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We live in two worlds.
We live in a world
of various trials
but in our hearts and
in our minds
—it’s heavenly.
Even if you’re a Christian
and you live completely,
in your heart and mind,
in this world,
you are subject to the
vicissitudes of life.
That’s living in the world.
But it’s not happiness
which is on the outside.
Even when things
are not happening
the way you want it
to happen,
there’s a joy!
And this joy can
make you a success
even in your earthly career.
Every time you are self-occupied
or self-focused,
to that degree
you are depressed,
to that degree,
you are in pain.
It’s not about you.
It’s all about Jesus!
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God’s Word today!
The world out there is
looking for the
supernatural. They are,
amen. So because of their
hunger for greater
knowledge, greater wisdom,
supernatural knowledge
actually, supernatural
wisdom, they are dabbling in
the occult. They are
dabbling in the new age.
When all the while, there is
our wonderful God, our
Father, who has all the
wisdom and knowledge in the
world. And they are going
into this false gnosticism
and false wisdom in areas
that cannot satisfy. It’s
like eating bread that
cannot satisfy because it’s
not bread in the first
place. The Bible says, “They
hew themselves cisterns that
can hold no water because
they have forsaken Me, the
fountain of living waters.”
So they are thirsty out
there, your colleagues, your
friends. You know, they can
say a lot of things against
religion, okay, but you can
say, “Look, Christianity,
Christ did not come to give
us a religion. He came to
make dead people live,”
amen. Praise the Lord.
Aren’t you glad that we live
on this earth, but we are
citizens of heaven, amen? So
our resources are resources
that come from heaven. You
know when an ambassador of a
country goes to another
country, regardless of how
that country is, okay,
whether it’s a poor country,
all right, you know, a
country that’s not developed
just yet, but that
messenger, that ambassador
does not live based on the
resources of that country.
He live on the resources of
the country that sent him.
His house, his car,
everything that he has, his
daily allowance and
provisions are all given by
the country that sends him.
You are sent to this earth,
amen. You live according to
His riches in glory. And all
the people said, “Amen,”
praise the name of Jesus,
hallelujah. God is good,
amen? Now, the Bible says in
1 Peter chapter 1, it says,
“We are kept by the power of
God through faith for
salvation ready to be
revealed in this last time.”
This salvation obviously
refers to our bodily
salvation. See, God is
interested in the total man.
God doesn’t–you know, for a
long time I used to think
that once we are saved, God,
you know, God got it, okay?
He got what he wanted
because He wants man to be
saved, amen, because of
Adam’s sin, the fall of man,
and now God has accomplished
that in that He has wrought
a perfect salvation and
redemption for man. Now man
is saved. He’s–which part
of us is saved? Spirit. So
for the longest time, that’s
what I taught, but God’s
interest is saving us in our
spirit man. That’s why we’re
called born again.
Literally, you are–you have
a brand new spirit, amen,
created in righteousness and
true holiness. Then God also
wanted to save, and now we
are saved. We are saved once
and for all in our spirit,
but we’re in the process of
renewing our mind. That’s
our souls. There’s another
salvation called salvation
of souls. Not many believers
realize this, that there’s a
salvation that goes from the
inside out, and now as we
live in this world, we are
being saved in our souls,
amen. And that’s where your
feelings are also. That’s
the place where you suffer
from depression, you have
bad thoughts, you have
struggles with sins, your
thought life. All that is in
the realm of the soul, okay?
So God wants that saved, and
that is in the process of
being saved. Now, when Jesus
comes again, he doesn’t say,
“Well, is your soul saved or
not?” No, all right, the
term “soul saved” is used
in–you know, loosely, but
actually the word “soul”
there is referring to our
soulish realm. You are
tripartite, I’ve said
before. You are a spirit,
you have a soul, you live in
a body. God is Triune:
Father, Son, and Spirit. One
God, not three God. One God,
but three divine persons in
God. God made you in His
image. You are tripartite.
So God also wants to save
your body, okay? So once the
soul is saved, the Bible
says, “Beloved, I wish above
all things that you prosper
and be in health, even as
your souls prosper.” Can I
have a good amen? Souls, all
right? It is linked. It is
linked. And now, medical
science have realized that
your soulish realm–they
won’t call it soulish realm.
They say that stress, when
you’re under stress, okay,
it affects your body,
especially chronic stress.
It can cause cardiovascular
problems, sickness, disease,
and all kinds of conditions,
chronic stress. So what is
that? It’s trying to
describe something that
comes from the
realm–something has gone
awry, something is amiss in
the realm of the soul, the
mind, the emotions. Where do
you feel depression?
Emotions. Where you do have
the dark thoughts? In your
mind. That’s your soul. God
wants your soul saved, amen?
Believers, this is for you.
So this part here, when it
says, “Through faith for
salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time,”
in the last days when Jesus
comes again, which part of–
it’s our bodily redemption,
our bodily redemption. That
will also happen in one fell
swoop, psh. We’ll have a
brand new body. The Bible
says it will happen in an
atomic second. The Greek
says the word “atomos.” Very
quick, in the twinkling of
an eye, it will happen. This
mortal will put on
immortality, and then
straightaway I’m gonna see
my mom. All your loved ones
who have gone on before,
amen? First of all, we will
see Jesus. That’s the one I
wanna see above everyone
else, amen? And I’m gonna
see my grandfather. And I’ll
see David, the man after
God’s heart. I’ll see
Solomon, his son. And we are
all young, strong, and
healthy in our bodies. And
that’s why the Bible says
that when everyone stands
before God, they will stand
before God spirit, soul,
body. God also wants your
bodily redemption.
Meanwhile, on this earth,
this body that we have, the
Bible uses the word, “Though
our outward man perish.”
It’s perishing. It’s
decaying. “Yet the inward
man is renewed day by day.”
And that’s what you want.
