Joseph Prince’s reply to his critics in his sermon on 6 Nov 2022, reveals his arrogant, hypocritical & slanderous ways – By Rev George Ong (Dated 9 Nov 2022)
Don’t miss what John Piper had written about Truth-based unity.
Also, John MacArthur’s short write-up that false teachers are the ones who cry the loudest for unity so as to prevent their heresies from being exposed.
If you haven’t had the chance, don’t miss the 45-second audio – in which Joseph Prince thanked his critics for making him famous.
Before you view the 2-minute video, and before you are bought over by what Joseph Prince, the smooth talker has to say, you need to be clear about one key thing – that Joseph Prince’s critics have never treated him as a brother-in-Christ, or as part of the body of Christ, but a wolf in sheepskin.
If you are a frequent visitor to this website, you should be aware that those 10 volumes of notes, comprising 4,800 pages, were written to prove that Prince is a false teacher and a wolf.
Besides the author of this website, many have also written to declare that Joseph Prince is a heretic and a wolf that the church should expose, and that the sheep should be warned to beware of him. Their articles are also featured on this website.
So when Joseph Prince said in the 2-minute video that Christians are coming against Christians in public and washing their dirty linen in public – Joseph Prince is slandering his critics.
This is because his critics have never treated Joseph Prince as a fellow believer in Christ but a heretic.
What they are contending and fighting isn’t Christians at all, but Joseph Prince, who is a wolf in sheepskin.
(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 6 Nov 2022, 3 days ago, Joseph Prince said;
Please click here to view the 2-minute video:
“And what I’m going to share today is something that I feel that has happened to the body of Christ. Now I will not preach this in the natural. I will not preach this because it will invite a lot of criticism. It will invite a lot of people who are people, who are just out to get me. Anyway, they are always around one, ah… because I really believe they are sincere, alright, but of course, sincerely wrong lah.”
“The world, they don’t like you only, they cancel you. Rewrite history, you know. Imagine history can be rewritten. That’s funny. What I thought, something happened, something happened already. You know what I’m saying; but you can rewrite history. Amen. And people want to cancel you and all that.
Just that I think that you must be powerful enough to cancel someone because in the first place, you didn’t give birth to him, and then you didn’t give him the ministry. You didn’t give him the anointing. You didn’t give him the blessings and all that.
How can you cancel him when God gave him all these things? I think there is a saying that says that when God opens a door, no one can shut. I think today’s vernacular will be what God has written no one can cancel.”
“Then comes another teaching now, I mean it’s been coming for some time already, but in the social media and all that, you find people come against Christians, and saddest of all, are Christians coming against Christians.
Friend, the social media must be a place where they see our love for one another. And maybe they are not being reached because Jesus says, ‘By this love for one another, by this shall all men know you are my disciples.’ Instead of using the platform to attack one another, why not we use the platform to bless one another, and use it for the gospel.
Even we have disagreement, let’s revolve around the person, let’s agree on the person our Lord Jesus Christ. That he is 100 percent God, 100 percent man. He died for our sins on the cross. He rose from the dead on the third day. Amen. And whatever else, it’s peripheral, shall we? Shall we gather around that?
The Bible never talks about unity of the doctrine, it says the unity of the Spirit. We cannot agree on everything. Yes, because you know what? If there are 2 of us, there are 3 opinions. Amen. Among Christian sometimes. But let’s not bring our dirty laundry for the world to see. And then you tell them, you know, you need Jesus. Um.”
Joseph Prince said,
“And what I’m going to share today is something that I feel that has happened to the body of Christ.”
What? Body of Christ?
You mean Joseph Prince doesn’t know that his critics do not consider him to be part of the body of Christ because they have proven from evidence after evidence on this website, that he is a wolf in sheepskin?
Prince is indeed a great pretender and master strategist, trying to shift the burden of wrongdoing and guilt to his critics for contending against the body of Christ,
which is a slanderous false accusation,
when what they are doing (which is entirely scriptural and perfectly legitimate) is to contend against Joseph Prince, the wolf in sheepskin, who have come to harm the body of Christ and destroy the sheep by his heretical teachings and false gospel that lead the multitudes to the lake of fire.
You mean Joseph Prince doesn’t know of the tons and tons of evidence that was marshalled on this website (10 volumes of books and 4,800 pages of notes, plus the many articles that are added weekly) that he is a wolf in sheepskin – and that his critics have all along been treating him as a heretic, and not as part of the body of Christ?
