Article 1: Joseph Prince’s gospel of grace isn’t used by the Apostles to preach to unbelievers in the Book of Acts
Article 2: Joseph Prince’s never-ending flip-flops represent an unstable and unreliable character that cannot be trusted
– By Rev George Ong (Dated 19 Aug 2024)
Warning:
What you will get to read in Article 1
may come as a shock even for the many
who are against Joseph Prince’s grace doctrine.
Important Clarification:
I am not saying
that one cannot preach
on God’s love, God’s mercy and God’s grace
in one’s gospel preaching.
What I am saying is that the gospel preaching
of the Apostolic Church
as demonstrated in the Book of Acts,
did not include God’s love, God’s mercy and God’s grace,
but on repentance, forgiveness of sins, God’s judgement
and faith in the gospel.
Since the Apostolic Church has modelled for us
how the gospel is preached,
don’t you think the Contemporary Church
should follow their example?
Announcement No 1:
2 videos each on Derek Prince & George Ong
& 4 videos on Joseph Prince.
Don’t miss the detailed and eye-opening notes
in Part 1 & Part 2 of Article 1 on this Website.
See the Appendix
for the Featured YouTube comments.
Announcement No 2:
In the sermon yesterday, on 18 Aug 2024,
Joseph Prince has, once again, ‘paid a high respect’
to his critics by his many replies to them.
It is patently obvious that Joseph Prince has once again
read what his critics have written against him
on this website.
This means what his critics have done so far,
have posed a serious threat to Joseph Prince as a heretic
and his heretical grace doctrine.
The many replies by Joseph Prince to his critics
in his sermon yesterday, on 18 August 2024,
will be covered
in the next 2 releases of several Articles this week.
What is interesting is that Joseph Prince
is much less arrogant to his critics
in his sermon yesterday, on 18 Aug 2024
as compared to the one on 4 Aug 2024.
Undeniably, his critics have played a part
in taming him down
to be not so arrogant yesterday.
This is because by now,
Joseph Prince ought to know his critics well
that whatever he dares to arrogantly say in his sermon
against his critics,
will receive an immediate reply on YouTube
the next day or in the same week.
Excerpt from the Article:
No preacher in the Book of Acts
ever said to the audience God loves them
in the preaching of the gospel.
On the contrary, they warned the audience
about the judgement of God that will befall on those
who refuse to repent and turn to Him.
Don’t you think how the apostles preached the gospel
at the start of Christianity in Acts
ought to be the pattern for which the gospel
is to be preached by us today?
But the trouble with many preachers,
such as Joseph Prince,
is that the message
of repentance, judgement and the wrath of God
are hardly mentioned and even forbidden
in a gospel message.
What is perennially heard over and over again
in a modern gospel message
is the love of God and the grace of God.
What was emphasised – repentance and judgement
in the preaching of the gospel in the early church in Acts
is almost absent in the modern gospel
and the pseudo-grace gospel of Joseph Prince.
What was totally absent – the love and grace of God
in the preaching of the gospel in the Apostolic Church
is given undue prominence by many preachers,
especially the heretic, Joseph Prince.
(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.)
Article 1: Joseph Prince’s gospel of grace isn’t used by the Apostles to preach to unbelievers in the Book of Acts – By Rev George Ong
In the sermon preached yesterday,
on 18 Aug 2024, Joseph Prince said;
“That is the very stamp of heaven saying
this is your (Paul) ministry to preach the grace of God.
So, when we talk about the gospel
whether you believe that your church is preaching it,
or we need to preach the gospel,
let me tell you this,
from what I know about the grace of God,
our church is preaching the gospel.”
In a teaching session, George Ong said;
to view the 3-minute-30-second video:
“Do you know that in the preaching of the gospel
in the Book of Acts,
the love of God is never mentioned?
Are you aware? Are you aware?
Do you know in the preaching of the gospel
in the Book of Acts,
the mercy of God wasn’t mentioned at all?
Are you aware?
Not aware, just said yes or no, never mind. No.
Are you aware that in the preaching of the gospel (in Acts),
this one, you better check me out, you better be a Berean,
you better be a Berean, check me out;
do you know in the preaching of the gospel
in (Book of) Acts,
grace of God was never mentioned?
Yes, the grace of God was mentioned
in the context of believers, yes.
But the grace of God was never mentioned
in the context of the preaching of the gospel
to unbelievers.
I hope you are shocked.
Yet, not just Joseph Prince, all the churches,
when they come to preaching of the gospel,
they concentrate on the love of God,
on the mercy of God, on the grace of God.
You know, you check the Book of Acts,
when the preaching was done,
they usually preach about repentance, forgiveness of sins,
about God’s judgement, all these 3,
but they never touch on it, yet the church grew.
You see, so because of our ignorance of all these facts,
so, we have to ask the question,
if that’s how the apostles preached the gospel
in the Book of Acts,
certainly, we must learn from them, isn’t it?
But how come we are doing the opposite?
We preach about love, grace, mercy
and not about judgement, repentance.
That’s why today’s gospel, even not just Joseph Prince,
most churches don’t preach on repentance.
How many of you want to accept Jesus, okay, pray for you.
Actually, it’s not true.
You have to have both, you know, repentance.
That’s why a lot of goats in the church.
They are not true repentance, you see.
They don’t even preach about that.
Then, Joseph Prince can say the grace of God
is in the gospel.
No, wasn’t preach at all (in Acts).
Do you know that Jesus Christ never mentioned the word ‘grace’?
Does it shock you? You check.
The word ‘grace’ in the New Testament,
I think mentioned a few times but by John
and maybe one, few times.
But not by Jesus.
Now, I’m not saying, of course, grace is not important.
His (Jesus’) life personifies grace.
But he never preached on grace;
what did He preach on? What did Jesus preach on?
Faith, a lot on faith; you go and check.
Your faith has saved you, your faith,
believing, believe in the gospel, a lot of times.
A lot of times. Faith, believing and all that.
He preached on law, but he don’t preach on grace.
You see.
Do you know Paul.
He (Joseph Prince) says Paul, grace preacher.
I go and tabulate.
I’m not saying numbers necessarily can conclude.
But I give you the numbers. I have the actual numbers.
In Romans, I counted ‘faith’,
I think it’s almost twice ‘grace’,
when the word ‘faith’ appear.
So, if that is so, maybe there is an indication,
Paul is also preaching about ‘faith’ more than ‘grace’.
Why make Paul a grace preacher only, Joseph Prince?
And I tabulate all the epistles that Paul preached;
all ah, in all the epistles,
also ‘faith’ twice, more than ‘grace’.
And I total up the gospels, also ‘faith’, more than ‘grace’.
I’m not even adding the word believing
because believing is the verb for the noun, ‘faith’.
So, if you take believing, lagi (even) more.”
In a teaching session, George Ong said;
“That’s why the modern church also.
They thought they preached love, grace
is the way the apostolic preaches.
