Joseph Prince falsely accuses the Lord Jesus, who is God Himself, of being a false prophet – By Rev George Ong
Important Notice:
If you have friends
who are Cabinet Ministers in the Singapore PAP Government
and Members of Parliament,
please forward this article to them.
They ought to be aware that there is a serial liar
who has ‘disguised’ himself
as a preacher of grace to preach his heresies.
Let them be the judge whether I am falsely accusing him
or that Joseph Prince is indeed a serial liar.
Not just the Christian community
but the non-Christian community needs to be warned too
that Joseph Prince’s heretical teachings
(outright lies, half-truths and truths poisoned with errors)
don’t represent the true doctrines of Christianity
and the whole counsel of God in the Bible.
We need to safeguard the welfare
of not just believers but also unbelievers
from being deceived by Joseph Prince’s grace teachings,
and from straying into his fold
and being led to their destruction.
Joseph Prince keeps accusing his critics of using social media
to contend against his heresies,
and, for that reason,
he keeps warning his church not to go into social media
for fear of being influenced,
when he himself is the biggest culprit of using it ‘big time’
through YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc,
to spread his half-truth teachings about the Bible
and his heretical lies to many countries around the world.
No one has used social media as extensively as he has,
and yet, he can criticise his critics
(who only does a small fraction of what he does, YouTube only)
for doing the same.
See the hypocrisy!
And why is a big fish like Joseph Prince
so afraid of an ikan bilis?
(This article was also sent to Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) office, and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.)
Please click here to view a 4-minute video.
Lie No 1:
Joseph Prince lied when he said
that those who prophesy comfort under the Old Covenant
and those who prophesy judgement under the New Covenant
are false prophets.
Joseph Prince said in a 15-second video;
“It’s as much as false prophecy if you are under the Old Covenant, you prophesy comfort, you are a false prophet.
Okay, any more than if you are under grace (New Covenant) now, you prophesy judgement, judgement, judgement, you are a false prophet.”
So, Joseph Prince said that if an Old Covenant prophet prophesies comfort, he is a false prophet.
To prove that Joseph Prince is lying, let’s take a quick scan at the many Old Testament verses.
Isaiah 12:1 NIV
1 In that day you will say: “I will praise you, Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.
Isaiah 40:1-2 NIV
1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 49:13 NASB
13 Shout for joy, you heavens! And rejoice, you earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, mountains! For the Lord has comforted His people And will have compassion on His afflicted.
Isaiah 51:3 NASB
3 Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her ruins. And He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and the sound of a melody.
Isaiah 51:12 NASB
12 “I, I Myself, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you are afraid of mortal man, And of a son of man who is made like grass,
Isaiah 52:9 NASB
9 Be cheerful, shout joyfully together, You ruins of Jerusalem; For the Lord has comforted His people, He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 57:18 NASB
18 I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,
Isaiah 61:2 NASB
2 To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord And the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn,
Isaiah 66:11 NASB
11 So that you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, So that you may drink fully and be delighted with her bountiful breasts.”
Isaiah 66:13 NASB
13 As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Jeremiah 8:18 NIV
18 You who are my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
Jeremiah 31:13 NASB
13 Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, And the young men and the old together; For I will turn their mourning into joy And comfort them, and give them joy for their sorrow.
Ezekiel 14:220 NASB
22 Yet, behold, survivors will be left in it who will be brought out, both sons and daughters. Behold, they are going to come out to you, and you will see their conduct and actions; then you will be comforted for the disaster which I have brought against Jerusalem for everything which I have brought upon it.
Ezekiel 14:23 NASB
23 Then they will comfort you when you see their conduct and actions, for you will know that I have not done without reason whatever I did to it,” declares the Lord God.
Zechariah 1:13 NASB
13 And the Lord responded to the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.
Zechariah 1:17 NASB
17 Again, proclaim, saying, ‘This is what the Lord of armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”’”
As you can see, Joseph Prince is blatantly lying as it isn’t true that Old Covenant prophets
only prophesy judgement and no comfort.
Though they prophesy judgement on Old Covenant people,
on other occasions, they also speak about God’s comfort on them.
By Joseph Prince’s lie that those who prophesy comfort in the Old Covenant are false prophets,
Prince has committed the revolting act of accusing the true prophets who are sent by God, such as
Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Zechariah as false prophets.
Joseph Prince also said that if a person prophesies judgement under the New Covenant, he is a false prophet.
While it is true that the purpose of New Covenant prophecy in 1 Corinthians 14:3
is for the encouragement and comfort of believers,
this doesn’t rule out the other functions of New Covenant prophecies as well,
which includes both foretelling and forthtelling.
For example, Agabus prophesied a famine (Acts 11:28) and also about the arrest of Paul by the Jewish leaders (Acts 21:10-11).
Furthermore, there are also many prophecies of judgement in the New Covenant.
The judgement of God hasn’t been done away with in the New Covenant, as Joseph Prince falsely teaches.
Let’s scan through these New Testament verses, and they will again prove that Joseph Prince is lying:
Romans 2:2-3,5 NASB
2 And we know that the judgment of God rightly falls upon those who practice such things. 3 But do you suppose this, you foolish person who passes judgment on those who practice such things, and yet does them as well, that you will escape the judgment of God? 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
1 Corinthians 11:29,32 NASB
29 For the one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself if he does not properly recognize the body. 32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 NIV
6… The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.
1 Timothy 5:11-12 NIV
11 As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry. 12 Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.
1 Timothy 5:24 NASB
24 The sins of some people are quite evident, going before them to judgment; for others, their sins follow after.
Hebrews 2:2-3 NASB
2 For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every violation and act of disobedience received a just punishment, 3 how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard,
Hebrews 4:12 NASB
12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 12:23 GNT
23 You have come to the joyful gathering of God’s first-born, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, who is the judge of all people…
Hebrews 10:26,27,30 NASB
26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge His people.”
Hebrews 12:29 NASB
29 for our God is a consuming fire.
Hebrews 13:4 NASB
4 Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
1 Peter 1:17 NASB
17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth;
1 Peter 4:5 NASB
5 but they will give an account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
James 2:12-13 NASB
12 So speak, and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom. 13 For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.
James 3:1 NASB
1 Do not become teachers in large numbers, my brothers, since you know that we who are teachers will incur a stricter judgment.
James 4:12 NASB
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you, judging your neighbor?
James 5:9 NASB
9 Do not complain, brothers and sisters, against one another, so that you may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.
James 5:12 NASB
12 But above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath; but your yes is to be yes, and your no, no, so that you do not fall under judgment.
From a quick skim of these verses, it clearly indicates that God still judges people in the New Covenant.
Joseph Prince is lying against the scriptures by saying that there is no judgement in the New Covenant.
Mind you, I have not even included the many verses in the gospels,
in which Jesus pronounced judgement against people and unrepentant cities (Matt 11:20-24).
I have also not included the many verses in the Book of Revelation
in which the cataclysmic judgements of God are poured out.
What we can be sure of is that
Peter prophetically pronounced God’s judgement on Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5, which resulted in their deaths.
Paul prophetically pronounced God’s judgement on a sorcerer, Elymas, in Acts 13:8-12, which resulted in his being blinded.
Jesus prophetically pronounced His impending judgements on 5 of the 7 churches in Revelation chapters 2-3, if they refused to heed His warning to repent.
These prophetic impending judgements of Jesus in Revelation were pronounced after the cross, not before it.
Jesus also prophesied about a judgement on His people and on Jerusalem in Luke 19:42-44
that resulted in the hundreds of thousands of Jews who were massacred by the Roman soldiers, which took place in AD 70:
Luke 19:42-44 NIV
42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace – but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
Just like the Old Covenant, this was a manifestation of God’s judgement and wrath.
And the fulfilment of this prophecy in AD 70 about God’s judgement on His people happened under the New Covenant, and after the cross.
The cross didn’t prevent the display of God’s judgement and wrath on His people.
Hence, Joseph Prince’s teachings that after the cross, God will never show His wrath and judge the world and punish believers ever again, is exposed to be a lie.
What is repulsive is that Joseph Prince is accusing Jesus of being a false prophet
as he had stated that one who prophesies judgement (as Jesus did in Luke 19:42-44 and His prophecy came true in AD 70) in the New Covenant is a false prophet.
Furthermore, 1 Peter 4:17 categorically tells us that the judgement of God begins with the house of God:
1 Peter 4:17 NIV
17 “For it is time for judgment to begin with God’s household; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?”
Is 1 Peter 4:17 written before or after the cross?
It is after the cross.
Though it is after the cross, it is clear from the scriptures that God can still judge believers.
Regardless of whether we are believers or unbelievers, and whether we are under the Old Covenant or the New,
we all can be judged by God.
Next, Revelation doesn’t just contain prophecies of judgement against the unbelieving world
but it is also secondarily targeted at the church with the aim to warn and save her.
First, as I have already stated, Revelation records Jesus’ prophetic and impending judgements against 5 of the 7 churches to warn her to repent.
Second, the church is also warned not to take the mark of the beast.
If they do, they will come under God’s eternal judgement and wrath:
Revelation 14:9-12 NIV
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, 10 they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” 12 This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus.
That is why John exhorted them that they must endure and keep the commandments of God and remain faithful to Jesus (Rev 14:12).
Third, the church is warned in Revelation 18 to come out of Babylon, which represents the system of the world, or she would also come under the same judgement as the world, and suffer the same plagues and be eternally destroyed:
Revelation 18:4 NIV
4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;
Joseph Prince is always trying to deceive people into thinking that though the God of the Old Covenant judges,
because of the cross,
the God of the New Covenant can never judge and punish.
