When Life Doesn’t Make Sense (Sermon) | Joseph Prince | Gospel Partner Episode

The Lord said this to me:

“I want the people
gird in their armor.”

There are enemies
trying to take away

your peace of mind

and they are the ones

that give you that pain,
that depression.

Your problem is
not your boss.

Your problem is
not your spouse.

Your problem is
not your child, alright.

It’s something spiritual behind it!

The Word has been stolen!

So whatever you do,
don’t lose the Word of God!

Now, you might feel despair,
you might feel discouraged.

Don’t be! You will be
the last man standing,

if need be, because
you have the armor of God on.

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Good morning, church! It’s good to
see all of you on this Sunday morning.

I have some testimonies to share with you,
and I believe these testimonies

will encourage you to trust God
for your very own healing and breakthrough.

The first testimony comes from
a brother in Florida, United States.

He writes, “My wife Mary and I
have been following Pastor Prince’s ministry

and partaking of the Holy Communion
together daily, sometimes multiple times a day.

We know the Holy Spirit draws us to
the Lord’s table in the presence of our enemies.

Mary had two cysts in her body,
one 5 cm and the other 2 cm,

causing tremendous physical
and emotional pain for about 14 months.

Three days after prayer and
the laying on of hands

on the afflicted area of Mary’s body,
she woke up in excruciating pain.

We went to the emergency room,
and Mary had a CT scan.

The doctor examined her medical records and,
after all the tests, said,

‘Mary, you have no cysts.
Your blood work is great, and your urine is good.’

We asked if the doctor had
seen her previous report,

and the doctor replied,
‘Yes, I saw the cysts, but they are

no longer in your body.’
We smiled and thanked Jesus.

We knew He did it just for us that
we may give Him alone all the glory.

Praise the Lord!
I truly love you,

Pastor Prince, as a brother in Christ.
I’ve learned more about Jesus through

your commitment to Him.
May grace be multiplied to you.”

Alright, church, a few Sundays ago,
Pastor Prince ministered in

a strong healing anointing during the service,

and we have some testimonies
that have come in. Here are the testimonies:

A sister from Singapore writes,
“On Sunday, the 17th of September,

I attended a morning service
at the Star Performing Arts Center.

During Pastor Prince’s healing ministry,

he mentioned healing for rashes.
Recently, I had developed rashes

on my arms and legs without any clear cause.
I consulted a doctor who diagnosed it

as an unknown viral infection.
Since the onset of these rashes,

I had been partaking of the
Holy Communion daily.

Despite visible rashes the night before,
by Sunday morning, I had

almost forgotten about them.
It wasn’t until Pastor Prince mentioned

the healing that I checked my arms
and realized the rashes had disappeared.

All praise to the Lord,
and thank you, Pastor Prince.”

Another sister from Singapore writes,
“On the 9th of September,

I suddenly developed rashes
on my body and arms.

They were so irritating that
I couldn’t sleep well and was

waking up almost every hour to scratch.
Then, on the 17th of September,

I attended the second service
at the Shaw Theater in Sengkang,

looking forward to worshiping the Lord.
During the service, Pastor Prince

mentioned that there was someone
suffering from rashes on the left arm,

which was exactly what I was experiencing.
He also spoke of rashes on the torso,

which was what I had
experienced during the week.

Pastor Prince then urged the individuals
to receive healing and rest in the Lord.

I followed his instructions,
even though the itching

persisted throughout the service.
I didn’t pay much attention to it.

By the end of the service,

all the itching and swelling had disappeared.
That night, even after 10 hours,

there were no rashes on my body.
Praise the Lord, hallelujah!”

A brother from Singapore shares,

“I’ve been experiencing a sharp pain
in my tailbone area for a few days,

which made it difficult for me to sleep.
On Sunday, the 17th of September,

I attended the second service
at the Star Performing Arts Center.

When Pastor Prince began ministering,
he mentioned that someone

was suffering from pain in the tailbone.
Upon hearing this, I immediately

received healing and believed that
I’m healed because Jesus

has already paid the price for it.
By the end of the service,

I realized that the pain had disappeared.
All glory to Jesus, hallelujah!”

The final testimony comes from
a brother in the Philippines.

He writes, “For several months,
I’ve been experiencing pain on

the left side of my chest, just below my heart.
Whenever I took deep breaths,

the pain would intensify.
On Sunday, the 17th of September,

I tuned in to New Creation Church online.
That day, Pastor Prince ministered

in the healing flow and prayed
for complete healing over the people.