I’m not saying you can’t.
But they don’t even know this is not the apostolic way.
But they get the results.
They have the power of the Holy Spirit.
I say again,
the grace of God is mentioned in the context of believers, yes.
But they were never used in the preaching of the gospel.
So, what they use?
Forgiveness of sins, judgement, repentance.
And yet, they got results.
But the results were true.
It was a true gospel.
Hard, yes, it’s a hard gospel,
but they got true converts.
Not like today, I’m telling you.
I fear because on the day of judgement,
there will be the separating of the wheats and the tares.
The wheats and the tares.
There are many tares in the church, I can tell you.
I mean, we all must check ourselves.
We are not excluded.
Who is the sheep? Who is the goat?
That’s why Jesus, He said, the people, right, in Matthew 7,
we do this, we do that for you. We cast out devils.
He (Jesus) said, I don’t know you, you evildoers.
So, today, because there are a lot of false gospel.
You see, there are 2 ways to react.
One way is to say, like the rich young ruler:
It’s a tough gospel. I must give up everything, I don’t want.
Another way is, I know Christianity is tough,
but I know it’s the truth.
But I know that Jesus I believe will help me.
The Holy Spirit will empower me to do the impossible.
You see, this is the right attitude.
Joseph Prince has a third one.
He lowered the gospel so low that even goats crawled in.
There are many goats because it’s a false gospel.
It’s a false gospel. False gospel will not save.
So, that’s the worry.
And Jesus said, many travel on the broad road.
Joseph Prince is preaching the broad road gospel.
No nothing. No suffering. No sacrifice. No this, no that.
Jesus said, the narrow way, only a few make it.”
Derek Prince categorically upheld
the presence and need of the judgement of God,
not just in the New Covenant per se,
but more importantly,
in the preaching of the New Covenant gospel.
In a sermon, Derek Prince said;
“I wonder if you believe
that God is going to judge men and women.
I hear very little in the contemporary church
about God’s judgement.
It’s interesting when Paul preached
to a completely Gentile audience in the city of Athens,
he declared about Jesus that God has appointed Him
to be the judge of all men.
He didn’t mention Saviour.
All he said was judge.
And if you don’t believe in judgeement,
you don’t need to be saved,
because being saved is being saved from judgement.”
In another sermon, Derek Prince said;
“Now judgement,
God’s judgement, is a main theme of the gospel.
You cannot really understand the gospel
until you have an understanding of God’s judgement.
I want to point out to you that the apostles,
when they came with the gospel
especially to unreached people,
the first thing they spoke about was judgement,
not forgiveness.
I’ll give you two or three examples.
In Acts chapter 10, we have the message of Peter
to the household of Cornelius.
But this is what he (Peter) said about Jesus in Acts 10:42:
“And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God
to be Judge of the living and the dead.”
What’s the first thing he emphasized?
The judgement of God.
Then he went on to say (Acts 10:43):
“To Him all the prophets give witness that, through His name, whoever believes in Him
will receive remission [or forgiveness] of sins.”
If there’s no judgement,
actually, there’s no need for forgiveness.
If we leave out judgement,
we don’t have an issue of forgiveness.”
Let’s look at Paul in Athens. Acts 17:30-31.
And now he’s speaking to completely unchurched, unreached people, very intellectual and sophisticated, and he says:
“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, [No one is left out, neither you nor I. All men everywhere are commanded, not recommended, but commanded to repent.
Why?
because He has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness…”
Why do we need to repent?
Because we’re going to face the judgement of God.
All of us, without exception.
There’s a certain amount of presentation of the gospel
that points out it’s beneficial to become a Christian.
God will solve your problems,
your marriage will work better,
your business will succeed, etc. etc.
But that’s not the main or primary reason.
The primary reason is
we are going to stand before the judgement of God.
All of us, without exception.
And if we don’t respond to the gospel,
it will be a very sad day for us.
I find that there is an order in the presentation.
Judgement, repentance, forgiveness, and then faith.”
What is patently obvious is that
Derek Prince’s position on the judgement of God
that is sorely needed for the preaching of the gospel,
is diametrically opposed to that of Joseph Prince,
who is against God’s judgement for gospel-preaching.
Let me give one proof
that Joseph Prince is against God’s judgement,
not only for unbelievers but also for believers.
In ‘Destined To Reign,’ Joseph Prince wrote:
“God’s righteous anger against sin
has been satisfied and today,
we can expect only love from Him, not judgment.
We can expect grace, not punishment.”
“What does this mean, my friend?
This means that there is no more judgment for you
when God looks at you.”
“I have shown you that under the dispensation of grace,
God is not judging you…”
PART 1 TO ARTICLE 1
Though the gospel was preached by the early church
in the Book of Acts,
the gospel of God’s love and God’s grace was never preached.
Many believers have wrongly assumed
that the early church and the apostles
must have preached the gospel of God’s love
to the unbelieving world in the Book of Acts.
But the same people will be shocked to know
that in the Book of Acts,
the word, ‘love’ is not used even once
in the preaching of the gospel.
In fact, the love of God is never mentioned a single time
in the entire book of Acts, comprising 28 chapters.
The primary model of gospel preaching adopted in Acts
was to lay out the facts of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection,
to confront listeners of their sins boldly,
highlight their need for Him,
and His forgiveness of their sins.
Then calls for repentance were made.
Preaching God’s love
without the need for true repentance,
as Joseph Prince does,
is against the biblical model
as adopted by the Apostles in the Book of Acts.
The mercy of God is also not mentioned a single time in Acts.
‘Grace’ is not mentioned too even once
in the preaching of the gospel in the Book of Acts.
When the word ‘Grace’ is used in Acts,
it is a description of the gospel message,
and most occurrences of this word
apply to those who have already believed
– who already have experienced grace
(Acts 4:33; 6:8; 11:23; 13:43; 14:3; 14:26; 15:11; 15:40;
18:27; 20:24; 20:32).
If you go through every single time
when the gospel is preached in the Book of Acts,
it is generally characterised by the Apostles
boldly confronting the crowd with their sins,
and/or the crowd realising their guilt,
and/or forgiveness of sins,
and/or repentance
and/or the coming and final judgement.
This does provide a model
about how the early church preached the gospel.
The coming and final judgement
presupposes that those who reject the gospel
will be judged and banished to hell.
In other words,
hell, rather than heaven
(law rather than grace)
is used as a motivating factor for true conversions.
This is also in line with the approach of Jesus
as He Himself preached more about hell
than heaven in the gospels.
If you insist that using hell rather than heaven
is a less honourable approach to preaching the gospel,
you are also insinuating
that Jesus was not honourable in His approach.
This biblical approach of preaching the gospel
by the apostles in Acts
is entirely different and completely the opposite
of what Joseph Prince advocates.
In ‘Destined To Reign’, Joseph Prince wrote;
“It is not the preaching of wrath,
fiery indignation and judgment
that will cause people’s hearts to turn back to God.