By teaching that, he is going head-on against the scriptures.
The Bible not only begins with the judgement of Adam and Eve in the Old Covenant in Genesis,
but it also ends with God’s judgement in the New Covenant in Revelation.
The Book of Revelation was written after the cross and under the New Covenant and is a book that is full of God’s judgements.
Even at the end of Revelation, God is still judging believers, not just unbelievers.
God warns that anyone who contravenes what is written in Revelation 22:18-19, the last chapter and the last few verses of Revelation,
would be severely judged:
Revelation 22:18-19 NIV
18 “I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. 19 And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.”
This warning of judgement applies only to the saved, for only a saved person will hear the words of this prophecy.
Will the unsaved take the trouble to hear or read the Book of Revelation?
Why should they?
Even if they do, they won’t understand much of what they read.
Besides, only the saved could have taken away from him his share in the tree of life and the holy city.
This warning is certainly not for the unsaved.
How could something which the unsaved do not even possess (the share in the tree of life and the holy city)
be taken away from them in the first place?
Before God could take away his share of the tree of life, he must first have had a share in it in the first place.
How could something be taken away from them if they don’t own it in the first place?
This is logic 101.
Hence, Revelation 22:18-19 is a warning to believers that they will come under God’s severe judgement
if they mess around with what is written in Revelation.
The book of Revelation was written for the church to prepare them for the persecution of the end times.
John starts with Revelation 1:11 by stating the fact that it was written to the seven churches in Asia:
Revelation 1:11 NIV
11 which said: “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
Then John ends with Revelation 22:16 by reinforcing the idea that he was writing Revelation for the sake of the churches:
Revelation 22:16 NLT
16 “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this message for the churches. I am both the source of David and the heir to his throne. I am the bright morning star.”
Hence, the whole Book of Revelation was written to the church and for the church
to prepare believers to endure the end time persecution and not to take the mark of the beast and deny Christ
so as to prevent them from falling under the same judgements as the unbelievers would.
So, God has not ceased to judge whether believers are under the Old Covenant or the New.
Finally, the dreadful sin that Joseph Prince has committed is that he is not only accusing several of the Old Covenant prophets of being false prophets,
but he is also accusing the Apostles Peter, Paul and John, as well as the Lord Jesus Himself,
who spoke about God’s judgement under the New Covenant for being false prophets.
Being a false prophet is already depraving enough.
But it is even more reprehensible for a false prophet such as Joseph Prince
to accuse the true prophets of God of being false.
By far, the most appalling act of Joseph Prince is for him to accuse the Lord Jesus, who is God Himself, of being a false prophet;
as he had stated that one who prophesies judgment (as Jesus did in Luke 19:42-44 and His prophecy came true in AD 70) in the New Covenant is a false prophet.
If Joseph Prince even dares to accuse the Lord Jesus of being a false prophet,
how can he claim to love Jesus,
and how can he not be a heretic and a wolf in sheepskin?
Rev George Ong
Joseph Prince is exposed by Derek Prince 4 times as a false prophet & for preaching counterfeit faith – By Rev George Ong
Appeared in this article
This fact alone – that he wilfully disobeyed the Great Commission of Christ, the most important heartbeat of Jesus, and preached his own false grace gospel that is without discipleship and repentance – is enough to nail Joseph Prince down as a heretic.
Appendix 1:
Salvation and discipleship cannot really be separated.
Appendix 2:
Joseph Prince’s argument from silence – that discipleship has faded off the scene in the epistles is demolished.
John MacArthur:
I strongly disagree with John MacArthur’s extreme view against the Charismatics and his Pre-trib position.
But as our views happen to be similar, I strongly agree with John MacArthur’s (whose views are featured in this article) stand that Jesus must be received as both Saviour and Lord, and that salvation and discipleship cannot really be separated.
More than that, I take my hat off to John MacArthur for having the guts to fiercely confront and denounce heretics and false teachers by name, that many have no courage to.
If you have missed the powerful testimony of Aaron Khoo, who was an Ex New Creation Church member for 11 years (2008-2019) that was featured in the last update,
kindly click on the link below;
Joseph Prince didn’t preach last Sunday (19 Mar 2023) again; for 3 straight Sundays.
(This article was also sent to Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) office, and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.)
the 3 videos on Joseph Prince and 4 videos on Derek Prince.
Joseph Prince is exposed by Derek Prince 4 times as a false prophet & for preaching counterfeit faith:
1. Joseph Prince’s blatant disobedience to Christ’s command to make disciples (Matt 28:18-20) means that his congregation and those who are influenced by his teachings aren’t disciples;
and according to Derek Prince (which is featured later in a video), since they aren’t disciples, they aren’t Christians.
In a 30-second video, Joseph Prince said;
“I want to drop a bombshell here. Is it okay? Alright.
I want to drop a bombshell, right now.
The word disciple or discipleship is never mentioned, never after the book of Acts.
Paul never wrote about it.
All the authors of the epistles of the New Testament, in all the epistles of the New Testament, you cannot find one word, ‘disciple’.
It ended in the Book of Acts.”
Joseph Prince’s argument from silence about ‘disciple’ or ‘discipleship’ that he thought (in the way he has expressed it) it was brilliant,
is so amateurish and substandard that it can be so easily demolished. Please see Appendix 2 at the end of this article.
Aaron Khoo, an Ex New Creation Church member for 11 years (2008-2019), wrote;
“Discipleship is never emphasized at all at New Creation Church.
How can that be?
It was the Lord Jesus who gave the Church the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations in Matthew 28:18-20.
The Commandment of Christ is not merely to win souls, but to make disciples.
I, personally, have not heard Pastor Joseph Prince preach on the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20
even once in my entire time at New Creation Church.
Pastor Prince, by not preaching on the Great Commission and not carrying out his responsibilities to make disciples,
is simply disobeying Christ.
For a preacher like Pastor Prince to disobey Christ on such a crucial commandment as the Great Commission,
makes all his claims that he is preaching the Jesus of the Bible and that he loves Jesus hollow, self-contradictory and even hypocritical.
Any preacher who loves Jesus and claims to preach the true Christ
will never disobey Him on such an important commandment in the Great Commission that He calls the Church to carry out.”
Joseph Prince clearly teaches (in his other sermons too) against discipleship of the Jesus’ kind.
That’s why, till today, he has continued to defiantly disobey the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus to make disciples
in order to preach his own Grace Revolution gospel.
This fact alone
– that he wilfully disobeyed the Great Commission of Christ, the most important heartbeat of Jesus,
and preached his own false grace gospel that is without discipleship and repentance
– is enough to nail Joseph Prince down as a heretic.
Disciples and Christians are the same person.
A disciple is a Christian and a Christian is a disciple.
There is no distinction between a disciple and a Christian.
In ‘The Gospel According to Jesus’ by John MacArthur, he wrote;
“Jesus’ Great Commission in Matthew 28:18–20 does not talk about making believers in distinction to disciples.
“Make disciples … baptizing them” implies that every new believer is a disciple,
for all Christians are to be baptized (Acts 2:38),
not just those who go on to some deeper level of commitment.”
In a 2-minute video, Derek Prince said;
“The thing that Jesus did not say is,
‘Go and make church members.’
Most of us, honestly, that’s the way we think. ‘Well, we’ve got 8,000 members in our church.’
How many disciples do we have? ‘Well, maybe 23.’
You think I’m not serious. Well, I’ll show you what He says.
Acts 11:26, “… And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.”
In other words, the word ‘Christian’ only occurs three times in the New Testament. That’s one of its uses.
What kind of people were called Christians?
Disciples.
That’s right.
So those who are not disciples,
have no right to call themselves Christians.
No Biblical right.
So, Jesus said, ‘Go and make disciples…’
And the problem is that we have not kept His commandments.
There have been wonderful exceptions.
I’ll tell you the problem about making church members who are not disciples.
Number one, they give the world a false picture of what Christianity is.
How many times have you heard people say, ‘Well, if that’s what Christianity is, I don’t want to be part of it.’
I wouldn’t either.
But it isn’t what Christianity is.
The demonstration of Christianity is disciples.
In Acts 11:26, just the last sentence in that verse, ‘… And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.’
Who were called Christians?
Disciples.
And who has a right to be called Christian?
Disciples.
And no one else has a scriptural right.
We can use the title, but it doesn’t belong.
It’s only disciples who have the right to be called Christians.”
Derek Prince makes the point
that only disciples have the right to call themselves Christians.
Joseph Prince,
who doesn’t make disciples because he doesn’t believe in the Great Commission of the Lord Jesus in Matthew 28:18-20,
means big portions of his congregation aren’t Christians at all.
This is serious.
If they aren’t Christians at all, how could they have saving faith?
Yet, Joseph Prince keeps boasting of the many souls who were brought to Christ through his Grace Revolution gospel,
just because he asked them to accept Christ or invite Jesus into their lives as their personal Saviour.
In ‘The Gospel According to Jesus’ by John MacArthur’, he wrote;
“It may surprise you to learn that Scripture never once exhorts sinners to “accept Christ.”
The familiar twentieth-century evangelistic appeal in all its variations (“make a decision for Christ”; “ask Jesus into your heart”; “try Jesus”; “accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior”),
violates both the spirit and the terminology of the biblical summons to unbelievers.
The gospel invitation is not an entreaty for sinners to allow the Savior into their lives.
It is both an appeal and a command for them to repent and follow him.
It demands not just passive acceptance of Christ but active submission to him as well.”
“The great miracle of redemption is not that we accept Christ, but that he accepts us.”
In ‘The Gospel According to Jesus’ by John MacArthur’, he wrote;
“Listen to today’s typical gospel presentation.