Like what the Singapore army used to say, ‘act blur’ – Prince is indeed a master at ‘acting blur’.
Joseph Prince said;
“I will not preach this because it will invite a lot of criticism. It will invite a lot of people who are people, who are just out to get me.”
Joseph Prince is so deceptively evil that he has turned
what his critics, who, in obedience to the scriptures, have sacrificially taken great risk to contend against his heretical teachings,
to one that his critics are out to get him.
Why does Prince now possess a siege mentality and conclude that people are out to get him?
If Prince has been preaching the true gospel and the Jesus of the Bible, why would any responsible believer even care to bother him. They would praise God and pray for his ministry.
But because what Joseph Prince is preaching is so patently false, any responsible and courageous preacher would rise up to contend against him; and when his critics do that, Prince said that we are out to get him.
Unbelievable!
What Prince has ‘cleverly’ done is that he has turned himself into an innocent good guy, and his critics as the real bad boys, who are out to get him.
Joseph Prince said;
“… because I really believe they are sincere, alright, but of course, sincerely wrong lah.”
Wow, by a stroke of the pen, Joseph Prince declares that all his critics are sincerely wrong.
Joseph Prince is saying:
Martin Luther, the founder of the Reformation Movement, was sincerely wrong when he said Satan was behind the attempt to remove the Ten Commandments (this means Joseph Prince’s teachings that the Ten Commandments have gone obsolete, is also satanic!)
Michael Brown, a reliable and internationally-known Bible scholar, was sincerely wrong, when he said regarding the interpretation that connects ‘Rosh’ to Russia in Ezekiel 38, a position which Joseph Prince also holds, “But right now, there is absolutely no scriptural or factual evidence that connects Ezekiel 38 to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. And with hundreds (or thousands) of mistaken date-setting interpretations of the Bible littering our recent past, it’s best to toss this latest one in the dustbin right now.”
Justin Peters, a well-known figure in contending against heretics, was sincerely wrong, when he quoted what Joseph Prince said, “but we’re teaching people to repent all of the time. When people go from thinking negatively to thinking positively.” Then Justin Peters said to Joseph Prince, “Prince, that’s not repentance! By his definition of repentance, we can all repent simply by joining the Optimist Club. Having a sunny outlook on life. That’s not repentance.”
Dr Roland Chia, a credible Bible scholar, was sincerely wrong when he categorically asserts that the Antinomian gospel that Joseph Prince preaches is a different and a false gospel that leads to eternal destruction.
Bishop Ho Chee Sin was sincerely wrong, when he wrote that “the task of preventing heresies from seeping into the church must be taken seriously by the pastors and elders of churches. We can do something concrete by publicly speaking up against the heresies of Joseph Prince.”
Bishop Andrew Phang was sincerely wrong, when he wrote; “As I am fully convinced that Joseph Prince’s heresy is one that could even lead our sheep to end up in hell, the shepherds of God’s flock should boldly come forward and speak publicly against the destructiveness of his teachings.”
Bishop Kuan Kim Seng was sincerely wrong, when he said that Joseph Prince is not a true pastor and that he is a heretic who spouts nothing but heresies in his sermons and books.
Rev Eric Chua was sincerely wrong, when he wrote that “Our greatest fear should not just be how the pandemic would affect us, but how we are to give an account to our Lord God, especially if we would do nothing to counter the false teaching of Joseph Prince.”
Rev Yang Tuck Yoong, Chairman of the Alliance of Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches of Singapore (APCCS), and Senior Pastor of Cornerstone Community Church, was sincerely wrong, when he said;
Please click on the link below to view the 30-second video:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17HAX9wmgGSSXg4MfGdpKkV-y2p3LbaSV/view?usp=share_link
“You’re deceived if you believe in the Hypergrace message… And the longer you sit under that anointing or teaching, you’re going to be brainwashed by it. You’re going to be brainwashed by it.
The theological term is Antinomianism. It’s a theology that holds the idea that under the dispensation of grace, that the moral law has got no more value. Come on, my friends, what Bible have you been reading?”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, the person whom Joseph Prince said he has great respect for, was sincerely wrong, when he said;
“Any teaching concerning salvation which does not express itself in terms of the demands of the law is false teaching.”
“…If you resent the commandments of God, don’t talk to me about heaven. Don’t talk about spending your eternity looking into the face of God.”
