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For but an instant a lone beam of early sunlight glinted off that single knife blade embedded in a long wooden staff swung at the end of one of the brown arms.
Through engaging Bible-based teaching, Pastor Joseph Prince unpacks a revelation of the Communion that has never been more relevant than right now. But because of the cross, you can have full assurance in your heart that God wants you healed and whole. Download Free PDF. Theo Bangun. A short summary of this paper. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. Dedication This book is lovingly dedicated to: The glory of my Lord Jesus Christ Who has blessed me beyond anything I could ever have imagined and who has loved me beyond my comprehension.
Wendy My darling wife, whose support and love for me never fails to lift me above the clouds of defeat and mediocrity. Jessica My precious beloved daughter whose life, though still young, has yielded wonderful portrayals of grace that have impacted multitudes. They are a blessed joy to their pastor! Chapter 5: Is God Judging America? She was asleep in the passenger seat, breathing softly next to me as I drove through the dramatic landscapes of the Swiss Alps.
Then, I distinctly heard the voice of the Lord on the inside. I have been a grace preacher for years, and like most preachers, I preach that we are saved by grace! Every time you preach grace, you preach it with a mixture of law. You attempt to balance grace with the law like many other preachers, and the moment you balance grace, you neutralize it. You cannot put new wine into old wineskins. You cannot put grace and law together.
I returned to my church with a strong mandate from the Lord and I began to preach grace radically. At that time, our congregation had reached a plateau of about 2, people. However, soon after my encounter with the Lord in the Swiss Alps, we began to experience explosive growth in the church year after year, and by the grace of our Lord, more than 15, people attended our services on the first Sunday of The Lord has validated His word not only in our growing congregation, but also in the awesome transformation of thousands of precious lives exposed to the radical preaching of grace.
In recent years, the Lord has also opened doors for me to preach the gospel of grace in Norway, Holland, London, Canada, Australia, Thailand and Indonesia. We have also begun broadcasting in America, Canada, Australia and Uganda. The response to what I call the Gospel Revolution has been tremendous. I have received testimony after testimony of how individuals have been set free from the bondage of the law, and are today living and enjoying the new covenant truths and promises that Jesus purchased with His own blood.
You can imagine how this book has been brewing in my heart for many years now. If there is one book that I want to write on this side of heaven, this would be it, and I am so glad that you are now holding it in your hands. I believe that this book will touch you and transform you.
What the Lord said to me some 10 years ago about how lives will never be radically blessed and radically transformed without the radical preaching of grace is still reverberating strongly in my heart.
This book is therefore about being radically transformed by His grace and His grace alone. Man has developed many strategies, methodologies, techniques and tactics for achieving personal success.
Just look in the bookstores today. In fact, you may be standing in one right now. If you are, take some time to look around. What do you see? You will probably find a large selection of self-help books.
Let me declare to you that there is a higher way than relying on your own efforts to achieve success in life.
The name of Jesus in Hebrew, Yeshua, simply means Savior. Unfortunately, there are believers today who do not call upon their Savior because they believe the lie that they have no right to do so. There are believers who think that their mistakes have disqualified them from calling out to God.
You need a Savior who is willing to plunge fearlessly into the water to save you regardless of what you know or do not know, what you have done or not done! You cannot earn by your own works His desire to save you. It is by His grace! In essence, we owed a debt that we could not pay, but Jesus on the cross paid with His own life, a debt that He did not owe. It is entirely His effort and His doing. Our part is to believe on Him and receive all that He has accomplished on our behalf.
Sounds ridiculously simple, one- sided and unfair? Well, my friend, that is exactly what makes grace, grace! Grace is only grace when it is undeserved, unearned and unmerited. Are you ready to be tremendously blessed and transformed by His grace, and to give up on your own efforts to have success, wholeness and a victorious life?
I believe that once you begin to take this journey of discovering His radical grace, your life will never be the same again. My friend, you are destined to reign! Chapter 1: Destined To Reign You are destined to reign in life. You are called by the Lord to be a success, to enjoy wealth, to enjoy health and to enjoy a life of victory. He has called you to be the head and not the tail. If you are a businessman, God wants you to have a prosperous business. If you are a homemaker, you are anointed to bring up wonderful children in the Lord.