You will hear sinners entreated with such phrases as “accept Jesus Christ as personal Savior”; “ask Jesus into your heart”; “invite Christ into your life”; or “make a decision for Christ.”
You may be so accustomed to hearing those phrases
that it will surprise you to learn that none of them is based on biblical terminology.
They are the products of a diluted gospel.
It is not the gospel according to Jesus.
The gospel Jesus proclaimed was a call to discipleship,
a call to follow him in submissive obedience,
not just a plea to make a decision or pray a prayer.”
“Our Lord’s words about eternal life were invariably accompanied by warnings to those who might be tempted to take salvation lightly.
He taught that the cost of following him is high, that the way is narrow and few find it.
He said many who call him Lord will be forbidden from entering the kingdom of heaven (cf. Matt. 7:13-23).
Present-day evangelicalism, by and large, ignores those warnings.”
“It (true gospel) was in every sense good news,
yet it was anything but easy-believism.”
Joseph Prince’s easy-believism that salvation also automatically include blessings such as
the immense wealth of Abraham,
the perfect health of Jesus,
success in your careers,
protection from danger,
long life to enjoy,
youthful looks,
nice appearance,
and most importantly,
a gospel that takes repentance and discipleship out of the gospel
is a false gospel that would not produce true converts.
So, you must never believe Joseph Prince’s claim that he has won thousands of souls to Christ.
If they aren’t disciples who aren’t Christians, they do not possess saving faith in the first place.
In ‘The Gospel According to Jesus’ by John MacArthur, he said;
“The gospel according to Jesus stands in stark contrast.
Our Lord frequently chased the most enthusiastic inquirers away.
We have already studied his challenge to the rich young ruler.
That was no isolated episode in his evangelistic ministry.
Luke 9:57-62, for example, relates how Jesus ran off three other hot prospects.
Think also of the crowds that followed Jesus during the early days of his ministry.
Why did so many of them turn away (cf. John 6:66)?
Because Jesus repeatedly made difficult demands.
He commanded those who sought eternal life to deny themselves, forsake all, and follow him.
He never held forth the hope of salvation to anyone who refused to submit to his sovereign lordship.
His words to the multitudes in Mark 8:34-37 could hardly have been more straightforward:
“If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life shall lose it; and whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s shall save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? For what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?”
Some have tried to soften that demand by interpreting it as a call for saved people to take a further step of commitment.
But similar words from the Lord in John 12:24-25 make his meaning unmistakable.
The subject here is explicitly eternal life and salvation:
“Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it; and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal” (emphasis added).
Forsaking oneself for Christ’s sake is not an optional step of discipleship subsequent to conversion;
it is the sine qua non (indispensable condition) of saving faith.”
John MacArthur has rightfully argued that salvation and discipleship are closely related and cannot be separated.
This will be explored in greater detail under Appendix 1.
2. Joseph Prince isn’t a follower of Christ, as he teaches against denying ourselves and taking up our cross as requirements for discipleship that are taught by none other than the Lord Jesus Himself.
In a 1-minute video, Joseph Prince said;
“Look at Jesus’ thoughts – is He comfortable?
He turned around, He turned around, He turned to the multitudes and said,
‘If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and his own life also, cannot be My disciple. Whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.’ (Lk 14:26-27)
‘So, likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.’ (Lk 14:33)
And the context I’ve just shown you, I took pains to show you the context, it is actually Jesus, not comfortable at all in this world of men.
And then turned around and said,
‘If you want to see me as a pattern, you want me as an example, do what I did – give up everything.
I gave up heaven to come to buy that pearl of great price, that treasure hidden in the field.
Can you do it?’
And we take this whole thing and say,
‘This is what we must learn to do, count the cost.’”
I dare say that no commentator worth his salt in all of history
has interpreted it the way that Joseph Prince has done.
Joseph Prince had grossly twisted the words of Jesus in Luke 14:26-27, 33
– that Jesus didn’t mean what He said about taking up the cross and giving up everything in order to qualify to be His disciples.
Do you think Jesus would do such a thing in Luke 14:26-37, 33 as Joseph Prince has painted?
The truth is, when Jesus laid down the costs of discipleship about taking up the cross, He was absolutely sincere about His intention.
But Joseph Prince had to twist the words of Jesus in Luke 14:26-27, 33
as he himself doesn’t believe in self-denial and taking up the cross before one can follow Jesus.
This is outrageous! In my 56 years as a Christian, this is the first time I have ever heard Luke 14:25-26, 33
being interpreted in that twisted way that Joseph Prince had done.
Prince is clearly saying that Luke 14:26-27, 33 is not teaching that we must count the cost of discipleship.
Therefore, he is implying that Jesus wasn’t sincere about what He said, or Jesus didn’t mean what He said in Luke 14:26-27, 33.
The truth is, when Jesus laid down the cost of discipleship in this passage, He was absolutely sincere about His intention.
Just imagine! Even Jesus’ real intention for teaching on the cost of discipleship was not spared
and had to be twisted by Joseph Prince to fit his perverse grace theology.
Why is Joseph Prince against costly discipleship?
He is against the costly discipleship that Jesus teaches
because it threatens the very foundations of his cheap grace theology.
Joseph Prince’s cheap grace theology of
no-repentance,
no-guilt,
no-obedience,
no-discipleship,
no-cost-of-Christianity,
no-self-denial,
no-taking up the cross,
no-sacrifice,
no-suffering,
no-martyrdom,
no-law,
no-effort,
no-works,
no-fasting,
no-more-commandments-to-obey,
no-more-fear-of-God,
no-more-anger-from-God,
no-more-punishment-from-God,
no-more-judgement-from-God,
no-sanctification-for-salvation,
no-more-pleasing-and-loving God,
no-more-examination-of-self,
no-more-sins-to-confess,
no-more-conviction-of-sin-from-the-Holy-Spirit,
no-more-guilt-to-bother-you-with,
just-enjoy-the-love-and-the-grace-of-God
feel-good grace teaching and easy Christianity,
is in total contradiction with and irreconcilable with
the tough demands and the costly discipleship that Jesus teaches.
Now, you know why multitudes of carnal people are attracted to Joseph Prince’s teachings?
This is because most carnal people are easily drawn to easy-believism and the feel-good religion of Joseph Prince,
but they would be put off by the tough demands and the costly discipleship of the Lord Jesus.
This is why Joseph Prince never preached on self-denial and taking up our cross in his grace doctrines.
Aaron Khoo, an Ex New Creation Church member for 11 years (2008-2019), wrote;
“To deny yourself and take up the cross, which are part and parcel of discipleship
that was emphasised by Christ Jesus Himself in the gospels,
was also never preached by Pastor Prince.
If that is so, why does Pastor Prince keep it saying from the pulpit
that he is preaching what Jesus preaches?
He isn’t!”
In a 2-minute video, Derek Prince said;
“See, this is not some special version of Christianity.
It’s just returning to the original version.
In Matthew 16:24-25, Jesus said to His disciples,
‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.’
To me, the simplest definition of a Christian
is someone who follows Jesus.
But there are two preconditions.
You cannot follow Jesus until you’ve done two things,
which are, deny yourself, take up your cross.
You can try to follow Jesus, but you can’t do it.
He’s ruled it out. It’s impossible.
So, every one of us has got to do two things.
Deny ourselves. Take up our cross.
What is your cross?
Somebody gave this definition – ‘Your cross is where God’s will and your will cross.’
You cannot follow Jesus doing your own will.
It’s impossible.
Deny yourself and take up your cross.
The cross is the place of execution.
I coined a little phrase, ‘God’s solution is execution.’
And that’s where you and I have to come.
A place of execution, where we deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Jesus to the place of execution.
After that, we can follow.
You say, ‘Well, Brother Prince, that’s very radical.’
It is, but so is the New Testament.
It’s a radical book.
Christianity is a radical religion.
And I don’t believe we’ll survive in the pressures that confront us now unless we are radical.
God is looking for fanatics of the right kind.
Somebody defined a fanatic as somebody who loves Jesus more than you do.”
Derek Prince has clearly said that according to the scripture in Matthew 16:24-25; before we can follow Jesus (and be His disciples),
we have to deny ourselves and take up our cross.
Going by what Derek Prince said,
Joseph Prince isn’t a follower or a disciple of Christ,
as he teaches against the denying of oneself and taking up the cross.
If Joseph Prince isn’t a follower of Christ or Christ’s disciple, how could he be a true believer in the first place?
3. Joseph Prince doesn’t preach on suffering and persecution but only promises the good things of life, such as success, prosperity, healthy bodies, youthful looks and escape from tribulation;
and according to Derek Prince (which is featured later in a video), such a preacher is a false prophet.
Aaron Khoo, an Ex New Creation Church member for 11 years (2008-2019), wrote;
“No sermon on persecution, suffering, holiness, or sanctification
was ever preached by Pastor Joseph Prince in my 11 years at New Creation Church at all.”
“Instead of suffering and persecution, what I often hear from Pastor Prince is the church’s motto:
‘Richly Blessed, Deeply Loved, Highly Favored.’
This is not wrong in and of itself, but it gives a false impression of Christianity
that it is only about being blessed, and that Christianity has no suffering and persecution.”
In a 1-minute video, Derek Prince said;
“The next category is those who are unwilling to face the possibility of suffering or persecution.
Sooner or later, they are bound to be deceived
because the Bible warns us so clearly, we must expect to face suffering and persecution.
Peter says in his first epistle, chapter 4, verses 1 and 2,
‘Because Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same mind.’
In other words, be prepared for suffering.
My comment on that is that a large number of God’s people today are being sent out unarmed.
