How To Overcome Lust And Temptation (Full Sermon) | Joseph Prince

This sermon is from: Experience Victory Over Sexual Immorality (23 Aug 2015)

Find freedom in this one area that has many trapped in a cycle of defeat and addiction. In this illuminating and powerful message by Joseph Prince, understand how sexual immorality begins, takes root, and can tear a person and relationships apart. See how God’s grace is available to you in the midst of your struggles and be anchored in the gospel truths that are key to lasting victory over lust and sexual sins.

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Turn to your neighbour, smile at somebody and say

Something good is going to happen to you in this service

I believe it, it’s not a cliché, I believe it. I really believe it

The gospel is all about God’s goodness

The gospel is all about God’s goodness

When God’s goodness is being preached

it is amazing how man responds

Now we say that we respond to the goodness of God

but actually man in the natural I’m speaking about man in the flesh

they cannot receive the goodness of God

They suspect, they doubt, they do anything

but receive the goodness of God

That’s why when grace is being preached

man is still asking, is it that good?

Can God be that good?

Can anything good come out of Nazareth?

Man in his flesh does not think well of God

Man in his flesh only has hard thoughts about God

And the devil has throughout the years down through history

ever since he tempted the first man

the number one way that he causes man to leave the presence of perfect love

is to put the thought that God is not that good

He’s holding out something He doesn’t want you to have

when God gives you restrictions, it’s because God is not interested in you

God is not that good

and he has succeeded in making people

think that God is not good

So man in the flesh cannot think well of God

So beware of that

It is the manifestation of the flesh

Today I want to share with you the goodness of God

The goodness of God leads us to repentance

Can I have a good amen?

But before I do so, I want to answer some questions that is very prevalent

In fact I’ve answered all these questions time and time again

By the way, I would recommend highly that series that was shown just now

“What About?” series, because it answers

a lot of questions that people are asking about grace

What about Ananias and Sapphira?

what about Hebrews chapter 6?

what about Hebrews chapter 10?

what about working out your salvation?

what about Paul’s sufferings?

what about those who are not healed?

what about, what about, what about, what about, what about?

So I would encourage you, especially if you are a preacher

to get that series and compare Scripture with Scripture

You don’t have to take everything that I say

but compare Scripture with Scripture

Amen?

Can I have a good amen?

And one of the things I want to share

before I start preaching the Word that God has placed in my heart

I want to answer a few questions first

Number one the first question

there is this thing coming back again

and I’ve answered this many years ago, but it’s coming back again

And it is this, that people are saying the Lord Jesus said

“Many will come to Me in that day.”

At first He says, “Not everyone who calls Me

‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven.

But he that doeth the will of My Father who is in heaven.”

Let’s read that okay, so you don’t think I’m just quoting it

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’

shall enter the kingdom of heaven

But he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”

So the idea that these people are trying to portray

is that just because you call Jesus “Lord”

does not mean you’ll make it

does not mean you’ll be saved

Now we’re here standing

at a precipice

because if justification by faith

is not the gospel

if grace is not the gospel

and if Jesus said, “I give My sheep eternal life,”

John 10

“And they shall never perish.”

And here it says that people who call the Lord ‘Lord’ can still lose their salvation

okay, we have to study a little bit closer

So remember that He says, “Not everybody who says to Me

‘Lord, Lord’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven.

But he who does the will of My Father in heaven

Many will say to Me in that day

‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name

cast out demons in Your name

done many wonders in Your name?”

And then I’ll declare to them, ‘I never knew you.’

not I do not know you at the present moment

You have changed so much, I do not know you present tense

No ‘I never’. This is not present tense

‘I never knew you’

Can the Lord say that of us?

Once He knows us, we are born again

He knows us, can He say, ‘I never knew you?’

So first and foremost

you just got the answer, alright

the first part of the answer. “I never knew you

depart from Me, you who practise lawlessness.”

So these are people who are not saved, people who didn’t put their trust in Christ

But in that day

verse 22, “Many will say to me in that day.”

Now that’s the key

that’s the key

When Jesus returns

alright

with one blast of His mouth

the fiery sword of the Lord destroys the anti-Christ

And all the armies that follow him are destroyed

Their spirits cast into the lake of fire

He will set this earth right

Amen

Righteousness will once again reign on this earth

There’ll be no more sex trafficking

there’ll be no more children being abused

there’ll be no more murders

there’ll be no more children dying before their time

there’ll be no more people dying early

there’ll be no more hospitals

when the Lord Jesus comes back

So we all think of the meek and lowly Lamb

the Lord who came in His first coming

He came yes, as the Lamb to die for our sins

But if you read the book of Revelations

He’s not coming back as a Lamb

He’s coming back as the Lion. He’s coming back to destroy

Now some of you who are politically correct

you don’t like that, you say “Well I think that, you know

Jesus should be loving and understanding of people

and the different lifestyles and different kind of opinions and all that.”

Let me tell you this, God never created a democracy

God created a theocracy when God made the earth

The reason why sin is sin because we have someone to answer to

He never made us lone rangers and you know

anyhow you can just function the way you want to

Everything you do has repercussions in the universe

it affects one person, it affects the animals

it affects everything around you

But the world has come to a place

they don’t want to acknowledge God

and yet they need God’s power, God’s love, God’s grace

Are you listening, people?

Okay, anyway when He returns

all dominion

all empires

all kingdoms will fall

before the One who is the centre of the creation of God

The One that God so loved the world God sent Him to die for our sins

He could have let us perish and go to hell

all of us, and create another creation. Amen?

He did not choose to do so

In fact, for Him to create He only had to speak

But for Him to redeem He had to bleed. He chose to bleed

He came to where we were

We saw last week He took on human flesh, the likeness

Not sinful flesh but the likeness of sinful flesh

There was no sinful flesh in our Lord Jesus

And He dwelt where we dwelt, just like God of old

with Israel in the wilderness

Israel would go from place to place

God went in a pillar of cloud, in a pillar of fire from place to place

When they had the tabernacle, when they all lived in a tent

God lived also in a tent called ‘mishkan’, the tabernacle

When finally they crossed the river Jordan and they had to attack Jericho

the stronghold Jericho

the Lord Jesus appeared with a sword in His right hand

Why? He appeared as a warrior because His people are in warrior mode

He always wants to be where you are

Amen, are you listening people?

And finally

by the way when they were suffering

under the furnace of slavery in Egypt

crying out in their fiery trial, being oppressed and bullied by the Egyptians

the Lord appeared in a burning bush as if to say, ‘I’m feeling your heat

I am come down to deliver you.’

I want you to know something. This God is a wonderful God

He is a good God. He is a holy God. He has righteousness

He has standards for the universe

He tells the storm and the waves of the sea

“Hitherto you shall come, up till now you can come here, but no more.”

Even the tsunami finally hears the cry of God from heaven, say ‘Stop! Enough!’

Alright, God ordained it

Everything in the universe obeys God except man

Amen?

So here we have, the world will be set right when He

the One deserving of the throne of David

He will sit on that throne and reign in righteousness

in love

and we’ll have heaven on earth

Amen that’s called the millennial rule of Christ

And that has been on my heart these few weeks as you can tell

So remember this. And those of you who are against

you say, “Whoa I can’t imagine a Jesus who is violent.”

You must understand one thing, if your child is about to be harmed

you see a mother bear or a mother lion fight

even against animals that are bigger

Whether it’s a lion, another lion or an elephant

the mother will fight to her death to defend the child

I call that love

you don’t call that politically correct. I call that love

And yet those of you, some of you who say

“Whoa I can’t worship a God you know, I cannot admire a God who kills people.”

You must understand, He is not out to kill people. He is out to save people

But there are people who refuse to come under His grace, under His love

And then they end up on the other side of anti-Christ

They are hell bent to kill

Well God is gonna kill those people in the book of Revelation. Amen?

And you cannot say that, “Oh I cannot respect a God like that.”

Because deep down inside your heart you watch movies

where you want the hero to fight

You see the hero sees bad things going on

the hero sees a girl is about to be raped

he sees a small child is about to be beaten up

And the hero stands down there

you want him to respond you hypocrite!