“Therefore, if your so-called grace (which you say you have received) does not make you keep the law, you have not received grace. You may have received a psychological experience, but you have never received the grace of God.”
(George Ong’s Interjection: By what Martyn Lloyd-Jones said, Joseph Prince isn’t a believer to start with. I am still waiting for Joseph Prince to shed light on this mystery that only he can unveil – why Prince calls Martyn Lloyd-Jones a great man of God, and yet this great man of God has incessantly refuted and demolished his teachings, and that we could even unmistakably conclude by what Lloyd-Jones said, that Joseph Prince isn’t a believer! Well, if Prince chooses to keep this shady secret under wraps, I may attempt to reveal in the near future what I think actually happened.)
Joseph Prince, by declaring that all his critics, such as Martin Luther, Michael Brown, Justin Peters, Dr Roland Chia, Bishop Ho Chee Sin, Bishop Andrew Phang, Bishop Kuan Kim Seng, Rev Eric Chua, Rev Yang Tuck Yoong and Martyn Lloyd-Jones,
are sincerely wrong,
and he is the only one who has it right – expresses pure arrogance of the highest order!
Joseph Prince said;
“The world, they don’t like you only, they cancel you. Rewrite history, you know. Imagine history can be rewritten. That’s funny. What I thought, something happened, something happened already. You know what I’m saying; but you can rewrite history. Amen. And people want to cancel you and all that.
Just that I think that you must be powerful enough to cancel someone because in the first place, you didn’t give birth to him, and then you didn’t give him the ministry. You didn’t give him the anointing. You didn’t give him the blessings and all that.
How can you cancel him when God gave him all these things? I think there is a saying that says that when God opens a door, no one can shut. I think, today’s vernacular will be what God has written no one can cancel.”
In 3 short paragraphs, Joseph Prince used the word, ‘cancel’ 5 times.
This shows that Joseph Prince is rather fixated about the possibility of him being cancelled by his critics.
Is Prince driven by fear that something ominous is going to happen to him or what?
Honestly, I, being one of his many critics, am hearing this word, ‘cancel’ in the context of social media for the first time in my life (as I don’t even go into social media at all like Prince does).
Cancelling another person is not our business. It is God who finally decides who to cancel and when to cancel, and who and when, not to cancel. As mere mortals, we had better stay out of this turf as it is none of our business.
So, Joseph Prince is falsely accusing and slandering his critics for wanting to cancel him (this is not the first time Prince has slandered his critics) when that isn’t our intention at all, knowing full well that this is completely under God’s turf, and we had better not encroach into it.
Why is Prince so concerned about us cancelling him when that don’t even cross our minds? And, as I have said, that is not under man’s turf, but only the Almighty God can decide. So don’t try and play God.
But Joseph Prince has gone to the other extreme of reacting in arrogance, as he gave the impression that he will never be cancelled nor will he fall, when he said;
“How can you cancel him when God gave him all these things? I think there is a saying that says that when God opens a door, no one can shut. I think, today’s vernacular will be what God has written no one can cancel.”
Joseph Prince ought to realise that that is plain arrogance – that while God can open the door, He can shut it anytime too, and when He chooses to shut, no one can open it.
If God decides to cancel Joseph Prince one day, His plans will never fail.
More so, his critics believe that Joseph Prince is empowered not by God but the devil.
Joseph Prince constantly alludes to his success – to his big church and gigantic church premise – this is what he did in his latest sermon on 6 Nov 2022, 3 days ago, but is Joseph Prince not aware that the devil can also give him success?
God is so patient and kind to Prince. But Prince had better not take the patience of God for granted.
And just because his critics cannot cancel Joseph Prince, doesn’t mean they cannot contend against his heresies.
But Joseph Prince is such a slimy guy – he is implying that those who contend against his heresies are effectively trying to cancel him.
Hence, from now on, according to his logic, we cannot even contend against his false teachings – for to contend against his heresies, is amounting to cancelling him.
Next, in the same sermon on 6 Nov 2022, Joseph Prince said he loves his critics and he takes communion for them – the message is, he is the angel.
Then he also said that his critics are out to get him, and he falsely accuses and slanders them that they want to cancel him. He then said and implied that those who want to cancel him, don’t even have the power to do so – the message is, that they are the devils.
Prince is the angel, his critics are the devils – that’s the tailored and hidden message that Joseph Prince wants to communicate to the world.