They haven’t seen this fact that suffering happens.
It’s part of the Christian life.
It’s part of God’s way of dealing with us.
And anybody who only promises good,
I can say without qualification, is a false prophet.
According to Derek Prince, anyone who only preaches the good things of life, and not about suffering and persecution,
is certainly a false prophet.
Since Joseph Prince is such a preacher,
he is undoubtedly a false prophet.
4. Joseph Prince outrightly preaches a no-repentance gospel; and according to Derek Prince (which is featured later in a video), such a person is preaching a false gospel and promoting counterfeit faith.
In a 30-second video, Joseph Prince said;
“Have you noticed that Paul’s preaching
is complete, unqualified.
‘Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins.’ (Acts 13:38)
He (Paul) didn’t say, ‘If you repent,
if you feel sorry for your sins, if you really want to turn around, turn a new leaf.’
You know, he didn’t say, there is no qualifying remark.
He was preaching to the Jewish people and some of them were gentiles there as well.
And he said to them, ‘Through this man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins to be believed upon.’ (Acts 13:38-39)
Just for them to believe…”
Joseph Prince has told a blatant lie against the Apostle Paul and God’s holy word!
The following passages will prove that Paul never preached a just-believing and no-repentance gospel:
Acts 17:30 NIV
30 (Paul said) In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
Acts 20:21 NIV
21 I (Paul) have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
Acts 26:19-20 MEV
19 “Therefore, King Agrippa, I (Paul) was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, 20 but declared first to those at Damascus, then at Jerusalem and throughout all the region of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works proving their repentance.”
Paul specifically mentioned that repentance is a command of God (Acts 17:30), and that besides faith in God, repentance is necessary for salvation (Acts 20:21).
He further stressed that repentance must be proven by works (Acts 26:19-20), contradicting Joseph Prince’s doctrine that repentance is only a change of mind.
Besides Paul, the Apostle Peter, John the Baptist and the Lord Jesus Himself, all preached on the requirement of repentance, (besides belief or faith) for true salvation.
In a 2-and-half-minute video, Derek Prince said;
“And then Jesus in Luke 24 when He commissioned His apostles right after His resurrection.
Luke 24:46-47. He said to them (the apostles)
‘Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for Christ (the Messiah) to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in His name.’
I find that there is an order in the presentation: judgement, repentance, forgiveness, and then faith.
Faith that is not associated with or proceed out of repentance
is a counterfeit faith.
It is not the faith of the New Testament.
From the very first presentation of the gospel,
the message was repent.
Actually, in Matthew 4:17, that’s the only word Jesus preached.
One word, a one-word message.
He said, ‘Repent.’
Mark quotes it: ‘Repent and believe the gospel.’
But there is no true believing the gospel
apart from repentance.
It’s a counterfeit.
It’s not real faith.
And it produces counterfeit fruit.
And that’s why our churches are filled with people who don’t live like real Christians.
You know why?
Because they don’t have real faith.
They have a counterfeit, a substitute faith, which has by passed repentance.
You cannot find anywhere in the New Testament, starting from Matthew and ending up in Revelation,
where faith is offered apart from repentance.
It’s a false gospel and many are preaching it.
Anyone who is a genuine prophet today
must emphasise the word ‘repent’.
Because the condition of the world and the condition of the Church absolutely demand repentance.
You can speak entertaining words.
You can come up with nice prophecies about people’s future.
But if there’s no call for repentance,
I question whether that person is a true prophet.”
According to Derek Prince, anyone, who preaches a no-repentance gospel
is preaching the false gospel and counterfeit faith, and he cannot be a true prophet of God.
This means Joseph Prince who also preaches a no-repentance gospel is preaching a false gospel and counterfeit faith (and producing counterfeit fruit);
and a false gospel and counterfeit faith are unlikely to lead one to the true saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
Hence, it doesn’t take a genius to conclude that many of Joseph Prince’s converts are false converts.
Rev George Ong
Appendix 1
Salvation and discipleship cannot really be separated.
1. It is almost impossible to make a distinction between salvation and discipleship as the Great Commission of Jesus in Matthew 28:19-20 testifies:
Matthew 28:19-20 NIV
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…
The call to discipleship – ‘make disciples’
is also the same call to faith – ‘baptizing them’.
Another way of putting this across is that since the main verb is ‘make disciples’
while the subsidiary one is ‘baptizing them’,
this means we make disciples by baptizing them.
This indicates that salvation includes discipleship or discipleship is an integral part of salvation.
Salvation and discipleship come in the same package.
One cannot choose one and reject the other.
Concomitantly, it is also not possible for one to say that he wants to believe in Christ to obtain salvation
but he’s not willing to be a disciple.
In other words, one who has true saving faith
is also one who embraces discipleship.
Though discipleship does not produce salvation,
one cannot be saved without embracing it.
Though discipleship does not contribute to salvation,
it is a non-negotiable and concomitant by-product of salvation.
This means that while one is saved by faith in Christ,
no one can be a true believer without being a disciple of Christ.
Also, in the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20, Jesus did not command the Church to make believers who later may become disciples as if they are 2 different persons.
But He called her to make disciples because they are the same as believers.
Making disciples is the same call to make believers or Christians who are disciples.
The call to be disciples is the same as the call to be Christians or Believers.
Hence, it is untenable for Joseph Prince to argue that one can be a believer or Christian without being a disciple;
or worse, discipleship has faded off the scene because it is not mentioned in the epistles (this is covered under Appendix 2).
Yet, today, there are many teachers out there who teach that a disciple and a believer or Christian are two different persons.
They teach that a believer or Christian is saved by faith in Jesus, but is not ready or even willing to be a disciple.
On the other hand, a disciple is a believer who is committed to a greater loyalty and devotion to Christ.
This means that while every disciple is a believer, not every believer is a disciple.
This is unbiblical!
Does Jesus offer 2 different levels of commitment: one for believers or Christians and another for disciples?
Does Jesus offer two different sets of demands – one relatively easy and less demanding to a mere believer, and another more exacting and costly for a committed disciple?
One is for salvation while the other, which is optional, is for discipleship?
Evidence from the scriptures, especially that which is given in the next point, Point 2, points to the contrary.
2. The call to be disciples is issued by Jesus to unbelievers, not believers – Luke 14:25-27, 33.
The life of a Christian is no different from the life of a disciple.
The call that Jesus issues for discipleship is the same call to faith.
Jesus’ call to be disciples is the same call to be saved:
Luke 14:25-27, 33 NIV
25 “Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” 33 “In the same way,
those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.”
The large crowds that Jesus was speaking to in Luke 14:25 about the possibility of becoming His disciples were unbelievers or believers?
They were all unbelievers!
Jesus was laying down His conditions to unbelievers, not believers, before they could be accepted by Him to become His disciples.
Jesus was not asking believers, who are more fervent or more committed to consider themselves to be His disciples.
Jesus was asking unbelievers to consider themselves to be His disciples by being willing to carry the cross and give up everything, including their own lives in Luke 14:26-27, 33.
In other words, the call to be a Christian is the same as the call to be a disciple.
There is no such thing as I want to be a Christian, but I am not ready to be a disciple.
If one rejects the call to be a disciple, one also rejects the call to be a Christian.
If one rejects the call to discipleship, he also rejects the call to salvation.
If a so-called Christian is unwilling to be a disciple of Christ, then he isn’t a believer to begin with.
If one isn’t a disciple (Joseph Prince teaches against discipleship), then he isn’t saved to begin with.
So how can Joseph Prince who rejects the call to discipleship in the Great Commission of Jesus (Matt 28:18-20)
be a believer in Christ?
So do not fall into the deception of Joseph Prince
that you can be a Christian without being a disciple of Jesus by denying yourself and taking up the cross.
That is just one of the many reasons why I have concluded that Joseph Prince is a wolf in sheepskin.
This is because Prince’s heretical teaching of salvation can, indeed, lead people to hell.
Multitudes have been deceived by Prince into thinking they are saved when they aren’t.
They are being deceived by Prince into believing that they can be Christians or believers without being disciples of Christ.
A disciple and a Christian are the same person; they are not two different persons.
“Discipleship is not advanced Christianity but the essence of being a Christian.” (George Ong)
3. The paradox that salvation is not just free but costly (costly discipleship) at the same time.
For unbelievers to qualify to be saved as Christ’s disciples, they must be willing to give up everything.
The oft-repeated statement we have heard so often that salvation is free is only half the truth; the whole truth is – salvation is both free and costly.
Salvation is free because it cannot be earned by works, and it cannot be purchased with money because it’s all about what Christ has done for us on the cross.
But it is costly because it is only given to those who meet the condition of being disciples of Christ, who are committed to obeying Christ’s commandments and embraces Him as Lord.
The free gift of salvation can ironically be the costliest as it requires nothing less than the giving up of everything, even your own life for the sake of Christ (Lk 14:26-27,33).
The great deception is for people to think that they can enjoy the benefits of being a Christian without the costs of a disciple.
Becoming a new member in God’s kingdom will cost you nothing (Eph 2:8); remaining a life member in the same kingdom will cost you everything (Lk 14:26-27, 33).
Many preachers would readily preach on the one half of the truth that salvation is free, but few would dare to preach on the other half of it that salvation is at the same time costly.
“The Church has been deceived for too long that just because our salvation has cost Christ everything, it wouldn’t cost us anything.” (George Ong)
“The cost of salvation is high to the one who achieves it – Jesus; but to the one who receives it – Us – it is nowhere any lower as it may even involve the giving up of our lives for the sake of Christ.” (Lk 14:26-27, 33) (George Ong)
Jesus said it in such a clear and stark fashion that no one can misunderstand Him:
“If anyone does not give up his own life (Lk 14:26), does not carry his own cross (Lk 14:27), and does not give up everything (Lk 14:33), he cannot be my disciple.”