It is His goodness, grace and mercy.”
Joseph Prince pushes the unbiblical view
that we must only preach
about the goodness, love, mercy and grace of God,
in his writings and many of his sermons,
as that would lead people to repentance,
and that the use of God’s wrath, fiery indignation and judgment
are totally out of place.
Is Joseph Prince aware
that grace was not used a single time
in the Apostles’ preaching of the gospel in Acts,
and the love and mercy of God
were not mentioned a single time
in the entire book of Acts?
Is Joseph Prince aware
that the judgement of God (which implies hell)
was used by the Apostles in the preaching of the gospel in Acts
to warn the people?
If so, why is Joseph Prince pushing the view
that only the goodness, love, grace and mercy of God
must be preached in the gospel,
and the judgement and wrath of God
have no place in the gospel?
Many have thought that the gospel
must have spread in the Book of Acts
because the gospel of God’s love and God’s grace
was often preached.
They have wrongly assumed
that what the contemporary church is doing
in preaching the gospel
of God’s love, God’s mercy and God’s grace
is in the tradition of the apostles in the early church.
They have wrongly thought
that there is nothing as powerful and effective
in winning souls
than to tell unbelievers
about God’s love, God’s mercy and His grace.
The fact is that the early church grew
without them having to mention
the love of God, the mercy of God and the grace of God
a single time in their gospel preaching.
In the apostles’ preaching of the gospel
to the unbelieving world In the Book of Acts,
neither the love of God,
nor the grace of God,
nor the mercy of God
was mentioned a single time.
The Book of Acts is a record of the early church
– how the apostles preached the gospel,
and how the gospel spread.
But the astonishing thing
is that not a single verse
mentions the love of God and the mercy of God.
It is totally logical that if the love and grace of God
are that crucial to the non-Christian world,
then they must at least be mentioned a few times
in the apostles’ preaching of the gospel.
But the apostles were totally silent
about the love, the mercy and the grace of God
in their preaching of the gospel.
The love of God, the mercy of God and the grace of God
was never used in the preaching of the gospel
by the early church.
Despite not mentioning
the love of God, the mercy of God and the grace of God
in their gospel preaching,
multitudes of people came to Christ and the church grew.
Without mentioning the love, the mercy and grace of God
in their preaching of the gospel message to unbelievers,
the gospel spread to places far and wide.
The apostles in Acts have never preached the gospel of God’s love.
There could be reasons
why these anointed apostolic preachers in the Book of Acts
didn’t stress on God’s love,
but emphasised on God’s judgement
and the peoples’ repentance, instead.
This is possibly because they are afraid
that that could lead to damaging consequences.
If they did,
it might have given unbelievers the wrong impression
that there is no urgency to repent and turn from their sins,
or they may misunderstand God’s love and God’s grace
that God will accept them even in their unrepentant state.
Unbelievers, hearing God’s love and God’s grace,
could be deceived into thinking
that they don’t need to repent,
as God in His love and His grace will accept them as they are.
Unbelievers may go away with the false assurance
that they don’t have to do anything about their wayward condition
to come to God as God is love and gracious,
thinking that they have become believers when they haven’t.
These possible fears of the apostles
for not preaching the gospel of God’s love and God’s grace
are exactly what has happened to the modern church,
which focuses on God’s love and God’s grace
as the main message of the gospel.
This has resulted in many false believers flooding the church,
thinking that they are saved when they aren’t.
Joseph Prince,
by focussing the gospel message only on God’s love and grace,
has also contributed to the undesirable phenomenon
of churning out false believers.
Yet, what the Contemporary Church is doing
is they have constantly preached the gospel of love and the gospel of grace
as if it is something she had inherited from apostolic Christianity.
Many preachers had wrongly made the issue
about the love of God
as the biggest priority in the preaching of the gospel
when the love of God wasn’t even a minor thrust
in the gospel message of the apostles.
Neither did the apostles ever preach
on the grace and mercy of God
in their presentation of the gospel to unbelievers.
Because of the preaching of the apostles,
the gospel spread, many came to Christ,
and many churches were planted.
But they didn’t do it
through the message of God’s love and God’s grace.
They did it by preaching God’s wrath, judgement,
and the need for repentance.
Indeed, the gospel that was preached by the apostles in Acts
was a gospel of God’s wrath, judgement and repentance
rather than a gospel of God’s love and God’s grace.
When John the Baptist preached the good news
(the word “good news” is found in Luke 3:18),
did his message only consist of the positive
or the good news of God’s love and God’s grace
as Joseph Prince has made it out to be?
No.
God’s love, God’s grace and God’s mercy
that are often preached by Joseph Prince,
were not even mentioned by John the Baptist.
But the ‘good news’ message of John the Baptist
was filled with the ‘bad news’ of God’s judgement
and the critical need for repentance (Lk 3:7-18).
And John the Baptist’s meaning of repentance
isn’t what is taught by Joseph Prince
– that repentance is just a change of mind.
Repentance, according to John the Baptist,
must go beyond the mind to a changed life
that is evidenced through fruit or deeds of repentance (Lk 3:11-14).
John the Baptist preached the gospel (Lk 3:18),
yet the substance of his gospel preaching
was filled with the urgency to repent,
to avoid God’s wrath
and the hellfire judgement of God (Lk 3:8-9, 16-17).
Think about this,
can the gospel preaching of John the Baptist
be considered good news
according to the definition of contemporary Christians (Lk 3:7-18)?
Unfortunately, no.
Probably, the only good news in his preaching
is that the Messiah will
“gather the wheat into His barn” (Lk 3:17).
That’s about it.
Most of what John the Baptist preached in Luke 3:7-18
could be considered bad news
(especially highlighted in red).
Luke 3:7-18 NIV
7 John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. 9 The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” 10 “What should we do then?” the crowd asked. 11 John answered, “Anyone who has two shirts should share with the one who has none, and anyone who has food should do the same.” 12 Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?” 13 “Don’t collect any more than you are required to,” he told them. 14 Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” He replied, “Don’t extort money and don’t accuse people falsely—be content with your pay.” 15 The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. 16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” 18 And with many other words John
exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them.
Did John the Baptist preach the good news?
Of course, he did:
“And with many other words John exhorted the people and proclaimed the good news to them” (Lk 3:18).
But John the Baptist’s preaching of the good news
wasn’t filled with God’s love, mercy and grace.
On the contrary, it was filled with the ‘bad news’
of deep repentance (Lk 3:10-14),
the wrath and judgement of God (Lk 3:7,9)
and the fires of hell (Lk 3:9,16,17).
John the Baptist preached on ‘the necessity of works’,
warning the people
that those who do not possess the fruits of repentance
would be cast into hell (Lk 3:9).
He called his listeners to repentance
– that was much more than just mere remorse
or a change of mind (taught by Joseph Prince),
but a change of lifestyle (Lk 3:8-14).
