Part 1: Ex New Creation Church Member, Olive Mok’s Testimony against the False teachings of Joseph Prince
Part 2: George Ong’s Response to Olive Mok’s remark about working out our salvation with fear and trembling that Joseph Prince preaches against.
Part 3: Mike Winger & Gordon Fee expose the False Interpretation of Joseph Prince on what Abundant Life means in John 10:10
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.
This article was also sent to the Alliance of Pentecostal & Charismatic Churches of Singapore (APCCS), for the attention of the Chairman, Rev Yang Tuck Yoong & Co Chairman, Rev Dominic Yeo (General Superintendent of the Assemblies of God of Singapore) and Council Members.
Part 1: Ex New Creation Church Member, Olive Mok’s Testimony against the False teachings of Joseph Prince
I am heartened by the courage of Olive Mok
to appear on Camera
to testify against the heresies of Joseph Prince.
May more Ex New Creation Church members
follow her fine example.
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Part 2: George Ong’s Response to Olive Mok’s remark about working out our salvation with fear and trembling.
George Ong’s response to what
Olive Mok said:
“So, I began to search the scriptures.
Bible say we are to work out our salvation
with fear and trembling.”
What Olive Mok said
about working out our salvation
with fear and trembling,
is what Joseph Prince preaches against.
In a sermon, Joseph Prince said:
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“‘Therefore, my beloved brethren, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure.’ (Phil 2:12-13)
Alright, I don’t know how many times this has been brought to me, even in a conference situation, and another speaker even have brought this up to me and said, ‘What about Philippians that says work out your salvation.’ They all know this part you know, work out your salvation. They all know this part.
So I said, ‘What do you mean by that? Are you telling me that we are supposed to work for our salvation today?’
So the idea that people have is that, we still are working out our salvation. No, friend, once you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you better know you are saved. There’s no more working out. In fact, there’s no such thing as working out for your salvation.
You cannot work for your salvation. It’s not by works. It’s by grace through faith. You receive. Abraham was justified without works. Abraham believed God. It was imputed to him for righteousness. So this is taken out of context.”
The focus of the speaker that Joseph Prince alluded to
is his concern about “working out your salvation”,
“… another speaker even have brought this up to me
and said,
‘What about Philippians that says
work out your salvation.’”
Joseph Prince then deceptively gave the impression
that what the speaker was talking about
is “working for your salvation”,
“Are you telling me that we are supposed
to work for our salvation today?”
Joseph Prince is so slimy that he is now equating
“working out your salvation (sanctification)”
with “working for your salvation (legalism)”,
when they are discernibly different.
Working for your salvation is heresy (legalism)
– meaning you work for your own salvation
by flatly rejecting the offer
of the righteousness of God in Christ,
which is a free gift that cannot be earned or worked for.
But working out your salvation,
which refers to sanctification,
is entirely biblical as it can be proven
not only in Philippians 2:12-13
but also throughout the scriptures.
Many evangelical commentators have also written
that this working out your salvation
is part and parcel of sanctification
which is as necessary as justification for true salvation.
Paul didn’t talk about “working for your salvation”
(he will be mad if he did)
but he did speak about “working out your salvation.”
So, can you see how crafty Joseph Prince is,
trying to smuggle in his pet doctrine of justification
(which is a glorious doctrine,
without which, we will be damned)
into a passage in Philippians 2:12-13
that talks about sanctification
(which is another magnificent doctrine,
which Joseph Prince covertly teaches against)?
But just because we cannot work for our salvation
– justification by faith,
doesn’t mean we cannot or shall not work out our salvation
– sanctification.
Again, let me stress that Philippians 2:12-13
is not talking about justification,
but sanctification.
I’m now going to reveal
that the Antinomian doctrine of salvation
or saving faith of Joseph Prince,
especially on what is contained in his sermon,
is a heresy,
as it is not in line with the Reformation
or Martin Luther’s theology of the gospel.
Joseph Prince, by saying that,
“No, friend, once you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
you better know you are saved”,
Joseph Prince is categorically stating
that saving faith only requires believing in Christ.
Then, Joseph Prince went on to say,
“There’s no more working out.
In fact,
there’s no such thing as working out for your salvation”,
meaning – saving faith does not involve sanctification or works.
To Joseph Prince, all that is required for saving faith
is just believing (justification) in the Lord Jesus Christ
without works or sanctification
as evidence of true faith.
Joseph Prince’s justification-only-minus-sanctification gospel
goes against the teachings
of the Reformation Fathers and Church fathers.
But Martin Luther said:
“There is no justification
without sanctification.”
But Charles Spurgeon said,
“Justification without sanctification
would not be salvation at all.”
What Luther and Spurgeon said, which is totally scriptural,
is a very solemn truth in the light
of the teachings of Joseph Prince.
This simply means that Joseph Prince’s ‘Faith only’
or ‘justification only’ salvation doctrine
does not equal saving faith, and does not save,
as the other vital half, which is sanctification or works,
is not taken into account.
Going by what the scriptures,
and particularly what Charles Spurgeon said,
“Justification without sanctification
would not be salvation at all,”
– this simply means that Joseph Prince’s Antinomian gospel
preaching of a ‘Faith only’ or justification-only salvation
without sanctification doctrine
does not save
– and many have been deceived by Joseph Prince
that they are on their way to heaven
when the reality is
– they may be headed for hell.
Part 3: Mike Winger & Gordon Fee expose the False Interpretation of Joseph Prince on what Abundant Life means in John 10:10
In a sermon, Joseph Prince said:
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“And Jesus stood up and He read from Isaiah,
where it says the Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has anointed me to preach the gospel
to the poor.
Now, that’s the first thing the anointing is for,
to preach the gospel to the poor.
What do you think is the gospel to the poor?
No hope for you.
Remain poor.
Is that good news?
Gospel means good news, okay.
What is the gospel to the poor?
What is good news to the poor?
You don’t have to remain poor.
Jesus says, I have come.
I am come that you might have life
and have it more abundantly (meaning, according to Joseph Prince’s teachings, to become richer).”
Joseph Prince falsely teaches
that the abundant life in John 10:10
contains material blessings of wealth
for New Covenant believers.
But in, ‘The Disease of the Health & Wealth Gospels’
Gordon D Fee, an accomplished Pentecostal scholar, wrote:
“It should be noted further that “abundant life”
in John 10:10,
… also has nothing to do with material abundance.
“Life” or “eternal life” in John’s Gospel
is the equivalent of the “Kingdom of God”
in the Synoptics.
It literally means the “life of the Age to Come.”
It is the life that God has in and of Himself;
and it is his gift to believers in the present age.
The Greek word perrison,
translated “more abundantly” in the KJV,
means simply that believers
are to enjoy this gift of life to the full” (NIV).
Material abundance is not implied
either in the word “life” or “to the full.”
Furthermore, such an idea is totally foreign
to the context of John 10,
as well as to the whole of the teaching of Jesus.”
In a teaching session, Mike Winger said:
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Rev George Ong