Luke 14:25-27,33 NIV
25 “Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters – yes, even their own life – such a person cannot be my disciple. 27 And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” 33 “In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.”
Joseph Prince may say to George:
“George, here you go again. You are clearly an unrepentant, negative preacher. You sure thrive on negativism.
Don’t you have something more positive to say – other than stressing on those negative words: ‘Cannot, Cannot, Cannot’ – and you sure know how to rub salt into the wounds by highlighting them in red lettering and underlining them some more?
You have the special gift of loading people with burdens that are too heavy for them to carry. You have the talent of demanding commitments from people that are impossible to accomplish. You are doing exactly what the Pharisees have done! In fact, you qualify to be the Chief Pharisee!”
George would say to Joseph Prince:
“Hello Joseph, you are barking up the wrong tree again. You are falsely accusing me again.
But what is worse is that you are accusing Jesus of placing ‘unreasonable’ demands that are too burdensome for people to carry.
Don’t you know it was Jesus who said those ‘negative’ words, ‘Cannot, Cannot, Cannot’ in Luke 14:26-27, 33?
I thought you are the Super Christ-centred preacher. You keep boasting about the fact that you talk so much about Christ in your sermons.
But what happened?
How can you be Christ-centred when you are criticising Christ for His no-nonsense and exacting approach to discipleship?
How can you be Christ-centred when you disagree with Him on the use of ‘negative’ words, ‘Cannot, Cannot, Cannot’?
And by the way, you are fiercely teaching against the cost of discipleship, which is a cornerstone of Christ’s teachings.
So how can you be Christ-centred when you are teaching against His core teachings?
Jesus Himself repeated three times in a few short verses: ‘Cannot, Cannot, Cannot’.
If Jesus says, ‘Cannot’, it means Cannot lah! Period!
If you cannot even agree with Jesus’ simple instructions, and have to go head-on against what He taught, how can you ever be Christ-centred?
You are so deceptive that you have succeeded in deceiving the multitudes that you are Christ-centred when the truth is that you are such an ego-centric man who is prepared to go against and sacrifice the words of Christ in the word of God for the sake of your pseudo-grace theology.”
Jesus said that you cannot be His disciple if you are not committed to doing those things that are mentioned in Luke 14:26-27, 33.
This simply means if you are not willing to give up everything, including your own life, you are not His disciple because Jesus said, ‘You cannot’.
Even though you can declare to the whole world that you are a disciple, if you haven’t met the requirements or demands of Jesus that are clearly stated in these few verses in Luke 14:26-27, 33, you cannot be a disciple of Christ, and you are not His disciple.
That’s not what I say; that’s what Jesus said.
If Jesus says, ‘Cannot’, it means Cannot!
Is that simple and plain enough?
There would be preachers who would give in to the temptation of trying to play down the ‘harsh’ demands of Jesus.
They may say,
“Jesus didn’t really mean what he said in Luke 14:26-27, 33. What he meant is that you just try to give up everything. And even if you can’t eventually give up everything, He will understand. Jesus is very understanding even if we don’t meet the discipleship demands that He has clearly laid out for us.”
But that’s merely twisting scripture for the sake of pleasing the flesh.
Joseph Prince would say something far worse:
“That’s being legalistic. Don’t ever allow Pharisaism to make a comeback in the church. That’s an insult to the finished work of the cross.
That’s nothing but trying to earn your salvation by works, and those who insist on going that way would have a double-curse (Gal 1:8-9) being invoked on their lives.”
4. Meeting the conditions of salvation and discipleship does not mean that we have worked for our salvation.
Whenever we stress the cost of discipleship that Christ Himself has laid down for us,
Joseph Prince will never fail to throw his comeback argument at us – that we are earning our salvation by works.
But we need to understand that while salvation by grace through faith is free, it is not unconditional.
Just because no one can earn his salvation, doesn’t mean there are no conditions that are attached to it.
Imagine someone makes an offer of free diamonds
with the condition that they have to be collected between 1-2 pm on a Monday.
If one has obeyed the condition of collecting them at the stipulated time,
are the diamonds still free?
Of course, they are.
Has one earned the free gift of diamonds?
No, he hasn’t.
Has one worked for the free gift of diamonds just because one has met the condition to collect it at the stipulated time,
which Joseph Prince and his gang would want to deceptively accuse us of?
Of course, the answer is no.
In the same way, meeting the conditions of salvation – Christ’s costly discipleship
doesn’t mean that one has earned the free gift of salvation by his works.
But if one doesn’t obey the condition to collect the free gift of diamonds at the stipulated time,
the diamonds are not his to claim, even though they are totally free.
Similarly, if one doesn’t meet the condition of salvation – Christ’s costly discipleship,
the salvation that one claims to possess is only a delusion.
5. The giving up of everything to Christ is the mere recognition that Jesus is not just our Saviour but the Lord of our lives.
Let’s come back to the conditions that Christ has laid down for us in Luke 14:26-27, 33.
Jesus was always making it difficult for people to become His disciples; it is the modern church that has made it far too easy.
I know this is a tough message. But Jesus never sugarcoated His tough demands on us.
Jesus makes radical demands on us not to make us miserable.
It is for our sake and our good that He makes such tough demands on us.
Because He is the one who created us, He knows that our true fulfillment comes when we learn to release everything to Him.
But if we have not reached the point where we are ready to give up everything and be committed to doing all the things that are mentioned in Luke 14:26-27, 33, we cannot be disciples of Christ and we cannot call ourselves Christians.
Luke 14:25-27, 33 is merely stating a basic theology that we must all hold on to
– that Jesus must be accepted not only as Saviour but more importantly as Lord.
As Lord, He must have total control over our lives: over our money, our possessions, our parents, our spouses, our children, and even our lives.
And unless we are ready to give up everything and the dearest to our lives, Jesus is not Lord at all.
And if Jesus is not Lord, He is not our Saviour.
“It costs you nothing to receive Jesus as Saviour, but it will cost you everything to receive Him as Lord.” (George Ong)
But sadly, that’s not what is taught in many churches.
Many churches teach the wrong doctrine that once you have accepted Jesus as Saviour, you are already saved.
The issue of Lordship comes later, when one is more ready to decide on it.
But even if he eventually does not accept Jesus as Lord, he is still saved.
That is certainly unbiblical!
6. The giving up of everything to Christ is impossible through human efforts but possible through the matchless grace of Christ and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, what Jesus is calling us to give up everything because He is our Lord is absolutely radical; it’s absolutely tough,
but it is not impossible.
Please think with me
– would Jesus ask us to do anything that is impossible?
It may be impossible for the flesh,
but it is absolutely possible through the Spirit.
That is why He has given the Holy Spirit
to empower us to do what seems impossible.
It also doesn’t mean that after we have decided to give up everything and recognise Jesus as Lord, we will not fail Christ.
I guarantee that you and I will fail Him many times.
After we have made that decision to accept Jesus as Lord of our lives by giving up everything, we may have our victories and we may have our failings.
Even though we have failings, it is through our failings that we will learn and grow.
Jesus has never promised that the Christian life would be easy, but He promises His grace (not the false grace of Joseph Prince) that will see us through our struggles and failings.
Yes, we would stumble and fall every now and then.
But the bountiful and matchless grace of God and Christ Himself are sufficient to help us in our failings and weaknesses as we strive to obey Him.
God and Christ Jesus will never abandon us to our own struggles but, with the empowerment of the Spirit, enable us to live the supernatural Christian life in total commitment and absolute obedience to His Lordship and for His glory.
Jesus never promised us a rose-garden Christianity – that every New Covenant believer has the covenantal right to be very rich as Abraham was as Joseph Prince promised in his Prosperity Gospel.
But Christ promised His empowering grace and loving patience that would see us through our difficult and joyous journey to follow and obey Him.
And Jesus is not a hard taskmaster.
While Jesus boldly and unapologetically asked for everything, even our lives, at the same time, he is also the gentle and patient shepherd, who will also allow us to grow through our failings.
We can be rest assured that Jesus certainly knows the difference between one who is insincere and only talks about giving up everything but does not act on it,
and another, who, in the giving up of everything, may fail, but is sincere about learning from and growing through his failures and presses on to be a disciple of Christ.
Christ does not expect perfection from us, but sincerity is all that He requires.
7. The call to discipleship is also the same call to be saved.
Since Jesus issues the call to discipleship in Luke 14:25-27, 33 to unbelievers, and not believers,
it is only logical to conclude that His call to follow Him and be His disciples is also the same call to believe in Him and be saved.
Hence, a disciple and a believer are one and the same person.
It is therefore a fallacy to teach that while every disciple is a believer but not every believer is a disciple.
That a disciple is more committed, whereas a believer does not have to take his Christian walk that seriously, and holiness and devotion become optional.
The truth is, there is no distinction between a disciple and a believer
Discipleship is not a badge of honour for having made it to the next higher level or an optional extra, but the evidence of true saving faith.
Yet, there is this serious false teaching propounded by Joseph Prince – that you can be a Christian without being a disciple.
Appendix 2
Joseph Prince’s argument from silence – that discipleship has faded off the scene in the epistles is demolished.
Joseph Prince is indeed a veteran at using the argument from silence to deceive
– that since ‘disciples’ is no longer mentioned in the epistles, we should not be called disciples as discipleship has faded off the scene.
Let me use the argument from silence back on Joseph Prince.
I’m sure Prince is aware that the word, ‘Trinity’ is not mentioned a single time in the entire Bible.