You want to cooperate with
God in having the inward man
renewed, renovated, amen,
repaired, restored, day by
day. And we saw in 3 John 2,
it has an effect on your
body. And what effect is
that? The effect is found in
Romans 8:11. It says, “If
the Holy Spirit that raised
Jesus from the dead, if He
dwells in you, He that
raised up Christ from the
dead shall also give life,
quicken your moral body.”
Now, some people,
commentators, they take that
verse and they say that this
will happen in the Rapture
when Jesus comes again. The
Holy Spirit will quicken our
bodies. But He doesn’t
quicken our bodies. That–He
gives us a brand new body.
So quicken your what?
According to Romans 8:11,
“Quicken your mortal
bodies.” That can only
happen now. Sometimes before
I sleep, I will just say,
“Lord, as I sleep, let your
Holy Spirit in me quicken my
body with Your resurrection
life, with Your healing.” So
that happens in this life.
So until we see Jesus face
to face, we can depend on
the Holy Spirit. It’s not
just sent to teach us all
things, guide us into all
truths, especially to
glorify Jesus. That’s His
first assignment, amen, but
also to quicken our bodies,
according to Romans 8:11. It
says that if the–notice the
Triune God is involved in
just one verse twice. “If
the Spirit,” Holy Spirit,
“of Him,” the Father, “that
raised Jesus,” the Son,” can
you see the Triune God,
“from the dead, if the same
Spirit dwell in you, He,”
again, that He that raised
up–Father, “that raised up
Christ from the dead,” the
Son, “shall also quicken
your mortal bodies by His
Spirit,” the Holy Spirit. In
one verse, the Triune God
appears twice. I think it’s
important for us to
understand this verse. I
think God wants us–and for
the lack of understanding
that, how important it is to
God, that God puts that
Triune God is involved in
this one verse. The Triune
God is mentioned twice. I
think it behooves us to know
what God is saying in this
verse, and it all starts
with, “There is therefore
now no condemnation to them
who are in Christ.” You
cannot believe wrong and
expect the Holy Spirit to do
what’s right in your body,
amen. Okay, praise the Lord.
You all can go home already.
That was good. If it didn’t
bless you, it blessed me. It
was very good. You can go
home with that one nugget,
meditate on it, and I tell
you, it will feed you not
just for one day, for months
to come just on that one
verse, okay? So the Holy
Spirit comes in us, and we
learned the last time is
that there are two mountains
that God talks about
primarily, Mount Sinai as
well as Mount Zion. Remember
that? And the Bible says as
children of God, you are not
come to the mountain that
burn with fire, tempest,
smoke. And the sight was so
terrible, it was dark,
lightning, thunder, you
know, and it was 9 o’clock
in the morning, by the way.
And that’s why the Holy
Spirit came also on Mount
Zion at 9 o’clock in the
morning, amen. So Mount
Sinai, when Moses went up
the mountain and the people
were below, there was
lightning, thunder, and
darkness. And the Bible says
the best of them at that
time would be Moses, isn’t
it? But Moses says, “I
exceedingly was fearing and
I was trembling.” So even
the best of them trembled at
Mount Sinai. So the Bible
says, children of God, and
all the people said. Talking
to you, “You are not come to
that mountain,” okay?
Hebrews 12 tells us, “You
have not come to the
mountain that may be touched
and that burned with fire,
and to blackness and
darkness and tempest.” Okay,
you have not come. You have
not come to this, that even,
“The sound of a trumpet and
the voice of words, the
people who heard it begged
that the word should not be
spoken.” It was so terrible,
the people begged, “Don’t
speak anymore,” they told
God. And that’s where God
gave the Ten Commandments,
amen. That no one can keep
the law, hence they are
always under the curse of
the law. But praise God,
Christ has redeemed us from
the curse of the law, being
made a curse for us Himself
at the cross, amen? “Cursed
is everyone that hangs on a
tree.” He took that cruse,
praise the Lord. Now, if you
say–look at verse carefully
in verse 18. When you say,
“You have not come to the
mountain,” what does that
mean? That means we are not
there. It doesn’t say, “Try
not to come to the
mountain.” You don’t belong
there. Where do you belong?
Drop down. Drop down to
verse 22. “You have come to
Mount Zion.” So in verse 18,
it says, “You have not come
to the mountain,” all right?
You have not come. Say, “I
have not come to Mount
Sinai.” “But you have come
to Mount Zion.” Say, “I have
come to Mount Zion.” So this
is done already. It’s a done
deal. You have come to Mount
Zion. Once you are born
again, you are at Mount
Zion. I said you are at
Mount Zion. So Mount Zion is
not Mount Sinai, and for a
greater part of our
preaching and teaching in
times past in the church, in
the church world, has been a
lot coming out from Mount
Sinai. Now, the thing is
this. I’ve said before,
Mount Sinai is good in terms
of what it actually
typifies. Because all the
rituals, all the ordinances,
all the feasts, and all the
Levitical offerings, the
five offerings, is depicting
our Lord Jesus Christ, His
person and His work, amen. I
was reading the other day
about the burnt offering.
Chapter 1 of Leviticus, the
book that is still stuck in
its pages in most Christian
Bibles. I was reading, just
reading the other day, and I
saw the part where it says,
compared to the other four
offerings, all right, the
meal offering, the peace
offering, sin offering,
trespass offering, this is
the only offering, burnt
offering, where it says that
they flay the victim. They
take the ox, all right, and
they flay. You know what’s
flay? Strip into its pieces.
And like this, I saw it,
amen. I’ve seen it for some
time, but again, it
reinforced it when I read it
the other day. By His
stripes, by His flaying, we
are healed. So it takes a
greater revelation to
understand the burnt
offering, because God starts
with the burnt offering. God
always starts with the
greater and then He goes to
the smaller, all right? We
start with the sin and
trespass offering. Sin
offering is for who you are.