But I’m not here, we’re not there yet

where the Lord returns

taking vengeance on the anti-Christ

And years and years of the cry of all the martyrs

and children

going to heaven before their time

but He will come back,

and He will…

He’s the kinsman-redeemer

He will redeem them, and He will avenge them

That is the Hero of heroes

I know some of you

you cannot imagine the Jesus of the Gospels and the Jesus of Revelation

I can, in fact that makes me worship Him

Amen because I like watching shows where

the bad guy gets a good hero whacking him up

I love shows like that

I love shows where a guy is abusing a girl

slapping her around then the hero comes, amen close the door

whack all the guys and free the girl. I like shows like that

And you don’t pretend, you like shows like that also

But you come to church, “Oh I just want God, Jesus to be holding a lamb all the time.”

Not this church okay, and I’m a preacher of grace

I said I’m a preacher of grace. Are you listening, people?

So how do you explain this? “Many will come,”

the key: “In that day.”

In that day when they see Jesus return, everybody panic!

When they see Jesus is the One, nobody will profane His name anymore

So when they come to Him they say, “Lord, Lord.”

You think they will call Him ‘Lord, Lord,’? In that day, yeah of course, of course!

Every ruler on earth, everyone who has blasphemed Him

whatever they believe it is, those who don’t believe in the Bible

those who don’t believe in God, they will all when they see Him

they will say, “Lord, Lord.”

“Hey Lord, we did a lot of good things in Your name.”

In your name? That is what they said

Jesus didn’t say, “You did this in My name.”

They said they did things in His name

If Jesus said they did things in His name, it’ll be the name of the Lord Jesus

But if they said they did things in His name,

they did things they thought in the name of God, “I did things in Your name.”

No way, it is not in Jesus’ name

Jesus says, “I’m sorry,” no Jesus don’t apologise

The days of apology are over

Are you listening, people?

These people are not saved

Another thing you need to know is this

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven

but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.”

So I have seen people stand behind the pulpit and say things like

“Not everyone who says to Him, ‘Lord, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven!

But he who does the will of the Father.”

And then he never tells you what is the will of the Father

because that is control

If you want to know the will of the Father alright you keep on coming

Because now you might be on a shaky foundation, you might

lose your salvation, “Not everybody who calls Me, ‘Lord, Lord’.”

See people love to use this verse to control

But if the gospel of grace is true

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

Then how do you reconcile this?

That means he who does the will of the Father

and what is the will of the Father? Believe on Jesus!

Not everyone who calls him Lord, Lord is saved in that day

but he who does the will

those who have proclaimed Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and Lord

Not in that day when they realise He is God saying to Him in that day ‘Lord, Lord’

But today, if you call him Lord, you believe in Him in your heart

you are doing the will of the Father!

Okay proof

Proof

John 6:40, the words of Jesus

“And this is the will of Him who sent Me

that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him

may have everlasting life and I will raise him up at the last day.”

Can you see that? Amen? What is the will of Him?

The will of Him is that everyone who sees the Son

and many a times when you’re preaching Jesus

and people see Him in the sermon and they believe in Him, guess what?

They are saved. That is the will of the Father, that everyone believes in the Son

What is the will of the Father? Everyone believes in the Son

And be careful of people who try to say that the will of the Father

there is your works again, your behaviour

If they do that, they are negating the gospel of Jesus Christ

it’s the spirit of anti-Christ in the pulpit

There is no compromise when it comes to preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ

It’s the gospel of grace and peace

Amen people, are you with me so far?

Next question I want to handle is this

“Pastor Prince, if I have a Christian company, not just a church okay

a Christian organisation. And everyone are Christians.

I’m a Christian boss

and my people are all you know, have been influenced

impacted by the gospel of grace. And they all know that, and, you know, Pastor

people who believe in grace they are very humble people

When you talk to them they say, ‘You know boss

it’s really God’s grace on my life.’ They are very humble people

It’s easy to work with humble people. But my question is this:

It’s year end and I need to reward them

I need to give them their assessment for their remuneration.”

How many understand what I’m talking about so far, alright?

I’m using a Christian organisation because

a worldly organisation don’t think about grace

You understand there’s no grace in their decision-making

But for a Christian boss, grace is there

“Now Pastor Prince, if I give everybody by grace

whoa, everybody get five months bonus

Because five is the number of grace what

And then next year, they’ll get five hundred dollar increment

Again five what, Pastor. You know, is that what I must do

Pastor Prince, is that what I must do?”

You know, friend, and these are the questions we get when we travel overseas

people ask that question

Pastor Mark travelled to Taiwan last week, they asked him the same question

I want to tell you this because I’ve given the answer here before

and I want to say it again so that those who were not here

you are able to take this home and keep it somewhere

Okay? The answer is here, in 1 Corinthians 15

How do we assess our employees? How do we assess people that are under us?

“But by the grace,” Paul is talking, “But by the grace of God, I am what I am

And His grace towards me was not in vain.” Now listen, “His grace towards me was not in vain.”

That means it is possible for the grace of God in your life to be in vain

That means God gives you the grace, you have the love…

okay for example grace to work among children

Number one, you must have a love for children

God gives you the grace, then you have the love for children

When you look at children

there is a slight smile on your face and you have ideas going in your head

as to how to make Jesus more real in their lives

You have creative, innovative ideas to make the Sunday school more exciting

You have that grace every time you think about it

But then you think about your responsibility at work

you think about the amount of time you have

but the grace is there

And then finally there came a time where you decide

you know what, then you feel the passion

You think about God’s work you feel the passion alright

but God will never force you

So God never force even though He’s King

He will not knock your knees together and make you fall and say, ‘Obey’

He’ll never do that

Amen

Even right now you are free to get up and walk away

He will never force you and freeze your butt on the seat

amen?

So the thing is this, He will give you the desire for children ministry

If someone don’t have the desire for children ministry

sometimes Christians have this idea that God will ask you to do things

in the ministry you have no desire for, and you have to take up your cross

I don’t believe that for one moment. That cannot be applied for that

When it comes to ministry, there must be a gift

A gift will give you a desire to flow in that direction. Amen?

So if someone doesn’t have love for kids, we don’t want them among our kids

And the kids also don’t want them among them. Okay?

So what do we do then? You have this grace, it’s coming on you

you feel it every time you think about children, you feel like

“Yeah one of these days I must sign up.

Yeah one of these days I must sign up

One of these days I must sign up.” But you didn’t

You prioritise your work. You prioritise something else

And you do overtime, you’re tired on Sunday

And then you want to work but then you cherish your partying on Saturday night

and you’re not willing to lay down anything

Then the grace that God gives you, just for you, you know

He didn’t give this grace to anybody else

He gave it to you, what an honour, was in vain

Then guess what, it dissipates

It dissipates

Then he goes on to say, after he says

“His grace towards me was not in vain.”

That means God can give you grace, but it was in vain

“But I laboured,” Paul says, “I laboured more abundantly than they all.”

Now I assume from the context here they all refers to

Peter, James, John, Bartholomew, Thomas and all the rest

I laboured more abundantly than they all

“Yet not I,” you see how quick he is to give honour where honour belongs?

“Yet not I, but the grace of God who is with me.” Are you listening, people?

In other words, if the grace is there and you step in it

First of all, you see the grace, the calling

the wooing of grace to get involved in this ministry

to go with Pastor Prince to Israel. You feel the grace to do it

You feel the grace to want to participate in this ministry

You find out, “Oh man, I can sing a better song

Hey hallelujah. You know, the guy up there, oh how terrible

man, the way he sings. I can sing better.”

Okay you have the grace but don’t have the humility alright

Takes some time, let the grace work

So the thing is that the grace will start working

Will you say yes to the grace? Will you flow with the grace?

Now Paul flowed with the grace

And ended up doing much more than all the rest ever did

Yet it was not him, but the grace of God that was with him

So for a boss, for the employer

you cannot decide based on looking at people’s grace

You decide based on, “I know your works. I know your works. I know your works

I know your works. I assess you based on what you produce

I assess you based on what you have brought forth

I assess you based on results.”

But you say, “But Pastor Prince, that is not grace!” No it is grace, listen carefully

if you use the grace there’ll be the fruits

In fact it shows, my assessing your works

tells me you have been using the grace, that the grace has not been in vain!