So, would Prince teach that the concept or theology of the Trinity is never taught in the Bible at all?
Just because the word ‘Trinity’ is not mentioned in the entire Bible doesn’t mean that there is no evidence of the Trinitarian God in it.
On the contrary, the Bible is full of evidence about the Trinitarian God: God, the Father, God, the Son, and God, the Holy Spirit
– so it is with disciples or discipleship.
Does Joseph Prince know that the word ‘church’ is absent from 2 Timothy, Titus, Hebrews, 1 & 2 Peter, 1 & 2 John, and Jude?
So going by Prince’s argument from silence, he would have to argue that the church is absent from these epistles and that they were not written to and for Christians!
Ridiculous, isn’t it?
That cannot be the conclusion, as all these eight books are clearly written both to and about the church, even though the word ‘church’ isn’t mentioned at all in these epistles.
Does Joseph Prince know that the word ‘God’ is not mentioned in the Book of Esther?
Because God is not mentioned in Esther, and going by Prince’s argument from silence, he would have to conclude that God is not there at all in the Book of Esther.
But does Prince or anyone else have the audacity to say that God is not there in Esther?
Is Joseph Prince aware that Jesus never mentioned the word ‘grace’ a single time in the entire Bible?
If he is aware, why doesn’t he go around and spread this piece of ‘juicy news’ to everyone as he did with the word, ‘disciples’?
He wouldn’t dare to, as that may bring about negative perceptions of his Pseudo-grace theology.
And I would be foolish to use that against Joseph Prince’s Pseudo-grace theology.
Though Jesus didn’t use the word ‘grace’ we are well aware that Jesus Himself is the personification of grace (Jn 1:14,17).
Christ’s dealings with many people in the gospels are based on grace (not only grace but also law, as He can be pretty severe in many other instances too).
Just because Jesus never mentioned ‘grace’ in the Bible doesn’t mean He doesn’t show grace or teach grace.
Can you see now where the use of the argument from silence, which Joseph Prince deceptively uses on discipleship, can lead to?
This argument from silence, if consistently applied, leads to an incredibly absurd conclusion.
I am belabouring this issue about the argument from silence because this is one deadly tactic that Joseph Prince uses to deceive and confuse people.
I do use the argument from silence too.
In my opinion, the argument from silence is permitted only if there is already concrete evidence to back up one’s position.
The argument from silence can then be used as complementary evidence to strengthen one’s position.
But it cannot be used, as Joseph Prince has done, as the single and only argument to prove one’s position,
and more so when there are already facts and evidence that point to the contrary.
What’s more is that there are loads of evidence to prove that although the word ‘disciples’ is not mentioned,
costly discipleship of Jesus is alive and kicking in the epistles.
Although Paul and the other apostles didn’t use the word ‘disciples’ in the epistles,
that doesn’t mean they didn’t talk about discipleship.
In fact, their lives (and particularly Paul) throughout the Book of Acts and the epistles
were an excellent example of a self-denying, self-sacrificing and suffering disciple of Christ whose life of costly discipleship
ended up in the glory of martyrdom.
So, just because the word ‘disciples’ doesn’t appear in the epistles doesn’t mean discipleship isn’t evident or important in the epistles.
In fact, these epistles are pulsating with the evidence of costly discipleship.
Aaron Khoo’s Testimony about his 11-Year Journey (2008-2019) with New Creation Church & Derek Prince’s warning for us, and especially Joseph Prince and his followers – By Rev George Ong
Important Notice:
If you have friends, who are Cabinet Ministers in the PAP Government and Members of Parliament of any Political Party, who are Christians, kindly forward it to them.
They need to be aware of the heretical teachings of Joseph Prince that are poisoning the Christian community, not only in Singapore, but also around the world.
Please click here to view the 6-minute video.
Don’t miss Derek Prince’s video at the end of this article.
(This article was also sent to Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) office, and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.)
I, Aaron Khoo (real name), attended New Creation Church for 11 years, from 2008 to 2019.
Let me share with you my journey with New Creation Church and my comments about Pastor Joseph Prince’s grace teachings.
1. We are to revolve around God, not the other way around.
If I were to give a summary of Pastor Joseph Prince’s grace teachings, it is basically the philosophy that God revolves around us.
God is there to meet our needs, answer our prayers, make us successful, bless us with prosperity, heal us when we call on Him, and protect us from every danger.
But fundamentally, Christianity isn’t like that.
Scripturally, we are to revolve around God, not God around us.
Projecting that the God we worship is a God who revolves around us, simply means that once we make our wishes, God, as our Genie, must answer them.
But God is sovereign, and He has His own sovereign will and purposes.
Hence, the main thing is total submission to God and not the believer asserting his will upon God.
For if we do that, we have become God, and God has become our servant to serve us; and making God our servant and our Genie, who is at our beck and call to serve our human agendas, is not Christianity but a heresy.
While it is true that God would take care of us and provide for our needs, we are not the center, God is.
2. Pastor Joseph Prince has no fear of God.
The fear of God is a major teaching in the scriptures, and yet, I never once heard Pastor Prince preach a whole sermon on the importance of fearing God.
Not to teach on the fear of God in the believer’s relationship with God is dangerous because God has many facets, for example, God is merciful but He is also judgemental.
That the fear of God has not been taught from the pulpit in New Creation Church, means that Pastor Prince and all his subordinate Pastors have neglected this very essential aspect of the whole counsel of God.
I noticed that many worshippers in New Creation Church arrived late for Sunday worship – this is one of the many evidences of not giving God the honour and reverence due His name. And very little effort is made to correct this bad habit.
3. Highlight the association with government ministers & Members of Parliament at special events.
There is a tendency for New Creation Church to make a big deal about church events, especially when it comes to the attendance of the Singapore Government ministers and Members of Parliament, at such events.
New Creation Church through the Pastors, have been observed to take special effort to particularly highlight these events in the worship services for the attention of all.
To advertise and publicise such charitable works, involving government ministers, what is the intention of doing so?
In the previous church that I came from, we did charitable works without publicity.
4. No uniqueness in the preaching of New Creation Church Pastors.
When Joseph Prince isn’t preaching, some pastors are assigned to speak.
The trouble is, these pastors preach, more or less, the same things as Joseph Prince does; with the same catchphrases and the same train of thought.
There is no uniqueness about each one of them.
God has made us unique, and whether it be preaching or ministry, such uniqueness must not be suppressed but be allowed to shine forth and blossom.
God has not made us to be carbon copies of one another, but to glorify Him through the unique ministry and giftings, and the unique way of expression that he has created us to be.
5. No Accountability on Pastor Joseph Prince’s preaching ministry.
Many of the New Creation Church Pastors have the tendency to sing the praises of Pastor Prince when they preach, make announcements, or read out testimonies.
While there is a place to affirm what the Senior Pastor does and preach once in a while in any church, the way that this is done in New Creation Church is way out of proportion.
It is like these Pastors are competing to see who can give Pastor Prince the highest accolades.
Perhaps, it is their job security that is motivating them to do it this way – to toe the line of the Senior Pastor at all costs.
But by doing that, they are dangerously putting Pastor Prince further on a pedestal and making him proud, and this may well result in his downfall.
It is time to stop pointing people to man but to God and God alone.
Furthermore, with such Pastors who constantly sing praises of him, Pastor Prince has surrounded himself with Yes-men, who wouldn’t dare to correct him.
Does anybody dare to correct Pastor Prince?
Does Pastor Prince give permission to his staff to correct him regarding whether he correctly interpreted the many Bible passages regarding his grace doctrines?
And even if he were to give them permission to voice out their opinions, would they dare to say that 1 John 1:9 was wrongly interpreted by him?
In fact, Pastor Prince operates in such a way that no other Pastors can check him and make him account for any wrong doctrines that he is preaching.
This is where the danger lies.
The truth is, Pastor Prince is accountable to no one in the body of Christ regarding the doctrinal aspects of his grace teaching.
He is operating like a lone ranger regarding his grace doctrine, submitting to no one except God.
When any preacher starts saying that he submits only to God, you can tell straightaway that he isn’t a true prophet of God.
6. Using testimonies to give a false impression.
In my years at New Creation Church, I’ve noticed that Pastor Prince has kept using testimonies of prayers answered and people healed; and these are shared frequently during worship services and on his website as proof that he is preaching the right doctrine.
But this is being dishonest, as he has only surfaced the so-called successful cases, which are in the small minority.
As an example, at the beginning of every year, the church will ask the congregation to ask God for 3 wishes.
But the leadership does not check or find out in detail how many people in the entire congregation really had their wishes answered and/or how many are struggling with real issues and challenges because their wishes were not answered.
And when there are a number of wishes answered by the roughly 34,000 (was then 34,000 when I attended), the leadership of New Creation Church will make a big fuss about it by featuring and publicising them as testimonies, giving the false impression that this small number represents the majority.
It is the same with testimonies of healing.
As the saying goes, “You will inspect what you expect.”
But New Creation Church doesn’t.
They only inspect or highlight the so-called successful cases, which represent only a small minority.
But what about the majority whose prayers are not answered and those who are still sick?
7. The Great Commission, discipleship, self-denial and taking up the cross aren’t taught at all.
Discipleship is never emphasized at all at New Creation Church.
How can that be?
It was the Lord Jesus who gave the Church the Great Commission to make disciples of all nations in Matthew 28:18-20.
The Commandment of Christ is not merely to win souls, but to make disciples.
I, personally, have not heard Pastor Joseph Prince preach on the Great Commission in Matthew 28:18-20 even once in my entire time at New Creation Church.
Pastor Prince, by not preaching on the Great Commission and not carrying out his responsibilities to make disciples, is simply disobeying Christ.