You yourself is a sinner, so
you bring the sin offering
in the Old Testament.
Trespass offering is what
you do that is sinful, amen.
So notice, we start with
trespass offering; God puts
it last. God puts the
highest depiction of Jesus’
sacrifice in the burnt
offering, why? Because the
number one reason Jesus died
is to glorify the Father;
that His blood has fully met
all the attributes of God’s
holiness and righteousness
upon us. So today, we don’t
have to stand before God
with a feeling of
trepidation, why? The blood
of His Son, the burnt
offering, has fully met. And
this talks about the
sprinkling of the burnt
offering, the blood, all
around the altar. Altar
talks about God’s claims on
us in righteousness and
holiness. Blood around the
altar means the blood has
fully met all His claims on
us; that God is not just
saying that, “Okay, it’s
paid.” God is fully
delighting in us. “We are
all unto God a sweet savor
of Christ,” a fragrance of
Christ. Isn’t that
beautiful? So we learn that
from Mount Sinai. That’s how
we take the law and see the
Word of Christ in it. But
today, we are not under the
law in the sense that–don’t
say, “Pastor Prince says we
are not under morality. You
can do whatever you want.”
I’ve never said that.
Imagine a prince, okay? He
has a large palace, of
course, with servants and
all that, and one day, all
right, a new servant girl, a
young girl came in to serve
and all that, and the king–
the prince took a liking to
her. And the king noticed
that, okay? Now, all the
servants abide by rules and
regulations in the palace.
At a certain time, they must
get up. At a certain time,
they must do all their
dishes and laundry, or
whatever they are assigned
to do, they must do that,
but they are still servants
in the house, okay? So this
prince falls in love a new
servant girl and the father
noticed that. The king
noticed that and then tells
him, “I give you my
blessing.” He marries her,
okay? The first week of
marriage, has her status
changed? You all watch a lot
of romantic dramas and you
all don’t know. Has her
status changed? Yes. Is she
a servant? No. Now, we will
come to afterwards. After
you are a son, then you can
be a someone who wants to
serve the Lord Jesus Christ
and call yourself the
servant of the Lord Jesus
Christ, but who you are is a
son, okay? Now, he noticed
one day that his wife went
downstairs to look at the
rules and regulations, and
then she told him, “I’m so
sorry, I woke up late today,
half an hour late. And I
just read downstairs the
laws that says–that governs
the servant, and please,
please, please, I didn’t
mean it.” Now, that spirit
that she has, does it please
him? No, why? Why? “I’m so
sorry.” All right, whenever
you make his eggs, it must
be perfectly boiled, all
right? It must be really
nice. Cannot just be, you
know, just like liquefied
kind of eggs. Do you all
take half-boiled eggs? Do
you all take soft-boiled
eggs? Do you all take that?
That’s my favorite, by the
way, one of my favorite
food, okay? Mmm, I can just
eat that now. Put soya
sauce, pepper, coffee, you
are made for life, okay? So
praise God, we are all in
one accord, okay? So here,
he sees all that and she
says, “I’m so sorry. I broke
your eggs today, okay? It’s
all broken and runny. I’m so
sorry. Please forgive me.”
Now, that kind of spirit day
by–day in, day out is not
gonna please him, why? She’s
living according to the
standards of the laws
of–that govern the
servants. The Bible says,
“You have not received the
spirit of bondage again to
fear,” amen. Does that mean
that she don’t care about
pleasing the husband? No,
now she does it out of love.
Does it mean that, oh, we
are no more under the law,
we can do whatever we want,
and just go crazy? No, we do
it out of love. Like I said
before, you can try to keep,
“Thou shall not commit
adultery,” without loving
your spouse. You just don’t
do it. Are you listening?
You can, “Thou shall not
steal,” you don’t steal, but
you’re not working. “Pastor,
not working is a sin, man?”
Yeah, try this on for size.
It says, “If any would not
work, neither should he
eat.” Oh, that must be an
Old Testament law. No, from
Mount Zion. That was the
Apostle Paul’s instruction,
“If any would not work,
neither should he eat. He is
worse than an infidel.” It’s
getting very quiet in
this–in this church, amen?
You are thinking right. No,
you want to serve. You want
to serve with excellence
because you love Him. And
even when you fail to serve,
there’s no condemnation. Or
you know, you didn’t serve
well, there’s no
condemnation because it’s
not about you. It’s about
Him, amen. And your
relationship with Him has
changed, amen? Are you with
me so far? Not only does
grace make you love your
spouse, but grace will also
make you a giver because the
Ten Commandments never said,
“Thou shall give and be–
thou shall be generous and
give.” It doesn’t say that.
Just don’t steal. There are
people who are very stingy,
they don’t steal, but
everything is theirs, not
anybody’s. It’s mine. Can
you say that he didn’t break
the commandments? Yes. That
law that says, “Thou shall
not steal,” yes, it’s his.
Legally, it’s his. No, grace
makes us give, and give, and
give. Just like the rich,
young ruler, when Jesus gave
him the law, he could hardly
give, not even one shekel.
But the next scene, you have
Zacchaeus. No laws given to
Zacchaeus, just grace, and
he says, “Whoever I’ve
cheated, I’ll restore them
four-fold. Half my goods I
give to the poor.” Now, that
doesn’t mean it’s a law for
you. From now on as a
Christian, half our–no,
it’s for him. That’s what he
wants to do. But the
spontaneity of love, that’s
what happens when you’re
under grace. Are you with me
so far? Okay, good? All
right, so our bodies is what
God is interested as well.
If not, when Jesus comes
again, He will not give us a
glorified body. He
transforms our body into a
glorified, immortal body,
forever strong, forever
healthy, forever young.