Are you listening?

Maybe you start off as a receptionist, but you love to answer calls

in such a way that you have a ear to the Spirit when someone is in trouble

you don’t just say, “Yes, oh yeah he’ll be back, Pastor Lian is not around. Yes…”

hang up

You have you know, “Well sister is there anything?

We can always… I can try to contact someone, this pastor is available alright.”

And people hear that, And bosses see that

and they see the flow of grace is on this person

That person will not remain as a receptionist

nothing wrong with starting as a receptionist

So bosses cannot judge based on, oh based on grace, everybody get

five percent

No, it’s based on works

Like Jesus looked at the churches in Revelation

“I know your works. I know your works.”

Works reflect whether the grace has been used in your life

God gives you the grace to do something

When you use and flow with the grace God gives you

God rewards you for using the grace He first gave you

Amen?

So are you clear on that?

Bosses are you clear on that?

Yeah, some people think that Pastor Prince allow everyone to stand

in the pulpit or dancing or singing

“You raise me up…”

You know they think as long you got a voice like that you can all be

no, no they have all been assessed

I don’t care how young they are. They have all been assessed

And that’s why people in the platform ministry

once a while we give them a test

We purposely correct them and we see how they respond

whether they allow correction or not. If they have a bad attitude

they cannot go further

I shouldn’t be revealing my…

You see the response people have

It always tells you whether they can go to the next level.

Can I have a good amen?

“But Pastor Prince you must understand

I have the flow to do this but I don’t have the time.”

Isn’t that interesting? Everybody has the same time

twenty-four hours

This child was born yesterday in Kandang Kerbau hospital with extra fifteen hours

Nobody else gets it

There’s no such thing right?

In fact my Bible says that there are things that you do that God can add time

Jacob loved Rachel, served seven years for her

but they were like few days because of the love he had for her

Time passes fast sometimes, but it’s still time

And the Bible says when you spend time in the Word

He will add length of days and then days of life in the same verse

So obviously both cannot be referring to longevity

Length of days my friend, it’s not always long life. It means length of days

You have all the time to do whatever you want to do

It’s a blessing. I said it’s a blessing

Start your day wrong, and you see how short the day is, how frustrated you feel

How when you close your eyes you don’t feel good

Start the day right, and you start the day right with God

Andrew Murray says, he calls it the ‘inner chamber’

the place where you spend time with God

You and God alone is amazing. Whatever fears you have, you are in the presence

Hey, if I got the chance to be in the presence of the Queen of England

I’ll be making sure that I dress my best

I’ll be making sure that everything is fine and I’ll treasure every moment

and I’ll try to memorise every word she says

How about you got a chance to be in the presence of the King of kings?

With all due respect to all the monarchs on earth

the King of kings that you spend time with can do something about your situation

And even talking to Him about all the problems in your life

knowing you are talking to the person who has all the power

who has all the love for you y’all, does something to your heart

And when you step out of the inner chamber

you find that there is a fragrance that is being diffused

And you find the whole day you carry the anointing of His presence

Start the day wrong, and you know that you’re on your own

even though God loves you

okay?

Amen. “Amen Pastor Prince.”

Alright, third question, does it help the bosses here alright?

So if you get one month, one and a half months

you get three months, that is how bosses assess based on your performance

based on… and performance is brought about by how you flow with the grace

You flow with the grace, it will be great performance

it’ll be fruit of the Spirit, right attitude even. Amen?

The third thing I wanna handle is this

Holiness

“Pastor Prince, what is holiness?” And number one

do not confound holiness with righteousness

I had a lady who is very famous in America

she’s quite advanced in her years, an amazing Bible teacher

She texted me the other day and she said this

“I watched your programme

and I’m beginning to realise the difference

between holiness and righteousness.”

People are..

People confound the two you know

Even many people who have gone through Bible school

they confound the two. You ask them what is holiness?

They say, “You know don’t do this, don’t do that, don’t do this.”

Yes, I mean it can involve certain lifestyle behaviour

But holiness is actually being set apart.

The opposite of holiness is not sin

The opposite of holiness is commonness

You are like anyone in the world

The people of the world sleep around with no compunction of sin

they indulge and eat and eat

Let me give a word of advice to the believers here, okay

Something is wrong if you have a passion for eating, eating

eating alright, it’s nothing new you know

It was the downfall of Rome, the downfall of the Greece empire

All the downfalls in history, you’ll find they love eating before it happened

Another thing they love is fornication, sexual immorality

Let me tell you this, God gave food, say amen. God gave sex, say amen

But sex is something that God wants us to have within the confines

sometimes when you confine something it explodes

When you don’t confine something it dissipates

One more time, sometimes you confine something it explodes

If you give it a lot of room like the Padang, the field, it dissipates

Use it all the time, it dissipates, have self-control, self-control

and then when you use it, explosive

He that have ears to hear, in the first floor, in second floor

in the third floor, all over the place

all over Singapore that’s watching this right now

and also those that will be watching by way of television amen

God’s ways are best

God had a smile on His face I believe when God created sex

God made sex. In fact technically speaking God’s first commandment He said, “Go have sex.”

God told man Adam, his first commandment to Adam

“Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.”

What? Just stand down there and throw up, and then Seth comes

and then Cain comes, Abel comes?

I’m so glad God could have made it that way you know

I said God could have made it that way you know

And ladies, He could have made you sort of like go one corner and lay the eggs

Or God can actually give the act, God can give the act without any pleasure

It is amazing that at the point of greatest pleasure is the greatest creation

that Man can ever produce this side of heaven

It’s not done with pain, it’s done with pleasure

And God created it. I tell you what God does

God is a good God. Ok, the devil comes along.

He wants to bring marriage… Marriage is God’s idea

and God means man, woman, husband, wife

within the confines where it becomes explosive. Alright, real, fulfilling sex

the devil comes and brings sex out of the marriage confinement

and the devil wants it to be something that will cause man not only to

affect his body but affects his mind, and he sleeps around, and then

they think that there’s nothing to it, but let me tell you this

If I put a piece of paper and I glue it to another piece of paper

I leave it for one hour and I pass the paper to you and tell you to try to

separate them as accurately as possible, you cannot do it

Some things in this paper will get stuck to this paper

and some things in this paper will be on the other side of the paper

because they have become one. God ordained for Man to be one

You can argue your case until you say “I don’t believe in God and all that”

but you are still going away the same way, in a box or in a fire

the way God ordained it, amen, for believers, the rapture

Because there are three time zones of the grace of God in Titus chapter 2

“The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men.”

That’s the past, Jesus came. Notice he’s called the grace of God

I always say grace is a person, the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation

That’s past. So three time zones of grace

That’s the past time zone, Jesus came. Grace appeared, bringing salvation

Great news?

Then the present time zone. “Teaching us” what is teaching us?

Who is teaching us? The grace of God. Context. The grace of God teaches us

I teach you grace, grace teaches you from within

Pastors and leaders who don’t preach grace because they are afraid of it

they cannot think well of God, God’s goodness, do not allow grace to teach

Ended up, they teach. And when they teach

they don’t teach as good as God’s grace teaching

When Man teaches it’s behaviour modification

when grace teaches, it is heart transformation

So, the present zone, the present time zone of grace is grace teaches us

to deny ungodliness and worldly lust, and to live soberly, righteously

presently, in this present time

Then we come to the future of the time zone, future time zone of grace

“Looking for the blessed hope of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The three time zones

See, a believer, I told you last week, a believer does not look forward to death

That’s not a scriptural position

The scriptural position is the believer looks forward for the rapture

In every letter of Paul, the rapture is either described, elucidated, or inferred

We have forgotten that. Ok, that’s another message altogether. Are you all learning?

Now you sit down there and say, “Well, Pastor Prince

I’m living together with my girlfriend and what’s the big deal?

We are both happy. Happy? What’s wrong with that?