I was glad to see people in the
congregation receiving and

testifying of their healing.
Then I decided to check

my own body by taking deep breaths.
That’s when I realized the pain

in my chest was gone.
I took a few more deep breaths,

and there was no pain.
Praise the Lord! I received my healing.

Hallelujah, and thank you, Pastor Prince.
God bless you.”

Praise the Lord for all these
wonderful healing testimonies. Now,

church, are you ready for the preaching
of the word? Let’s welcome Pastor Prince!

I was praying in the Spirit,
and the Lord said this to me.

“I want the people gird in their armor.
I want them to know that they are

standing now in the evil day,” amen.
There are enemies trying to take away

your peace of mind, trying to take away
your relationship with your children,

your influence over them,
wanna hand the influence over to others.

Your–your children’s minds are being attacked.
They are being–being robbed of all the–the

truths of God’s Word, and then they are
believing something that they are watching

and listening to on YouTube, all right, and
there’s a whole woke culture that has risen, okay,

and–and–and it’s all based on what they say.
They say there–there’s no absolute truth,

the Bible is not absolute truth, okay?
Obviously they don’t believe that,

because they are putting themself
as the absolute truth.

To say that you believe something, you
don’t believe absolute truth, you ask them,

“Do you believe this absolutely?”
They say, “Yes.”

That’s an absolute truth.
You’re believing in something,

but who is the source of your–
your conviction and your truth?

It’s themself.
No, sorry, God’s Word has

been around long before you were, amen.
“Heaven and earth will pass away,

but my words will never pass away.”
So, forces are robbing your children

of–of–of ideas and thoughts, and I–
I cannot understand parents who just let

their kids watch anything they want on–
on TV or on–there’s no restraint,

there’s no constraint.

If you love them, don’t spoil them.
The Bible says in the book of Proverbs,

amen, “He that–that loves his child
will chasten his child,” amen, amen.

Big words, if they are small, you can
actually take the toy away, you can put them

in a certain naughty corner, amen, they know
it’s discipline because of something they do.

Don’t try to reason a
chi–with a small child, amen.

When they are teenagers, you got a challenge,
but God is greater than their wisdom.

They think they are very smart, make them
think they are smart, but exercise God’s wisdom

that is greater than theirs, amen.
But know that you are in a battle.

Your relationship with your wife, amen,
there are men who are already in bondage.

You can see them, they’re already in–in
shackles, all right, to their computer,

watching porn when no one is watching.
They are in bondage,

they do not know how to get out.
They know it doesn’t satisfy, they know it

doesn’t help them, but they are just addicted.
Like all addictions, you need help, amen.

That is spiritual warfare.
If only we know that there are

spirit beings around us, and they are the ones
that give you that pain, that–that–that–that

condition, that sickness,
and they give you that depression.

They are the ones that rob from you.
Jesus says this in John 10.

“The thief,” the devil, “comes not
but to steal, kill, and to destroy,”

and I always believed the word steal comes first
before you can kill and destroy,

because Jesus tells us
another parable where he

says that the–the devil comes to steal the Word.
So, whatever you do, don’t lose the Word of God.

Your children, after for a while, even
if they grew up in church, in Rock Kidz,

right, in our church, Christian values and–are
being taught, but they go into the world,

if they’re influence by their
friends, slowly, slowly you find

that they start believing something else.
The Word has been stolen.

Now, you might feel despair, you
might feel discouraged, don’t be.

In the name of Jesus, God can give you influence
and favor like their friends never can.

In fact, the more their friends are
unbelieving, the more you’re a believer,

all right–when I say the more you’re a
believer, the more you are a practicing believer,

you know you are holy, righteous, and good,
amen, in Christ, your words carry weight.

The Bible says like this about
Samuel, when he was growing up,

God did not let none of his
words fall to the ground.

You must believe when you talk to your child,
“No, he will not listen to me,” stop saying that.

Pray the prayer that asks God for him
wisdom, weightiness in your words,

and you don’t have to say much, really.
Just–just say a few words, it will go deep.

Say that “I don’t agree with that, all
aright, that person is trying to be proud.

That person is trying to make
himself an authority over God’s Word.

I’m sorry, I’m staying by
God’s Word, amen.” Enough.

Don’t, “You know, you know, you
know,” don’t, don’t do that.

Don’t pressure your truth.
People who pressure their truth

feels that they don’t have the power,
and they are showing it, all right?