Isn’t that good? Those who
have gone on before, they’re
in a better place than us,
you know? It’s okay to cry
when they go. It’s okay,
because of the temporary
separation. It’s okay, but
you better not cry as if you
have no hope. We’re not like
people of the world. We know
they have gone to a better
place. My mother right now
knows better than me, you
know, the Bible. Those who
have left us, they know
better than Pastor Lawrence
and Pastor Mark, amen, and
they have muscles now that
he doesn’t have. Will we all
look good? Yes, ’cause every
infirmity that you have is a
result of the fall. It was
never meant to be. I said it
was never meant to be, amen?
So you are come to where?
Mount Zion. Notice that? The
city of the living God. This
is the city of the living
God. God has moved
mountains. The previous one
you don’t find in Mount
Sinai, all right. If you
read, it says, “Blackness,
darkness, tempest, judgment,
the sound of trumpets.” You
don’t find God there. But
now, “The city of the living
God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
to an innumerable company of
angels.” Angels are not in
Mount Sinai anymore. They
were there in the giving of
the law. They were there.
Now it’s antiquated. God has
moved mountains, and Mount
Zion is a picture of the
church. I said Mount Zion is
a picture of the church,
amen? And it says–drop
down, “You have come to
Mount Zion, to the general
assembly and church of the
firstborn which are
registered in heaven.” Hey,
registered in heaven.
Registered in heaven. We are
all registered in heaven,
amen? In the book of
Nehemiah, it says, “Those
who are registered, whose
names are found, can eat of
the most holy things,” amen?
“To God the Judge of all,
and to the spirits of just
men,” that’s my mother right
there, “made perfect.” And
right now, she is part of
the spirit of righteous
people made perfect, amen?
Drop down, “To Jesus.”
Notice, God is there. Jesus
is there also in Mount Zion.
No longer in Mount Sinai.
You go to Mount Sinai right
now, there’s nothing there,
okay? Angels have moved
over, God is here, and we
have come to Jesus in Mount
Zion, “The Mediator of the
new covenant, to the blood
of sprinkling that speaks
better things than that of
Abel.” Do you see that? So
what is Mount Zion? Mount
Zion is a place, a
habitation. “Pastor Prince,
I learned from my Jewish
friends that Mount Zion is
Jerusalem.” Yes and no. The
location back then, Mount
Zion is in Jerusalem. Mount
Moriah, actually, the City
of David, okay, and then the
place of the temple. That
whole range is called Mount
Zion, but even then, notice
it’s not Mount Sinai. Mount
Sinai is in Arabia. This is
now in Jerusalem. So that
whole area is Mount Zion.
Are you with me so far? Are
you with me? Okay, but
spiritually, there is a–God
is more interested in the
spiritual meaning of
that–what is literal. Don’t
forget, when you read the
Old Testament, whatever is
in the past is literal, all
right? God has the truth
from it, and usually the
truth is pertaining to
Christ. And it’s in your
interest to know things
about Christ because you are
in Him. Whatever He is, He
is to you, amen. Whatever He
has, you have as a joint
heir. Praise God? Now,
that’s how you have
communion with God. You
know, when you visit a new
mother, all right, she has
her baby, and let’s say it’s
about now three months old,
right? You have–babies are
very cute in three months.
And when three months–not
the first few days, lah,
huh? And all the mothers
said? You feel like you are
in that Twilight Zone, you
know? Neither–you don’t
know day or night already.
But three months, three
months time, okay? Some of
you forgot. It’s a long time
ago. Three months, okay, you
visit the mother, and you
talk to her about the
weather. You talk about the
latest events that you see
in the news. You talk about
different things. There’s no
heart connection with her.
Ever? You talk about
politics and all that or
whatever, there’s no heart
connection. But the moment
you talk about her baby,
straight away, there is
an–a rapport. There is a
heart communion with her.
Her eyes light up, though
she’s tired. She starts
talking about how beautiful
and wonderful the baby is,
all right, how cute the baby
is. Now you found a place of
communion. You are both
communing. You are both
fellowshipping over a common
object, the baby. How to
have communion with God? I
used to think that the way
to have communion with God
is to have more pious
feelings, more holy
feelings. So whatever books
I read that give me more
pious feelings, mmm, this
book is good because I end
up–but the pious feelings
last only for awhile and
then I gotta read other
books, hear other sermons
that whack me a lot, all
right, so I feel more holy,
amen? One guy says you must
confess every sin that you
have, so I went to that
seminar. I confessed every
sin that I have. And there’s
a list, you know? One of
them is, “Have you been
reading the magazine,
‘MAD’?” Oh my goodness, I
read that when I was a young
boy, so I said yes. You have
sinned. Okay, so I confessed
my sin. Every sin you can
imagine, all right? There
was a list, I kid you not,
and this seminar was
actually in Singapore many
years ago. And I esteemed
the man as a man of God and
I confessed everything so
that I could have this pious
feeling, this feeling of
nearness to God, and I felt
that that was communion with
God. How wrong was I? Until
the Holy Spirit opened my
eyes. To have communion with
someone is both of you are
communing or fellowshipping
over a common object. God
delights in His Son. The
whole Bible is a portrait of
His Son and the Son’s work
is found throughout the
Bible. Like Leviticus, just
now I told you, it’s not a
boring book. It’s a book
that unveils Jesus and His
finished work. The truth you
find in the New Testament,
the details you find in the
Old. Like the flaying, all
right, it doesn’t tell us
what happened. It says
flaying and cut into pieces.
So that gives me the
understanding that I can
take the Communion, and one
by one, I go through my body
and say, “Lord, by Your
stripe I’m healed of this
condition. By Your stripe,
I’m healed of that
condition.” Because right
after the flaying, after the
stripping, was the cutting
into pieces. I think all
this is not without
significance. I think God
wants us to appropriate
every work of Jesus. So the
Bible is a portrait, amen?
Like I said before, if
I–you sit down with me, and
you come to my place, and I
bring out all the albums–I
have a lot of albums, you
know, of Jessica when she
was young, and Justin, and
our travels, just like you.