If you are a student, God wants you to excel in all your examinations. Whatever your vocation is, you are destined to reign in life because Jesus is Lord of your life. When you reign in life, you reign over sin, you reign over the powers of darkness, and you reign over depression, over poverty, over every curse, and over every sickness and disease.
The power to reign does not depend on your family background, your educational qualifications, how you look or how much savings you have in your bank account. The power to reign is based entirely on Jesus and Him alone. In ancient Rome, basilicas were used law courts. In other words, to reign here is to reign in life as a king, to have kingly rule and to possess kingly dominion.
The secret of reigning in life lies with receiving everything that Jesus has accomplished for us on the cross. If you are living a life of defeat, of being defeated by sin, by perpetual guilt and condemnation, by sicknesses, by anxiety attacks, by financial lack and by broken relationships, you are not living the life that God intended for you. You are called to be above them all and not be trampled by them. The time has come for you to stop abdicating your right to reign in life!
Today, instead of seeing ourselves reigning in life, we see more evidence of death reigning in the world. It is important that you realize that our lives are wrapped up in those of our ancestors. The secret of reigning in life lies therefore with receiving everything that Jesus has accomplished for us on the cross.
Receiving Versus Achieving The Bible states very clearly that we are to reign in life through Jesus Christ just by receiving two things from Him: The abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. His way is not about achieving, but about receiving. He promised that when we receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, we will reign in life.
He did not say that when we achieve grace and our own righteousness, we will reign in life. But for some reason, many Christians continue to live based on a system of achievement!
In answer, let me first pose you a question of my own: Do you realize that most people believe that one needs to work hard to achieve success in life? Most of the time, any result that you may get will start to fade once you cease to follow through with the prescribed methods and steps. We have been taught to focus on achieving, on doing and on relying on our self-efforts. The world tells you that the more you do, the harder you work, and the more hours you put in, the more success you will achieve.
What believers do is that they take the system of the world and apply it to their Christian life. His blessings over your life have to be undeserved, unearned and unmerited. In other words, there is nothing that you can do to deserve His blessings, for they are based entirely on receiving Jesus, and through His finished work, the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness.
God wants us to stop trying to achieve, and to begin receiving the favor, blessings and healing that Jesus accomplished on the cross. He finished it. He completed it. It is DONE! The only thing that works is the finished work! Brian is the senior pastor of Hillsong Church, and God has truly anointed his church to write beautiful praise and worship songs that have impacted a whole new generation of worshippers in these last days.
In fact, some of my favorite worship songs are from Hillsong. In my own quiet moments before the Lord, as I give thanks to Him for paying the full price on the cross for all my sins, sicknesses and poverty, my heart overflows with gratitude and I worship Him: You are magnificent, eternally Wonderful, glorious Jesus No one ever will compare to You Jesus4 Oh, how I love it when the Lord responds by filling my whole study with His tangible presence, and my heart begins to burn in the presence of my lover!
But when you do feel His presence, especially during times of deep intimate worship, enjoy Him, savor His love and allow His embrace to wash over you! Relish the times in His presence when He refreshes, restores and heals you. Right where you are, without instruments, you can lift up your hands, your voice and your heart, and worship Him and give thanks for His finished work and His grace in your life. He is so beautiful! I love worship songs that are full of the person of Jesus and His finished work.
In my church, I have commissioned my music director to ensure that the songs we use in our church services are songs that testify of the finished work of Jesus. The Word of God declares this about the finished work of Jesus on the cross: Hebrews —14 12But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God… 14For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.
And how long is forever? You may be surprised to find out that there are many believers today who do not believe that they have been perfected forever by the finished work of Jesus Christ.
They are still depending on their self- efforts to qualify themselves. Jesus sat down to demonstrate to us that the work is indeed finished. In fact, have you noticed that in the holy place of the tabernacle of Moses, there is not a single piece of furniture prepared for the priest to sit on? You will not find a single chair in the holy place. You will find the altar of incense, the menorah and even a table of showbread, but interestingly, there are no chairs.
This is because the work of the priest was never finished. Ephesians —6 4ButGod, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ… and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. He has finished all the work on the cross on your behalf and is now seated at the right hand of God.