If you have the power, just one word.
Where the word of a king is,

there is power, Ecclesiastes, amen.
So, just speak, believe our God for favor

with your son, your daughter.
Ask God for favor.

Even if it seems like they get worse, ask God
for favor, ’cause as long as you love them,

have the–the values at home,
but don’t be someone who, like–

they’re watching you, you see.
You don’t praise, you don’t listen

to sermon, you watch drama all the time,
you know, you–you–you–you–you scold

people all the time, you curse this person,
this relative, this colleague and that

kind of thing at home while they’re watching.
You think that you are raising them by your words?

You are raising them by your example, amen.
Don’t feel condemned.

There’s therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ, amen.

Even good parents can lose
their child for a while.

I always believe for a while, because when
he is old, he will not depart from it.

That’s God’s promise, amen.
So, there are good parents in the–in the Bible

who have children that, you know, go astray.
Samuel, prophet Samuel’s an amazing man,

he–he had–he had children that went astray,
but God’s promise–David, a man after God’s

heart, children that went astray.
But God’s promise to us is that

train up a child in the way he should go,
when he is old, he will not depart from it.

So, besides the area of your health, your
relationships, the devil also wanna steal

your influence over people, amen, make it
appear that Christians are crazy people.

And somehow I don’t blame them if your
testimony at work is that you lie like that,

amen, you–you compromise, you laugh at
dirty jokes, you don’t shine, don’t–

you know, I’m not saying be
self-righteous, holier than thou attitude.

You know, “I’m higher than any of you.”
“Ma, come and help me do this.” “No.”

No, there’s a beauty of Jesus where
he–he’s among the lepers and, you know,

cleansing them, there’s power,
there’s dignity, yet there’s love,

even when he corrected the–the–
the Pharisees, there’s love.

There’s a presence of Jesus, there is
a dignity that the world wants to see.

They wanna see you different.
They’re hoping that there

can be someone different.
They want to live the high life.

They know that this is the low
life, amen, so don’t compromise.

Jesus says you are the salt of the earth.
You know what’s the salt?

In those days, it’s the refrigerator, all right?
It keeps their–their fish from going stale,

from going bad,
so salt was valuable in those days.

That’s why around the area of the
Salt Sea, all right, the Dead Sea, um,

back then they would–they would, uh, there’s
mining industry going on, and–and Romans,

the Romans would pay their soldiers with salt,
not just in money, salt, and salt is valuable.

You–they put it in their food, all
right, and that’s why it says that,

uh, he’s worth his grain of salt, got it?
That’s where that saying came from,

it came from the Romans, uh, when they gave their
salt as–you–the word salary, check it out,

etymology come from the
word salt, the word salary.

So, how much was your salt last week?
Your boss increase your salt?

And then Jesus says this.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt

has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salty?
It’s thenceforth worth for nothing but be

thrown out in the streets and
man trample them underfeet.”

You know what he’s saying?
He’s saying in those days salt, right,

if salt can actually go unsalty,
lose its saltiness, how?

When it’s in touch with the ground.
I made a study of this.

Based on the times in Israel,
I made a study of this,

and now it’s proven scientifically, all right?
Back then they just know if you put salt and you

touch the ground, the salt loses its saltiness.
So, therefore when they pack the salt in a place,

they gotta make sure it’s specially stored,
not touching the ground.

So, once it’s touching ground, it loses value.
So, what happens when it loses value,

it’s no more salty?
You know what they do?

They take the salt, where do they throw it?
Jesus was specific.

Even scientifically way beyond his time.
Of course, he knows how everything works.

He says that it’s thenceforth good for
nothing but to be thrown out, where?

In the streets.
Once it’s no good, you can throw

it on the ground, you can throw it on the ground.
It’s lost its saltiness, really, but especially

throwing it in the streets.
You know why?

Because even unsalty or salt that’s lost its
savor, you cannot throw it into the field, why?

Because you will cause
infertility for the harvest.

It will rob the harvest of fertility.
You cannot throw it in the field,

they don’t throw it in the field.
They throw it out there where men step on them.

So, it’s possible to be a believer
that have lost your testimony,

and people walk all over you, why?
You don’t dare to be different.

You–you–you–when–whenever a Christian
try to be like the world, all right,

the world wins over them.
Time and time again it’s shown.

But when a Christian stands his ground
and shines forth for the glory of God,

even the world come to know the Lord.
They want someone they can respect,

they want someone who speaks the truth
in the workplace, they want someone who’s

family’s shining the glory of God.
Even their failures here and there,

it doesn’t matter, amen.
They see you, you have a strength to

overcome that trial, you have a wayward son
and they see the way you handle it.