So I open up and I show you
Justin when he was four
years old, right? And I just
share with you, “This is so
cute. This happened.” Now,
I’m excited. Every parent is
like that, right? And then
you are like… You do the
technical yawn like Pastor
Lawrence does sometimes in
the front when I’m
preaching, you know? You’re
just like… and your eyes
start to water, right? And
you look out the window as
I’m talking. What do I do?
Slowly, I just close my book
and I put it one side. Some
people even miss that you
closed the book. They don’t
even get it. Have you met
people like that? You tell
them about your holiday,
they talk about their
holiday. Then you are like,
“Hey, I haven’t finished
yet, leh,” you know? Ever
been there? Listen more,
lah, please, listen. Many
people talk, few listen, and
the few are the ones that’s
accorded success in their
marriage or in their career,
whatever it is. People who
learn to listen, they are
able to detect. It’s a lost
art. We are very distracted
today. “Pastor, get back to
what you are saying.” No,
no, I want to stay here,
okay or not? All right, we
are a very distracted
society because of the
phone, okay? One study, and
it’s done by a professor in
a university, one study said
that there’s no such thing
as multitasking. Well, you
think you are multitasking,
but when you go back to your
phone, even that moment when
you go back to your phone to
look at something–not that
the danger of you getting
lost from the first
objective to find an
information about something,
all right, you look at
something else, oh, you saw
an incoming message or
something else, you got
distracted. Have you ever
been there? You find that
you are already all of a
sudden 15 minutes, 20
minutes, when you just
planned for a few seconds to
look. Not only that is a
problem, but even he says
when you come back to your
work, it takes you
about–really about 20 to
half an hour to get back
into the flow of what you
are doing. A part of your
mind is lost. It cannot
function as well. Then we
wonder why there’s an
increase of, you know,
mental conditions. And
people cannot adjust to
sustained reading anymore,
or sustained preaching. No,
that was not in study, but I
feel the same thing, all
right? Sustained reading
means they can only read
small portion and then they
have to jump to another
thing. It doesn’t interest
them, then you gotta jump to
another thing. We are
creating a generation of
people who are fleeting.
They cannot focus. They
cannot concentrate. And
sustained reading means you
read for a long time. You
are able to get into the
adventure, and the story,
and the feelings of the
people involved, and you are
lost. You know, studies also
show that reading is the
greatest form–one of the
greatest form–of course we
know that spiritually it is,
but in the world, the
University of Essex in UK
said compared to listening
to music, compared to
walking outside, all right,
reading brings down your
stress levels faster than
any of that. Think about it.
How much more when you read
the Bible, the Word of God,
amen? So back to this again.
We come back to this point
where the entire Bible is
all about Christ. Hello?
Amen. So to have communion
with God, we listen to God
when God says, “I want you
to fellowship with Me over
My Son. I want you to enjoy
My enjoyment of My Son. That
is communion with Me. I want
to reveal to you how
delighted I am in My Son.
Can I share with you? And
this Scripture is all about
My Son, and this part here
is all about My Son.” You
look at the life of Joseph,
one of the clearest
depiction of His Son is
there: rejected by the
brothers, loved by the
father, married a Gentile
bride, amen? Coming back
again, the first coming,
they didn’t recognize him,
the brothers. Second coming,
they recognized him. And
Israel will call him once
again using the words,
“Baruch haba hashem Adonai:
Blessed is He who comes in
the name of the Lord.” The
story of Joseph is right
there and Joseph told his
brothers when– after they
realized it’s him and all
that, he reconciled with
them. He forgave them. The
one who has the most power
besides Pharaoh at that time
used his power to forgive
them of their betrayal, of
them selling him off. He
forgave them. And what he
told them? Two things,
instruction for the church
today. He says, “When you go
back to get my father,”
that’s a picture of Israel,
present-day Israel, “When
you go to tell my father,
tell my father–” by the
way, he says, “As you go, do
not quarrel along the way.”
Church people love to
quarrel. They find things to
quarrel. There’s a lost
world out there who don’t
care a rip about what you
believe, all right, let
alone fight each other.
Jesus didn’t say, “By this
correcting one another’s
doctrines, all the world
will know you love Me. By
this, all men will know you
are My disciples.” Those who
love discipleship, listen.
He says, “By this,” what?
“Love one another as I have
loved you. By this, all men
shall know you are My
disciples.” Whoa, all men
means all men, amen? Let’s
unite around Jesus. We can
disagree on, “Well, I don’t
believe in speaking in
tongues.” Fine, you are
still my brother in Christ,
amen? “Ah, I don’t believe
in the Rapture.” Fine, we–I
will say, “I told you,” on
the way up, amen? We unite
around Jesus and His
wonderful person, and let’s
agree to preach the gospel.
By all means, preach the
gospel, amen. So Joseph
says, “As you go, brothers,
see that you don’t quarrel.”
Very interesting, it’s a
message for the church. And
then the second message,
“Tell my father of all my
glory and what you have
seen.” That is the essence
of worship. We are–when we
worship God, we are telling
the Father about His Son,
how wonderful He is. That’s
worship. So when you look at
the Bible and you find that,
“What a beautiful person
this is, Jesus,” amen, you
are communing with God
because God has the same
delight, amen. I tell you,
the day that that happens,.
that you see that you are in
this earth, on this–in this
earth, it’s not about you.
It’s all about Jesus. And
every time you are
self-occupied, self-focused,
to that degree of focus, to
that degree of occupation
with yourself, to that
degree you are depressed, to
that degree you are in pain.
But the moment you see Jesus
and you are occupied with
His beauty, His glory,
there’s no perfect goodness
like you can find in this
person, Jesus, amen? Are you
with me so far?