Now, listen carefully to what I am saying. I am not advocating a life of passiveness and laziness. You can take up courses, read books, do your work diligently and so on, but your trust must not be in these things. It must be in what Jesus has done for you. So if you are a student, for example, by all means, study hard. Score straight As for the glory of God! On the contrary, it makes you labor more abundantly for His glory. In other words, we do not labor to be blessed, but rather we have the power to labor because we are already blessed.
Can you see the different premise for laboring in the new covenant? Self-effort will rob you of reigning in life by His grace. You cannot earn your salvation, your healing or your financial breakthrough by your own efforts.
If the greatest miracle — being saved from hell — comes by grace through faith, and not by your works, how much more the lesser miracles, such as healing, prosperity and restored marriages.
My friend, Jesus has accomplished everything on the cross. Our part is to trust in His perfect work, receive with open arms the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, and begin to reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.
Give me something. It is all about Jesus! It is all about His finished work! The more you appreciate the finished work of Jesus and all that He has done for you to reign in life, the more you will worship and glorify Him! Have you noticed that truth is on the side of grace, not the law? Notice also that the law was given. This implies a sense of distance. In contrast, grace came! Grace is personal and came as a person — the person of Jesus Christ.
The law is hard, cold and impersonal. You cannot have a relationship with two pieces of stone. But grace is gentle and warm. Grace is not a teaching or doctrine. Grace is a person and you can have a relationship with a person. God is not interested in mere obedience and submission.
He is a God of love and He longs to have an intimate relationship with you. This is what makes Christianity unique. But Christianity is not about these things. It is about having a relationship with Almighty God. Our God came, died a cruel death on the cross and paid the full debt of sin with His own life so that you and I can reign in life today. His sacrifice on the cross speaks of relationship. Jesus came to reconcile sinful man with a holy God.
When you receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you are made holy and righteous by His blood once and for all.
And you can enter boldly into the presence of Almighty God without any guilt, condemnation or expectation of punishment. Because of the cross, the price for sin has been paid, the judgment executed, the anger toward sin exhausted, the veil torn and the way to intimacy with God opened.
Sin no longer hinders you from entering His presence. His blood has removed all vestiges of your sins! Jesus came to fulfill all the requirements of the law on our behalf, so that the way to God is now opened. But Jesus Himself said that He did not come to abolish the law.
He came and fulfilled every requirement of the law perfectly on our behalf. All that we were unable to do, He did on our behalf. So by Jesus, the law has been fulfilled! When you have fulfilled your debt to the bank for the mortgage on your house, my advice to you is to stop sending in your monthly payments because the debt has already been fulfilled.
If the bank sends you a letter demanding more payment from you, all you have to do is produce the title deed to your home. In the same sense, the debt that you and I owed to the law has already been fulfilled by our Savior Jesus Christ! When the devil comes to accuse you with the law, and shows you how you have fallen short and failed, all you have to do is point to the payment that Jesus made on the cross.
Christ is your title deed, which is why you are called a Christian today. You are not your own. You have been purchased with the precious blood of Jesus Christ. The law has no hold over you anymore!
But are you aware that there is someone more sinister who has already been disarmed? So the devil has already been disarmed! But do you know what weapon he was wielding before his forced disarmament?
And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. The devil then armed himself with the law to accuse and condemn man! You have been redeemed from the curse of the law. The law always condemns and keeps man away from God. Hence, the devil uses it as his weapon to further alienate man from God.
Once the law was nailed to the cross of Jesus, God knew that the law no longer had the power to condemn man as long as he believed on Jesus. Therefore, when you know and believe that Jesus has fulfilled completely the righteous requirements of the law, the devil cannot use the law to condemn you every time you fail. Even if he uses the law and points to your sins today, you can point to the cross of Jesus and reject the condemnation.
No man can, but God can! And God did it righteously. My friend, you have been redeemed from the curse of the law. The devil and his crew have been disarmed.
However, if you insist on being under the law, you are actually arming the devil again! God has nailed the law. He has blotted out its requirements, taken it out of the way and disarmed the devil. Let me stress that the law is holy, just and good. But even though the law is holy, just and good, it has no power to make you holy, just and good.