I–I–I–they want, they
want to know how you do that.

And that’s why all this YouTube thing,
you know, the–this guy promised that,

the guy promised this, the guy promised
that, all of them are human theories.

This is the Word of God, God, who
made us, he knows how we are designed,

he knows how we are created.
He gave man and woman, he made man and woman,

he calls it marriage,
he blessed them,

and he says, “Be fruitful and multiply.”
Sex is not the devil’s idea, it is God’s idea.

God used it to multiply,
amen, to replenish the earth.

So, God knows everything about
this earth, how it works.

Can I have a good amen?
So, God told me to tell you this.

This is the one.
This is the part

that as I pray in the spirit, he says,
“Make sure you have the armor of God on,” amen.

So, we go to the armor of God real
quick, all right, Ephesians 6.

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in
the Lord, in the power of His might.”

You’re not strong in yourself, I’m not
strong in myself, uh-uh, but we can–

we are strong in the Lord,
in the power of his might.

In other words, we are conscious of him,
that we are not in or–and of ourselves,

we are in him, and in him we are strong,
all right, in the power of his might.

Then it comes to, “Put on the whole
armor of God, that you may be able

to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,

but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this age,

against spiritual hosts of wickedness
in the heavenly places.

Notice there’s a hierarchy in the–in
the kingdom of darkness with the devil,

of course, all right, Satan himself over them all.
There is a hierarchy.

You know, sometimes we–all
these are spirit beings.

“We wrestle not against flesh and blood,”
our prob–your problem is not your boss,

your problem is not your spouse, your
problem is not your child, all right?

It’s something spiritual behind it.

“We wrestle not against flesh and blood,” we
love people, even people who have done evil,

we–we–we have–we must make sure
that hatred don’t come into our hearts.

Pray for them.
There are many people who

have done great harm who turn to the Lord
because they had a dream from the Lord.

They don’t read their Bibles, but
they have a dream from the Lord.

Pray for them, amen.
That’s the Christian posture.

Amen?
Okay.

You know, Chinese have this, uh, have this,
uh, um, saying, like, when I–when I–

you got pain in their bones, right?
Rheumatism, what do they say?

Hong.
Wind.

So, the interesting thing is that in Hebrew
and in Greek, Old Testament and New Testament,

Hebrew and Greek, in Hebrew and
Greek the word for hong is–

is the word–is the same word for
wind, the same word for spirit.

Both in Hebrew and Greek, pneuma.
Pneumatics.

All right, pneumatic drill, pneuma,
powered by wind, power–spirit, pneuma.

The Holy Spirit, Pneuma Hagios, Holy Spirit.
It’s pneuma, wind, spirit,

it’s the same, Hebrew also.
Ruach, amen, spirit, wind.

So, they say, “When the wind come, I feel pain.”
It’s not the wind, it’s one of these hierarchies.

So, how do you battle it?
Speak to it, speak to it.

Say, “In the name of Jesus,
you foul spirit, you pain,

loose my body and let me go,
in the name of Jesus,” amen.

What if it doesn’t happen?
What if it happens?

Don’t ask, lah, do it first.
No, before you do it, you doubt already, huh?

Oh, you faithless generations.
Speak, don’t doubt.

Doesn’t happen, speak again, amen.
Your words are spirit, amen.

Are you with me so far?
All right, next.

“Therefore take up the whole armor of
God, that you might be able to withstand

in the evil day,” we are in the evil
day, “and having done all, to stand.”

You’ll be the last man standing if need
be, because you have the armor of God on.

“Stand therefore,” see how–how
frequent the word stand appears?

The emphasis.
We don’t fight by running, “Ah!”

You know?
Ours is stand, it’s a different warfare.

Stand your ground.
Stand means that ground is yours.

There’s a story in the Bible
of a–a–a–a field of lentils.

Lentils, you know what’s lentils?
Dal, okay?

Oh man, dal, I tell you, chapati and dal, oh.
Dal is good protein, by the way,

just let you know.
All right, you’d be

healthy eating dal every day, amen.
The–the–the Indians know this.

It’s the best kept secret.
You don’t want the Chinese to know.

Dal, never a dal–lentil, you know?
Lent–whether it’s red lentil of which,

uh, even Esau gave his birthright for,
all right, or it is–it is the

yellow lentil, oh, lentils.
Usually they’re red, okay?