Well, the thing is this

I’ll be happy if you’re happy and it just ends with us, you know

But there is a God, a God who is perfect goodness, who knows that in the heart

in the heart of the woman, maybe not the guy

she cannot feel the security until she knows that you love her

within the confines of marriage

Even though right now she’s speaking out of her head

she is not speaking out of her heart

People change, and God knows that people

need to be in an environment where they are secure

God’s way ends up spirit, soul and body

And I’m telling you church, if you wanna live to 120

you wanna live a long good life

this is one area you will have to watch out for, ok, sexual purity

God gave Joseph dreams when he was 17 years old

Even though he had the dreams, he was going around saying

“uh, you know, I saw you all bowing down before me, you know, you also, and, uh…”

He had no wisdom

he was not able to interpret the dream. But he had the dream

You know when he started interpreting the dream?

When he was cast in the dungeon, alright, because

Potiphar’s wife lied about him, and in the dungeon

there were two men who gave him their dreams that have been haunting them

and he was able to interpret the dream accurately

and the events unfold just as he interpreted

So, between the gift and the interpretation, which is wisdom

there’s one test. Your family is not around

Between the gift and the wisdom to use the gift

to interpret the dream that God gives you, there’s a test

You are far away from your family

Your boss’s wife likes you. Nobody is in the big mansion, just you and her

She’s young, she’s dynamic, she’s beautiful

because bosses like Potiphar would choose a beautiful one

you are young, you are virile. Just say yes, and you’ll get special favours

Come on, yeah I mean, your father is not around, just say yes

For all you know, God may be far away doing something else

taking care of all the giraffes and elephants in Africa

Alright, come on, this lady is coming on strong, just say yes

Joseph said, “How can I do this great wickedness?”

Before the ten commandments was given

Joseph lived before the ten commandments were given

and he calls adultery “great wickedness”

This is before the ten commandments was given

How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?

He was practising God’s presence, God was there with him

Then she grabbed his jacket

He ran because the only way to respond to lust is run

Run, Forrest, run!

In everything else, the Bible seems to say that

you know, you can apply this, apply that

When it comes to temptation, run

Sexual temptation, run.

Amen

I say Amen

Don’t ever say “I can handle it.”

In every temptation, it’s always this cycle

First of all, alright, you are tempted

You’re watching something, you’re tempted

You didn’t mean to be tempted

you woke up that morning, you didn’t plan to be tempted

you planned to walk with God

you planned to read your Bible by the end of the day or whatever

you had good intentions but you were tempted

Alright, we’re talking about sexual here

And then the biggest blunder comes along

You are tempted, you are watching a movie that has a lot of scenes that

you know, it’s not Christ-exalting for you to be sitting in that cinema

Especially when you’re a pastor

And you still sit through

Why? Because you paid for it

Now, then comes the next problem – “I can handle this.”

The Bible calls that confidence in the flesh

The next one is “I can handle it”

Ok?

So.. Temptation and then comes

I can handle it. I can handle this movie

I can handle this, I know there are some parts

I can handle this. I can handle her, she just asked for a lift

You know, she’s beautiful, I know that, but I can handle it

it will stop there, it will stop there

It will stop there… wow short skirt… stop there

I’ll just send her back. No problem, no problem

Ya, I know she’s another man’s wife

but she wanna talk to me this long, so I talked

She asked for my number also, so I give it to her

I can handle this, man. Everyone who says that, they mean well

Many of them, they mean well

They never plan to fall into adultery

After you handle it, you say, “I can handle it”

Bible calls it confidence in the flesh, it leads to a breakout of sin

Ok, breakout of sin, you fall into sin

And when you fall into sin, guess what? You feel guilty

You feel guilty

99.999% of people feel guilty except for one – that 000.1 heedless

Because you have a conscience

you can never escape your conscience, you will feel guilty

So now you feel guilty, and psychiatry, psychology

they say that if you are guilty, you are feeling perpetual guilt

whether it’s actual guilt or pseudo-guilt, you are feeling guilty

you are doomed to repeat the behaviour

But they have no answer, with all due respect

Only Jesus has the answer

There is therefore now no condemnation, and by doing that

he destroys the connection. Are you listening?

Because the more guilty you are, you will say “Might as well I go all the way.”

That’s the vicious cycle, alright?

Now, look up here. Some of you… “Pastor Prince, I think all sin is sin

I don’t think there’s this sin is greater, that sin is greater.”

No, no. Sexual sin is greater

“Ah, Pastor Prince, you are putting degrees on sin.”

Ya, I am. Make no mistake about it

There are some sins that are smaller, there are some sins that are greater

Do you remember what Jesus told Pontius Pilate?

When he said, “Your people delivered You to me,” Jesus says

“He who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

Did he say that? Yes. “He who delivered”

He was referring to Caiaphas the High Priest

“He who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.”

Pontius Pilate has sinned, for the comparison

greater sin, that means the sin of Pilate is still sin

“But he who delivered Me to you”… the leader of the Jews

Caiaphas has the greater sin. Are you listening, people?

There are some things you’ll… one sin

let me say this, one sin will send anyone to hell

Thank God for Jesus. And God has no time for your emails

You can write to Him and tell Him, “hey, God”… it’s like this

God cannot impugn on His own righteousness and holiness

Ok, keep that in mind

Now comes to sexual purity, people

I want to tell you this. When you sin against your body, it’s different from sinning other sins

I’m gonna prove that from Scripture

Look at 1 Corinthians 6

“Do you not know that he who was joined to a harlot”… a prostitute

is one body with her for the two, He said, shall become one flesh

But He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him… next

flee, flee sexual immorality

Like Joseph. Why did he run? I submit to you

I believe he ran because he was afraid he might change his mind

He didn’t hang around and say, “I can handle this beautiful woman.”

I can handle this beautiful woman. Wow, she smells good, she smells nice

I can handle this beautiful woman. Wow, she is beautiful

Hmm, I can handle this beautiful woman. Her eyelash are beautiful

I can handle this beautiful…

You see, he didn’t hang around there, he ran

But she grabbed his jacket you see

Joseph is always losing his jacket, you notice that?

His brothers threw him into the pit, they took his jacket

and put it with blood and tell the father he is dead

And now he lose this jacket

But finally, he has a jacket that was put by the monarch of the land

and became the most powerful man

Always remember this, if you lose your jacket for testimony’s sake

for glorifying the One who redeemed you, there will be a new jacket for reigning

Before that, he cannot interpret the dream

But after he says no, and he was actually punished for it

he was actually… I don’t believe that Potiphar believed the story of his wife

If Potiphar believed the story of his wife, he won’t be thrown into the dungeon

His head will roll. I think the guy suspect his wife

but he’s not strong enough like most men today to stand up to his wife

So you must throw him somewhere

Alright, so there he was, everything in Joseph’s life works out for good

He was there, and for the first time, for the first time we see him being able to interpret

When he received dreams earlier in his father’s house, he was not able to interpret

Ability to interpret what God tells you is wisdom

There are people who have messages from God until the angels say

“Wah, give up… from January onward I’ve been telling him the same thing, he still…“

God even sent, you know

on Nat Geo God sent a buffalo with a name, alright, National University of Singapore

And the guy still, “which, which university should I go, Lord?”

I’m just saying there are people like that

And what makes a person “duh”, “blur”, “ooh”, “duh”, “hmm”?

Have you seen guys… and I’ve seen teenagers

and I shared this with our teenagers. I tell them, if you are a teenager

you look at other teenagers, if they’re always indulging themselves physically

if they are watching pornography, if they are always masturbating

and they’re always thinking of all that, they have no self-control

what happened is that when you look at them, they look like zombie

Long before the movie Zombie became famous

Pastor Prince used the word “zombie”, many years ago

They look like now don’t look around ok, please

give people…these people a chance

Revival is about to… they cannot think straight, and they are very slow

they become sluggish, they become slow. Amen.

But people who say no – “but, but if the passion comes, I have to let it go, or I’ll explode!”

Friend, you will not implode, you will not explode. Trust me, ok?

Many successful people will tell you, your sexual energies is not released

it is transmuted into creativity, into areas of innovation

and people who are creative are highly sexed people

but they are not people who will give in to their passions all the time

And then, when they step into a room, people just feel this guy is in control

They don’t know why. God wants to bring you to that place

It’s called the glory of God. You understand?

