Joseph Prince Makes God a Liar when he said it is His will to Take Away the Ten Commandments – By Rev George Ong (Dated 4 Oct 2022)
Don’t miss the Afternote at the end of the article, which reveals the gross ignorance of one of Joseph Prince’s senior men on his team, who normally preaches at Sunday worship services when Joseph Prince isn’t.
Note that Joseph Prince didn’t preach on 2 Oct 2022, last Sunday, but that person I mentioned in the above did.
Some concluding statements in the Article:
When Joseph Prince’s Core Antinomian doctrine that the Ten Commandments have been taken away, is contradicted by, not one, not two, not even three, but 11 renowned and credible Church Fathers of different denominational backgrounds, whose teachings are based on God’s word,
(Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, AW Tozer, DL Moody, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Stott, Billy Graham, David Pawson and John MacArthur),
why would anyone, in his or her right mind, choose to hang on to Prince’s false grace doctrine?
The conclusion is – a clown or one who has so hardened his or her heart that it is beyond redemption!
To say that it is God’s will to remove the Ten Commandments when His will is to do the opposite, Joseph Prince has committed a terrible and grave sin as he is making God a liar because it is never His will to remove the Ten Commandments as Prince has blasphemously taught.
(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 weekly Sunday sermon aired on YouTube on 25 September 2022, 2 Sundays ago, Joseph Prince said the following;
Please click here to view the 30-second video:
“So the first will is the will of the Father. See what the will of the Father is? That we don’t be under law but under the New Covenant in grace.
Then Jesus said, this is Jesus: ‘Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God’ (Heb 10:9). He’s talking to the Father. So the Father has a will. What’s the will? Jesus ‘takes away the first that He may establish the second’ (Heb 10:9). The first is the Ten Commandments. Amen. You shall not, you shall not, you shall not. The second is God says, ‘I will do this, I will do this. I’ll be merciful to your unrighteousness.”
Joseph Prince said that the will of the Father is to remove the Ten Commandments.
But what did Martyn Lloyd-Jones say about the will of the Father?
In ‘Studies in the Sermon on the Mount’, Volume 1, Pages 197-198, Martyn Lloyd-Jones said,
“We must have this new mind and disposition which leads us to love the law and to desire to keep it; and by His power He enables us to fulfil the law. That is why our Lord goes on to say in verse 19,
`Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.’
That (Matt 5:19-20) was not spoken only to the disciples for the three short years they were to be with Christ until He died. It is permanent and everlasting; He enforces it again in Matthew 7:21, where He says,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
What is the will of the Father?
The Ten Commandments and the moral law. They have never been abrogated.”
Joseph Prince said that it is the will of the Father to take away or remove the Ten Commandments.
But Martyn Lloyd-Jones said the will of the Father is the Ten Commandments that have never been abrogated.
Who would you choose to believe?
Joseph Prince the serial hypocrite, serial liar and serial double-talker or Martin Lloyd-Jones the well-regarded Bible expositor?
What is more sobering is that since Martin Lloyd-Jones states that Jesus taught that only those who do the will of the Father, that is the Ten Commandments, will enter the kingdom of heaven (Matt 7:21), this means Joseph Prince, who teaches the exact opposite, will not enter the same kingdom.
It goes without saying that those who embrace the teachings of Joseph Prince would end up in the same fate as he.
The Biblical teaching is not that one has to obey the Ten Commandments to enter God’s kingdom and faith is thrown out the window,
but that obeying God and His commandments is the evidence of true faith; and if one doesn’t obey His commandments, then there is no true faith to speak of in the first place.
Martin Luther wrote,
“I wonder exceedingly how it came to be imputed to me that I should reject the law of Ten Commandments…. Can anyone think that sin exists where there is no law?…
Whosoever abrogates the law must of necessity, abrogate sin also.”
Luther’s Works (trans., Weimer ed.), Vol. 50, pp. 470-471; originally printed in his Spiritual Antichrist, pp. 71, 72.
Martin Luther clarified that he has never rejected the Ten Commandments and warned that
“Whosoever abrogates the law must of necessity, abrogate sin also.”
