let means
change your mind and our and Martin
Luther actually taught this to his
students his young students in the Bible
school he said it hey guys
I read my Greek what does your your your
Bible and they write their Bible in
Latin okay and and those students when
they read the pathway says repent they
say do penance and that’s translated by
Jerome send Jerome whom I believe is a
man of God a genuine man of God but
however he translated the word repent
with the work do penance but actually
the word repent in Greek is Metanoia
change of mind and Martin Luther said
guys this is repent in in great Matano
yeah
it means change of mine not do penance
which is works it is change of mine I
didn’t know that he he had the same
revelation hallelujah amen or had the
same revelation I came after you no but
this is one part of his life and his
teaching that I never knew about until
this retreat and it’s such a strong are
men from heaven for this grace
revolution that’s going on and I’m not
against confessing your sins
alright this invariably you have to face
a question for those who will find
there’s no problem facing this question
I got no problem with that 1 John 1:9
you gotta have this somehow come up when
you start believing that God has
forgiven you to Jesus Christ death on
the cross God has taken all your sins
put it on Christ Christ suffered all
your sins take the full penalty of it
died was buried and rose without your
sins he got raised him for your
justification amen and all that he did
he did for you and I praise the Lord
amen then comes the question if all our
sins and all our sins were future when
he died so this idea that we have
forgiven up to the point of conversion
doesn’t hold water because all our sins
were future when he died so once you
know that you are forgiven once and for
all then the question come in verily
invariably comes up what about 1 John
1:9 what about confessing your sins to
be forgiven verses once and for all
forgiveness ok so it’s down through the
years of course someone came up with
this saying oh we are forgiven of all
our sins when Christ died amen we are
forgiven of all our sins that is
judicial forgiveness but when you sin
you have to confess your sins to be
forgiven now I’m not against confessing
your sins in fact when you are in the
presence of someone that you can trust
whom you know loves you completely and
loves you unconditionally amen
like in the presence of your spouse
that’s what every marriage relationship
should be you can be frank you can be
all
when you can be honest a man in the
presence of such a one it is you don’t
you don’t you don’t reveal your intimate
secrets to an enemy so in fact the more
we preach full forgiveness complete
forgiveness people are willing to
confess their sins but they don’t
confess in order to be forgiven they
confess because they are forgiven and if
they forget to confess they’re still
forgiven I mean so they say that oh you
have forgiven once and for all yes is
all true past present and future
judicially but there is a forgiveness
when you sin you must confess in order
for God to forgive you this is family
forgiveness well this is really
double-talk am i forgiven or am I not if
you will subscribe to this you in very
end up with there must be some
unconfessed sin in my life and you
always have this feeling you know
whenever something is contingent on you
you are never really secure it is on
Christ hallelujah you are secure can I
have a good amen Church praise the name
of Jesus are you with me so far
you know and there are those who say
that well we are forgiven of all our
sins judicially but then apparently
fatherly there’s no question of
forgiveness and then they Illustrated
like this they say that if my son sinned
against me or have done something wrong
alright there can be no fellowship until
he say sorry and that was this picture
of Paul shoulder towards your son until
your son say sorry maybe it’s true for
some families but you’re trying to
project that to God that God waits until
you say sorry then God restores
fellowship my friend that is not the
gospel
in fact the prodigal son is a wonderful
picture of that when the son came home
after spending his father’s money on
riotous living when the father saw him
afar off the father ran notice what the
father did and what the son didn’t do
the father saw
the father Ren the father embraced the
son the father kissed him and the father
said kill the fatted calf we’ll
celebrate five reactions of five actions
from the father the son nothing he’d
even confess in fact after he realized
the father loved him still the father
forgave him he’s his father I’ve sinned
against heaven and earth but it’s almost
like falling on deaf ears the father’s
is less deliberate and my friend that’s
Bible I said that’s Bible you cannot be
anymore
out of fellowship with the father than
spending his money
first of all asking him for the
inheritance it’s almost like I cannot
wait for you all men to dropped it I
want my money now alright then you spend
your money on on harlots the Bible says
that riotous living only to find
yourself coming home and the moment you
hit the horizon the father is running
towards you I don’t see withholding of
fellowship the promise never on the
father’s spot the enemy was in the mind
of the boy he was never in the father
reconciliation never never is on dot to
be regular I disagree with songs that
are written saying that the blood of
Jesus reconcile God to men know it
reckons all men to God God never had any
massa T against us our promise our sins
yes but God sent his son it was God who
had no animosity towards it was while
were still sinners God send the son that
he loved to die for our sins that’s how
much God loves us the animosity is in
our heart the Bible says we are enemies
in our minds to us God and that’s why
repentance must happen in our minds
people I believe in repentance but
