The Way To True Holiness

Does the gospel of grace give people license to sin? Does grace lead people away from living a holy life? If you’ve ever asked these questions or heard controversies surrounding the grace teaching, this eye-opening message by Joseph Prince will show you what the Bible really says about God’s grace. See from Scripture how holiness is produced when a believer is truly under the new covenant of grace. Learn how you can:

• Live a holy life that glorifies God when you are rested in your identity as the righteousness of God in Christ.
• See miracles and deliverance from all kinds of addictions when you are established in the grace of God.
• Be led by the Holy Spirit’s perfect guidance when you believe you are the disciple whom Jesus loves.
• Produce the fruits of the Spirit like peace, forgiveness, and self-control when you know how fully forgiven you are in Christ.

Beloved, start resting in what the Lord Jesus has done for you at the cross and begin to live a life that is truly holy—set apart from the world!

Grace is always seen like you know, if you believe in grace, if you preach grace, then you are, you are someone who is compromising on holiness.
You don’t believe in holiness now, friend.
That’s not true friend because only grace can teach you to be holy.
The Bible says in Titus chapter two, that the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men teaching us denying ungodliness and worldly lust.
Now notice that you know, people say, well, we need to teach that to deny ungodliness and worlds.
No friend listen carefully. It says the grace of God was the subject, the grace of God, the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men teaching us is the grace that teaches us grace is an amazing teacher.
It will put people under grace. Grace will teach them. Yes, we teach them grace, praise the Lord.
We teach them grace and grace will teach them from within. But grace is an amazing teacher. Hallelujah.
And when we put people under grace, the Bible says clearly in Romans 6 14 sin shall not have Dominion over you because you are not under the law.
But you are under grace. Hallelujah, no friend. Just take the word of God.
This is the word of God. Nothing can be more clear and certain than this scripture verse. Praise the Lord.
It says sin shall not have the meaning over you because for you are not under the law, but under grace.
You are not under who you are before God, you are under what God is to you.
You are not under your efforts, your works, but you are under God’s finished work for you. Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah. You are under unmerited favor. And it seems like uh people try to divide holiness from grace.
I have a message I preached in the nineties called where is holiness in grace?
And you know, because I, I saw even back then people are confused about why, why is that?
So yet the results of being under grace is actually holiness.
So the thing is this, we talk about holiness. It’s not the talk.
It is the effect is the result. Holy is the result. Holy.
I wanna read to you a testimony that just came in from a brother from Great Britain.
And this brother says I had been addicted to watching pornography for more than 35 years.
It was something I did every day. Wow, 35 years, more than 35 years.
So he didn’t tell us how old he is, but he’s watching pornography for more than 35 years.
It was something I did every day, seven times a day, on average, seven times a day, on average.
Well, I tried for decades to end it, but I just got deeper and deeper into it.
One day I listened to pastor Prince’s sermon where he encouraged us to declare our righteousness in Christ all while trusting the Lord for deliverance from our addictions.
At first, it didn’t sit very well with me, especially when I said it during, during and after I watched porn.
OK. So in other words, while he’s watching, and people are saying, you know, you can’t, you can’t be saying that when you are watching, listen, friend, they will still watch, they will still watch.
It is more important that they proclaim their identity.
Even though at that moment, they may not feel it, they may not believe it but start proclaiming it because the spirit of faith says, I believe and therefore have I spoken?
We also believe and therefore speak. That’s how the spirit of faith operates.
Start speaking, start speaking and it will affect your heart.
The word is 90 in your mouth and in your heart, it is first in your mouth and in your heart.
And this is reality. It is who you are in Christ. You are the righteousness of God in Christ.
If you put your trust in Christ, God sees you righteous in Christ.
And when you agree that you are the righteousness of God in Christ, the Holy Spirit in you is called the spirit of truth.
The the Holy Spirit of Truth will bear witness with the truth.
Every time if you are testifying a lie, you say I’m a sinner. I am so sinful.
You know, instead of proclaiming I am the righteousness of God in Christ, just like when you are sick, you proclaim with his stripes.
I am healed as Jesus is so am I in this world, you’re calling things that are not as though they are.
And that’s what your father in heaven does. My friend in Romans four, he says, God call us those things.
We should be not as though they were. God.
Look at Gideon and God says, hail the man, God, look at Peter who was like a read and God says, you are Peter, a rock, amen and, and friend.
This is God calling those things that God was Abraham who didn’t even have a child yet.
And God says you will be a father of multitudes. Your name is Abraham, father of many father of multitudes.
And it’s God’s God’s way of expression of his faith.
He calls those things that are not right, not inexperience by sight, experience feelings and all that is not there yet.
But God cause those things that are not as though they were already and this person did that whole Hallelujah.
That’s the teaching my friend. Now, do you think for one moment that this person is confessing?
I’m the righteousness of God in Christ because he’s a hypocrite.
No hypocrites don’t even want to mention or think about God while they are doing these things, amen.
While they’re involved in sin, they won’t even want to think about God.
It is someone who find that He has this bad habit.
He can’t break this habit and friend until we see that sin. It is an addiction.
Sin is a habit that we in our strength cannot break, will never rely on God’s way of deliverance.
And God’s way of delivering is always, always faith.
Anything you do, no matter how sincere you are in that effort, in that, in that uh uh ritual, in whatever you’re doing.
If it’s not based on faith, it will never work.
And this is the victory that overcomes the world is the victory that overcome the last of the eyes, the last of the flesh, the pride of life.
This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith and friend.
This is faith, this is what he is doing.
He says one day I listen to pastor Prince sermon where he encouraged us to declare our righteousness in Christ.
All the while trusting the Lord for deliverance from our addictions.