You must remember such nice-sounding statements that Prince loves his critics are made for public consumption and to gain the moral high ground against his critics.
A person who sincerely loves his critics, will not falsely accuse and slander them at the same time – and what is worse, he does it in public!
He will not spitefully look down on their capability by implying that they do not have enough power to do something when Joseph Prince said,
“And people want to cancel you and all that. Just that I think that you must be powerful enough to cancel someone…”
So much for Joseph Prince who said he loves his critics – an insincere declaration with a hidden agenda that only the naïve and fools would be bought over.
Joseph Prince said;
“And people want to cancel you and all that. Just that I think that you must be powerful enough to cancel someone…”
Joseph Prince is implying that his critics don’t have the power to cancel him (not that they are trying to, but that’s his accusation).
But come to think of it, if his critics don’t have the power to cancel him, why even mentioned them in the first place in front of his congregation and announced this to the world.
If his critics have no power, Joseph Prince should have just kept quiet about the issue as these critics are no threat to his ministry at all.
If that is so, why then did Joseph Prince make this known at a public forum during a worship service? Is Joseph Prince abusing the pulpit?
Is it because his critics have now posed a credible threat to his ministry, and that’s why he has to take them on out in the open to the public, by painting his critics as the bad guys who are out to get him as they want to cancel him?
If that is the actual story, our thanks to Joseph Prince for his high regards for what his critics have done so far.
We are indeed honoured by Prince for paying so much attention to us in his other sermons, and especially in his last sermon on 6 Nov 2022, for giving us so much ‘airtime’.
(Please believe me; I know what I’m saying and what is happening as I view Joseph Prince’s sermons every Sunday.)
We must thank Joseph Prince for giving us free publicity, and as a result of him giving us a high profile, we have become more famous and known to the public.
Please don’t blame me for saying that because this was what Joseph Prince actually said of his critics in this audio;
Kindly click on this link below to listen to this 45-second audio:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sZ2vU7kOcbNy7wenULNixWivH-2UFQRq/view
“I never knew persecution until I preached the gospel of grace. And then I became famous.
I want to go on record saying I want to thank everyone who spoke bad about me because many people didn’t even hear about me, but because of you now, they know.
And honestly, many people never heard about New Creation Church. But thanks to you, speaking things against our church. People come and try to check us out, many of them never check out. They became permanent residents.
So I have to say thank you very much. Appreciate the free advertisement.”
Don’t you think Joseph Prince deserves to get a taste of his own sarcastic and bitter medicine?
Come to think of it, Joseph Prince should have continued to thank his critics for making him famous, but why is he changing tack now by accusing them that they are just out to get him to cancel him?
Is it because what his critics are saying have begun to make an impact on his people and his ministry?
Is it because instead of seeing the attendance of his church flourishing, now it is dwindling – hence Prince has to take on a different approach at how he handles his critics?
Joseph Prince said;
“Then comes another teaching now, I mean it’s been coming for some time already. But in the social media and all that, you find people come against Christians, and saddest of all, are Christians coming against Christians.”
Now, the ‘Act Blur’ king in action again. The Hokkiens say, ‘Ti Gong’; the Malays say, ‘Act Bodoh’.
Although he is well aware that his critics do not treat him as a brother-in-Christ, but a wolf in sheepskin, who ought to be contended,
he pretends that he isn’t aware of that,
and then slanders his critics again for attacking a fellow Christian or a brother-in-Christ,
when they are actually contending against a wolf in sheepskin – Joseph Prince.
Can you see how toxic Joseph Prince is?
As far as the Bible is concerned slandering is a serious sin:
Proverbs 10:18 NIV
18 Whoever conceals hatred with lying lips and spreads slander is a fool.
Proverbs 10:18 CJB
18 He who covers up hate has lips that lie, and anyone who slanders is a fool.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NIV
9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Proverbs 10:18 calls someone who slanders a fool. If Joseph Prince doesn’t want to be called a fool, he had better stop slandering people.
If Prince refuses to heed the scriptures and continues to slander his critics, believers, under the authority of scriptures, are not wrong if they call Prince a fool – not because they want to spite him, but because of his unrepentant and rebellious attitude towards the holy word of God.
But what is worse is, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 states that slanderers will not enter the kingdom of God.
As Joseph Prince is already a false teacher, he sure doesn’t need to give God another reason of slandering for stopping him from entering His kingdom.