repentance like I said well Martin
Luther said is change of mine and the
first area you must change your mind
many times you put relegate repentance
to themselves
I must repent of this of that of this of
that itself occupation repentance is not
true repentance until it reveals to
you a fresh revelation of the Lord Jesus
Christ
it’s repentance towards God Paul went
everywhere preaching repentance towards
towards towards God changing of mine
towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus
Christ what does that mean change your
mind towards God use the thing that God
has against you now you believe God is
for you God is not out to find fault
with you God is out to bless you God is
not against you god it’s for you God
doesn’t hate you
he’s not mad at you God loves you that’s
repentance towards God that’s true
repentance and they may be a form of
repentance where you’re looking at
yourself and it’s nothing more than
another form of self occupation which in
the eyes of God is pride a man you see
the Bible okay.i back to this again the
Bible doesn’t say that there is one form
of forgiveness which is judicial another
form of forgiveness which is Parenteau
it does not teach that it takes the mind
of men to teach that and if you believe
that in 1 john 1:9 is referring to
family forgiveness all right to confess
your sin then the father forgives you
let me ask you then the next chapter how
do you explain this verse first John 2
verse 12 I’ll write to you little
children and this little children is a
very is a term of endearment it means my
dear little children my dear ones
children my dear children literally
Technion in the greek my little children
I write to you because your sins are
forgiven you for his name’s sake now
this is the in the next chapter of 1
John 1:9 and it tells you that you are
forgiven and the forgiven there in the
Greek is the perfect tense and perfect
tense means you are forgiven once and
for all it never be repeated that is
perfect tense now crash
Ian’s class little children is that a
family term or is it a legal term little
children little children answer me
is it a family term my little ones if
father was say this maybe is this a
family term or is this a judicial term a
term use in the courts of law
it’s a family term but it tells us that
we are forgiven perfect chance once and
for all I’m sure that when John wrote
dears John knew something about the
gospel that we all need to learn when
John was writing to believers obviously
was writing to people who that morning
they might not have it all together
someone had quarrel with his wife or the
wife of the husband a teenage boy has
gone rebellious yesterday night all
right someone has beaten us in his heart
towards another person in the church I’m
sure these people are not perfect yet
John use something for him to be able to
write I write to you my little children
because your sins are forgiven you for
his namesake
the true Christianity the gospel of
Jesus Christ in its authentic essence is
forgiveness base and we are forgiven of
all our sins may I ask you a question
and if only the law ask me okay he knew
that I knew this verse so you asked me
this
what do you deem is the greatest of all
sins what do you think the greatest of
all sins I’ll tell you right now Paul
wrote this words whatever is not of
faith is sin whatever is not a faith is
sin one peep
confess their sins you know what it
confess the big ones when they watch fun
when they tell a lie when they take
drugs they thing in their minds these
are the ones who confess but the biggest
of all sins the sin that produce all
sins is unbelief I’m gonna prove that to
you don’t take my word for it I already
told you what the Word of God says
whatever is not of faith is sin okay you
know the group that’s a there’s a list
of groups of people that go into the
lake of fire hell in the book of
Revelation and it tells us by the ways
many times in the Bible when the Bible
is group by group the first one usually
is by order of importance not always
like that
but many at times yes like for example
the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit the
first one is the word of wisdom which is
the greatest of all the gifts I don’t
have to put importance on any gift every
gift is important but in terms of
importance and and weightiness the word
of wisdom first just like the book of
Proverbs wisdom is the principal thing
Christ is made unto us first wisdom even
before righteousness so who are the ones
that go to hell the first two lists you
think is it a whoremongers is it a
sorceress but the fearful and
unbelieving the first two groups that go
into hell are the fearful and
unbelieving do we confess that do we
confess when we are in fear do we
confess when we are in unbelief well if
you believe you don’t confess all right
you’re not forgiven then you better
confess your fears and every time you’re
an unbeliever but I confess it or else
you are not in fellowship and it says
severely the fearful and unbelieving are
the worse that leads the group look at
the rest of the group abominable there’s
not a snowman by the way murderers and
whoremongers by the way mongers
you know in the new sort of translations
is sexually immoral sexually immoral and
the greek word is a word that none of
you know is called porno
the Greek word is actually pornos with
an S alright where you get a word
pornography sorceress black magic green
magic blue magic whatever magic occult
sorceress I delay this all Liars shall
have their part in the lake which burns
with fire and brimstone which is the
second death the Bible is very clear but
notice the two groups that lead the
group fearful unbelieving
and yet we don’t confess these things
many at times as I spend time the Lord
the Lord showed me something that never
had anyone preached this why when I saw
me this view is all in context do you
realize that when our Lord Jesus walk on