It was a patch of lentils, and the enemies
came, and one of David’s mighty men

stood that field and said,
“You’re not taking this field.

This is my family’s field.
It’s my inheritance, it was given to

me by my grandfather to my father,
and my father to me.

This is my field.”
He stand his ground.

Stand means you’re standing on something
that’s already yours, all right?

Stepping forward is stepping to get
something that is not yours but becomes

yours experimentally, but stand is something
that–so he stood his ground, and the Bible

says he took a sword, and all the
Philistines and all the enemies came,

and–and–and–and he just slew
them one by one on his patch field,

one by one by one until all died.
And the Bible says he fought until the sword

cleaved to his hand, the sword and the hand
became one, that’s how tight he held it,

and it would–became one.
And he stood, last man

standing, all around him men were dead.
Stand your ground and let the enemies fall.

The devil is–you see, it’s not–“I’m trying
to be healed, Pastor Prince, for many year,

many, many years now, I’m trying to be healed.”
Friend, you got it wrong.

You’re not trying to be
healed, you are the healed.

When the Bible says, “By his stripes
we are healed,” it’s a done thing,

you are the healed.

“Then why am I having this sickness?”
The devil is trying to steal your healing,

and the devil wants your mentality to be
that you are not healed.

Are you with me so far?
Let’s go on.

All right, so, “Stand therefore, having
girded your waist with truth,” first of all

the waist, “having put on the
breastplate of righteousness,”

this is where it protects the most vulnerable
part of you when you go to war, all right?

In those days it’s like Roman war.
It’s the Roman armor, by the way,

that Paul uses, which is all around him, right?
It protects your heart, the most vulnerable part.

You can get, uh, uh, hurt in your waist at
the side or your leg, you still can survive,

but your heart.
So, the breastplate of righteousness there,

“Having shod your feet with the preparation
of the gospel of peace,” verse 16,

“above all, taking the shield of faith
with which you will be able to quench all

the fiery darts of the wicked one.”
Let–let–let us count, okay?

Shall we?
Go back to the first one again.

All right, your–“having girded
your waist with truth,” number one.

“Having put on the breastplate
of righteousness,” two.

“Having shod your feet with the
preparation of the gospel of peace,” three.

“Above all, taking the shield
of faith,” four, right?

“By which you will be able to
quench all,” okay my friend?

“All the fiery darts of the wicked ones.”
Five, “Take the helmet of salvations,” five,

“and the sword of the Spirit,” six.
God never stops on six.

Next one, “praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit,” seventh.

Seven.
Only two, the rest are defensive, only two

are offensive, sword and praying in the Spirit.
You hear–go right into heaven in your prayer,

and you can go anywhere in your spirit.
What is that, praying in the Spirit, what is that?

Praying in tongues.
Praying in tongues.

You know, this is not new.
Actually, the Old Testament,

they were waiting for it, to have this armor.

By the way, this armor is not
put on, listen to me carefully,

it’s not put on the way some people teach it.
I–I used to hear people teach it like you put

on Batman’s clothes.
You know Batman?

There’s a show where he put on, clink,
on breastplate of righteousness,

click, amen, click, click.
All right, every day must do this.

So, you don’t do this, the enemy see
you naked, so every day I got up, click,

I put on the breastplate of–I put on–and all the
while when he tells you it’s the belt of truth,

breastplate of righteousness, it’s actually
telling you about the gospel truths.

Truth, righteousness, gospel
of peace, shield of faith,

sword of the Spirit, praying in the Spirit.
It’s not something that existed in the Old

Testament, because the Old Testament,
they were not able–they’re able to

fight their physical enemies and get victory
from the Lord, but they’re not able–they’re

not able to fight with spiritual enemies.
They’re not ready yet.

Which are the greater enemy, because
they are the ones animating and–and–

and empowering all the physical enemies.
You are in that position.

“Well, I don’t–I don’t want to fight, Pastor.
I–I–I’m not a hater, I’m a lover.”

Too bad, you are in the–you are
in battle, you are in the battle.

“And then–then I wish I didn’t get saved.”
Then you’re dead.

If–if–if–if–if a hunter
has a fast shooting gun, rifle,

and he shoots, uh, four birds, all right?
Two birds are dead, one bird flew away,

one bird is wounded, half dead, half alive, right?
Half alive.

Which one does he go first?
The two that are dead?

The one that’s alive.
You have the devil going after you, why?

It shows you are alive.
Dead people, they leave–he leaves alone.

