Divine Exchange!
Ephesians 1:3
Redemption in Christ
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
Blessed means past tense. It means our Lord has blessed us! It is not a “going to”. God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing!!
We today are seated with Christ once we are born again!!
If we put a pen in a bible, we can’t see the pen no more. When we drop the bible in the water, the pen goes together. The dealing is with the bible not the pen.
We are the body of Christ and can’t drop off! We are in Christ! We are the new creation in Christ! Our flesh is not us! If we have a piece of wood stuck in our fingers, we are not wood!!
Our mentality needs to change!!
Our real identity is we are now in Christ!!
When God sat Christ down at His right hand, we sat down!!
Today we live in a time of rejected Christ. He is the King of Shalom! The world rejected Him.
Jesus is now our King! The kingdom of God is in our lives!! One day, the whole earth will have to bow their knees! If we bow our knees after we die, we are not saved. Bow our knees now and we are saved!!
God did not spare His Son so that we can be saved!
Divine exchange took place!
God received sinful men righteously! God sent the One He delighted in, to die on the cross for us! If we believe that, what He did was for us!!!
Jesus cried it is finished! All our sins had been dealt with!! God is righteous and just in receiving sinful men!!!
God’s all is not our all! God’s all is “helicopter’s all”
God took our entire life and based on His perfect knowledge, God punished all on Jesus on the cross! Jesus exhausted all the punishment for us. He stood on behalf for us! He did not stand for Himself.
All our sins deserved, Jesus got on the cross. All that Jesus deserved, we got it! This is divine exchange!
When God raised Jesus, we were in Christ! Jesus did not sit down as Son of God. That He always is. He sat down having plunged our sins. The right to sit down at the Father’s right hand, is when Jesus plunged all our sins!!
God treat us as if we are Jesus! In the same way, God treat Jesus at the cross like treating us.
Desire to live for Jesus’ glory!!
Ungrateful are a few.
We don’t compromise the gospel because of someone’s lifestyle!
Jesus sat down having plunged our sins!!
Our position is that of the throne. Our position is in heavenly places in Christ!!
When we are in this place, all blessings come to us!!
Deuteronomy 28:2-3
And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:
“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
Deuteronomy 28:6-8
“Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.
“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways.
“The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 28:8-10
“The Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
“The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways. Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you.
Wherever the Gospel has not gone, poverty is there. Gospel brings prosperity. It is the servant or the master. We are not to be poor. Love God and not love money.
Every nation wanna the nation to prosper. Don’t be like those who are selfish. The love of money is the root of all evil. It is not money that is the root.
Don’t identify ourselves with money. Don’t measure ourselves with others.
In heaven, everything there is prosperity! The street is street of gold!
God does not want His people poor. It does not mean selfish.
Deuteronomy 28:10-13
Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they shall be afraid of you. And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you. The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them.
God will make us the leader and not the tail. We shall be above ONLY!!
Position before blessings!!
Deuteronomy 28:1
Chapter 28
Blessings on Obedience
“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth.
Can we keep all commandments? God found fault in this covenant. No more dependent on men’s goodness but depend on Jesus’ goodness!
Jesus fulfilled all commandments.
Ephesians 1:3
Redemption in Christ
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual (Pneumatikos) blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
ALL – in every form and in every type and in every kind of blessings!!
We are not going to be blessed, we are blessed!!! 🙂
Our calling is heavenly. Israel’s calling in old testament is earthly. But God has not done with Israel. We are living in end’s time now.
There r those who teach that because of spiritual blessing, that is for Israel. They r falling into natural reasoning of the world.
In the wisdom of God, everything we can’t see are real! what we can see are temporal!!
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Wherever we go we are going somewhere to bless!
Our problems are working for us!
U can see touch smell is temporal! Things not seen are eternal!!
Many things we can’t see are eternal!
When Jesus comes, we are not bringing this body up. He is going to give us a brand new body!!
Things seen are temporal. Things not seen are eternal!!
Body is made from the dust of the ground. God breathed into man and we are animated!!
We have a spirit and our spirit needs to be housed!!
Deep down everyone knows there is a God!!
Man refusing to acknowledge God becomes stupid!
If a spirit is cut off from God, the spirit will go to hell.
Those who are born again are in heaven forever, not as unhoused spirit!
Invisible does not mean not real!
Whatever u can see cannot last.
We live life believing a lie.
God shall supply all my needs!!
There r radio-wave around though we don’t see it yet we believe.
Pneumatikos
– Belonging from the spirit
Devil wanna your mind.
Words are powerful!
God made everything with words!! Whatever God wanted, God spoke first then God saw!!
God spoke before He sees!
He sees good because He spoke good!!!
Live in supernatural realm!!
Whatever God promised to Israel is not only for Israel.
2 Corinthians 1:18-20
But as God is faithful, our word to you was not Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us—by me, Silvanus, and Timothy—was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
These things are written that we may know!! We deal with certainty and sureness!! This is the Word of God!!
Jesus Christ is the Son of God and His blood cleansed our sins!!
ALL the promises of God in Him are YES!! ALL means all!! From Genesis to Revelation! There is a promise there, we can claim it!!
All the promises of God are Yes and amen!
How we make it ours? If God promises us something, it is regardless of behavior. The promise reflects on the Giver.
When God promises, it is surely and guaranteed!
For all of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!” And through Christ, our “Amen” (which means “Yes”) ascends to God for his glory (2 Corinthians 1:20 NLT)
Catch God’s promises with an “Amen!”
A story –
An old man of a 100 years old recalled his story of secret of long life. He was strong at his age.
When he was 15 years old, he fled Poland in 1914. He attended a school with class around his age. His elderly scholarly teacher (jewish) sat down with all of them. A celebration day for the next day. He calculated the day of celebration. He said to the kids may they live long enough to see it. 87 years later. This boy said AMEN! The moment he said amen, he felt warm protective feeling. In WW2, he was kept throughout.
He was alive at 100 years old. All his friends were all gone. He said amen and he received!!
God requires man’s response!
(NIV)
20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God.
Why let the world makes us feel abnormal?
Our mouth shall be filled with praises and faith !!
The blessings be identified with Christ!!
Great is our reward in heaven!! It means our source is in heaven and the manifestation is on earth!!
Dare to be different!! Dare to be a Daniel and a Esther!!
Diamond are precious because they are not easy to find!!
In old testament their first amen was about curse. All about the curse.
Deut 27:15 – 26
Moses divided 12 tribes. They only said amen to the curses because they cant measure up for blessings. (In old covenant)
Only on the mountain of curse we need redemption!!
The blessings keep on keeping on in our lives!!
ZECHARIAH means Yahweh remembers.
God’s grace always open mouth!!
The Angel appeared to Mary. She is highly favored among women. Not above. She shall be with child. She said be unto me according to your word. She believed it be done but don’t know how.
Amen! By His stripe we are healed!!
Say Amen with a purpose in our heart!!
Say amen to the glory of God!!!
Testimony-
1. A lady who was forced to go to church when she was small but her father kept on beating her.
She got married and left her father. Her sister translated to her Pastor Prince message. She was born again and free from smoking!!
2. The family moved to Singapore from other country. The wife had 4 miscarriages before she came to singapore. When they came to church pastor prince preached about open womb.
They prayed and she got pregnant. 5 weeks later she had bleeding. she was hospitalized. This time they knew about grace! Her baby is saved! Months later, her baby was delivered!!
Praise Jesus!!
Without the gospel of grace, many will be on the way to hell.
God is great enough to reveal his servant Joseph Prince ,the gospel of grace which was hidden for some centuries.