He warned that Christ would one day judge them,
and He would separate the wheat from the chaff,
and the chaff would be thrown into the fire and burned (Lk 3:17).
Similarly, the crucial word that comes from the Lord Jesus’ mouth
when He preached the gospel of the kingdom was,
“Repent” (Mk 1:14-15).
Jesus Himself preached the gospel (Mk 1:14-15; Lk 4:18),
yet He never failed to frequently warn sinners of God’s wrath
and call them to repentance
(Matt 4:17; Matt 5:22, 29-30; Matt 8:11-12; Matt 10:28; Matt 11:20-23; Matt 13:41-42, 49-50; Matt 22:13; Matt 23:33; Matt 24:50-51; Matt 25:30).
The apostles preached the gospel
in the same way as John the Baptist and Jesus did
when they warned of God’s judgement
and called sinners to repentance,
in order to escape God’s wrath.
To Paul, God’s wrath was foundational to the gospel,
as he took the trouble to expound on it
in the first three chapters of Romans
even before he gets to God’s grace and mercy
in the following chapters.
To Paul, God’s wrath and judgement
were an essential part of the gospel
and must be preached on:
“The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness” (Rom 1:18 NIV).
“This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares” (Rom 2:16 NIV).
Paul preached about God’s wrath
as the gospel
must not only be preached about what we are saved to,
but what we are saved or rescued from – God’s wrath:
“Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him” (Rom 5:9 NIV)!
“and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead – Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath” (1 Thess 1:10 NIV).
Martyn Lloyd-Jones said:
“I say, therefore,
that if our evangelising
and our evangelism is to be scriptural,
we must, with Apostle Paul,
always and invariably start with this:
‘For the wrath of God has been revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men’” (Rom 1:18).
Paul never flinches from using a strong message of repentance
and judgement in Acts to preach the gospel.
In Acts 17:30-31,
Paul preached that God commands all people everywhere
to repent of idolatry as He has set a day
where He will judge the world:
Acts 17:29-31 NIV
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
Paul describes his gospel message
as repentance toward God
and faith in Jesus (Acts 20:21),
and that repentance must be demonstrated and proven
by their deeds (Acts 26:20):
Acts 20:21 NIV
21 “I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.”
Acts 26:20 NIV
20 “First to those in Damascus, then to those in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I preached that they should repent and turn to God and demonstrate their repentance by their deeds.”
The way Paul preached was not any different
from how John the Baptist preached.
John the Baptist preached about the dire need for the people
to prove their repentance by the fruits of their deeds,
and so did Paul.
Have you noticed, God’s love and grace
aren’t even mentioned in John the Baptist’s,
the Apostle Paul’s,
and the Lord Jesus’ preaching of the gospel,
but only God’s wrath, God’s judgement
and the critical need for repentance?
I hope by now you will never be deceived by Joseph Prince,
whose gospel preaching is only characterised by the positive:
the grace and love of God;
and his refusal to speak about the ‘negative’:
the judgement and the wrath of God.
I hope by now, we can begin to see the difference
between what and how
the Apostolic Church preached the gospel
and what and how many preachers,
such as Joseph Prince, do it.
Because of the difference
in the way the gospel is preached,
no wonder there is such a vast difference
between the quality of the church in Acts
and the contemporary church.
No preacher in the Book of Acts
ever said to the audience God loves them
in the preaching of the gospel.
On the contrary, they warned the audience
about the judgement of God that will befall on those
who refuse to repent and turn to Him.
Don’t you think how the apostles preached the gospel
at the start of Christianity in Acts
ought to be the pattern for which the gospel
is to be preached by us today?
But the trouble with many preachers, such as Joseph Prince,
is that the message of repentance,
judgement and the wrath of God
are hardly mentioned and even forbidden
in a gospel message.
What is perennially heard over and over again
in a modern gospel message
is the love of God and the grace of God.
What was emphasised – repentance and judgement
in the preaching of the gospel in the early church in Acts
is almost absent in the modern gospel
and the pseudo-grace gospel of Joseph Prince.
What was totally absent – the love and grace of God
in the preaching of the gospel in the Apostolic Church
is given undue prominence by many preachers,
especially the heretic, Joseph Prince.
PART 2 TO ARTICLE 1
If I tell you
Jesus didn’t use the word ‘grace’ even once in his ministry,
you may be surprised and even shocked.
Or, you may think I am joking.
No, I’m not.
That is a simple truth.
He never mentions the word ‘grace’ a single time in His earthly ministry.
And He never explicitly teaches on the topic of grace.
(I’ve also told you in Part 1 that grace was never used even once
in the preaching of the gospel by the apostles in the Book of Acts.)
Grace appears only four times in the four gospels,
and they were not mentioned by Jesus
but written by the Apostle John and Luke.
Luke records that the grace of God
was on Jesus as a child (Lk 2:40).
John teaches that Jesus was full of grace
and grace came through Jesus (Jn 1:14, 16-17).
Therefore, our understanding of the word ‘grace’
comes from others, not Jesus
– especially the Apostle Paul, who taught it in the epistles.
Although Jesus personifies and exemplifies grace,
He Himself didn’t explicitly teach it.
If grace is not what Jesus primarily teaches,
what did He primarily teach on other topics?
The answer would surprise you.
Jesus teaches on faith plenty of times in the gospels.
Not only did He teach faith,
He encourages faith,
He requires faith,
He demands faith
and He commends faith.
Faith was a burning topic in the heart of Jesus.
Our faith is what excites Jesus.
Faith is that which must be exercised
to receive the grace of Christ (Eph 2:8).
Grace cannot do much
if we don’t exercise our faith
to receive the grace that has come in Christ.
The New Testament teaches us
that we are to “live by faith,” (2 Cor 5:7)
that “whatever is not from faith is sin,” (Rom 14:23)
and that “the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith” (Rom 1:17).
We are “saved by grace through faith” (Eph 2:8)
and that it is “impossible to please God without faith” (Heb 11:6).
One must remember that Jesus,
who personifies and exemplifies grace,
didn’t teach grace,
but He frequently and consistently preaches and teaches faith.
Why?
This must be because Jesus is well aware that grace,
however important, cannot function alone;
it needs faith to complete it.
It is a biblical fact that Jesus did not explicitly teach on grace;
He teaches on faith.
Perhaps, the reason is,
while grace can go without saying in Jesus’ ministry,
faith can’t.
Please see the massive amount of Bible references of 112 verses
(note I’ve not reflected all verses)
in the gospels
in which Jesus either preaches or teaches on Faith:
(Note that verses about ‘believe’ are also featured
as ‘believe’ is the verb while ‘faith’ is the noun.
The versions used are mainly KJV and NIV.)