When Joseph Prince said;
“By this love for one another, by this shall all men know you are my disciples,” (Jn 13:35)
it shows up his hypocrisy.
Though Prince is against discipleship and the kind of disciples that Jesus talks about – such as denying yourself, take up your cross, give up your everything, etc, he uses the same verse in John 13:35 that contains the word ‘disciple’ that he disagrees with, to attack his critics that they, as disciples, are acting without love.
Joseph Prince has no authority to even quote John 13:35 for the simple reason that he preaches against the costly discipleship that Jesus taught. Talking about him being Christ-centred!
Why is Prince using John 13:35 against us when he is well aware that we don’t even see him as a brother-in-Christ or a disciple of Christ as in John 13:35?
What is worse and gravely hypocritical is Prince himself has never acknowledged that he is such a disciple of the Jesus kind – costly discipleship – taking up your cross – denying yourself – giving up everything for the sake of Christ.
Joseph Prince said;
“Instead of using the platform to attack one another, why not we use the platform to bless one another, and use it for the gospel.”
There the great pretender goes again. The ‘Ti Gong’ and ‘Act Bodoh’ guy is on the scene again.
Joseph Prince, is again, pretending not to know that what we are contending against him is the false gospel that he is preaching.
Because Prince is preaching the false gospel that brings in false converts, his critics, out of love for the multitudes, have to warn them against this wolf.
If that is the case, how can we work together with Joseph Prince, who is preaching the false gospel?
Joseph Prince said;
“Even we have disagreement, let’s revolve around the person, let’s agree on the person our Lord Jesus Christ. That he is 100 percent God, 100 percent man. He died for our sins on the cross. He rose from the dead on the third day. Amen. And whatever else, it’s peripheral, shall we. Shall we gather around that?”
You remember the issue that Paul had with Peter and the Galatians in the book of Galatians?
Is it over any of the issues that Joseph Prince has listed out in the above?
The confrontation of Paul against Peter in Galatians was not over the deity and humanity of Christ, or the death and resurrection of Christ, although they are important.
The real issue is that the Galatians were adding the component of circumcision to the salvation equation, and this is clearly heretical.
While the Galatians preached the heretical gospel plus circumcision salvation doctrine, Joseph Prince preaches a gospel minus sanctification or works, which is as grave and false as the Galatian’s error of a gospel plus circumcision.
That’s why critics have to contend against Prince’s heresies.
RC Sproul, a credible theologian aptly put it:
The Reformation gospel of a faith that is equal to justification plus works (as fruit of the faith) is the true gospel.
The Antinomian gospel (which Joseph Prince preaches) of a faith alone that equals to justification, but minus works (as fruit of the faith), is the false gospel.
Joseph Prince, by preaching a gospel minus sanctification or works doctrine, is blatantly contradicting all the Church Fathers, who hold to this doctrine that both justification and sanctification, or faith that is evidenced by works, are necessary for salvation.
Martin Luther wrote;
“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”
John Calvin wrote;
“It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.”
Martin Luther wrote;
“We say that justification is effective without works, not that faith is without works.”
“… We are not saved by works; but if there be no works, there must be something amiss with faith.”
John Calvin wrote;
“Christ justifies no one whom He does not also sanctify.”
What this means is that in Reformation Theology, both justification or faith in the first half of the statements and sanctification or works in the second half of the statements, are required for salvation. One cannot do without the other.
The other church fathers also shared the same view:
JC Ryle wrote;
“Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification.”
“In justification our own works have no place at all and simple faith in Christ is the one thing needful. In sanctification our own works are of vast importance…”
A A Hodge wrote;
“You cannot take Christ for justification unless you take Him for sanctification.”
FF Bruce wrote;
“Those who have been justified are now being sanctified; those who have no experience of present sanctification have no reason to suppose they have been justified.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones said;
“How utterly wrong and unscriptural it is, therefore, to separate justification and sanctification, and to say that a man can be justified apart from sanctification…”
John MacArthur wrote;
“Antinomianism is the notion of justification apart from sanctification. Luther himself coined the term for already in his lifetime, some were beginning to corrupt the doctrine he had rediscovered, claiming that justification by faith rendered unnecessary the preaching of the law, obedience to the law, or sanctification as evidence of justification.”
Charles Spurgeon said;
“Although we are sure that men are not saved for the sake of their works, yet we are equally sure that no man will be saved without them.”