This is the evil that Joseph Prince has done.
First, Joseph Prince has gotten rid of the law – in his teaching that New Covenant believers have nothing to do with the Laws of God as they all have been abrogated.
Second, Joseph Prince has gotten rid of sin – in his teaching that every single future sin has been forgiven at the cross without the need for confession and repentance and that it is removed from our conscience.
With a ‘no-sin’ and a ‘no-law’ or an ‘I-have-no-sin-to-bother-me-with-now’ and an ‘I-have-no-law-to-govern-and-control-me-now’ Pseudo-grace doctrine, no wonder droves of people are attracted to his church.
Who (goats, not sheep) wouldn’t want to subscribe to such a flesh-pleasing and a feel-good theology?
A true sheep, who knows the word of God, will never be deceived by Joseph Prince, but only goats, who are looking for a hassle-free religion and easy salvation.
So can you see that Joseph Prince is doing exactly the same thing that Martin Luther has rightly accused his Antinomian theological foes of, that
“Whosoever abrogates the law must of necessity, abrogate sin also.”
Hence, Joseph Prince isn’t preaching the gospel of grace that Martin Luther preached, but the Antinomian doctrine of removing the moral law.
The theological ancestors of Joseph Prince are not the Reformation Fathers, such as Martin Luther, but Johann Agricola, the first Antinomian in Luther’s day.
John Calvin wrote,
“We must not imagine that the coming of Christ has freed us from the authority of the law, for it is the eternal rule of a devout and holy life, and must, therefore, be as unchangeable as the justice of God, which it embraced, is consistent and uniform.” Commentary on the Harmony of the Gospels, Vol. 1, p. 277.
What John Calvin wrote and opposed is exactly what Joseph Prince teaches – that the coming of Christ and the finished work on the cross has rendered the moral law in the Ten Commandments obsolete.
While John Calvin wrote that the moral law of God is eternal and unchangeable, Joseph Prince teaches the complete opposite – that they have been taken away.
That being the case, how can Joseph Prince claim he teaches the same grace theology that the Reformation Fathers such as John Calvin taught?
A W Tozer said,
“Because we live in a period known as the age of God’s grace, it has become a popular thing to declare that the Ten Commandments are no longer valid, no longer relevant in our society. With that context, it has become apparent that Christian churches are not paying attention to the Ten Commandments. But Dwight L. Moody preached often in the commandments. John Wesley said he preached the commands of the Law to prepare the way for the gospel. R. A. Torrey told ministers if they did not preach the Law they would have no response to the preaching of the gospel. It is the Law that shows us our need for the gospel of salvation and forgiveness! It is accurate to say that our binding obligation is not to the Old Testament Law. As sincere Christians we are under Christ’s higher law – that which is represented in His love and grace. But everything that is morally commanded in the Ten Commandments still comprises the moral principles that are the will of God for His people. God’s basic moral will for His people has not changed!”
AW Tozer said that the moral law in the Ten Commandments represented God’s moral will for His people that has not changed.
But Joseph Prince said that it is God’s will to take away the Ten Commandments for New Covenant believers.
In ‘The Bible Speaks Today (BST) on The Message of Romans written by John Stott’, Page 222, he wrote,
“Secondly, holiness consists in fulfilling the just requirement of the law (Rom 8:4). This is the final answer to antinomians… The moral law has not been abolished for us; it is to be fulfilled in us.”
Joseph Prince teaches that the Ten Commandments have been taken away or removed for New Covenant believers.
But John Stott teaches that the moral law in the Ten Commandments have not been abolished and obedience to the law is still binding on New Covenant believers.
Who would you choose to believe?
Joseph Prince the master deceiver or John Stott the credible Bible commentator?
If you know the credentials of John Stott, any right-thinking believer would place his bets on John Stott without any hesitation.
In two of David Pawson’s sermons regarding Hebrews 8:8-12, he said,
“And I’ll write my laws in your heart, and you will want to do them. It won’t be a different law. It will still be the Ten Commandments. It will still be the old law, but I will write it in your heart and you will want to keep it.”