You see, the law was designed to expose your weaknesses, your sins, and your inability to be holy, just and good. It is like a mirror that exposes your flaws — your blemishes and pimples. You need to understand that no amount of keeping the law can make you holy.
Only the blood of Jesus can do that. Nevertheless, the law is holy. It is not from the devil. It is from God Himself. The Purpose For The Law God gave the law for one purpose, and that is by the law, the world would have the knowledge of sin5, and recognize their need for a Savior.
Without the law, there would be no sin 6. For example, if there were no law on how fast you can drive on a particular road, that is, there were no speed limit, the state trooper cannot stop you and give you a ticket for speeding.
In simple terms, no law equals no sin. No recognition of sin equals no need for a Savior! The law was given to bring man to the end of himself so that in his despair, he would see his need for Jesus. That is the purpose of the law.
It was not designed to make you godly, but to expose your ungodliness. The devil is the master legalist who constantly reminds you of how unworthy you are.
He is known as the accuser of the brethren7. God will never listen to your prayers. You dare step into church? The devil is using the law to make you conscious of all your shortcomings. But through Jesus Christ, you are no longer under the condemnation of the law. The devil has been disarmed by the power of the cross! Jesus, who knew no sin, has been condemned on your behalf on the cross.
Through Jesus Christ, you are now made righteous apart from the works of the law. Declare it out loud! It is not a reward for perfect obedience to the law. You are clothed today not in your own righteousness, which is self-righteousness, but with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. God sees you as righteous as Jesus Himself. Only Grace Brings Hope Only the radical preaching of grace brings hope to believers. Only the finished work of Jesus can bring us wholeness, completeness and shalom-peace.
Some people say that the Christian life is very hard. My friend, it is not hard, it is impossible! The only one who can live it is Jesus Himself, and He wants to do it in us today.
That is why it is not up to our own efforts to fulfill the law of Moses. It was fulfilled on our behalf and the price for our sins has been paid on the cross. Our part today is to believe in our Savior, and receive from Him the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness.
The Christian life is a life of rest in Christ Jesus and His finished work. It is time to rest from your own efforts and to enjoy Jesus! The devil hates the gospel of grace because it causes the believer to reign in life. And when you reign, the devil does not!
Only the finished work of Jesus can bring us wholeness, completeness and peace. It must be balanced with the law. Think of all the Indiana Jones movies that you have watched. Before the hero Indy can lay hold of any priceless relic, he must overcome the obstacles and traps surrounding the prized artifact.
Fiery darts whiz by on his left. Poison arrows fly toward him from the right. Hidden pits filled with jagged spears lie in front of him and giant boulders hurtle down from above. So many obstacles have been erected simply because there is a treasure at the end. The moment you learn to receive grace, you will start to reign in life! For the same reason, the devil has erected so many obstacles and fences around the gospel of grace.
He is well aware that the moment you learn to receive grace, you will start to reign in life! The devil comes to steal, kill and destroy1. He wants to see you broke and broken. He does not want to see you reigning in life. So he has been working hard to prevent believers from receiving the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness.
You can always tell how powerful a truth is by the number of controversies the devil surrounds it with! God gave the devil a PHD — permanent head damage! He went about healing the sick and all who touched Him were healed. I wish that somebody in Hollywood would produce the scene that took place in Luke Mel Gibson, are you reading this?
All who were sick, lame and blind came to Jesus, and bam! The healing virtue of Jesus was powerfully released as all who touched Him were healed! They package fiction and present it as truth.
On the flip side, we believers have the truth, but we present and package the truth as if it was fiction. Come on! Believers, we have the truth. I believe with all my heart that God is raising up a new generation of directors, producers and scriptwriters worldwide who will present the truth of the gospel of Jesus in all its purity and power.
Now, when God was restoring the truth of prosperity to the church, signposts were again put up, calling it heresy. For many years, the church backed away from the teaching of prosperity because it was controversial.
Would you as a parent want your children to be diseased and living in abject poverty? Why do you take your children to the doctor when they are unwell? Why do you give them the best education you can afford? Do you think that your heavenly Father would want anything less for you? Do you seriously think that your heavenly Father will bless you with a meager hand when the streets of heaven are made of pure gold? Listen carefully: The streets of heaven are not plated with gold.