Matt 6:30, Matt 8:10, Matt 8:26, Matt 9:2, Matt 9:22, Matt 9:28, Matt 9:29, Matt 13:58, Matt 14:31, Matt 15:28, Matt 16:8, Matt 17:20, Matt 18:6, Matt 21:21, Matt 21:22, Matt 21:25, Matt 21:32, Matt 23:23, Matt 24:23, Matt 24:26,
Mk 1:15, Mk 2:5, Mk 4:40, Mk 5:34, Mk 5:36, Mk 6:5-6, Mk 9:23, Mk 9:42, Mk 10:52, Mk 11:22, Mk 11:23, Mk 11:24, Mk 13:21, Mk 16:14, Mk 16:16, Mk 16:17,
Lk 1:20, Lk 5:20, Lk 7:9, Lk 7:50, Lk 8:12, Lk 8:13, Lk 8:25, Lk 8:48, Lk 8:50, Lk 12:28, Lk 17:6, Lk 17:19, Lk 18:8, Lk 18:42, Lk 22:32, Lk 22:67, Lk 24:25,
Jn 1:7, Jn 1:12, Jn 1:50, Jn 3:12, Jn 3:15, Jn 3:16, Jn 3:18, Jn 3:36, Jn 4:21, Jn 4:42, Jn 4:48, Jn 5:24, Jn 5:38, Jn 5:44, Jn 5:46, Jn 5:47, Jn 6:29, Jn 6:30, Jn 6:35, Jn 6:36, Jn 6:40, Jn 6:47, Jn 6:64, Jn 6:69, Jn 7:5, Jn 7:38, Jn 7:39, Jn 8:24, Jn 8:45, Jn 8:46, Jn 9:18, Jn 9:35, Jn 9:36, Jn 9:38, Jn 10:25, Jn 10:26, Jn 10:37, Jn 10:38, Jn 11:15, Jn 11:25, Jn 11:26, Jn 11:27, Jn 11:40, Jn 11:42, Jn 12:36, Jn 12:44, Jn 12:46, Jn 12:47, Jn 13:19, Jn 14:1, Jn 14:10, Jn 14:11, Jn 14:12, Jn 14:29, Jn 16:9, Jn 16:31, Jn 17:20, Jn 17:21, Jn 19:35.
So, Jesus didn’t explicitly teach on grace,
but the emphasis of His teaching
is on faith.
While Jesus didn’t teach on grace,
in contrast, the word ‘law’ appears hundreds of times,
often in connection with Jesus’ preaching.
Although Jesus didn’t explicitly teach on grace,
He was the greatest law preacher of all time.
I ask myself,
why did Jesus speak and teach so much about faith
(and even law) and not grace in the gospels?
This is not because grace is not important.
Let me repeat, just in case you get the wrong idea.
This is not because grace is not important.
But, perhaps, Christ’s message is, grace,
no matter how important, must not be overblown
at the expense of the other priorities of Christ,
one of which must be faith.
The one who has made grace into an all-consuming passion
to the detriment of all other characteristics of Christ
and even into a god,
is none other than Joseph Prince.
Joseph Prince is literally teaching the grace-alone doctrine
– that everything is about grace,
everything revolves around grace,
everything is subsumed under grace
– thereby making grace the god that ‘lord over all the others’.
Indeed, the Pseudo-grace doctrine is the god of Joseph Prince.
What is worse is, Joseph Prince has overblown and distorted
grace to the detriment of the whole Christian faith
– that Christianity is equated to and reduced to ‘Gracetianity’.
Could grace be overblown and overemphasised to the point
in which a heresy could be created?
Why not?
Anything could be abused towards this end,
even the name and ministry of Jesus Christ.
Let’s suppose there is a preacher
who constantly and consistently preaches
about the name and ministry of Jesus Christ (say 98% of the time)
week in and week out in his church,
but the name and ministry
of God the Father and God the Holy Spirit
are hardly mentioned (only 2% of the time).
In such a scenario, Jesus Christ,
the second person in the Holy Trinity,
is grossly and dangerously overemphasised,
at the expense of God, the Father and God, the Holy Spirit,
the second and third person in the Holy Trinity.
With such a gross overemphasis of the Lord Jesus
in relation to God, the Father and God, the Holy Spirit,
the doctrine of the Trinitarian God is being put at risk.
In fact, a false doctrine was created over the ‘Jesus Only’
or the ‘Oneness Pentecostalism’ teaching,
which first emerged around 1914.
So, I hope you can see now that anything
could be overemphasised to a dangerous level
that could result in the creation of a heresy.
That is what Joseph Prince has done to grace.
He has appallingly transformed
the beautiful grace doctrine of the Bible
into Pseudo-grace theology.
Don’t ever be deceived
that Joseph Prince is lifting up the name of Christ
when he preaches grace; he isn’t.
He is lifting up the name and god of his Pseudo-grace doctrine.
Most pastors and believers hold the view
that the Apostle Paul dedicated his life
to preaching the gospel of grace.
Yes, he did.
But what many may not be aware of
is that Paul has also given his life to preach on faith too.
This is proven by the fact that
while the word ‘grace’ is mentioned about 80 times
in all of Paul’s epistles,
the word ‘faith’ is mentioned about 130 times.
(I have not included Hebrews.
Joseph Prince is strongly of the view that Hebrews was written by Paul.
If we go by Joseph Prince’s view that Hebrews was written by Paul, the number of times that Paul mentioned ‘faith’ in relation to ‘grace’ is even starker.
‘Grace’ is mentioned 6 times in Hebrews,
while ‘faith’ is mentioned 33 times in the same book.)
I’ve personally counted them
and went through all the 249 scripture verses:
80 verses on ‘grace’ plus 130 verses on ‘faith’
in Paul’s epistles
and 6 on ‘grace’ plus 33 on ‘faith’ in Hebrews.
I have also personally discovered in the Book of Romans,
the book which many believers
associate the teaching of grace with Paul,
contained an interesting piece of information.
This is because while
‘grace’ appears 18 times in Romans,
‘faith’ was reflected 37 times in the same book.
So, Paul in Romans
was not just teaching about the importance of grace
but faith too.
Though the number of times in which ‘grace’ and ‘faith’ appears
in all of Paul’s epistles may not tell the whole story,
it does give a clear indication of the focus of Paul’s ministry
– that his focus was not just on ‘grace’
but ‘faith’ too.
If Joseph Prince claims that Paul is his mentor
that he had learned all his theology from,
why he is cherry picking on just teaching grace?
Yes, Joseph Prince did teach on faith,
but it is only a small portion
as compared to his massive focus
on grace in his books and sermons.
On that count,
Joseph Prince didn’t actually learn from Paul,
but he was merely using Paul’s name
as a convenient scriptural backing
to further his Pseudo-grace agenda.
It is also important to note
that in the entire New Testament,
the word ‘grace’ appears 114 times,
while the word ‘faith’ is reflected 239 times,
more than twice that of grace.
I have not included the word ‘believe’
which is the verb (and faith is the noun)
which appears 131 times in the New Testament.
If I do, the difference would even be starker.