“The cross hasn’t wiped out the commandments. It has written them into peoples’ hearts. The cross in a certain sense has not rendered commandments obsolete, it has fulfilled them.”
David Pawson said that the cross hasn’t wiped out the Ten Commandments or rendered them obsolete.
But Joseph Prince said that it is God’s will to remove the Ten Commandments and also wrote in his books that the cross had rendered them obsolete.
John MacArthur, a well-known Bible teacher in evangelical circles has also discredited Joseph Prince’s teachings about the moral law in the Ten Commandments.
In one of John MacArthur’s sermons, and commenting on Hebrews 8:13, he said,
“The old covenant has passed away. The old covenant is obsolete. The old covenant was a shadow. The old covenant contained the law of God but was not equal to the law of God. The old covenant was the Mosaic law. It had the moral law of God, which is a reflection of God’s holy nature, which never changes because God never changes. But it also contained social stipulations, ceremonial observances, which passed away, because they were only temporary for purposes fulfilled in the past.
The old covenant, that stage of the law, that form of the law, that embodiment of the law, that sort of container of the moral law of God, is obsolete. The moral law of God will never be obsolete…because the moral law of God is simply a reflection of His nature. And He is immutable and unchanging and His nature’s always the same. It is important to understand that the law of God never passes away.
It is critical for us to know the law of God and to obey it. What is obsolete is not the moral law of God, but the embodiment of that law in the Mosaic economy. The holy law of God never changes, because God never changes, and God’s laws are merely a manifestation of His holy nature.”
Joseph Prince said that it is God’s will to remove the Ten Commandments.
But John MacArthur said,
“The moral law of God will never be obsolete…because the moral law of God is simply a reflection of His nature.”
“It is important to understand that the law of God never passes away.”
Dwight L Moody wrote,
“Now men may cavil as much as they like about other parts of the Bible, but I have never met an honest man that found fault with the Ten Commandments. Infidels may mock the Lawgiver and reject Him who has delivered us from the curse of the law, but they can’t help admitting that the commandments are right…they are for all nations, and will remain the commandments of God through the centuries…
The people must be made to understand that the Ten Commandments are still binding, and that there is a penalty attached to their violation…Jesus never condemned the law and the prophets, but He did condemn those who did not obey them [see Matthew 5:17-19].” Weighed and Wanting, pp. 11, 16, 15.
What D L Moody had written is serious. He wrote that
“Jesus never condemned the law and the prophets, but He did condemn those who did not obey them [see Matthew 5:17-19].”
Joseph Prince, by his teaching that the moral law in the Ten Commandments have been taken away and are no more applicable to New Covenant believers, simply means he has also removed the necessity of obeying them.
This is what D L Moody had written that this is what Jesus condemned – the disobedience of God’s laws.
Billy Graham said,
“The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as when God gave them to Moses over 3,000 years ago. Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law” (Matthew 5:18).
Yes, it’s true we live in a much different world. But if anything, this means we need the Ten Commandments even more, for we live in a time of great moral and spiritual confusion. How can we know what is right or wrong? There are only two ways: either we make it up on our own – or we depend on God to show us. But God knows what is best for us, and when we reject His will for us, we end up in moral and spiritual chaos.”
Billy Graham said that to avoid moral and spiritual chaos, God’s will as contained in the Ten Commandments shouldn’t be rejected, and they are just as valid today as in the days of Moses.
But Joseph Prince said that it is God’s will to take away the Ten Commandments.
John Wesley wrote,
“‘Think not that I am come to destroy the Law, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil’” [Matthew 5:17] …The ritual or ceremonial law, delivered by Moses to the children of Israel, containing all the injunctions and ordinances which related to the old sacrifices and service of the temple, our Lord indeed did come to destroy, to dissolve, and utterly abolish…
But the moral law, contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforced by the prophets, He did not take away. It was not the design of His coming to revoke any part of this. This is a law which never can be broken, which stands fast as the faithful witness in heaven. The moral law stands on an entirely different foundation from the ceremonial or ritual law, which was only designed for a temporary restraint upon a disobedient and stiff-necked people; whereas this was from the beginning of the world, being ‘written not on tables of stone,’ but on the hearts of all the children of men, when they came out of the hands of the Creator.