He’s got them.
Any time he wants, he can put something on them.

Any time, he wanna put
depression, he can put depression,

any time he put bondage, he can put bondage.
But you he cannot.

He has to make you believe a
lie, steal the Word from you.

That’s why you come to church,
to learn this strategy.

And you have a Father who loves you, amen.
You know, I was preparing this,

um, meditating on it,
so I came to the loins gird

with truth, I was meditating on this again.
I know what it means, all right, I preached

on it before, but I want more revelation,
and I just praying in the Spirit over this,

just meditating on this, just the–the–
the belt of truth, the belt of truth,

how do we apply this belt of truth?
Belt of truth.

And then run–my son run
into my–my study, all right?

Justin, 11 year old.
And he was running around,

“Abba, look at this, look at this.”
He was wearing a belt, toy belt,

while I was meditating, of all the pieces,
I was meditating on the belt of truth at that

time, he runs in at that time.
He runs in.

“Abba, look at this, look at this.”
Then I say, I said,

“Why–why do–” said, “Look, it says belt.”
He showed me the word, the word belt, in–belt.

“It feels comfortable,” he said.
So, one thing I know is

that this belt is comfortable.
Do you know how many times this boy has

been used by God to confirm my–my sermon?
I’ve shared with the pastors before,

many-a-times God has used him,
all right, to confirm my sermon.

And then I began to meditate further
and–and–and–on–on the belt

after he left, and God gave
me this, this portion here,

which I’ve never seen before, and it says this.
It’s all there.

And this Ephesians 6, you go to Ephesians 4, yes.
We’re going backwards now, can you see that?

So, putting on the armor is the last
chapter, but if you look at that before

that, God says, “If indeed you have
heard Jesus and have been taught by Him,

as the truth is in Jesus.”
In the world that is filled with all kinds

of information we do not know what is the truth.
We better be spending time with the truth.

The truth is not an idea, it’s the
person, it’s the person of Jesus.

He is the truth.
Every time you come

to the truth, spend time with Jesus,
all of a sudden everything you see

in its exact light.
Are you listening?

You see it, you know, wow,
why–why I didn’t see it before?

You can tell, many of you, when
the devil has stolen the Word.

You know why, why it happens?
You don’t see revelations anymore,

even when you spend time in the Bible,
you are looking at words, just words.

You have lost the–the sharpness, the
keenness to receive from God’s Word.

You’re no more excited over revelation,
you know, revelation from God.

Not just any–anyhow revelation, okay?
Revelation from God’s Spirit, all right?

You want that revelation,
you go to the Word of God,

you’re excited to hear the Word, you’re excited.

Also, so it looks like he
managed to get–take that away.

He managed to just steal from you.
He managed to just steal from you.

And now your mind is just down.
You’re very easily distracted.

The power that makes a person
successful in his career life

is the ability to concentrate
on one thing at a time.

The boss is looking for someone who is able
to look at a problem, turn it around, focus.

The ability to focus is now stolen,
it’s gone for a lot of people, why?

I use my phone, my smartphone,
that’s one of the reasons why.

We’re so easily distracted.
We are so easily distracted.

We hear a ping, we are distracted,
and the–and to get back–you know,

you hear me share this like a
broken record, but it is the same.

Are you listening, people?
Okay, we–we are so–how long have

you held a truth, a precious truth that you see,
“Wow, this is so good from God,” and then before

you know it, you are distracted.
You’re not able to savor it,

enjoy it, even when you’re eating.
“Wow, this food is one of the best food,

best chicken rice, best lontong,”
or whatever it is, right?

How do I explain lontong to our
international audience, okay?

Anyway, good food, all right?
And you’re eating good

food, and you say, “Wow, this is so good.”
Before you know it, you are thinking about

problems at work, you’re thinking about your–
family or something, and you are distracted,

you are mindlessly eating.
You’re no more focused.

That’s what’s being robbed today from
our younger generation, all right?

Scrolling, your interest–the devil is training
you to just be interested in something a while.

Don’t get your attention?
Leave it, leave it.

“What did he just say?
I saw–I heard the first part, but after

that–” you can be here and not be here.
You can be here and not be here.

You can be there, home, watching, hello.
‘Cause they went to another room already, you see?

You are supposed to go for a short time.
Hey, come back, lah.

That’s the problem with not
attending physically, you see?

Already even physical you can
be here and not be here, right?

But at least you’re here.
They’re down there, they–everything is there.