God is… God loves you. Hey, God loves you

Ok, back to the proof that sexual immorality

is the sin that has a class of its own

Every sin that a man does – by the way, the word sexual immorality is porneia

Porneia. Sounds familiar? Porno, porneia

This sexual immorality includes anything outside marriage

that is not a husband and a wife. Full stop

Flee

Run

“Every sin that a man does is outside the body”

so that includes fear, concern, worry, complaining, murmuring

every sin that a man does is outside his body, but

he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body

Friend, do you know something?

God is showing some sins have certain like effects

some sins have other effects

You know what affects your body

and gives you chronic sickness and problems?

Now, I want to say, first and foremost

Pastor Prince is not saying.. and thousands of you are witnessing

I did not say if someone is sick, alright, there’s sexual immorality

I did not say that

But when you read this Scripture, the Bible is saying that

if you commit sexual immorality, you are sinning against your own body

Not your mind, not your spirit, your body

Body to me means where the sickness manifests – body

You want divine health? “Pastor Prince, I take communion everyday.”

Yeah, but you are sleeping with that man

I do not know, you know

I’m just saying only, alright. I’m just speaking by the Spirit

“And Pastor Prince you know

we do your devotional, and then we sleep.”

Are you married?

“No. but we do your devotional!” You are sinning against your own body

And next time you go to the doctor or you come to a pastor and you say

“Why did God let this happen?”

God didn’t let it happen

God didn’t want it to happen

You sin against your own body. You didn’t sin against anybody

Your own body, maybe the person you sinned with, but it’s your own body

Can you see that or not?

Every sin that a man does is outside the body

but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body

Now here is where – where some pastors and I differ

They will say that “this person needs deliverance

This person needs to confess his sin.”

Now, I’m not against confessing your sins, I told you before

I’m against confessing in order to be forgiven

I believe in confessing because you have been forgiven. It’s a claiming

So watch this. When it comes to sin

Paul’s response is always, “or do you not know that your body is”

people, “is” is present tense or past tense?

The way some people teach is like… by the way

the Corinthian Christians were going into the temple harlots, prostitutes ok?

That’s the scenario here

Now, Paul is saying we should

we should be saying based on

contemporary charismatic deliverance teaching

that once you sleep with a harlot

you are now filled with evil spirits. But Paul didn’t do that

Paul said to them, “your body still is the temple of the Holy Spirit.”

Hope is not lost. If you are saved, you are saved

And notice the Holy Spirit did not leave you when you were sleeping around?

That’s why He can be grieved

Because He has visions of grandeur for your body

He has visions of radiance for your body

He has visions of the outshining for your face

He has visions of sparkling eyes for you

He has a vision of you being at the age of 70, 80 years old

people say, “my goodness, you still look like 50, you still look like 40.”

He has visions of grandeur for you

Anything less is sin

because it comes short of the glory that God has for you

Do you understand that, people?

And the more you… listen, guys… you think that if I give in

I’ll be satisfied this time

No, the more you give in, the more you give in, it’s a bondage.

Start saying no. When it comes to sexual sin, you must say no somewhere

I will not watch this TV series

I will not do, I will not, because for me

other people can, they’ve no problem with that, you know

But for me, I don’t know why I keep on stumbling, because I like this girl

whatever, then I won’t

Praise God

Ok?

Isn’t it wonderful that you still have the Holy Spirit in you?

“Is” is present tense

Do you not know that your body is the temple

is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God

and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price. What a price

“You see, Pastor Prince, I can do whatever I want with my body.”

Now, if you’re… not if you’re a Christian, you were bought

You were bought

A lot of people, they go to the market, a lot of unbought goods

Unbought. Nobody wants to buy them. But you were bought

You are bought. And you are not bought with a million dollars

A million dollars pales in comparison with the price that was paid for you

with the vision of glory that God has for you

You were bought with something the whole world cannot equate

the precious blood of Jesus Christ

Therefore, because you were bought at a price

therefore glorify God – where?

In your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s

How do I glorify God in my body?

God says, keep yourself sexually pure

and I’ll see to it that people will look at your body and see My glory

Amen?

Wow

And pastors and leaders

you know, instead of jumping up and down

“Yeah, it’s time to whack the people!”

Paul didn’t whack. Paul didn’t even say “confess.”

Paul says, “Don’t you know?”

Paul’s response to people who are living in sin is always

“don’t you know, your body is”, still is

Brother suing brother in court

“don’t you know, we shall judge angels?”

There’s party spirit, there’s pride, there is divisions

I’m of Apollo, I’m of Paul

I’m of Pastor Prince, and I’m of this speaker, I’m of that

and Paul says, “hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Don’t you know they are all yours?”

It’s always “don’t you know”

Brother suing brother in court, don’t you know?

We all shall judge angels!

Not heavenly ones fallen ones

We shall judge… what a calling that we have in our future

So the world out there.. the Bible says

don’t be involved in the lust of the Gentiles

They can afford to be lustful, but not us

We are called to glory y’all… we are called to virtue

And if there is anyone watching me, and you are in fact

right now, I don’t care if you’re Christian or not a Christian

But you are actively trying to seduce another man’s wife

God has a special word for you.

I’m serious

And by the way, in case you’re wondering

all these writings are the writings of the apostle of grace

preached by a pastor of grace

The Apostle Paul wrote this. The warning I must… come on

Aren’t you glad it says “you are bought at a price

therefore glorify God in your body”? Not just spiritually, in your spirit, but in your body

there must be something there, people

I salivate when I look at that kind of thing, spiritually

you know what I’m saying? You understand or not?

I look at some verses and I salivate

Like Jabez Prayer, I salivate. I wanna be like that

Ok, if you are actively trying to seduce another man’s wife

or you have done it, I got a word from the Lord for you

This is by the apostle of grace also. 1 Thessalonians 4

“For this is the will of God… your sanctification,” – your holiness

there’s one thing that God – “the will” of God

One thing that you can be practically holy, God says

watch out for your sexual area

In fact, this sin is a sin that really affects every area of your life

A guy can be angry and still be reinstated in the ministry

A guy can be untidy and callous and still be reinstated

A guy can be a lot of problems and still be reinstated

But if a guy commits adultery, even the world will not allow it

Back to the one… to the one

to the one that’s trying to seduce another man’s wife, special word

1 Thessalonians 4, “This is the will of God… your sanctification

that you should abstain from sexual immorality.”

You see, the holy.. the apostle of grace emphasised it so strong

that “each of you should know how to possess his own vessel”

– your body – “in sanctification and honour.”

Have respect for your body. Amen. Ladies, don’t dress to lure

Dress to be pure

That doesn’t mean you look like an old goat, but it means you shine

You look good, you look wholesome, you look healthy, Amen

“Not in passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.”

We are not like the Gentiles who do not know God

You know what I’m saying?

If there is someone down here and if you wanna write something about me

and all that, and they do not know God

I don’t give two hoots about it

I cannot be bothered, they don’t see what I see

You see, the people outside the tabernacle don’t see

the beauty of the supernatural light of the menorah in the tent

they don’t see the four face of Jesus in the tent, it’s all covered from them

Blessed are your eyes for you see

So don’t be like them, don’t be like the people of the world

they don’t believe in marriage anymore

The thing is this, people. Don’t be like the people of the world

We are born again, we are redeemed

And the Bible says, not in passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God

Now watch this, watch this

Next verse, “that no one should take advantage of

and defraud his brother in this matter.”

The context talk about sexual immorality

If you deceive or you take advantage of his wife, alright

“because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.”

I tell you what, I don’t know what… I don’t claim to understand everything in this verse

but I tell you one thing, God will always take sides

If Ananias and Saphira come to cheat His people, even they drop dead

God will let them drop dead because He is protecting His people

You can say that His mercy endures forever

Who sings that? Israel, not Egypt

Egypt, their people died, their Pharaoh died

they have no song

Who are the ones singing, “Praise the Lord for He is good”?

Who is God good to? His people

And you can be His people before the day is over

by putting your trust in Jesus Christ

But God will protect His people

What if there are two brothers, both are saved

and this guy is seducing this guy’s wife?

It says, “no one should take advantage and defraud his brother

Even then the Lord is their avenger of all such” apostle of grace huh?

“As we also forewarn you and testify.”

You say, “Pastor Prince, I don’t think this is grace.”