They are made of solid gold! Think about this for a moment. If you on earth know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in heaven4! Recognize that the devil has been using controversy as a device down through church history to prevent believers from having access to the most powerful truths of God.
He built fences of controversy around healing, prosperity and grace to keep believers from reigning over sickness, poverty and sin. The more controversies you find around a truth of God, the more powerful that truth must be. Pay close attention to what I am saying. We have to test everything against what the Bible says. He is a crafty liar and deceitful thief, so we have to base what we believe on the Word of God and test everything against the Scriptures.
Study the Word of God yourself and see what it has to say about grace! There is only one gospel in the Bible and that is the gospel of Jesus Christ. However, when you believe the gospel of Jesus, which is based entirely on His grace, it will result in health and prosperity. God blesses you not because you are good, but because He is good.
Grace is based on His faithfulness and goodness toward you. It is not contingent on your performance, but is based on His undeserved favor. If it were contingent on how good you are, then it would no longer be based on grace, and would instead be based on the system of the law. It would be deserved favor. Grace is undeserved favor — Jesus obeyed God perfectly, and you will be blessed by believing in Him.
My friend, which covenant are you under today? The old covenant of law or the new covenant of grace? Deserved favor or undeserved favor? If being blessed by God today is dependent on your doing, your ability to keep the law and your ability to make yourself righteous, then there would be no difference between being under the old covenant of law and being under the new covenant of grace.
The good news would not be that good after all, since there is no real difference between the old and the new. Come on, my friend, God found fault with the old covenant5, and for a good reason! Grace is not a topic — grace is the gospel. It is the good news! Grace is not a theology. It is not a subject matter. It is not a doctrine.
It is a person, and His name is Jesus. Notice that the law was given, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. The law was given, implying a sense of distance, but grace came! Grace came as a person and His name is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the personification of grace. Jesus is grace! It is important that you begin to realize that truth is on the side of grace, and not on the side of the law.
The Word of God declares that if you know the truth, the truth will set you free. Well, my friend, grace is the definite article truth that will set you free, not the law of Moses.
The law is on the side of Moses, but grace and truth are on the same side as our Savior. My friend, the grace of God is the only truth that liberates. Truth is on the side of grace!
If the devil can keep you under the law, he can keep you defeated. I hear that he is coming to town. This is because the devil wants you to be subject to the law. If he can keep you under the law, he can keep you defeated. Interestingly, people are afraid that when you tell a believer that he is completely forgiven by grace, and no longer has to earn his right standing before the Lord via the law of Moses, it would cause him to go out and live a life of sin and debauchery.
It is not grace that gives people the strength to sin. It is the law! The more you are under the law, the more sin is strengthened! Conversely, the more you are under grace, the more sin will be depleted of its strength. Read the verse again. In other words, sin shall not have dominion over you when you receive the abundance of grace! Unfortunately, there are well-meaning people today who are preaching a completely different message.
They preach that sin shall not have dominion over you when you are under the law. So when they see sin, they preach more of the law! That, my friend, is like adding wood to fire because the strength of sin is the law. Sin is strengthened when more law is preached! But the power to have dominion over sin is imparted when more grace is preached!
So who is the one who switched the roles? Will the real gospel please stand up? It is time to preach the truth. It is time to remove the wool from our eyes and break down the fences surrounding the gospel of grace! Fences Around The Gift Of Righteousness The devil has also succeeded in erecting fences around the gift of righteousness. They are saying that even though you were made righteous by grace, you now have to do right and keep the law to continue being righteous.
My friend, this is something that Apostle Paul never taught! There is only one righteousness in Christ Jesus. You are either righteous or you are not. You are the righteousness of God in Christ, period! Notice that the strategy here is to deceive the believer into believing that righteousness is something that you need to achieve by keeping the law perfectly. It all sounds very good to the flesh, but if that is so, then the promise of the gift of righteousness is completely thrown out of the window.
The devil is very crafty. He has no problem with righteousness, but he wants to deceive you into pursuing your own righteousness through the law. Then, he gives you a false impression that you are responsible for earning your own righteousness through your own works and self-efforts, instead of depending on the finished work of Jesus. Righteousness cannot be earned by good works. It can only come as a gift.
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