He’s
altogether lovely. So as
you–would you like to
have–how many of you would
like to have joy unspeakable
and full of glory? Full of
glory. Joy unspeakable and
full of glory. “Pastor, I
heard that before but my joy
is speakable. I have glory,
sometimes I feel this almost
a pinch of glory.” Well,
would you like to have joy
unspeakable and full of
glory? Let’s look at this,
okay, this portion, and
we’ll close with this, okay.
Watch this. 1 Peter, “Who
are kept by the power of God
through faith for
salvation,” bodily
salvation, “ready to be
revealed in the last time.”
That’s the–when Jesus comes
again, the only part to save
is our bodies, okay? Are you
listening? Back in those
days, right, during the time
of Paul and the time of
Jesus, the Roman Empire and
all that, what they do is
that you can actually
purchase something– and
until recently also we have
this, but you can actually
put a down payment. The down
payment is actually the
guarantee that you will come
back. It’s still yours. You
put a down payment. You
don’t come back, you lose
your down payment. Your down
payment is the guarantee
that you will come back,
okay? Your guarantee that
you will come back and pay
the full payment. Are you
with me so far? So the Bible
says the moment you are born
again, you are sealed–
“Whereby you are sealed with
the Holy Spirit of
redemption.” That seal,
which is the earnest of our
possession.” The word
“earnest” there is a down
payment. So right now in
this part–this side of
heaven, we have the down
payment already. The Holy
Spirit is not waiting to
fill us. He is in us. How
many are glad for that?
Jesus says, “I go away, but
I send you another.”
“Another,” that word there
in the Greek, just exactly
like Me. His person, His
essence, everything is just
like Jesus. That’s why it’s
called the Spirit–“If
anyone have not the Spirit
of Christ, he’s none of
His.” So the Holy Spirit is
with us right now. That’s
the guarantee, guarantee
that you’ll be saved
completely, amen, that He
will come back with the full
payment. Not the full
payment, to cash in on His
payment. The payment is all
made in full at the cross.
He will come back and then
our bodies will be saved.
But meanwhile, living in
this in between on this
earth, we are saved, but we
are not of this world. We
are of that heavenly world,
registered in heaven, yet we
are living in these two
worlds, right? But we have
the Holy Spirit to help us.
And then He quickens our
bodies. What happened just
now in the people testifying
how they got healed and all
that is the Holy Spirit
quickening that part of
their body. What you do not
know, you cannot cooperate
with. That’s why we are
teaching you this. Are you
glad you came to church
today? Okay, I have not even
touched the essence of what
I want to share, but I’ll
finish with this. So it
says, “We are kept by the
power of God.” Notice, the
word “kept” there is
passive. In other words,
it’s not active voice. It is
a passive voice in the
Greek, which means what? You
are being kept. It’s not you
keeping yourself. Isn’t that
a relief? God is keeping
you, how? With His power,
His almighty power, He keeps
you. All right, He keeps
you, so we, “are kept by the
power of God through faith
for salvation ready to be
revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice,
though now for a little
while, if need be, you have
been grieved by various
trials.” So this is a
paradox. One part, you see
“greatly rejoice.” I’m
telling you, you do not know
what it’s like to greatly
rejoice. I’m telling you,
sometimes you feel like
jumping up and down in your
room. You feel like–it’s
not happiness, which is
outside. Happiness is
happiness that–happenings
that happen to happen the
way you want it to happen,
then you are happy. Joy,
even when things are not
happening the way you want
it to happen, there’s a joy.
And this joy can make you a
success even in your earthly
career, for example, because
that joy levels your
thinking, gives you clarity
of mind. It gives you the
grace and the charisma that
people need. I’m telling
you, greatly rejoice, you
might say, “Well, I don’t
need that. I need help in my
parenting. I need help
with–” No, that joy is
gonna direct you. Just that
peace also. But what a
paradox to say, “Greatly
rejoice,” and then “Various
trials.” So listen, we live
in two worlds, all right? In
terms of our circumstances,
and our events, and all
that, we live in a world of
various trials. But in our
heart, in our mind, it’s
heavenly. We are in Spirit,
we are seated with Christ,
and we always see Christ at
the Father’s right hand. We
are in a realm where
everything is living,
nothing is dead. On earth,
everything is dead.
Everything’s dead. But in
heaven, nothing’s dead.
Everything is living. You
say, “Pastor Prince, my
heart is beating I would
have you know.” But you are
dead spiritually. Even
things that seem to have
some life for awhile, a true
flower fades. It dies. Grass
withers. People grow old.
It’s not meant to be. In
heaven, it’s not like that.
In heaven, everything is
living. “Well, Pastor,
that’s why in my house all
the flowers and all that are
all fake flowers.” That’s
worse. It’s all dead. It’s
not even dying. Dying has
still got life. It’s all
dead already, amen. “Well,
Pastor Prince, I would know
that man has advanced
himself. Now we don’t have
to worry so much about
studying and all that. We
can get our essays and all
that from AI, ChatGPT, and
all that, you know?” Let me
tell you something about
these things, okay? A
machine. A machine is
undeviatingly accurate. You
know what’s that called?
Dead. You can predict it,
it’s dead. It cannot go
beyond the knowledge that’s
fed into it. It’s dead.
Living is sometimes you have
a revelation of things that
you don’t even know in your
own head, not even based on
your experience. You have a
knowing not to get involved
with someone. Who is that?
The Holy Spirit, the living
water. Living water inside
you is leading you. That’s
alive. So while we live in
two worlds, we are actually
citizens of heaven. We are
there where–you see, if you
live com–even if you are a
Christian, you live
completely in your heart and
mind in this world, you are
subject to the vicissitudes
of life, the ups and downs,
okay? And when your
circumstances ameliorate,
all right, it gets better,
then you rise up, okay? You
feel happy. But then the
higher–the world is like
this. The world lifts you up
only to drop you. Have you
noticed that? And the drop
is called depression. You
get even more depressed. You
kinda wish it was more like
this because the more
elation you have, when it
comes to dropping, that’s
the living in the world.