This is apostle of grace, friend

God did not call us to uncleanness

but in holiness, and all the people say… (Amen)

“Well Pastor Prince, I reject all this

I don’t believe that you are preaching based on revelation.”

Next verse, “therefore he who rejects this”

does not reject Pastor Prince

who is a man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit

Are you listening, people?

Now let me close by bringing this… friend, there are levels of sin

One sin is enough to send a sinner to hell, no matter how small, how big

But there are degrees of sin

It’s like some sin cause bigger ripples

and sexual immorality is one such sin that has big, big, big ripples

But friend, sexual immorality. Once you learn to say no, it gets easier and easier

Then all of a sudden you find that you are entering into a new world

where your mind is clear, where, you know and

when you see a beautiful girl, alright, you learn to thank God for her

you see her no longer as an object, you see her as a person

You thank God, alright, for her, and you focus – what a beautiful wife I have

Amen

And you know something? Your wife will get more and more and more beautiful

But if you are indulging in pornography, I’m telling you

your wife will get uglier and uglier, but no – she’s not. She’s not. In your mind she is

Now for some reason, my ministry has brought – I should – now you know

you know, when I say my ministry, you know what I mean

It’s the ministry of the Lord, through what He has given me

has brought deliverance to people who are in drug addictions

and especially pornography. I was stunned

because I didn’t see carefully my testimonials, and I didn’t have time

I just came back from London, and last week

last Sunday when they showed the highlights

many a times I only watched the highlights the day before

so I don’t even know. And I was stunned to hear that one gentleman over there

a Hillsong delegate, was sharing openly his deliverance from pornography

Now, friend, pastors and leaders, what would you want?

People that are rejoicing over their victory over pornography, or people who are

who are hiding, and then they’re still sinning, and then they sit under your

ministry, and you – you don’t preach grace, you preach balanced grace

which is a misnomer, like half Moses, half Jesus, half law, half grace

There’s no such thing

But look at the testimonies of these precious people

One person in the Philippines wrote this to me, and his name is Ariel

“I was raised in a Christian family in the Philippines

My twin brother is a minister in our church

where I am also serving as a worship leader and musician

After serving for many years we were both burnt out

We did not know why and we certainly were not aware that

something was lacking in our lives

Thank God my brother chanced upon a YouTube video of Pastor Joseph Prince

The video excited him so much he shared it with me

When I heard Pastor Prince preach that I am the righteousness of God in Christ

my tears immediately started to fall. I finally realised that this was exactly what I needed

to know that God is not angry with me. This really is good news

This amazing gospel of grace changed me

I had an addiction to pornography that started in my high school

in my high school days

I tried to stop the addiction but without success

I thought Christian music would help my behaviour but it did not

and I felt so condemned

Whenever Sunday came, I tried to lead worship with a happy and anointed face

but in my heart I was crying and asking God to help me

Thanks to our Lord Jesus

after believing and confessing that He is my righteousness.”

You see, friend, confessing sin all the time make you sin conscious

and sometime, people, when they are confessing

many a times, they are tempted again

I am not against confessing, I am just telling you the Bible

confession of sin was under law, if I live under the law

like Daniel, like Isaiah, like Nehemiah

I will confess my sins because I am under that order

but to honour Jesus, I confess I am the righteousness of God in Christ

And at times, you are, you are frank with God

as a sin is a sin, but you thank God He has forgiven

you thank God, you are the righteousness

that is the New Testament

And that’s what changed his life you see?

“I confess that He is my righteousness

When I confess that, after believing and confessing that He is my righteousness

my desire to watch pornography has been replaced with a new desire to watch

Pastor Prince program Destined to Reign on Trinity Broadcasting Network

I have also begun to read Christ-centred books including those by Pastor Prince

and listen to all his MP3 sermons

At last I am free

Now I can lead worship without condemnation

with all confidence in Jesus finished work

and most of all, with full knowledge of God’s love for me

It has been two years now in case you are wondering

and I know it has not been because of my self-control efforts

It is all because of God’s love for me.”

The testimonies that we have received, is always the same,

“It is not me. It is not me.” They always say it is not me.

“In addition I was asked to preach for six months in my church.

Everybody knows I am not an experienced preacher

but using one of Pastor Prince’s books as my guide on what to preach

I was able to finish the task

The result was that our pastor rediscovered the gospel

and he is now preaching pure grace messages

instead of a mixture of law and grace.”

Hallelujah

Now sit back and watch this most recent testimony that I only got to see yesterday

because I, we showed a small part of it

Praise God

Like I said, I saw an excerpt last week when the team prepared

you know, the testimony

And I said, my goodness you know, people are willing to stand up and say

they had a problem last time with pornography

Most people will look down, you know

For me it’s like that woman who went to the city of Samaria and said

“Come see a man, you know, who told me all that I did

about my five husbands and me committing adultery at this time.”

And Jesus did not let that woman remain in sin

You say, “Pastor Prince, don’t you love me the way I am?”

Because I love you, and I know God has great things in store for you

not at this level

You know, the worst thing that can happen to my son Justin

is to be two years old all the time. It is very cute, but not all the time

Something is wrong, God wants you to grow. Amen?

Let me close with this. let me close with this

You know, when the Pharisees brought that woman caught in adultery

some people think she is a prostitute. No, she was caught in adultery

Say adultery. When the Pharisees brought her to Jesus

it was because the Pharisees…

Now here is where all the pastors and leaders, when they listen to this

“Ya it is about time Pastor Prince, you know, you got to tell them like it is.”

No it is not that! Many a times their approach, if their confidence is in the law

my confidence is in the grace of God

You see the Pharisees, you know why they brought

that woman caught in adultery?

They caught here in adultery, think about it

the terrible thing that they would have done in that

they waited until the act was done, they step in, they brought the woman without the man

because maybe it is one of them

The whole idea is that they brought the woman to contend about grace and law

This is about grace and law

Answer me this question, do you think for one moment

if they think Jesus’ ministry is balanced, some grace, some law

they would have brought that woman to Him?

No. It must have been they knew all His ways talk about grace

It must have been, they see the way His grace is towards sinners

that they would have brought that adulteress

It is because they knew Him!

That if there is a sinner who comes to Him

the sinner will never be condemned

They knew it, or else they would never have brought that woman to Jesus

They brought that woman because they knew His ways of grace

Their confidence was in the law, they boasted in the law

but did they know the law?

People who preach the law, the Ten Commandments

do they really know the law?

I tell you this, God has brought a revelation to me

when I was eighteen years old that made me tremble

and I confessed every hour that any sin that almost remotely sounds like sin

I will confess it. I cannot understand Christians around me not doing it

You are looking at a man that has a revelation of the law being unbending

and those who say we can keep the law don’t even understand alright

and they have no respect for the law

If you read… So these are the Pharisees, they they take the law

as something they are proud of, gives them identity

grace they despise grace that came through the Son of God

whereas the sinners’ confidence is in God’s grace

So they brought that woman to Jesus

and you know, threw her in the midst and say, “Master, Moses in the law.”

So they would have the Lord become Moses’ enemy

That’s what’s happening to preachers of grace today

They want to portray us, people like Pastor Prince here

as an enemy of Moses, as an enemy of the law

Friend, listen, just because we are not under law

doesn’t mean the law is my enemy

Thank God for the law, without the law I won’t see my need for the Saviour

They try to bring the law in

“Moses said that such should be stoned, what do you say?”

They are trying to present, show Jesus up as Moses’ enemy

but Jesus displayed Himself as Moses’ Lord. You are about to see that

Now, they brought that woman to the Lord and their boast is in the law

Watch what the Lord does

Since you boast in the law, the Lord Jesus let out the heat of Mount Sinai

ok, in that entire place, since their boast is in the law, the Lord of the hill

the Lord of Mount Sinai, let out the genuine heat of that place

and they all felt it when He…

First of all He wrote on the ground as though He didn’t hear their accusations

of that woman, and I pray that you will always have this picture

whoever accuses you, your wife may be concerned

your best friend might be concerned

Jesus does not hear it. He refuses to hear it

The Bible says He wrote on the ground as though He heard them not

He is deaf, and Isaiah, I used to be puzzled with one thing

Isaiah says about His servant

Who is like My servant? God says. He is deaf. There is a verse there

I used to wonder, how can, how can Jesus be deaf?