earth he acted like he never he never
hidden hidden any police way he did not
relate the Damned based on their sins
it’s like he did impute sin to them have
you noticed that in the Gospels Jesus
met the woman caught in adultery and he
saved her he was aware of her saying yes
but it’s almost like you know it did not
affect his kindness to her there’s a
verse in 2nd Corinthians 5 that says God
was in Christ many times people miss
foot then and say God is in Christ no
God was referring to when he what on
earth God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto himself not imputing their
trespasses unto them when you read your
Gospels is good way to see how Jesus
related people around him
the sinners know that it’s almost like
he never noticed amok their sin if they
come to him sick he’ll give them healing
he never tells them one one place to
confess their sins now there’s a lot
repentance yes in fact changing of mine
is something that’s happening even now
many of you sitting down here you are
repenting every Sunday when you come you
are repenting how do I know you used to
believe this way now you don’t believe
this way you believe this way amen some
of you do a few of you might not believe
in hell
you believe in hell amen you are
repenting amen
use the thing that God has against you
now you believe God is for you you are
repenting your repentance towards God
something you say repent something you
don’t say repent Jesus sometimes days
repent
something don’t say repent but I tell
you this every repentance must be a
fresh revelation of our Lord Jesus you
know to the seven churches five of them
he says repent and when he says repent
that this thing says he who has a fiery
eyes not a church this thing says he who
holds the seven stars in his hand this
thing says he whose feet burn like fire
in the burner in a furnace
it’s always a fresh revelation of Jesus
and that popular Church is suffering
because they don’t have that revelation
of Jesus so every repentance has got to
do with a fresh revelation of our Lord
Jesus I’m going to show you something
that the Lord showed me in my time with
him that says a fresh revelation in John
20 Jesus just rose from the dead then
the same day at evening being the first
day of the week it’s a Sunday right like
today the first day of the week when the
doors were shut where the disciples were
assembled for fear of the Jews for fear
of God no why were they hiding there
why were they bolting the doors why
because they were afraid of the Jews
here what is fear sin whatever is not of
faith is sin of all the groups which
group went in first
fearful listen that’s listen in
revelation 3:1
fearful now they are fearful this is
post cross post resurrection
you tell me where Jesus when Jesus walk
on earth pastor Prince here he didn’t
mock sin
he treated them embracing all that but
now he’s risen from the dead he expect
more from us well this is post
resurrection this post crucifix
this after he rose from the dead and
he’s dealing with his church people are
they perfect no do they have sin yes
notice how he reacted towards them they
are in fear which is sin all right Jesus
came and stood in the midst by the way
he loved to stand in the middle always
he wants to be the midst of your
marriage in the midst of your business
life in the midst of your studies in the
midst of your relationships in the midst
of your heart Jesus came and what do you
say confess your sins
they say that no peace Shalom peace be
with you
Lord wait a minute they are out of
fellowship with you or are they as far
as he’s concerned there is no such thing
as out of fellowship he sought them out
when they were in their fear they didn’t
seek him he appeared to them and his
first words were hey Shalom guys he
shush their fears Shalom
remember what I told you repentance is
always unveiling himself to us we see
more of him he made them repent without
using the word repent see when he had
said this piece he showed them his hands
and his side then the disciples were
glad when they saw the Lord
in other words he says guys peace they
were fearful peace Shh your sins are
forgiven
justice satisfied Satan defeated man
reckons out Shh
your conscience touch you have a purge
conscience no more sin consciousness and
he showed them the divine receipts his
hands and his side these are the divine
receipts from heaven saying is every
reason why you can be at peace are you
with me so far
not one word about their fear and yet he
made them repent by
showing himself his hands his sight the
proof of payment they have every reason
to be at peace now if 1 John 1:9 is what
they say it is then this part here the
law cannot even have this attitude of
fellowship towards them because they
have not confessed their sins in fact
they don’t even plan to confess he loved
them before they can confess just like
the father the prodigal son loves the
son before he can say I’ve sinned
against heaven and earth next verse oh
by the way verse 20 he showed them his
hands his sight then the disciples were
glad when they saw the Lord every time
you see the Lord Jesus you see him in
his beauty and his love for you you know
your gladden now you have peace and you
have joy which is what the kingdom of
God is all about peace and joy in the
Holy Spirit so a real testimony is peace
and joy amen and they had peace and joy
when they saw the Lord
so every time someone reveals Jesus may
you go out of this place today and say I
saw Jesus today may there be more peace
more joy peace and joy can be increased
and the more you see him the more
increases in your life there’s a
wonderful testimony you don’t have to
preach sometimes your face just shines
amen the radiance will convict people I
mean so let’s go on next verse so jesus
said to them again peace to you that’s a
double peace amen it seems like he’s
after he showed them his hands in sight
and they was glad and he says to them