Based on the data,
while it would be improper for me to say
that faith is a more important doctrine than grace
in the New Testament,
I would be on safe ground to say that both grace and faith
are given equal importance
as far as the doctrinal emphasis of the Bible,
and the heart of God/Christ is concerned.
Am I pitting faith against grace?
Certainly not!
If I do, I would have fallen into the same error as Joseph Prince,
who pits grace against the law.
Just as we must see grace and law as complementary allies
and not as opposing opposites as Joseph Prince did,
the same perspective must be brought to bear
on grace and faith too.
Both grace and faith are essential for saving faith.
One is not more important than the other.
Grace is what God does;
faith is what we do.
It takes both working in harmony to attain salvation.
If one is appropriated without the other,
condemnation would still be the result.
Faith alone that isn’t placed on the grace of Christ
won’t save you.
Grace alone without your response of faith
won’t free you from condemnation either.
In the same way,
both grace and faith are essential for true saving faith.
Yes, indeed, our salvation,
which Christ has gloriously wrought
to enable us to live eternally,
is by the grace of God
but through the faith of man.
The grace of God will not do us any good
if we do not exercise the faith to receive it.
That is why in the gospels,
Jesus constantly calls for a response of faith to His grace,
He demands a response of faith,
and He values our response of faith.
Joseph Prince claims he is Christ-centred
because he preaches grace,
even though Christ did not explicitly teach
on the same topic even once.
But has Joseph Prince with the same energies and passion
also preach on faith and the law
as frequently and passionately
as Christ did?
Far from it!
Joseph Prince did the opposite and denigrates the law
which is a reflection of God’s character.
By denigrating God’s law,
he is denigrating God Himself.
Anyone who dares to denigrate God
as Joseph Prince does
must have come from the wicked Satan himself.
Article 2: Joseph Prince’s never-ending flip-flops represent an unstable and unreliable character that cannot be trusted – By Rev George Ong
This article is not a discussion on repentance per se
as this subject of repentance
has already been covered quite a fair bit on this website.
All I am pointing out
is Joseph Prince’s sickening and disgusting habit
of contradicting himself again and again and again.
In the sermon preached yesterday, on 18 Aug 2024,
Joseph Prince said;
“And I just want to share somethings again
about how we need to be reminded again and again
about the essential doctrines of scripture
of the gospel, actually.
The gospel, alright, listen, involves repentance.”
In this sermon yesterday, on 18 August 2024,
Joseph Prince said the gospel involves repentance.
But in the next 2 sermons, Joseph Prince said
that the gospel only requires one to believe,
meaning repentance isn’t involved at all.
In the second sermon, 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…”
In the third sermon, Joseph Prince said;
“For God so loved the world that He gave us His only begotten Son that whosoever, are you in the whosoever, believes in Him should not perish in hell, but have everlasting life.
And your life begins now right into eternity in heaven with God.
And all is required is believe.”
One moment,
Joseph Prince said the gospel involves repentance.
The next moment,
Joseph Prince said what is required in only to believe.
This simply means repentance isn’t involved at all.
You may ask why is Joseph Prince now admitting
that the gospel involves repentance.
This is probably because of what I wrote in a previous article
dated 13 August 2024:
Are you now convinced that Joseph Prince is a serial liar
when he keeps claiming that he is Christ-centred.
How can one be Christ-centred
when he keeps speaking against Christ Himself!
(Let me quote one other of the many examples of Joseph Prince going against Christ found on this website: When Christ said in Luke 13:3,5 that “But unless you repent, you too will all perish,” Joseph Prince patently taught that anyone who comes to Christ doesn’t have to repent but he needs only to believe. The horrifying thing is this means all the people that Joseph Prince has so-called led to Christ will still perish because they didn’t repent as they are false converts.)
Because what was written against Joseph Prince
is too overwhelming, indefensible and severely damaging
to his no-repentance doctrine,
he now tries to back track a little on his no-repentance stand.
This is so that his supporters
could defend him against his critics by saying
“Who says Joseph Prince is against repentance.
He has said that the gospel involves repentance.”
This is a crafty move by Joseph Prince
to want to have the cake and eat it.
This is because from what he wrote in his books
and said in many of his sermons,
Joseph Prince is basically
a no-repentance and only-believe ‘gospel’ preacher.
His admittance that the gospel involves repentance
is only a temporary ploy
to lessen the heat that he is now facing.
Rev George Ong
Appendix
Featured YouTube comments
@fionalee7942
“I am horrified at how blasphemous this type of teaching is.
My parents are still struggling to leave his teaching
as they have been so brainwashed by him
Joseph Prince encourages them to listen to more of his sermons
instead of reading the word of God.
He is leading so many off the narrow path.
I’m heartbroken, to say the least.”
@lindsaylim5806
“And we wonder
why the National Council of Churches Singapore (NCCS)
is doing nothing?”
@fionalee7942
“@lindsaylim5806
maybe we should join forces
and write a letter of petition
to the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS).
This may get their attention?”
@thng9170
“Joseph Prince says that we do not need to love God,
and we do not even try to keep the commandments
as they are burdensome because no one can keep them.
In the new covenant, faith is used
to receive wealth (gold and silver) and health from God.
But what does the New Testament ACTUALLY say about this?
1 John 5:3-4:
“LOVING GOD means KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS, and his commandments are NOT BURDENSOME. For every child of God DEFEATS THIS EVIL WORLD, and we achieve this victory THROUGH OUR FAITH.”
This is actually what is in God’s heart.
But Joseph Prince has distorted what is in God’s heart
by sinning against His Word again and again!
This clearly shows that he belongs to the devil,
who has been sinning since the beginning (1 John 3:8).”
@lindsaylim5806
“But National Council of Churches Singapore
still can’t see it?
Act blurred or really dead in the spirit?”
@watisyrproblem
“Joseph Prince is very good at distorting the Word,
and I wonder why there are people foolishly following him.”
@peterdeneke8401
“I know people that follow this teaching to the extreme
and don’t follow speed limits on the road
because they are under grace and not law.”
@user-vo3iy4ur6d
“The silver and gold that they came out of Egypt with
was not for the Israelites to enjoy in the wilderness
as there were no shopping malls there;
it was harsh wilderness.
It was meant for the construction of the Tabernacle
for worship and service to Jehovah.
However, they misused the gold and silver for their enjoyment
and made a golden bull idol out of it.
In the Old Testament and the New Testament,
contemporary people can also idolize gold and silver
if they pamper themselves with gold and silver.
Joseph Prince taught in the book, ‘Destined To Reign’,
that God gave wealth for enjoyment.
Jesus warned that it is very hard for a rich man
to enter the kingdom of God,
and it is even easier for a camel to enter the eye of the needle.
This is a very severe warning from the Lord Jesus Himself.
Under the Prosperity and false grace teachings of Joseph Prince,
most, if not all the people, ignored Jesus’ warning
to their own destruction.
Judah ignored the warnings of God through prophet Jeremiah.
What happened?