And after I read this kind of stories and all that, I realised

He is purposely deaf to some things. Amen

He is deaf to the accusations, and He wrote as though He heard them not

And the Bible says He put up and He let out the full heat of Mount Sinai

Yes, throw the first stone, but only the one without sin throw the first sin

Did Jesus impugn the law?

No, He cannot. He cannot impugn the law, neither can I

Jesus didn’t come to destroy the law, He came to fulfill!

The reason we are not under law is because He fulfilled it

If you fulfil your contractual obligations, whether it is payment to the bank

stop paying! If you have fulfilled it!

Jesus did not come to, to destroy. He came to fulfill!

We are not, we are no longer under law not because the law has been destroyed

We are not under law because it has been fulfilled!

When the Lord Jesus was a baby

they brought Him to the temple to be circumcised

The Bible tells us that Mary and Joseph brought baby Jesus

and they brought a pair of doves

Now if you study the book of Leviticus

you will find that the very poor will bring doves

How the throne of David has so fallen to the point that the…

Both of them are from the line of David, they become poor

That they brought a poor man’s offering

Actually they had a lamb, the richest lamb there is

But they brought the baby and the poor man’s offering

and when they came and offered

the Bible tells us that there was a old man in the temple

at that time, the temple of Herod, He was always there, his name was Shi-mon

Simon, Shi-mon. You need to hear this

Today when you go to Israel, they summarise the law

all the rabbis, you know you ask them, give me one word

as the summary of the law, you know what they will say? Shema shema

Shema means the law, speaking the law

Shema Israel, Adonai eloheinu. Hear O Israel, our God is one God

Right?

The Shema. The Shema is a picture of the law. So Shema was there

The law was an old man by the time Jesus came

Why did God bring the law first and not Jesus first?

Because God is a good advertiser

Let people be under law for 1500 years and then when they realise they can’t

they will see their need for the Saviour

Bring Jesus too soon and they won’t see their need for Him

So the law is now old, Shema, and he saw the baby, and he took the baby

the Bible says he came by the Spirit to the temple

and he took the baby the Bible says, he said to the Lord

“Lord, my eyes have seen your salvation.”

Don’t forget they are speaking in Aramaic, alright, he probably said

“My eyes have seen your Yeshua.”

Call Him by name. “And now let your servant depart in peace.”

Even the law was happy to see Jesus and the law said to God

let me now depart in peace

The Bible says that he blessed Joseph and Mary

Noticed he never bless the baby. Why? The baby is greater than him

The baby is greater than Mary. The baby is greater than Joseph

He never bless the baby, he blessed the parents. And then, he departed

The Lord is just speaking to me

The Bible says in Psalms 91, “With long life…” How many want to live long?

God promise you, “With long life will I satisfy him and show him my…”

Salvation is? Yeshua

So this man lived a long good life, Shema was very old when he saw baby Jesus

then he says what? “Let me now depart, my eyes have seen Yeshua.”

God gives you a long good life so that you can see more and more of Jesus

Amen?

So after the old man departed, they were carrying the baby, someone came in

it was a woman from the tribe of Asher, that is reputed to have

the most beautiful women of all the twelve tribes of Israel

alright, the most beautiful… It was a tradition

they said that it came from the tribe of Asher, and her name was Hannah

and Hannah, Han means grace

Like if your name is John, in Hebrew it is Yo, Yahweh, Yo, Hannan, grace

God is grace

So Hannah came in, and Hannah said to everyone

Shema didn’t talk to everybody because the law is not missionary

The law does not evangelise. Grace evangelise

Hannah said to everyone that is looking for redemption

“Look at this baby! This baby is our redemption.”

So law went, grace came in. Are you listening?

Back to this again, ok, Jesus let out the fullness of the heat of Mount Sinai

because He is the Lord of the hill, He is not Moses’ enemy, He is Moses’ Lord

He was the one that gave the Ten Commandments

When He stooped down and wrote on the ground

don’t forget the place that He was writing was the place that inside the temple

the precinct of the temple, and it is not earthy ground, it is not muddy ground

it is actually stony ground

Look up here, stony ground. Jesus, finger, writing, stone, what does that tell you?

The Ten Commandments

He is saying, you presume to talk to me about the Ten Commandments

I am the one who gave Moses the Ten Commandments

Are you listening people?

You see at the end of this chapter, this is chapter eight, John 8

they never understand Jesus

People don’t understand grace, it is bigger than their mind

You know what Jesus told them? Abraham rejoiced

Right after this, at the end of the chapter, Jesus says

“Abraham rejoiced to see My day”.

Very plain words

You know what they heard?

“You are not yet fifty years old, you have seen Abraham?!”

He didn’t say I saw Abraham. He said Abraham saw me

Look at this, drop down the verse

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

The Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, have you seen Abraham?”

Did He say that? Did He say that He saw Abraham?

No, Abraham saw Him, He is the greater one

Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am.”

they can’t take that, they can’t take that

next verse tells us they took up stones to throw at Him

but Jesus hid Himself and went out the temple going through

the midst of them and so passed by. But something about grace

even if one person rejects grace, grace cannot stop being grace

grace cannot stop giving, because that is the nature of grace

If you reject grace, you don’t get from grace

because grace will understand, alright, your rejection, but you lose out

and grace will just pass by, and when it pass by, the next chapter, chapter 9 says

“Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man blind.”

And that blind man was healed and all of them could have been healed

but you reject grace, grace will still go somewhere to give

Ok?

Grace doesn’t say

“Oh don’t reject me la please, I am trying my best to help you know?”

Grace just goes around, have you notice?

He walk in the midst of them and they can’t see Him. Now He is walking as God

They were all blinded, He blinded them

He didn’t walk at the side you know like a pole

that is what Pastor Lawrence does, He doesn’t do that!

He walk right in the midst of them, and they can’t see Him

why? Because they reject the pillar of cloud, pillar of fire

And that’s what happen when Egypt attacked Israel and Israel was stuck

at the Red Sea, talk about between a rock and a hard place

Behind, where the enemies alright, coming, charging on their chariots

and you can see all the smoke, many of them have come to destroy!

In front is the deep deep Red Sea

Moses cried!

The first thing God did was not open the Red Sea

the pillar of fire was leading them all the while at night in front

the pillar of fire went backward

the Bible tells us the pillar of fire was light to the people of God

but darkness to Egypt

They were stuck in darkness

When Jesus let fly, “He that is without sin throw the first stone.”

You know something? Straight away they were all blinded. It was too bright

Only two persons can see. Jesus, and the condemned woman

He that is without sin…

Yes the law can condemn!

The devil can accuse!

But who can execute?

Tell me. There is only one person there who can execute, our Lord Jesus

and He didn’t say anything to her to condemn her

In fact He became a pillar of fire for her, put them all in darkness

and then made that very place that was for her when she first arrived

the darkness, the gate of darkness, the darkness of death

the valley of death became the gate of heaven!

Because Jesus was there defending her

The Bible says one by one… You see they

people who talk about keeping the law, they do not know the purity of the law

oh oh, they don’t know, they don’t know

And then now, they didn’t expect, in their heart they say

“Wait wait wait a minute, we actually want to use the law on Jesus and the

woman what, but we didn’t expect Him to put the law on us.”

It is very painful you know? For us, our conscience to feel it

Ya you know right? And one by one the Bible says

convicted by their own conscience, one by one they left

leaving only Jesus and the woman

The only one that can stone her would not, they would if they could

He could but He would not. And He looked at the woman, they all left

Has it ever occurred to you, let me ask you, those in the middle floor

because you all look intelligent from afar. When I can’t see your face

you all look intelligent. They all have God you know, glorified bodies right up there

Let me ask you this question. They all left, all her accusers all left already, left!

Left the place

Did Jesus ask her to stay?

No

She could have left

She could have left with her sin

She could have left with her shame

But something happened, and, pastors and leaders, listen

when we preach grace, this is the result, people are so afraid of grace

but they have confidence in the la

They exalt Moses at the expense of the Son of God

Friend, she could have left and join the rest outside

or go home and continue her life, Jesus never tell her, “You stay here.” Never

But now she didn’t want to leave Him

That place of shame, that darkness of death has become

the doorway of heaven, the gate of heaven, the light of life

No more darkness, but light of life. No more darkness of death, light of life!