At first, it didn’t sit well with me, especially when I said it during and after I watch porn after doing this for some time, the chains of addiction that had plagued me were miraculously broken.
I’ll say it one more time.
After doing this for some time, the chains of addiction that had plagued me were miraculously broken and I’m well and truly free.
John eight says, and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
I found the truth through what God’s promises says about me.
Despite the facts of my situation there he is. He’s a preacher already. Praise God.
Truly West sin, a bounce grace. Super a bounce. Keep preaching. Pastor Prince, I believe I’ll do just that brother.
Praise God. The scripture begins with not men from man’s perspective, from earth perspective, upwards to God, from God’s perspective to men.
What God has made us, God has made the finishing post, our starting post, you know, in a race, you know, you start from the starting post and then you go to the finishing post.
But actually in Christ, what Christ has done at his uh in his death, burial and resurrection.
He’s actually brought us off straight away.
Even the weakest babe in Christ is brought straight away to the finishing post.
The finishing post is now our starting post. It says you are complete in Christ, you are complete in Christ.
Now walk out that completion. You are seated in heavenly places in Christ.
Now walk out that position of rest. We think that now that we are righteous in Christ.
Well, you know, by grace through faith, you have been saved. That is your ABC, that’s your starting position.
But you need to progress through holiness and we think of holiness as the university.
Whereas grace and righteousness by faith is actually kindergarten friend.
The Bible doesn’t say that the Bible actually tells us as long as we live on this side of heaven.
While we wait for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, we will always be pursuing of righteousness, pursuing of the righteousness is how we flee youthful lust and righteousness in the New Testament is always a gift.
Righteousness is always a gift. Yes, I believe in progressive holiness, progressive sanctification, but righteousness is complete.
Once you are born again, you are born righteous.
You are once a sinner, but once by grace through faith, you are safe.
You are righteous in God’s eyes, holy and blameless. You are the righteousness of God in Christ.
The Bible says, and it’s important.
We remember this and when we hear voices that tell us otherwise that take the assurance away from us that tell us that we are not complete in Christ, we need to pursue, we need to pursue that.
There is a goal out there, a finishing post and that goal is, is uh for us to come to know God or to come to maturity in the place of a friend.
Maturity is to realize, continue to realize we start from God’s position. God’s viewpoint.
God sees us complete in Christ, seated in Christ and heavenly places from there, we proceed to the earth, amen we proceed.
Like from heaven’s perspective, we walk out our completeness, amen.
We walk out our position of rest in the way we, we love our wives in the way we submit to our husbands.
In the way we, we obey our parents in the Lord.
But first of all, we need to know our position in Christ like I shared just now in everything that we do, the more we rest.
And that is true holiness, the holiness we want to produce must be the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faith, self control, all of them is the fruit of the spirit.
And have you noticed where in the New Testament, the fruit of the spirit appears?
Would you say that this, this is uh uh progressive sanctification. Would you say that this is holiness? Amen.
The fruit of the spirit and holiness is not a face like you look like you are baptized in lemon juice, you know grumpy and uh you know, I love Jesus Amen.
How about notifying your face? You know, it’s not that kind of uh uh holiness.
Notice the first word, love, what comes out the love, joy, then peace.
This holiness is not like what man makes it out to be when man’s effort is involved is always morals depressing, right?
It is not like that. It is love, joy, peace, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, self control is a fruit.
It’s not an effort thing, self control, which is in the fruit of spirit is a fruit.
And he contrast that with works of the flesh works of the flesh.
What’s works of the flesh friend, what’s works of the flesh and the fruit of the spirit works of the flesh?
He goes on to list the entire list down there to all the works of the flesh.
All those yuks, those yucky stuff amen. But notice he calls it works of the flesh.
He doesn’t call it fruit. Fruit is the result of life. Grace works.
Works of the flesh is the result of efforts, man’s efforts.
And notice where you find the fruit of the Spirit in the book of Galatians.
And what is, what are the first chapters before chapter five where it talks about the Fruit of the Spirit?
All the previous four chapters, what he talked about Law and Grace, Law and Grace, how the Galatians have allowed some teachers to come in and promote the law among them telling them is fine, believing in Jesus is fine believing what you are believing from Paul and all that.
Paul has left them at the time and they come in and say what, what Paul says is fine and all that.
But you need to add circumcision, you need to add human effort, you need to add this, add that and straight away the joy was gone.
Paul asked them, where is the joy they used to have?
Where is the sense of blessedness that you spoke of, I remember you when I was beaten, black and blue and I came to all, all of you Galatians, you know what you have?
You had such a sense of blessedness.
You have pluck out your eyeball and give it to me because my eye was all swollen.
That’s how much love you had. That’s how much, you know, a sense of favor was all about you.
You really love without even being conscious of fulfilling the new commandment.
You are fulfilling the new commandment, loving one another as I have loved you. Wow, guys.
Where is that sense of blessedness? It’s gone.
Now listen, it wasn’t gone because they did something sinful because they went and deliberately broke the 10 commandments.
It was gone because someone added the law, someone told them it’s not enough.
You need your contribution, you need your effort.
When actually grace is all about celebrating and enjoying the favor of God where you are seated in heavenly places in Christ.
When you pray, you don’t pray to get near to God. You pray because you are near to God.
Therefore, you don’t pray for victory. You pray from victory. Hallelujah.
And all that goes out the window. The moment someone says you’re not there yet.
Hey, here’s the finishing post. Hey man. Alright. Do your best and you reach the finishing post.
If I want to see love, joy, peace and self control, I preach grace and the fruit.
The result the effect of grace will be love, joy, peace plus self control. Hallelujah. Hi.
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