False Teacher of the Day #19: Joseph Prince
Jun 9, 2021 0:34:05 GMT -5
Post by Berean on Jun 9, 2021 0:34:05 GMT -5
False Teacher of the Day #19: Joseph Prince
By
REFORMATION CHARLOTTE
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JUNE 8, 2021
Joseph Prince was born in May of 1963 to an Indian Sikh priest and a Chinese mother. During his earlier childhood, he lived in Malaysia. In 1983, Prince helped found New Creation Church. He was born Xenonamandar Jegahusiee Singh, but in 1990 he changed his name to Joseph Prince and was appointed senior pastor. He is married to Wendy Prince and has two children with her. In 2008, people started questioning whether or not he should be living as lavishly as he is.
In his book, Destined to Reign, Prince writes,
I distinctly heard the voice of the Lord on the inside. It wasn’t a witness of the Spirit. It was a voice, and I heard God say this clearly to me: ‘Son, you are not preaching grace.’ I said, ‘What do you mean, Lord?…’Every time you preach grace, you preach it with a mixture of law. You attempt to balance grace with the law like many other preachers, and the moment you balance grace, you neutralize it. You cannot put new wine into old wineskins. You cannot put grace and law together. He went on to say, ‘Son, a lot of preachers are not preaching grace the way Apostle Paul preached grace.’
There are two different heresies contained within this quote. The first is Montanism. Montanism is the modern claim of prophecy. If modern prophecy is true, Scripture must be either incomplete or insufficient, so claiming to get direct, divine revelation is to say Scripture is to reject the complete and sufficient nature of Scripture. Furthermore, he is attributing his Antinomianism to God, lying about God, and making a blasphemous false prophecy.
The second heresy in this quote is the heresy of Antinomianism. Antinomianism is a heresy that denies the Law of God and its necessity today. Prince does this by saying God told him that the Law and Grace cannot be balanced (Which is untrue; the Law and Grace were perfectly balanced at the cross). He rips Mark 2:22 out of context to prove this point, further proving this prophecy is not from God.
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By
REFORMATION CHARLOTTE
-
JUNE 8, 2021
Joseph Prince was born in May of 1963 to an Indian Sikh priest and a Chinese mother. During his earlier childhood, he lived in Malaysia. In 1983, Prince helped found New Creation Church. He was born Xenonamandar Jegahusiee Singh, but in 1990 he changed his name to Joseph Prince and was appointed senior pastor. He is married to Wendy Prince and has two children with her. In 2008, people started questioning whether or not he should be living as lavishly as he is.
In his book, Destined to Reign, Prince writes,
I distinctly heard the voice of the Lord on the inside. It wasn’t a witness of the Spirit. It was a voice, and I heard God say this clearly to me: ‘Son, you are not preaching grace.’ I said, ‘What do you mean, Lord?…’Every time you preach grace, you preach it with a mixture of law. You attempt to balance grace with the law like many other preachers, and the moment you balance grace, you neutralize it. You cannot put new wine into old wineskins. You cannot put grace and law together. He went on to say, ‘Son, a lot of preachers are not preaching grace the way Apostle Paul preached grace.’
There are two different heresies contained within this quote. The first is Montanism. Montanism is the modern claim of prophecy. If modern prophecy is true, Scripture must be either incomplete or insufficient, so claiming to get direct, divine revelation is to say Scripture is to reject the complete and sufficient nature of Scripture. Furthermore, he is attributing his Antinomianism to God, lying about God, and making a blasphemous false prophecy.
The second heresy in this quote is the heresy of Antinomianism. Antinomianism is a heresy that denies the Law of God and its necessity today. Prince does this by saying God told him that the Law and Grace cannot be balanced (Which is untrue; the Law and Grace were perfectly balanced at the cross). He rips Mark 2:22 out of context to prove this point, further proving this prophecy is not from God.
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