“Hey, I didn’t see that before.”
Why don’t you see it earlier, before that?

The devil made you see that, eh?
“I got the book for a long time, interesting.”

You are being robbed.
It sounds funny,

but this is how the devil robs the Word.
Our ability to focus is gone.

I got a whole sermon on that.
But let me finish this, okay?

Can you let me finish this?
You are very distracting, you know?

Beautifully distracting.
Okay, so, “If indeed you

have heard Him and have been taught by Him,
as the truth is in Jesus,” so that the truth

has always got to do with Jesus.
You do not know what’s truth?

A lot of rhetorics are being brought
forth that this is the truth,

this I say is the truth, all right?
Uh, uh, uh, um, uh, high cholesterol

is not necessarily bad,
high cholesterol is bad,

all right, LDL cholesterol.
This one says that, uh, uh, uh, it’s okay,

keto diet is good, no, keto diet is bad, you know?
Even diets, all kinds of ideas, what is the truth?

The truth is the Lord knows your
body more than anybody else.

Doctors are great in what they’re
doing, but they–they studied things

that are, uh, based on what is there.
Not specifically, they don’t study

you specifically.
They try their best,

but your blood work and all that–
but only God knows exactly what you have.

Watch this.
This is what I saw in the Spirit.

I saw the–at least three
pieces of the armor right here.

I saw that as the truth is in Jesus,
there’s your loins gird with truth.

Whenever, in those days, right, with normal
garments of the Israeli, long, flowing,

loose garb, when they wanna
do a service, they tighten up.

Like Jesus before he served, so it’s
a–it’s a picture of you’re about

to embark on an activity or a service.
You need strong belt, amen.

For the–for the Roman soldier, the–the
belt holds up all his utilities,

all his things that he needs.
His weapon as well, his sword.

The belt drop, all right, everything drops.
Lift your eyes above the vanity line, please.

All right, now, watch this, watch this.
“That you put off, concerning your former

con–conduct, the old man which grows
corrupt according to the deceitful lusts.”

Say put off.
So, the old man, the uh, notice it doesn’t

say put off the old man, actually.
It says, “Put off the conduct,

the former conduct, the old man.”
Notice that?

The way it’s phrased is very important.
Some people say, you know,

“We still have an old man in us.”
No, you are a brand new creation in Christ.

You have the flesh in you that wants
to do wrong, wants to sin, right?

But that’s not you.
You are not your flesh.

You are the new creation in Christ.
In fact, we’re gonna see it right at

the bottom here, but before that it says that
“you put off, concerning your former conduct,

the old man which grows corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts.”

That’s the part that get–likes to get
angry, uh, that watch porn, that–that wants

to, uh, uh, uh, be proud and–and–and
always glorifying himself

and always wants to take the credit.
You know, that–that part of you is your

conduct of the old man.
It’s not the old man,

he’s not in you, it’s the conduct.
The flesh is there, though.

The flesh is–has been all these
years energized by the old man.

So, he says, “Put off the old man.”
How do you do it?

“Be renewed in the spirit of your mind.”
Now you have the helmet of salvation,

the hope of salvation.
So–which means, the way you–you

know how you put off the conduct?
Your mind.

You must be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
What are you thinking of yourself?

“I’m still the old man.”
No wonder you’re doing those things that

you’re doing, and you’re doing in an old way.
Become old.

Be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
I’m so glad you came today.

Do you know you’re being renewed
in the spirit of your mind?

Do you know you’re being renewed
in the spirit of your mind?

Do you know that?
All right, because of time,

I’m–I’m gonna bring this to a close, okay?
We’ll continue the next time, all right?

But before that, we come to the
“that you put on the new man

which after God was created according to
God–or which was created according to God,

in true righteousness and holiness.”
Do you know when God looks at you,

God sees true righteousness and holiness?
Why?

Because you are the
righteousness of God in Christ.

When–when you are born
again, you’re born righteous.

So, deep down, who we are is created in
right–in true righteousness and holiness.

Be aware of that in your
mind, be conscious of that.

Let the spirit of your mind be full of
that, that I’m a new creation in Christ,

I’m filled with the nature of God.
I am not God, but I’m a partaker of his

divine nature in me now, hallelujah.
So, the flesh is in me,

and the Lord leaves the flesh in all of us,
the sinful part in all of us to let–teach

us to be humble always, amen, amen.
So, the other part of us is, what?

The new creation, the
righteousness of God in Christ.