And, however the letters once wrote by the finger of God are now in a great measure defaced by sin, yet can they not wholly be blotted out, while we have any consciousness of good and evil. Every part of this law must remain in force, upon all mankind, and in all ages; as not depending either on time or place, or any other circumstances liable to change, but on the nature of God and the nature of man, and their unchangeable relation to each other.” On the Sermon on the Mount, Discourse 6, Sermons on Several Occasions (1810), pp. 75-76.
John Wesley wrote,
“But the moral law, contained in the Ten Commandments, and enforced by the prophets, He (Jesus) did not take away.”
But Joseph Prince teaches that it is God’s will to take away the Ten Commandments in the New Covenant.
Can you sense the total disconnect between what Joseph Prince teaches and what the Reformation Fathers and Church Fathers have been unanimously teaching – that the Ten Commandments have not been taken away but is still binding on New Covenant believers.
If you insist that Joseph Prince is teaching the true doctrine that the Ten Commandments have been taken away and become obsolete, you are also saying that
Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, Charles Spurgeon, AW Tozer, DL Moody, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Stott, Billy Graham, David Pawson and John MacArthur
are teaching the false doctrine that these same Ten Commandments are still binding on New Covenant believers.
Are you prepared to suppose that all these well-respected Bible teachers are liars and teaching heresies?
If you aren’t prepared to say that, then you must logically conclude that Joseph Prince is a liar and a heretic.
When Joseph Prince’s Core Antinomian doctrine that the Ten Commandments have been taken away, is contradicted by, not one, not two, not even three, but 11 renowned and credible Church Fathers of different denominational backgrounds, whose teachings are based on God’s word, why would anyone, in his or her right mind, choose to hang on to Prince’s false grace doctrine?
The conclusion is – a clown or one who has so hardened his or her heart that it is beyond redemption!
Do you know how serious it is when Joseph Prince said it is God’s will to remove the Ten Commandments?
To say that it is God’s will to remove the Ten Commandments when His will is to do the opposite, Joseph Prince has committed a terrible and grave sin as he is making God a liar because it is never His will to remove the Ten Commandments as Prince has blasphemously taught.
Rev George Ong
Afternote:
An Ex-New Creation Church member related this accident to me when this member was still attending New Creation Church.
When this Ex-NCC member asked this person who is one of Joseph Prince’s senior men on his team, who normally preaches at Sunday worship services when Joseph Prince isn’t – about which Church Father would agree or could flow with the Grace Teachings of Joseph Prince – the answer was Charles Spurgeon.
This only reveals the gross ignorance of this senior staff of Joseph Prince.
Charles Spurgeon said (in a sermon which Spurgeon preached on ‘The Perpetuity of the Law of God’):
“Jesus did not come to change the law, but he came to explain it [see Matthew 5:17-19], and that very fact shows that it remains, for there is no need to explain that which is abrogated.”
Charles Spurgeon wrote that the moral law still remains as it has not been abrogated.
Like Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley, AW Tozer, DL Moody, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Stott, Billy Graham, David Pawson and John MacArthur, Charles Spurgeon is against the Antinomian doctrine of Joseph Prince that the moral law in the Ten Commandments have been removed in the New Covenant.
As a matter of fact, there isn’t any Church Father, be they from the Reformation or Puritan or Reformed or Wesleyan or Evangelical or Pentecostal or Charismatic tradition that could see eye-to-eye with the Antinomian doctrine of Joseph Prince – that the Ten Commandments have been taken away for the New Covenant believers.
Let it be known that Joseph Prince’s theological ancestors are not the Reformation Fathers but Johann Agricola who is the first Antinomian that Martin Luther fought against.
Antinomianism and Joseph Prince is the next article that is coming your way.