again peace be unto you all right and
when he had said this he breathed on
them damned who then who were fearful
then who were trembling damned who were
hiding behind closed doors because they
were fearful he briefed on them and said
receive the Holy Spirit whoa
oh wait a minute I thought they were out
of fellowship so obviously the Lord
doesn’t see the way some theologians see
you today
he sees them in the light of his
finished work he briefed on them while
they were fearful or maybe by now he’s
unveiling has brought joy and peace of
your hearts and he breathed the Holy
Spirit under you see the way he leads
them into holiness because holiness is
pseudo holiness he has no peace and joy
and no revelation of Jesus don’t come to
talking to me about
let’s have practical holiness and you
know that you’re baptized in lemon juice
you’re a bad testimony of holiness all
right last part we’ll go down here same
chapter same chapter okay
yes who was not there that’s Sunday
Thomas the Tank Engine that my son loves
Justin loves Thomas the Tank Engine
you know the Train Thomas wasn’t there
so I call him doubting Thomas so the
disciples told Thomas the same day hey
our Lord appeared today this morning he
came to us and and he should have showed
us his hand his sight
you know Thomas said drop down same
chapter the other disciples therefore
said to him we have seen the Lord Thomas
said to them unless I see in his hands
the print of the nails and put my finger
into the print of the nails and put my
hand into his side I will not believe
just now was fear now is unbelieving
fearful and unbelieving so now this guy
is it a sin yes the two main ones that
lead the group into hell and now
believers or rather this guy’s
unbelieving believer you know the
unbelieving believer is an oxymoron so
unless I put my hands into his side into
his his nail prints in his hands I will
not believe and after eight days eight
days means what from one Sunday to
another Sunday now the Lord never leaves
us nor forsake us
even though is Monday Tuesday Wednesday
but it’s very interesting that after he
rose from the day
he appeared to the disciples from Sunday
to Sunday to Sunday before he ascended
there is something special on a Sunday
when we come together to meet the Lord
he’s there to meet us
arouse these examples would not mean
anything there’s no insignificant detail
in the Bible we pour over the Fountain
of Life which is the Bible every detail
every nuance every feature is therefore
a divine reason to instruct our souls
and for those who know the Bible is
God’s brief word every feature is
important so next Sunday
by the way that means what Thomas live
in sin for seven days
he was unbelieving those who say well
you know maybe God can tolerate you are
being fearful once a while now you just
lowered God’s standard and you are the
measure of it you decide no okay you
talk about length of time this is eight
days he was unbelieving he decides after
eight days his disciples were again
inside and Thomas with them Jesus came
the doors being shut and stood in the
midst and said what again peace to you
Shalom next verse then he said to Thomas
repent Thomas spent three and a half
years with you and I told you our rice
from the day you don’t believe get out
of here now Thomas you don’t belong to
my group or Ellie’s confess before you
can get back in fellowship with me did
he say that we created Jesus and we
present it to the people there is not
the Jesus of the Bible
now one of the needs of the greatest
revolution and it’s happening in the
earth today what do you say he said
Thomas Thomas had special attention is
it Thomas one reach your finger here and
look at my hands and reach your hand
here and put it into my sight
do not be unbelieving but deleting but
what unbelieving is the same greek word
that says fearful and unbelieving just
now of all those who are going to lay a
fire same Greek word epistle he also do
not be a pistols do not be unbelieving
but believing the correct Thomas yes
does a lot correct us yes
not with sickness and disease he correct
us with a fresh revelation of himself is
always either behold my hands or even
thought promised touch me it’s always a
revelation of himself
repentance is always a fresh revelation
of himself wish my hand fill me fill my
sight jesus said to him Thomas
now does that sound like someone who is
out of fellowship when he calls your
name Thomas because you have seen me you
have believed oh let’s look at Thomas
reaction I forgot to tell you Thomas
answered and said to Jesus I confess to
you Lord did you say that Lord forgive
me Lord no what is it my lord
is a revelation of him my Lord and my
god
then jesus said to him Thomas because
you have seen me you have believed
blessed are those that have not seen
blessed are those that have not seen
blessed blessed blessed are those who
have not seen and yet believe
blessed are those who have not seen and
yet believed blessed blessed Thomas you
believe because you see blessed are
those who have not seen blessed and yet
believed and yet believed when the Lord
is to me I said to myself Lord I will
never again be introspective no more
self occupied by Christ occupied and
Fran if you think that this will lead to
licentiousness let me tell you this
believing the other brand of 1 John 1:9
will lead to life interest us people
start thinking is ok largest were in sin
first later on I can confess but this
will cause you to fall in love of Jesus
in spite of all your imperfections as he
loves you into wholeness he didn’t wait
until you’re perfect and then loves you
it doesn’t wait until you’re no more
fearful than he loves you they don’t
wait until you’re normal unbelieving
that he loves you he loved you in the
midst of your unbelieving it comes to
you and it calls you by name Thomas and
get my friend produces true repentance
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