The more conscious you are of
that–that’s why we teach that,

and there are so many testimonies of,
in one area, for example, pornography,

we got so many testimonies,
and I’ve–I’ve many of them

scattered in my books, where one after another,
one after another, and you’ve heard me share

from this pulpit as well,
young men saying, “You know,

I–I used to be in porn,” some old men
also saying, “I’m in porn for 20 years,

but after your teaching, I began to confess,
‘I’m the righteousness of God in Christ.’

At first I didn’t feel like
it, I still watched it,

but slowly I realized the more I confess it,”
his mind is being renewed,

his mind is being renewed,
he start believing that’s who he is,

and all of a sudden the desire.
True deliverance is not, “Oh,

I stopped smoking, but I still want to smoke.”
No, true desire is that when you think of smoking,

you are turned off by it,
you feel like throwing up.

That’s true deliverance.
It’s like confessing,

“I’m the righteousness of God in Christ,”
even sometimes while he’s watching,

he confess it, hard as it is,
he confess it, they confess it,

and now he says, “Totally, three, four, five
years have come, I’ve not watched porn.”

We’ve so many testimonies like this,
and yet people think we are advocating

and sanctioning sin by
preaching the gospel of grace.

No, friend.
Do you see that?

Do you see that?
And I have to stop,

okay, for now, until the next time.
God bless you, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

Do you understand so far?
Put off, put on, do you understand?

How you put off?
In your mind.

Don’t think of yourself as the old man anymore.
How do you put on?

Realize I’m the righteousness of God in
Christ, especially after you lose your temper,

especially after you do wrong, that’s the time.
“No, this is not who I am.

I did something stupid, I call it stupid,
all right, but that’s not who I am.

What I just did did not proceed from who I am.
Sin that dwells in me did it,” all right?

Now, that’s not to say you excuse yourself,
but you’re renewing your mind by saying,

“That’s not who did that.
I am the righteousness of God in Christ.”

And that’s when you correct your children, uh,
uh, uh, it’ll be a bonus real fast before you go.

When you correct your
children, correct their action.

Don’t say they are lousy.
Don’t attack their person.

Say, “You’re a smart person.
That’s why what you did just now

is not according to who you are.
I know you, Justin.

You’re much better than this, all
right, what you did just now.”

So, you understand?
I’m not saying you,

I’m saying what you did just now.
All right, never attack the person.

You are the righteousness of God in Christ,
created in righteousness and true holiness,

or true righteousness and holiness.

Aren’t you glad you came to church today?
Every head bowed, every eye closed.

Friend, if you have never accepted
Jesus Christ, the Bible says,

“Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and you shall be saved.”

If that is you, pray this prayer with me
right now and you will be saved, amen.

If your family’s with you, praise the
Lord, bring them into the saving knowledge

of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Everyone that is listening to me right now,

even you’re–if you’re not sure that you’re saved,
you may have heard it many years ago, but you say,

“I’ve never really settled that
I’m saved,” then make sure today.

Pray this prayer with me right now.
Say, “Heavenly Father, what a good God you are.

I don’t believe it’s by chance that
I’m listening to the Word today.

You love me.
You sent your Son Jesus,

and he died on the cross for all my sins.
You raised him from the dead.

There he is right now at your
right hand, ruler over all.

And I confess Jesus Christ is
my Lord, my Savior, and my God.

Thank you, Father.
I am completely saved.

All my sins are totally forgiven.
And I ask of you in the name of Jesus,

fill me with your Holy Spirit.
In Jesus’ name, amen.”

Praise the Lord.
If you prayed that prayer

just now, you are now a child of God,
a child of the most high God, amen.

You belong to his kingdom, praise
the Lord, and he loves you.

Stand to your feet, church.
Remember that you are in a world

where there’s warfare going around.
Don’t be conscious of those demons.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, not a thousand times, no.

Be conscious of Jesus, amen.
Let God arise, what happens?

All his enemies are scattered, amen.
When the sun rises up, you don’t have

to curse the darkness, amen.
It will just flee, amen.

There’s darkness in the room, switch on the light.
Don’t be conscious of the darkness,

don’t scold the darkness,
switch on the light, amen.

Focus on the Lord, praise the Lord.
This coming week, the Lord

bless you and your loved ones.
The Lord keep you and your families.

The Lord make his face shine
upon you and be gracious to you.

The Lord lift up his countenance on you and
grant you shalom peace, wholeness, and wellbeing.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and all the people said, amen.

Love you, church.
We’ll see you again.

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