For a preacher like Pastor Prince to disobey Christ for such a crucial commandment as the Great Commission, makes all his claims that he is preaching the Jesus of the Bible and that he loves Jesus hollow, self-contradictory and even hypocritical.
Any preacher who loves Jesus and claims to preach the true Christ will never disobey Him on such an important commandment in the Great Commission that He calls the Church to carry out.
To deny yourself and take up the cross, which are part and parcel of discipleship that was emphasised by Christ Jesus Himself in the gospels, was also never preached by Pastor Prince.
If that is so, why does Pastor Prince keep saying on the pulpit that he is preaching what Jesus preaches?
He isn’t!
Because of the dire absence of true discipling of believers, members of New Creation Church are not growing spiritually.
Besides, what is being done in New Creation Church is just one-way traffic, ie, from the pulpit in the teaching of Pastor Prince to the congregation.
This is why I don’t see real fruits in the members, cell group leaders and even Pastors – it is as if life is all about success and a worldly one too – my job, my career, my hopes, my dreams and my business.
8. No sermon on persecution, suffering, holiness, or sanctification was ever preached.
No sermon on persecution, suffering, holiness, or sanctification was ever preached by Pastor Joseph Prince in my 11 years at New Creation Church at all.
This is strange, as these issues were taught extensively in the scriptures.
For example, both Jesus and Paul taught that Christians will go through persecution and suffering (Matt 5:11-12; Rom 8:17; Phil 3:10)
Pastor Prince is clearly not preaching what Jesus and Paul preach and the whole counsel of God’s word.
He is merely teaching those half-truths in the scriptures that support his grace doctrine, while ignoring those big chunks of scriptures that refute it.
And he gets rid of these many passages of scriptures by explaining them away through some fanciful ‘isegesis’, not exegesis, and worse, he preaches against many of them.
By not teaching the congregation about suffering and persecution, there are huge implications.
The Bible clearly teaches that Christians will be faced with tribulations, especially the great tribulation in the end times.
This is taught by none other than Christ Jesus Himself in Matthew 24.
If Christians aren’t prepared for suffering and persecution, and especially the great tribulation, how many will end up denying Christ is up to one’s imagination.
If we deny Christ, then Christ will deny us (Matt 10:33).
If Christ ever denied us, that would be the end of us.
Instead of suffering and persecution, what I often hear from Pastor Prince is the church’s motto:
“Richly Blessed, Deeply Loved, Highly Favored.”
This is not wrong in and of itself, but it gives a false impression of Christianity that it is only about being blessed, and that Christianity has no suffering and persecution.
9. Pastor Prince does not believe in repentance or confession.
In Pastor Prince’s gospel preaching and altar calls, he always and only mentions those who wish to believe in Jesus, can repeat after him to say the sinner’s prayer.
This is going against the grain of scriptures.
Christ Jesus, the Apostle Paul, Peter, and John the Baptist, all preach about the need for repentance (besides believing in Jesus) before one can be saved.
Even Jesus preaches about the need for repentance, not just for unbelievers, but also for believers, especially in His message to the 7 churches in Revelation chapters 2-3.
But Pastor Prince preaches against repentance, as, according to him, there is no sin to repent of, or confess to God, since all sins have been forgiven at the cross.
Furthermore, Pastor Prince preaches that when we sin, or do wrong, we are not to confess our sins, but our righteousness.
To declare that one is righteous although one has sinned is to affirm that sin does not change one’s identity as a righteous saint.
Although this is true, living righteously must invariably include the admission out of a pure conscience that the wrong done, which is sin, affects both the sinner and those who have been sinned against – there cannot be no consequence of sin.
For example, when harm is done to others as a result of our sin, we must apologise to the aggrieved party besides asking God to forgive us.
This has never been emphasised in New Creation Church, which is a necessary requirement of being Christlike, ie, how we treat people.
If a father catches a son stealing, it is only natural for the father to expect the son to confess that he has committed the forbidden act of stealing, say sorry for what he has done, and repent by promising not to commit the wrongdoing again.
Instead of doing that, what if the son starts to confess that his father loves and cares for him, but not a word is mentioned about his confession of his act of stealing and to repent by not doing it again?
Would the father accept it?
Of course not!
Does the father love the child?
Sure, he does.
In the same way, even though our Heavenly Father loves and cares for us, He still requires us to confess our sins and repent from them.
This is because God, as our Heavenly Father, loves us enough to correct us so that we don’t stray into the wrong path.
But this is not what Pastor Prince is teaching.
Let’s be reminded that sin is insidious and has its consequences.
By teaching that there is no need to confess our sins, one becomes immune to sin.
Sooner or later, we can be sinning more and more without being bothered by our God-given conscience because we have been wrongly taught by Pastor Prince to focus on our righteousness when we sin.
What makes it worse is Pastor Prince’s related false teaching that the Holy Spirit does not convict us of sin but only of our righteousness.
What is also unacceptable is that in Pastor Prince’s grace teaching, sin is not the issue but the law, as it causes us to sin.
He further teaches that the Ten Commandments are used by the devil and his demons to tempt us to sin.
This is heretical and blasphemous, as it was none other than God, who was the one to give His people the Ten Commandments.
10. Obedience to God and Christ is not only not preached but spoken against.
Our Lord Jesus has warned that even though people may claim to do miracles in His name, He will still say to these people that He never knew them (Matt 7:22-23).
What’s important is, before Christ could let us into His kingdom, it is our character – our obedience to God (as an expression and evidence of true faith) that really counts:
Matthew 7:21 NASB
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.
Yet our obedience to God is not what Pastor Prince emphasizes.
In fact, he teaches against it.
He says that when we focus on obeying God, we are focusing on ourselves and our efforts.
Pastor Prince is clearly a heretic, as his teaching against obeying God, would mean that those who follow his teaching and live a life of disobedience will not enter God’s kingdom.
Pastor Prince would defend himself by saying that he teaches that those who focus on the obedience of Christ, who died on the cross, will automatically obey Christ and God.
There is nothing automatic about that.
Obedience to God is often taught in the scriptures as a command and an act of our will.
11. Effortless change or effortless Christianity does not exist.
There is no such thing as effortless change or effortless Christianity that Pastor Prince teaches.
On the contrary, the Apostle Paul teaches that we are to work out our salvation with what? – Fear and trembling!
And in many passages in Paul’s letters in the New Testament, he was the one who exhorted us that, by virtue of the fact we belong to Christ, we are to do this and do that; we are to put on this and put off that; we are to avoid this and avoid that.
But just because it takes believers much effort to obey Christ, that does not mean that we are depending on our human efforts, which Pastor Prince has repeatedly and falsely accused us of.
Though Christ is and must be the source of our efforts and strength, nevertheless, the fact remains that we must still put in much effort on our part.
By teaching that Christianity is effortless, it gives a wrong, romantic and unreal idea about what it means to live for Christ in this real world.
To tell his hearers that change is effortless is to deny the need for personal effort.
The reality is that it requires much effort on our part to live the Christian life and obey Christ, but such efforts are anchored in our dependence on Christ and His strength.
12. False hopes of the Prosperity Gospel.
The dangerous thing about the Prosperity Gospel, or Health and Wealth Gospel, is that the way that Pastor Joseph Prince preaches gives the impression that money is the priority and that we could all be healed all the time.
Of course, Pastor Prince tries to qualify and defend himself every now and then, saying that that is not what he teaches, especially on the issue of money or wealth.
But the fact that he teaches that every New Covenant believer is entitled and promised by God to be very wealthy as Father Abraham was has removed all doubts that money is a priority for Pastor Prince.
The fact that he teaches that we all ought to live in perfect health the way Jesus did on this side of eternity, only proves that his teaching is totally unrealistic and unachievable.
13. Unseen forces exist in the realm of the demonic.
Even at that time when I attended New Creation Church, I had already realised that many of the doctrines that Pastor Prince preached were unsound and clearly false, as they were against the scriptures.
But that did not push me to leave the church, as I felt comfortable staying with it.
I felt that I should leave, but I made no effort to leave, and I continued to stay on.
One reason could be the unseen forces in the realm of the demonic that lull me into a state of complacency and comfort so that I continue to remain in New Creation Church, even though I am aware that many of the doctrines taught by Pastor Prince are false.
And if God had not allowed me to go through an unpleasant incident with New Creation Church, which drove me to leave, I might well have stayed on.
So, we need to pray against such a spirit of demonic control that has continued to put many people at New Creation Church under bondage – that they kept on staying in New Creation Church, even though they knew things were amiss doctrinally concerning the sermons of Pastor Prince.
Pray that they would be delivered from the control of such a spirit, and have the courage to leave New Creation Church and never return again.
14. Pride is Pastor Joseph Prince’s number one problem.
Rev George Ong has mentioned on his website a few times that pride is the number one problem facing Joseph Prince.
And in my 11 years at New Creation Church and seeing how Pastor Prince operates, I fully agree with Rev George Ong.
Pastor Prince has evolved a system in which no one dares to correct him, especially regarding the preaching of his grace doctrines.
This shows him to be a proud man and pride will be his eventual downfall.
15. My heart is to see more people delivered from the heretical teachings of Pastor Prince.
I also totally agree with Rev George Ong that Pastor Prince is misleading and leading thousands of believers in Singapore and millions around the world to their destruction with his heretical teachings.
This is why that pains me.
I pray with all my heart that if you happen to read what I have written, and if you have been influenced by Pastor Prince’s preaching, you will not harden your heart, and break off all association with his heretical doctrines and New Creation Church.