It’s called the vanity line.
Ecclesiastes, “Vanity of
Vanities.” Book of
Ecclesiastes, written by the
man of wisdom, what is it
for? It is to tell us what
life is like under the sun,
natural life. That’s why the
phrase, “Under the sun,” is
used. The next book, Song of
Songs, is all about the
S-O-N: life above the sun.
And you imagine, how do you
greatly rejoice? You
live–in your heart and
mind, you live in heaven
where you see perfect
goodness. Everything is
living. Nothing to depress
you. The Bible says, “If you
then be reasoned with
Christ, seek after the
things at Christ’s right
hand.” Seek for the things
above where Christ is
sitting at the right hand of
God, right? Be
heavenly-minded. There’s a
saying, “Oh, this person is
too heavenly-minded to be
earthly good.” No, it’s only
when you are like this, what
I’m sharing,
scripturally-minded,
heavenly-minded, that you
come back with the wisdom of
God because you have a God
Word perspective. You’re not
crushed by the
circumstances. You come
independent of the
circumstances with the
wisdom and the flow of the
living water to arrest your
problem, to take care of
your children. Do not be so
hyper-sensitive with
everything that happens
around you to be so
irritable all the time. It
shows straight away where
you heart and mind is.
Again, I repeat, I say
again, if your heart and
mind, even if you’re a
believer, is under the
vanity line, not above, you
are subject to depression,
emotions that are like a
roller coaster, feeling of
blah. Now, imagine a person
like that going to work. Can
he be a success? So even
these things will affect you
in the natural circumstances
in your life. Can I person
who is like this, depressed,
speak with wisdom to a child
that he’s bringing up
without the child see that
irritation, that
short-temperedness. “Pastor,
you are condemning me.” No,
no, I’m just showing you
that this is not God’s way
for you. God has a better
way. God wants you to live
with joy unspeakable and
full of glory. It’s coming,
it’s coming. It’s coming,
it’s coming. It’s here, it’s
here. Drop down, “That the
genuineness of your faith,
being much more precious
than gold that perishes,
though it is tested by fire,
may be found to praise,
honor, and glory at the
revelation of Jesus Christ,
whom having not seen you
love.” I tell you this. I
look at the people in our
church even, I look at the
people that I know who are
believers, I look at people
in other churches as well,
because we are all one in
Christ, and many times I see
them, and in one person I
see the beauty of Christ. In
another person, I see the
compassion and love of
Jesus. In another person, I
see the humility of Christ.
In another person, I see the
authority of Christ. Another
person, I see different,
different things. And all
together, we all make some
facet of the beauty of
Jesus. And when you come to
God, God says, “We are all
unto God a sweet savor of
Christ.” Reminds God of His
Son, the fragrance of
Christ. You come in the
fragrance of Christ, just
like Jacob when he laid his
hands, all right–or Isaac,
rather, laid his hands on
Jacob, his son, thinking it
was Esau, but the smell of
Jacob made him pour out his
blessings, right? The smell.
The smell is like the field
that God has blessed. How
much more the smell of
Christ. The Bible says, “We
are unto God a sweet savor.”
The word there is “perfume.”
Imagine every time you come
to pray, see yourself like
perfume coming to heaven, to
God’s throne. We are all
sweet perfume. If I see you
like sweet perfume to God, I
won’t find fault with you. I
see the fault, it just melts
away. You’re a sweet
perfume. You’re a sweet
perfume. You’re a sweet
perfume. How many love to
grab your boy or your girl
sometimes and just smell
their head? Depending on
when, lah, huh? After they
bathe, it’s the best time,
not after they play
football, right? You just
love their smell. Where did
that part come from? From
God. “Oh, God is like us.”
No, God made you in His
image. Okay, let me bring
this to a close. “Whom
having not seen you love.”
How many of you can say, “I
love Jesus, but Pastor, I’ve
never seen Him. But I love
Jesus”? That shows the
resurrection power of Jesus
from heaven, revealing
Himself to you, all right?
That shows the livingness of
your faith. What you have in
you is living, in a world
that is dying and is dead.
You see, resurrection means,
lah, listen, you step
in–when Jesus rose from the
dead, that means what? Death
is behind. Listen, Jesus did
not rise from the dead the
way Lazarus. He raised
Lazarus from the dead only
for Lazarus to die again in
the future. Resurrection of
Jesus is totally in a
different field altogether.
It is stepping into a realm
where death, everything of
this earth is left behind,
into a realm of perfect
goodness, perfect joy,
unspeakable joy, full of
glory, a realm where nothing
can go wrong anymore, where
there’s perfect beauty,
accurate symmetry,
perfection all around, and
to be forever like that in
this realm. But meanwhile on
earth, you are to have your
thoughts like that. That’s
how your brain–mmm. I
was–ah, time. I want to
tell you about another study
about the brain, amen? You
know, the Bible says,
“Whatever things are true,
virtuous, praiseworthy,
think on these things”? You
watch your mind. In one day,
very fast, pssh, it will go
into negative, in the dark
realm, in the dark realm. I
was just telling one of the
pastors just now, should we
ever need to have a good
announcement or whatever,
don’t hesitate to come to
the pulpit, pass the note,
and whoever is in the pulpit
will share. But I tell you
this, first announcement
must always be, “Don’t
worry, it’s good news,”
because human way, “Ugh, he
interrupt the whole thing
because there’s news,”
right? We hope that that
will never happen, the bad
news, but we are more– our
propensity is towards bad
news, amen? It might be some
royalty is coming and we all
like to just stand up to
honor that person, right?