“It is a faith which produces works which save us; the works do not save us, but a faith which does not produce works is a faith that will only deceive, and cannot lead us into heaven.”
Joseph Prince’s false doctrine of a faith-only or belief-only salvation doctrine not only goes against the scriptures, but it also contradicts the Reformation Fathers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin, and other men of God such as J C Ryle, AA Hodge, AW Tozer, FF Bruce, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Macarthur and a whole host of others – whose teachings are well respected by the Church.
Charles Spurgeon said,
“Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all.”
What Charles 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 to 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 all these men of God, 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.
Joseph Prince said;
“Friend, the social media must be a place where they see our love for one another. And maybe they are not being reached because Jesus says, ‘By this love for one another, by this shall all men know you are my disciples. Instead of using the platform to attack one another, why not we use the platform to bless one another, and use it for the gospel.”
“But let’s not bring our dirty laundry for the world to see. And then you tell them, you know, you need Jesus. Um.”
Based on what Joseph Prince said in the above, he should walk up to the Apostle Paul and say;
“Paul, would you cool it. Why are you attacking Peter just over doctrine? Don’t you know, ‘The Bible never talks about unity of doctrine, it says the unity of the Spirit.’ (exact words of Joseph Prince in the video)
Where is your love for Peter? Why did you use social media to rebuke Peter, publicly?
Paul, why are you washing dirty linen in public? This is so unbecoming of you.
Paul, you wash dirty linen in public and then you tell them, ‘You know, you need Jesus. Um.’ (using Joseph Prince’s own words in the video)
You have just sabotaged your gospel preaching that you have laboured so hard for by your no-nonsense way and the public manner with which you confronted Peter.
Paul, if you choose to keep to your uncompromising ways, and if the world see Christians are fighting against one another in the open, how could people be reached with your gospel?”
You all know the story.
Paul himself had to rebuke Peter by name publicly, when he began acting like a hypocrite – as by Peter’s hypocritical action, the gospel was in danger of being compromised (Gal 2:11-14).
Paul’s action in Galatians 2:11-14 demonstrated that the truth of the gospel is even more important than the reputation of an apostle.
If Paul had the guts to rebuke Apostle Peter (who is senior to him and a believer) by name publicly because the gospel was being threatened, how much more should we be uncompromising and courageous to do the same with false teachers such as Joseph Prince, who is not only corrupting the gospel, but also leading the multitudes to hell?
Joseph Prince has to be contended against openly, not just among the Christian public,
but also in the world of unbelievers, so that non-Christians would be aware that Prince’s gospel is a false gospel that would only lead them to hell.
Joseph Prince said;
“Even we have disagreement, let’s revolve around the person, let’s agree on the person our Lord Jesus Christ. That he is 100 percent God, 100 percent man. He died for our sins on the cross. He rose from the dead on the third day. Amen. And whatever else, it’s peripheral, shall we. Shall we gather around that?”
Joseph Prince wants to give you the idea that what constitutes a false teacher is only when one contravenes on the doctrine of the deity and humanity of Christ, and if he preaches against the death and the resurrection of Jesus.
But a heretic is called a heretic not only because of the above reasons that Joseph Prince listed.
RC Sproul said;
“The other twin heresies that follow the doctrine of sanctification are the doctrines of antinomianism (which Joseph Prince teaches) or legalism.”
Martyn Lloyd-Jones said;
“But there have been people who have done so, and it has involved them in the most terrible and ‘damnable heresies’. To what has it led? It has led to Antinomianism which has made them say, ‘Ah, it is not I who am sinning, it is my flesh that is sinning; I am not responsible, I do not want to sin, therefore it is not I who am doing these things’.”
“The answer is that the false prophet very rarely tells you anything about the holiness, the righteousness, the justice, and the wrath of God. He always preaches about the love of God, but those other things he does not mention.” “He generally emphasizes one truth about God only, and that is love.”
The Apostle Paul had warned the early church that not every preacher who preaches Jesus is preaching the real Jesus, and not every preacher who preaches the gospel is preaching the true gospel:
2 Corinthians 11:4 NLT
4 You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed.”
Paul’s point was that those who preach another Jesus is categorically preaching another gospel – a false gospel.