This is the reason I am writing this testimony – to warn those who have been deceived by Pastor Prince’s teachings before it is too late, because such teachings would only lead to their destruction.
16. Pray for Rev George Ong.
I wholeheartedly support the work that Rev George Ong is doing, in exposing the heresies of Pastor Prince.
Without my mentioning it, most of you already know that the task of Rev George Ong in exposing the heretical doctrines of Pastor Prince is a very tough one.
It is a task that only those who are genuinely called by God, endued by Him with a special persevering spirit and exceptional courage would dare to tread.
If there is anyone who needs prayer for such a herculean task, a task that is fiercely opposed by Pastor Prince’s supporters, and unappreciated and even criticised by some quarters in the Church, it is him.
Aaron Khoo
Rev George Ong’s comments:
My heartfelt thanks to Aaron Khoo who has boldly come forward to share his testimony.
My heart’s cry is for more Ex New Creation Church members to come forward to share their stories.
Many may think that it is impossible given their individual situations,
but may God encourage you that nothing is impossible.
God can use each and every testimony to deliver more and more people from the destructive heresies of Joseph Prince,
who has been preaching his false grace doctrines unrepentantly for the last 25-30 years.
Next, think with me
– how can a preacher like Joseph Prince, who teaches that
every New Covenant believer has the covenantal right to be very rich as Abraham was,
every New Covenant believer can enjoy the perfect health of Jesus on this side of heaven,
makes a blasphemous statement
that the Ten Commandments given by God are used by the Devil to tempt us to sin,
doesn’t believe in
repentance for salvation and confession of sins,
and that the Holy Spirit can convict us of sin,
and, unbelievably, never preaches a single sermon in his many years of preaching ministry on (which means he doesn’t believe in them)
the Great Commission,
discipleship,
self-denial,
take up your cross,
suffering,
persecution,
fear of God,
Obedience to God/Christ,
holiness or sanctification,
as pointed out by Aaron Khoo,
not be a heretic or a false prophet?
All the above areas are not minor issues, but they are major areas of the Christian Faith.
What is worse is that Joseph Prince directly preaches against some of these areas.
And I have not even listed out the other areas that are not mentioned by Aaron Khoo such as,
that the Holy Communion can be partaken as many times as you take medicine per day, and it can make you look young and improve your appearance.
that most of the incidents in the gospels, which happened before the cross, and comprised most of the teachings and sayings of Jesus, are no longer applicable or relevant to New Covenant believers because they belong to the Old Covenant – meaning most of Jesus’s teachings in the gospels are ‘deleted’,
that the call to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbours as ourselves belong to the Old Covenant, and New Covenant believers have nothing to do with that,
that loving God belongs to the Old Covenant and God loving us belongs to the New Covenant, so we should focus on letting God love us rather than loving Him,
that the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus gave many of His teachings, is applicable only to the Jews under the Old Covenant and not the Church under the New Covenant – thereby wiping out many of Jesus’ teachings,
that God will never be angry, judge and punish believers even though they may sin against Him,
that there is no place for New Covenant believers to please God as God is always pleased with them all the time even though they are disobedient to Him,
that God does not see sin in us even though we sin,
that we must not examine ourselves, as that would make us sin-conscious, even though Paul had instructed us to,
that fasting is an Old Covenant practice and has no place for New Covenant believers,
that God can only give, but he will never take it away from us, because Job 1:21, “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;” isn’t said by God but Job,
that when Jesus rebuked the 7 churches in Revelation, He wasn’t doing it to members of these churches, but only the Pastors,
that Stephen, the first martyr, who died not because of the stoning but because he uttered something negative and about death – “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit” – because Joseph Prince teaches that life and death are in the power of the tongue,
that in the end times, there will be a wealth transfer from unbelievers to believers, and Christians will find themselves with great riches,
that Joseph Prince teaches Antinomianism, which is itself a heresy – that by virtue of grace, the law is no longer applicable to believers,
I could go on and on.
Despite all these evidences that I have lined up before your eyes,
and if any Believer, or Leader, or Pastor, or Bishop, or Ex and Present Chairmen and Council members of the National Council of Churches of Singapore
were to protect Joseph Prince for their own self-preservation,
and say Joseph Prince is not a heretic,
they must have their heads closely examined.
Let’s just assume that Joseph Prince’s teachings are technically, not heretic,
but as we all know, his teachings are so dangerously deviant and frighteningly numerous
and affecting so many churches across the many different denominations over a long period of time;
these reasons alone are enough for the leadership to act.
Finally, have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to get through to the people in New Creation Church and those who have been deeply influenced by Joseph Prince’s heresies?
Nothing seems to work on them, even though you have tried everything – every scripture – every doctrinal argument – put them across as sensitively as possible to convince them about the false teachings of Joseph Prince.
The answer was already given in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12.
Let me share with you what Derek Prince has so aptly and powerfully put forward:
Please click here to view the 3-and-a-half-minute video.
“That’s because they hardened their hearts against God. They rejected the truth of God.
And this is one of the most frightening facts of the spiritual life, that if we persistently and obstinately reject the truth of God has brought to us,
God will withdraw from us the ability to understand the truth.
And God will open up to us some kind of spirit that will take in
– that’s the spirit of error and deception.
I think that’s one of the most terrible judgments
that can come upon those who deliberately reject God’s revealed truth.
There are two examples of it which are given here in the outline.
In 1 Samuel 16:14, this is the story of Saul, the King of Israel who rejected God’s revealed purpose, turned against it.
And it says about him in 1 Samuel 16:14:
“Now the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord terrified him.”
Can you absorb that?
God permitted an evil spirit to have access to Saul because he had rejected the truth.
That frightens me.
I continually ask myself am I hardening myself against the truth?
I don’t want God to take His Spirit from me and release an evil spirit instead.
See, Satan doesn’t have any power to do anything that God doesn’t permit him to do.
But God can permit Satan to release an evil spirit against us if we persistently reject the truth.
And then there’s a warning in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 of what is going to happen, and is already happening, I believe, at the close of this age.
2 Thessalonians 2:10 -12.
This whole chapter is really about the coming of the antichrist and how the way is being prepared and what he’s going to do.
And it says in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 10 and following:
“He will come with all deception and wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.”
Isn’t that frightening?
If we don’t receive the love of the truth
then God is going to deal with us.
And we’re going to come under deception.
And then it says:
“And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.”
I believe that is already happening.
I believe God is permitting a deluding spirit to come upon various sections of the church
which have deliberately rejected the revealed truth of God.
Especially upon ministers and leaders who are responsible for these errors.
And when that deluding spirit comes upon any person,
that person can no longer see the truth, they lose the ability.”
My parting shot and loving warning to you is that while you are still not permanently deluded by the spirit of deception, and reach a point of no return,
it is time for you to get out of Joseph Prince’s heresies before it is too late.
Rev George Ong
Read the Compelling Testimonies of Ex New Creation Church Members (Joseph Prince’s Church):
Andrew Tan (Click) & his Article (Click)
Joseph Prince
was caught by Colin Miller for adding words to Jesus’ & Paul’s mouths &
preaching out of context – By Rev George Ong
Note that Joseph Prince didn’t preach last Sunday, on 5 Mar 2023.
Last Sunday, New Creation Church made an announcement that
Bob Fitts
will be leading the worship service this Sunday.
If you remember, I mentioned in a previous article that for consecutive 3 weeks,
Joseph Prince ‘converted’ the worship service into a healing service, and the performance of so-called signs and wonders,
with the probable aim of drawing the thousands of people, who are missing from New Creation Church, back to church.
Bob Fitts is another of Joseph Prince’s probable strategies for bringing back the crowds.
Some people may say to me,
“George, why are you so foolishly promoting the coming of Bob Fitts to New Creation Church on your website?”
Well, let me just say that if people are foolish enough to go to New Creation Church
just because Bob Fitts is leading worship this Sunday,
then it only proves that those who go to New Creation Church,
go, not to worship God, but to worship man.
Period.
(This article was also sent to Rev Dr Ngoei Foong Nghian, General Secretary, National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) office, and for the attention of the Executive Committee Members.)
In a video, Colin Miller, in critiquing Joseph Prince’s false doctrines, said;
Please click here to view the 8-minute video (2 parts):
(For those who are interested, the link to Colin Miller’s YouTube channel is given at the end of this article.)
Part 1
“I want to make it clear that if you listen to Joseph Prince, you will find that at least in this particular sermon,
the danger
is teaching that he offers is much less obvious, much less pronounced than someone, for example, like Joel Osteen.
In fact, I found myself regularly agreeing with many of the things Joseph had to say.
And yet in Galatians 5:9, Paul tells us that a little leaven, that is false teaching
will work its way through the whole lump.
That is to say, a little false teaching is still very dangerous in its effects.
So, it’s still very important then that if Joseph Prince has false teaching, we identify it and critique it.
And with that, let’s move right into our first subject,
Joseph’s teaching about healing.
Watch this.
Joseph Prince said:
He says that your body is the temple of God (1 Cor 6:19), Amen. So, the temple of God is holy.
Holy means beautiful, set apart, glorious, Amen, no blemish.
And so, if you honour God’s body, the Bible says glorify God in your spirit and in your body, which are God’s, Amen,
that means you will be healthy, not just peaceful inside, Amen, at rest, but you will be healthy.
God will take care of His temple.
I say God will take care of His temple, Amen.
So, the first thing you will notice about this teaching
is that it’s subtle, right?
Instead, he simply says something that sounds, well, really common sense. As a Christian, your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, according to 1 Corinthians 6 (verse 19) and quote, ‘God will take care of His temple,’ Joseph says.
But make no mistake about it,
this is just a more covert and deceptive version