Jeremiah 6:13-14 New Century Version (NCV)
“Everyone, from the least important to the greatest, is greedy for money. Even the prophets and priests all tell lies. They tried to heal my people’s serious injuries as if they were small wounds. They said, ‘It’s all right, it’s all right.
Doesn’t it sound familiar
with Joseph Prince’s preachings and doctrines
in the Non Christian Church (New Creation Church).
Joseph Prince’s prosperity and success teachings
breed greed and covetousness in people,
which Paul taught and warned as idolatry
while enriching himself.
Last verse in 1 John Epistle, keep yourselves from idols.
I dare say Joseph Prince is actually presenting
a golden calf religion and god to his audience
as Aaron first did;
so did Gideon in the latter part of his life
mixing God’s thing with strange practices.
Ecclesiastes says that there is nothing new under the sun.
Joseph Prince is most evil and toxic.”
@peterdeneke8401
“How can we stop this guy.
He is influencing major churches in South Africa.
Rhema church included. @LeonDupreez.”
@1908great
“Bro George Ong, good job done to highlight and explain
the falsehood of Joseph Prince’s preaching.
See who’s going to respond in obedience and loyalty
to our Lord by leaving the falsehood of Joseph Prince behind.
God is watching and it’s more profitable to obey by leaving
than disobeying and sitting tight and obstinate and dumb
siding with your false preacher, Joseph Prince.
One day You can’t say ‘nobody told me.’”
@estherbhagat7082
“Once again, thank Rev. George Ong for this video.
Hope Joseph Prince repents for his sin
for twisting GOD’S word,
according to his own imagination or interpretation.
His congregation should read the word of GOD
instead of listening to him.
Joseph Prince’s favourite Pastors,
Pastor Lawrence Lim and Pastor Mark Ng
should also read the word of GOD,
and not just keep on saying “Amen” after Joseph Prince.”
@InChristAlone7
“Heard his Pastor’s KPI depends on their number of amen
during his sermon.”
@Outofthishell
“All of them princes and kings self-appointed…
dressed like pop stars… synagogue of…”
@lindsaylim5806
“Just say it.. SATAN!!!!
No need to fear them if we are the ones
who are walking in God’s righteousness.”
@8studio
“Thanks for pressing on and keeping the pressure
on Joseph Prince and New Creation Church.
Keep going.
We pray for Rev George’s good health
to continue exposing false teachers!”
@rayyee5048
“Yes, they got out of Egypt with gold and silver
and none were feeble.
They had gold and silver
but did not have water to drink and food to eat.
It was God who turned the bitter water of Marah
to sweet water and fed them with manna and quail.
But then none of them entered the Promised Land.
If we just allegorise every passage,
we can create our own doctrine.
Then preach our own message to satisfy our own desire.
We all need to repent and become more like Christ
who was the faithful servant king
accomplishing the Father’s will, not our own will.”
@InChristAlone7
“With the gold and silver, they cannot even use or spend it
cos 40 years wandering in the desert.
Eventually, they must have used it
to build the golden calf,
an abomination to Jehovah God.”
@joyceliew4352
“Joseph Prince said:.. not one “feeble” person.
He knew he could explain the meaning of the word
“feeble” clearly but he wouldn’t.
Why? Well.. isn’t it obvious!
The meaning of “feeble”
can be better understood in Hebrew translation.
3782. kashal
Strong’s Concordance
kashal: to stumble, stagger, totter
cause to stumble, figurative:
Rev Ong showed us clearly
Joseph Prince has often used wealth from the Old Testament
to prove what God wants to give us,
but when it comes to God’s commands and judgements,
he would quickly brush it off
by telling us that we are not under the Old Testament
but New Testament.
Joseph Prince!
We don’t deny the “wealth” that God gave to the Israelites
but don’t stop at Psalm 105:37.
as God has more to say about it.
If you are truly a God-fearing man,
you can continue to read the rest of the scriptures
till the entire Psalm 106
because God’s word for the Israelites
didn’t stop at where you stopped!!!
God still has much to say to us,
but you refused to let your people hear
the rest of His word!
Why are you so afraid to tell your people
what happened after that?
About what God did to them
after they had their silver and gold?
After none of them were stumbled???
Please tell it all!
Why are you so evil?
You hide the truths from God’s people
and you will eventually cause them
to fall into destruction.”
@lindsaylim5806
“Yes, Joseph Prince is plain evil.
Why can’t his congregation and his worldwide followers
take time to read 1 Corinthians 11:27-30?
They are partaking God’s judgement
by taking the Holy Communion flippantly.”
@1908great
“Joseph Prince is a half-truth expert.
What’s that called?
Pick up here and there to preach
but the whole truth isn’t there.
How deceiving?
Well, his preaching is for itching ears.”
@user-hd7qv8dx7x
“We are not against wealth and health,
but against greed, vanity and false and lopsided doctrine.
Not only does the Bible warn about the dangers of wealth and riches,
but also pride, charm and beauty.
Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain,
but the woman who fears the Lord is greatly to be praised.
Are we against beauty? Of course not!
But stop being so lopsided and one-sided, Joseph Prince
and stop deceiving and confusing the people.”
@lindsaylim5806
“How many in his congregation
as well as worldwide followers
coming out with wealth and healing?
Just see Olivia Lum??
And many more are still sick in their bodies
after being in New Creation Church for 20 or 30 years,
taking Holy Communion as instructed by Joseph Prince??
Joseph Prince is simply a greedy and evil man
as he wants the sales of Holy Communion elements
to increase from Rock Bookstore.
All about $$$$$, not love for the sheep.”
@InChristAlone7
“His Prosperity Gospel teaches one to run after wealth
instead of Godly contentment.
I heard Joseph Prince preach that as a child of God,
we must seek and ask for the best…
if you are driving a Toyota car,
asked God to give you a BMW.
If you live in a 5-room flat, ask God for a bungalow.
It’s all about wealth and status.”
@user-hd7qv8dx7x
“Joseph Prince is playing God.
Crazymatics like to take truths to the extreme
and avoid verses that say godliness with contentment is great gain.
And how Jesus warned about riches and mammon.
Cult leaders are extremists who like to promote their doctrine
by selectively picking verses from the Bible
while leaving other truths out.
A one-time event of the Jews leaving and taking gold
and Joseph Prince makes it a major doctrine.
And quoting Abraham as the model
that every New Covenant believer
can be as wealthy as him.”
@InChristAlone7
“A wolf will not even bat an eyelid to reinforce his false doctrines
by selecting scripture verses from the Old Testament
to hoodwink his congregation
who does not search the Word.
As long as gold and silver are being preached,
his congregation will amen and amen.
Timothy 3:2 “People will be lovers of themselves and lovers of money…”
@ogosmatt2498
“Money, sex, power without virtue will lead all to hell…”
@lindsaylim5806
“Joseph Prince is simply evil.
Just think of how he manipulated the Holy Communion
to fit his Satanic heresies of health and youthfulness.