If you haven’t read the article, titled,
Joseph Prince Who Preaches a Different Jesus is a Heretic – By Rev George Ong (Dated 12 Oct 2021)
kindly click on the link below:
If you have read the above article, you would have realised that Joseph Prince contradicted the teachings of Jesus, not once, not twice, but a massive 32 times (and what I’ve given is not even the entire list), how could he be considered by many to be a Christ-centred preacher, how could he claim to be preaching the Jesus of the Bible, and how could he not be a heretic?
The most sobering fact is that people are saved, not because they believe in Joseph Prince’s Jesus, but only when they believe in Bible Jesus. Yet, today, there are so many who claim to be Christians just because they believe in Joseph Prince’s Jesus.
Be warned that those who believe in Joseph Prince’s Jesus, don’t believe in Jesus at all as Joseph Prince’s Jesus is vastly different from Bible Jesus.
Joseph Prince’s Jesus is not the real Jesus but the counterfeit Jesus. And no one can be saved if he places his trust in the counterfeit Jesus that Joseph Prince has concocted in his own imagination.
Finally, and most importantly, how can Joseph Prince be preaching the same Jesus of the Bible, when he literally removes chunks of what Jesus says and teaches in the gospels as no more binding on New Covenant believers when the scripture teaches that whoever does not continue in the teachings of Jesus does not have God (2 Jn 9-10)?
2 John 9 NIV
9 “Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.”
The Apostle John, in 2 John 9, clearly teaches that anyone who “does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God;”
This simply means that according to the Apostle John, Joseph Prince who, “does not continue in the teaching of Christ” by removing the sayings and teachings of Christ in the 4 gospels as no more binding on New Covenant believers, isn’t a Christian in the first place.
So, while the deity and humanity of Christ, and the death and the resurrection of Jesus, are important factors to determine whether one is a heretic, they are not the only factors as Joseph Prince would have us believe.
Joseph Prince must have thought that by using the deity and humanity of Christ, and the death and resurrection of Jesus as the issue (though they are important), he would put his critics in a tight spot, and he could corner them into accepting him as a brother-in-Christ and not a wolf – as that would be a sure winner for him.
Good try, Joseph Prince! Try harder next time!
Joseph Prince said;
“The Bible never talks about unity of doctrine, it says the unity of the Spirit. We cannot agree on everything. Yes, because you know what? If there are 2 of us, there are 3 opinions. Amen. Among Christian sometimes.”
When Joseph Prince said;
“The Bible never talks about unity of doctrine, it says the unity of the Spirit,”
he is blatantly lying against the scriptures. I say again, Prince is lying!
Before I show you what John Piper said, let’s hear what John MacArthur has to say.
“I think that it is so important to know this. In a time like this of tolerance, listen, false teaching will always cry intolerance. It will always say you are being divisive, you are being unloving, you are being ungracious, because it can only survive when it doesn’t get scrutinized. So it cries against any intolerance. It cries against any examination, any scrutiny – just let’s embrace each other; let’s love each other; let’s put all that behind us.
False doctrine cries the loudest about unity. Listen carefully when you hear the cry for unity, because it may be the cover of false doctrine encroaching. If ever we should follow 1 Thessalonians 5, and examine everything carefully, it’s when somebody is crying unity, love, and acceptance.”
Did you get the point of John MacArthur in the light of what Joseph Prince has said in his sermon on 6 Nov 2022?
In an article, titled, ‘Watch Out for Those Who Lead You Away from the Truth’ by John Piper, he wrote (only excerpts are featured here);
Romans 16:17-20
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. Such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (Rom 16:17-20)
“In fact, it would be an even more biblical impulse if you found yourself thinking,
“I don’t even think you can love people if you don’t love truth. How can you do what is ultimately good for people if you don’t have any strong convictions about what is ultimately good?”
“I think the period of history we live in is not an easy time to be a lover of truth. The most common criticism, if you stand for an important truth and imply by that stand that others should believe it, is that you are arrogant, which is the opposite of being loving (1 Corinthians 13:4), and therefore you are undermining relationships.”
“I want you to see from the Bible – and feel in your bones – the importance of being a purity boy for the sake of being a unity boy. I want you to see and feel how out of step this text (Rom 16:17-20) is with today’s Western culture.
It pictures a way of thinking and living that most of our fellow Americans would consider offensive, unloving, fundamentalistic, and out of date. It’s mainly a purity text – a text calling for vigilance in matters of truth and doctrine.
But it’s not only that. In a striking way, it is a unity text. The goal of the vigilance for right teaching is to avoid Christ-belittling, self-exalting dissension.