Someone comes to honor all
of us. Someone comes to
participate in the house of
God. But instead, we always
think negative. We are
more–so you see, it’s hard
to keep–whatever things are
true, virtuous,
praiseworthy, think on these
things and the God of
shalom, the God of
wholeness, the God of
well-being, the God of peace
shall be with you. Wake up
in the middle of the night,
guard your thoughts. Start
to pray in the Spirit and
just guard your thoughts,
amen? “What if I can’t
sleep, Pastor?” Tell
yourself, “If I can’t sleep,
if I meditate on Him, it’s
gonna be a very active and
energetic day. He will give
me the strength.” Don’t let
your thoughts go dark
and–amen? Okay, don’t stop
me. Let me finish this,
okay? Okay, last part, last
part, last part. All right,
“Whom having not seen you
love.” Can you say amen? Is
it true? Just think about
it. We love someone that we
have never seen. And who is
the–what’s that a sign of?
That there’s something
living in you. It’s living.
The Holy Spirit is there.
“Though now you do not see
Him,” that is, physically,
“yet believing, you rejoice
with joy inexpressible and
full of glory.” All right, I
used the word “unspeakable
joy” from the Old King
James. This is New King
James, “Joy unspeakable and
full of glory.” But notice,
how do you get this? By
looking at Jesus, by loving
Jesus, because He first
loved you. It is when your
mind is on Jesus that you
abound with unspeakable joy
and full of glory. Imagine
with that kind of spirit to
attend to the earthly
affairs. But the moment you
drop, I call it the vanity
line, pssh, okay, and the
Ecclesiastes line,
everything becomes dark,
becomes depressive. “Pastor,
you must be realistic. You
cannot just think of heaven,
think of heaven.” No, I said
we are citizens in both
countries, right? But don’t
let your heart and mind be
here. Let your heart and
mind be there, where
everything you see is
perfect beauty, absolute
goodness, righteousness.
That’s why when this Man
comes back to rule on this
earth, and He will, can you
imagine? The Bible says, “He
will rule the nations with a
rod of iron.” People say,
“Wow, is that a dictator? Is
that a–” No, no, no, that
means what? Absolute rule.
Rod of iron means absolute
rule, but it’s a rule from a
heart of love and
compassion. No heart is as
kind as the heart of Jesus.
None of you–don’t talk
about healing the leper. You
won’t even come close. No
one would touch the leper.
He didn’t even have to
touch. He can actually
speak–He has healed from a
distance. We’ve seen that
before, the Centurion’s
servant, Jairus–sorry, not
Jairus’s daughter, someone
else who was in back home,
right, in Cana, when He was
there. He spoke the Word.
Miles, right? The second
miracle. It’s all distance,
but He chose to come to the
leper. He chose to touch the
leper, restore to him his
humanity, and says, when the
leper asked, “If you can,
you can make me clean. If
you’re willing, you can make
me clean,” He says, “I am
willing. Look at Me, I am
willing. Be cleansed,” and
the leprosy departed. This
Man will rule the nations
with a rod of iron. I say
“Man” because He will rule
as a Man. Yes, He is God. He
is Godman. Once upon a time,
He was not a man, He was
just God. But God took on
the form of a Man. “Well,
Pastor Price, I believe that
God can send messengers and
all that. Jesus is just one
of the messengers.” No, He’s
not. He’s not. “But love, He
can still love us from a
distance.” No, He cannot.
You see, if you love a girl,
you’re interested in a girl,
do you send your best friend
to woo her, hmm? Do you send
your best friend to woo the
girl of your dreams, or love
inside you demands that you
do it yourself? God came
Himself in human flesh, so
now today, forevermore, He
has the human– you know, He
knows what a human feels
like. He knows what a man
feels like. He knows. He was
tested in all points, yet
without sin. And this Man
will come back to rule,
hallelujah. And I’ve
finished. Praise the Lord,
hallelujah. Thank You,
Jesus. Actually, I just got
started, but next time,
okay? Praise the Lord. Every
head bowed, every eye closed
all over this place and
everywhere that’s watching
this right now. I wanna
share with those of you who
have never received Jesus
Christ as your personal
Savior and Lord. If you have
never made Jesus your
personal Savior and Lord,
make that decision today to
put your trust in Christ.
Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and you shall be
saved. What to believe?
Believe God loved you so
much, God sent His Son to
die for your sins on that
cross. Believe that He bore
your sins in His own body on
the tree; that He was
judged, cursed, and
condemned in your place;
that He who was made sin
with your sin is now today
ready to give you His
righteousness, you who know
no righteousness. It’s a
gift. And if that is you,
you say, “Pastor, pray for
me,” then pray this prayer
with me right now. Say,
“Heavenly Father, I confess
Jesus Christ is my Lord,
this wonderful Jesus who
died for my sins and was
raised from the dead without
them. I thank You from
henceforth I am in Him. I am
greatly blessed, highly
favored, and deeply loved.
Teach me that while I walk
in this earth below, I’m a
citizen of heaven. You are
my Father, Your Holy Spirit
is in me, my Lord Jesus is
my advocate and my High
Priest, and Your angels
surround me. In the name of
Jesus. And all the people
said… Whoa, if you prayed
that prayer, you are born
again. You are saved, all
right? Stand to your feet,
church. Church, you are not
dead. You are living. And
wherever the river goes,
everything that’s dead
lives, amen? Keep on praying
in the Spirit. Everything
you touch will prosper.
Live! Dead things become
alive. Amen, amen, amen,
amen, amen. Praise the Lord.
Lift your hands all across
this place. This coming
week, I pray that the Father
will unveil to you more and
more of the beauties, the
glories, and the
excellencies of His beloved
Son. The Holy Spirit give
you eyes to see and a heart
to hear, and may you see how
all your interests, even
your earthly interests, is
all wrapped up in this
wonderful person, this Man
that will one day come to
rule. I pray in Jesus’ name
that the Lord will keep you
and your paths straight
throughout this week. I pray
angels will attend your way,
all your family’s ways
throughout this week, and
deliver you all from the
power of the evil one, in
the name of Jesus. And all
the people said, “Amen.” God
bless you, and I love you.
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