The warning in 1 Corinthians 11:27-30 is very clear.
Those who partake of the Holy Communion
as taught by Joseph Prince
are actually getting sick and dying before their time.
How foolish they are.
He is cursing his followers
by asking them to take as often as possible
without examining themselves before partaking of it.
1 Corinthians 11:27-30 ESV
[27] Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. [28] Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. [29] For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. [30] That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
@InChristAlone7
“in this sermon, Joseph Prince kept on emphasising
“They partook of the Lord’s Supper the day before…”
as if to say that the partaking of Holy Communion
has made them strong and without sickness.
Very clever way of reinforcing his false doctrines.”
@lindsaylim5806
“@InChristAlone7
Joseph Prince is merely playing around with words
to fool the naive followers.
Need to punctuate his statements with
‘I’m preaching God’s Word’, ‘it’s scriptural’, etc,
to convince his listeners he is using God’s Words.
Conmen use such tactics too (they like to add 100% authentic).”
@InChristAlone7
“@lindsaylim5806
Ya Lor. As long as he slipped in Jesus in his preaching,
his followers will utter amen and amen.”
@WordsofGodThe
“This clown Prince or Crown Prince
really loves gold and silver so much
so that he thinks that everyone
who has some gold or silver is super-rich or super-healthy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYmHBkDtZQ&t=48s
However, please think, If your parents or grandparents
were migrants who came from China or India
and they came with some gold or silver
and had withstood long hours of boat journey
without becoming sick,
were they super rich or healthy too?
Will you boast or use their example
to tell your son or grandson
that they were super rich or super healthy too?
No, that’s ridiculous.
I would only think that they were super rich
if they brought along kilos of gold or silver with them!
So, it is simply ridiculous to boast
or use the example of gold and silver
to prove that the Israelites were super rich
or super healthy too during their harsh migration.
Moreover, the bringing of gold and silver
into the wilderness has no significance for prosperity
when nobody will buy gold from them;
it has only one negative significance
when the Bible shows us
that they used their gold to create an idol.
I think there is really a big, big problem in Joseph Prince’s theology
or his way of looking at things or people.
I see him like a ‘magnifying glass’ or ‘microscope’
who will just magnify anything that he likes to see.
If you give him a coin,
he will magnify it to the size of a bullock cart wheel
and tell you that he has the word of God
and it (the coin) will make you super rich
because of him or because of what he says.
So, most of the people who come to him
want to hear his soothsaying of anything
that they want to hear especially the way
(or the ‘word of God’)
that will make them super rich or super healthy too.
However, I see he is not only the worst sorcerer or soothsayer,
he is the worst enemy of the Lord.
I see him not only as a heretic ‘MAGNIFIER’;
but also a terrible ‘MICROSCOPE’ for fault finding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxxtvQfreNE&t=48s
Obviously, when he says that our answer
is not in telling people to stop sinning (or to repent),
he is FINDING FAULT with the Lord or the gospel
that the Lord has commanded us to preach.
How can we let him go if he is a fault-finder, liar, scammer,
and a double-talker who keeps finding fault in everything
that the Lord preached,
using his pulpit as a camouflage
to keep slamming in his lies, heresies, blasphemies,
and mockeries over the Word of God,
stroke after stroke, day after day, and week after week
for over 20 years?
Come to think of it,
it should be a shocking realization for most people!”
@1908great
“WordofGodthe, 100 percent agreed.
You have said right on!”
@ktan6738
“Why people can’t feel Holy Spirit in New Creation Church?
We can’t serve God and Money at the same time.”
@kengoppingoppin
“Pretending that he is not preaching the prosperity gospel.
Using the Bible to cover up his pretence.
By putting a spin on the contextual meaning of verses such
as “brought them out with silver and gold”.
Trying to plant the idea that it’s God’s prosperity message
and he isn’t preaching it.
A great dissembler.
Why did Joseph Prince say the Israelites partook of the Lord’s supper?
before they left Egypt and were strong the next day?
They didn’t.
They observe the Passover, so-named
because the Lord passed over the houses
where the blood was applied.
The Passover and Lord’s supper
are two distinct events in Jewish history.
Why then did he use the word, Lord’s supper instead of Passover?
To serve his own agenda.
He was trying to induce belief in his own teaching
that the Holy Communion is a panacea
for sickness and disease.
Too sly by half.
What impudence in making his own statement
that God does not use Old Covenant means
to get New Covenant results.
It’s crass disrespect for the power and glory of God.”
@1908great
“David Pawson, thank you for coming to Singapore
because of your great concern for this free grace,
the no need of repentance teaching
that is spreading like cancer in Singapore
and even in Africa as propagated by Joseph Prince.
This teaching is NOT the gospel
which Joseph Prince is shouting out loud!
Folks wake up!
Heed the words of our Lord lest you too lose your salvation.
Is it worth standing by a false preacher
and being blindly loyal against God’s word!
This is disobedience and practising idolatry!”
@jamesteo9165
“Putting it in perspective,
everyone came out with gold and silver, mind you, not a few dollars.
Not many in any church have such wealth.
And they took it from the Egyptians,
who gave them out of fear of their God.
And NONE were feeble.
You only have to look at the church
and see many are still feeble.
God still heals, but He heals according to His will.”
@1908great
“A false prophet prophesying over Joseph Prince!”
@WordsofGodThe
“Today many people take the Holy Communion
with the thinking that they have come out of ‘Egypt’
without realizing that they are still in ‘Egypt’.
Yes, they can quote all the words and commandments
of the Lord to remember Him,
and to ‘come out of the world’ and to follow Him.
However, how many really obey Him and do His words.
Taking the Holy Communion
has the great significance of coming out of ‘Egypt’
and the world, and coming before God,
with great determination to turn away from our sins
and take up our cross.
Obviously, the Holy Communion
that the Lord wants us to take every day
is not just a simple confession
to think of how much health and wealth we can enjoy every day
(or how much meat we could eat in the Passover Feast
with the Lord in our imagination).
The Holy Communion
is like the Holy Assembly of God’s people before Him
to remember His Holy Covenant with us.
Like the Israelites who read out the Ten Commandments
to speak out their allegiance to God and obey His Commandments,
we are required to do the same
to voice out our obedience to His words in our confession,
in a reflective moment,
and in meaningful examination of our life too.
This moment could be more reflective and sacred
than our normal quiet time with the Lord.
That’s why we are required to EXAMINE ourselves
whether we come together in THIS MANNER:
1 Cor 11:26-32 KJV
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come. (27) Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. (28) But let a man EXAMINE himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. (29) For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. (30) For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. (31) For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. (32) But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
However, do you know how serious it is
if this most Holy moment, most Holy covenant,
most Holy command, or most Holy teaching
is corrupted to become something
that is done flippantly or becomes something
that has totally lost all its original solemn meaning
before God to die to ourselves and take up our cross?
May God have mercy on us.”