So my hope in preaching from verses 17 and 18 is that you will be freed from any blindness or bondage to this truth-diminishing period of time in which we live.”
“Let’s read again Romans 16:17-18,
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”
“So it is clear from this command that Paul is concerned about unity. He wants to promote unity. Watch out for those who cause divisions. These are enemies of unity. Watch out for them. I don’t want them to have that effect on you.
The second command in verse 17 is to avoid these people. The last phrase in the verse: “Avoid them.” Stay away from them.”
“Here Paul says: Avoid them. Divide from them. Why? Because they are promoting doctrine contrary to what they had been taught.
Now Paul’s response to this could have been: Well, nobody has all the truth, and everybody has a piece of it, and unity is more important than truth, and so don’t divide.
(George Ong’s Interjection: Sounds almost exactly like Joseph Prince when he said;
“The Bible never talks about unity of doctrine, it says the unity of the Spirit. We cannot agree on everything. Yes, because you know what? If there are 2 of us, there are 3 opinions. Amen. Among Christian sometimes.”)
And we would say: That impulse would not be all bad, would it? Unity is a good thing. Paul cares about it. His first command is: “Watch out for those who cause divisions.”
But that is not the way he responded to this situation. Instead, for the sake of unity – that is, truth-based unity – Paul calls for truth-based division. Avoid them.
I don’t know how Paul could make any clearer how he relates doctrine and unity. For Paul, doctrine is the basis of unity. Without the common doctrine they had been taught, the unity would not have been Christian unity. So he is willing to call for truth-based disunity (“Avoid them.” “Divide from them.”) for the sake of truth-based unity.
In other words, when a person departs from the doctrine that the apostles had taught, Paul sees this as a greater threat to unity than the disunity caused by avoiding such people.
If we say: How can that be? How can dividing from a false teacher who rises up in the church promote unity in the church?
The answer is that the only unity that counts for unity in the church is rooted in a common apostolic teaching. Isolating false teachers – avoiding them – is Paul’s strategy for preserving unity that is based on true teaching…”
False Teachers Seem Nice
“That brings us finally to verse 18 and the two reasons Paul gives for why doctrinal vigilance is so important.
Verse 18: “For such persons [that is, the persons who depart from the doctrine] do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”
Let’s take the second one first. Verse 18b: “By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.”
The word for flattery is simply blessing. And smooth talk doesn’t necessarily mean manifestly slippery. It just means pleasant and plausible.
So the reason we must be so vigilant over biblical doctrine is that those who depart from it take simple people with them by pleasant, plausible speech that presents itself as a blessing. False teachers don’t get a following by being rough and harsh. They get a following by being nice.
Just take two examples from history: Arius (d. 336) and Socinus (d. 1604) – both of whom denied the deity of Christ. Parker Williamson describes Arius like this:
Here was a bright, energetic, attractive fellow, the kind of citizen whom any Rotary Club would welcome. Singing sea shanties in dockside pubs and teaching Bible stories to the Wednesday night faithful, this was an immensely popular man. His story reminds us that heresy does not bludgeon us into belief. We are seduced. (Parker T. Williamson, Standing Firm: Reclaiming the Chastain Faith in Times of Controversy [Lenoir, North Carolina: PLC Publications, 1996], p. 31.)
And another writer describes Socinus like this:
He was a gentleman. His morals were above reproach and he distinguished himself by his unfailing courtesy. Unfailing courtesy was remarkable in an age when even the great Protestant leaders, Luther and Calvin would use vile street language when arguing with their opponents.
This means that it will seldom be popular to resist false teachers in the church because they are almost always perceived as bringing a blessing and speaking with winsome words. They are gentlemen. And Paul says the innocent are carried away. Hence he says, “Watch out for them. And avoid them.”
“So I close with a pointed call to vigilance: Watch out for smooth talkers who pastor large churches, write many books, lead wide ministries, and do not manifestly prize above their earthly good the whole counsel of God.”
(George Ong’s Interjection: Joseph Prince is clearly a false teacher as he does not preach on the whole counsel of God. As you should be aware by now, he specialises in preaching half-truths and cherry-picking on texts and interpreting texts out of their contexts to prove his false grace theology.)
Finally, truth must never be sacrificed for the sake of unity.
It was Charles Spurgeon who said,
“To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.”
Those who have compromised truth for the sake of a false unity with false teachers like Joseph Prince, have indeed committed treason against the Lord.
Rev George Ong