No wonder right after this Jesus says I am the light of the world

he who follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life

She could go

She did not go

She could go, she did not go

she would not go

she could not go

because of His love, His grace

She is willing to stand in front of Him, knowing He knows everything about her

and knowing best of all, He loves her just the way she is

So to those of you, you are living in sin let’s say, and you say

“Pastor Prince don’t you love me the way I am?”

I love you, Jesus loves you the way you are

And this woman, the Lord loves her the way she is,

He never ask her to change before He protected her,

He never ask her to change… Hey He never even ask her to confess her sins

The only confession He wanted from her is this

“Woman where are those that accuse you?”

He wanted her to say: there is no more condemnation

He made her said it. She looked around and said, “No man, Lord.”

He says, “Neither do I condemn you.”

I am telling you this is the secret

Look at the cycle again of sin. You see guilt? Between sins and temptation?

Before you go into another cycle, another binge

remember it is guilt that is the biggest problem in the body of Christ

that causes people to repeat the sin

And this is what Jesus did, Jesus look at the woman and says

“Neither do I condemn you.”

He asked her, is anyone accusing you, condemning you?

She said, “No one, Lord!” That was a confession –

I have no more condemnation

Mind you, she was just caught a few hours ago in the act of adultery

but she confessed, “No one accuses me Lord.”

There is no more condemnation, in the presence and

only in the presence of Jesus and please, the Lord cannot impugn the law, alright

someone need to pay for her sin

But Jesus will go to the cross and pay for her sin

Meanwhile, she is paid like… base on Visa card, Mastercard

the Master says, “Father, charge her sin to My account.”

And finally it was all paid at the cross. Do you understand people

He didn’t forgive her presumptuously, He forgave her righteously

He has to pay for it. Amen?

And what did He say to her? He made her confess

That’s why I want people to confess, “I am the righteousness of God

There is no condemnation for me in Christ.” Especially after you sin

And she says, “No man Lord.”

And the Lord says to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”

Look at this cycle, neither do I condemn you, there is no more guilt

there is no more condemnation, so no need for new resolutions

No need to say, “Er er er er, God, er I promise you from now on

I will attend all the four services on Sunday. From now on

Pastor Prince will have someone cleaning the floor in every toilet

from now on, instead of giving ten dollars, I give twenty dollars.”

God doesn’t want all that, doesn’t want your resolution

because those are sin offerings

There is only one final sin offering

If you give you give out of love for the One who redeemed you

If you serve, you serve out of love for the one who redeemed you. Amen?

But where it was broken was here, guilt, when guilt is broken

Guys, you see a picture… Nowadays pictures are everywhere

You see a picture, and you know you are tempted, alright, straight away

“I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.”

This problem of, “Oh man I sin already. I am out of fellowship.”

Depend on what you believe, “I am out of fellowship. Now I need…

I know I am judicially forgiven, but I am not Fatherly forgiven

Father does not deem me as a son anymore

I must confess then I become a son

Aiya, I have been doing this so many times already

Never mind la go all the way first la, watch la.”

That’s the psyche of a lot of people who are in addictions

They think that it takes a long time for them to confess their sins

or whatever because of the mentality we have taught them

We don’t confess our sins to be forgiven

We confess because we are forgiven

And even if we forget to confess, we have a Saviour who died for our forgetfulness

This message will make you Jesus conscious. Amen people? Amen?

And right after that, look at this, we will finish with this, John 8

“No man Lord.”

“Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more.”

You see, go and sin no more, a lot of people want to jump on that

“You see Pastor Prince, Jesus says go and sin no more…”

Oh by the way, by the way, can I ask you a question?

Do you think after all the love that she has experienced, the grace and all that

if she saw more than all the Pharisees

I said in one stroke she saw more of the ways of God than all the Pharisees

You think for one moment after she leaves Jesus’ presence she will say

“Now where was the man just now. Where is my boy-boy?

Where is my honeycomb? Where is my darling?” Do you think she goes…

You can’t imagine that right? Neither can I! No way no way

But we cannot preach: Go and sin no more!

Without saying: Neither do I condemn you

Because the gift of no condemnation is

what causes people to go and sin no more!

Probably the next day? Next two days?

She met the same guy.

“How? Baby?

Should we go somewhere?”

“Sorry man, I found the Man who really loves me.”

You see, at the end of the day friend, the guy wants to use you

but don’t want to get married, tell him, “Hasta la vista baby.”

Maybe maybe not in that kind of tone but, you are a girl so, “Hasta la vista baby.”

Ok whatever it is. If the guy respect you…

Don’t allow a guy to respect only your body

“Oh baby you got, you are the most magnificent body.”

Ok, you know, he doesn’t

don’t allow guys who are shallow to deal with you girls

you are worth gold. You are precious. Amen

And our virginity? The world is making fun of people who are virgins?

because the world has lost it

and you haven’t, so they can’t take it. Alright? Amen

You know why we put some things in a treasure box

in a safe box at home? Because they are precious

You know some things we put outside you know why?

They are not so precious. Nobody have a lock on their toilet bowl

You really got to go man, “Darling which key! Darling which key!”

No, you know you can’t do that, right?

Nobody cares for those things that you use for other things

but you see the thing is this, if you allow people to…

Like kids even will teach us a parable

Open your Christmas presents before Christmas and all of a sudden

on the same day, the joy is no longer there

Having said that, for those of you who have failed, who have sinned

there is no condemnation for you but go and sin no more

Amen. Start living a life of the purity, the spirit of a virgin, Amen

So when the time comes, you can still feel the glory of being a virgin. Amen

It is still God’s way. Don’t forget, God is for glory, glory on your body

God is for glory on your face. God is for glory on your marriage

God is for glory. And those of you who are trying to seduce another man’s wife

get ready, the Lord is the avenger. Come on give Him praise, Hallelujah

Alright, every head bowed, every eye closed all across this place

praise the name of Jesus, don’t you love Him people?

Don’t you just love Him?

Just like that woman who also was committing adultery in Samaria

but she had had five husbands

and currently she was living in adultery when Jesus met her

One moment with Jesus, one moment with grace

made her an instant evangelist

Friend, the world needs the grace of God

Yes, sin is sin, but sin will not be held by preaching the law

because the law is the strength of sin

The law is the strength of sin and not holiness

Grace is the strength of holiness

Perhaps you are not saved

perhaps you have no assurance if your heart stops beating

heaven is your home, God is your Father

your sins are forgiven, my friend believe on the Lord Jesus Christ

Christ died for your sins and rose again without them

and the Father has glorified Him and sat Him at His own right hand

If you believe on Him, you will have everlasting life, and in the last days

Jesus, our Lord Jesus will raise you up

If that is you, wherever you are watching this right now pray this prayer with me

say this from your heart: Heavenly Father, I believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God

That He died on the cross for all my sins

and you raised Him from the dead for my justification

Jesus Christ is my Lord, my Saviour

I have everlasting life, all my sins, past, present and future are forgiven

You have filled me with your Holy Spirit

the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind

Thank You Lord Jesus, that from now on I will live a life where my spirit

and my body will glorify you. Keep my body strong, keep my body healthy

I want to serve you with my body. Keep me young for your glory

in Jesus name, and all the people say Amen Amen Amen Amen

Come on, give Him praise! Hallelujah Hallelujah Amen

Remember this: Sin is stronger than your flesh and self-effort

only Christ can overcome it. Look to Him Amen, look to grace. Praise the Lord

Lift your hands all across this place. Jabez said to God

“Oh that You will bless me indeed.” Oh that You will bless me indeed

it is a bless me prayer, and God calls that prayer an honourable prayer

That Jabez was more honourable

So say this: Father God, bless me indeed! Bless my family, bless my walk with You

bless my revelation, bless my body, make it strong and healthy

keep it young for me to serve You with

Bless my children, bless my spouse, bless this church, and bless this nation

And Father God, protect us from evil in the name of Jesus

throughout this week, I cover myself and all my families

with the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ

In Jesus name, Amen, Amen, Amen,

God bless you, we will see you again, Amen