88881791 root cause is condemnation joseph prince
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The Root Cause Of Your Problem Is
C O N D E M N A T I O N By Joseph Prince
This message is a reminder to all of us who have been
listening to the gospel of grace for some time now. The
Lord is revealing to us the secret to living a transformed
life. It’s time for us to remove all the buttons in our lives
that the devil constantly presses. Let’s get to the deepest
root that causes all our problems.
“God did not give the law for man to live by or to make
man holy. God gave the law so that we know we’re
sinners and we see our need for a Savior.”
Recently, the Lord told me, “Son, what I showed
you some time ago — that condemnation kills —
it’s time to take it seriously. You’ve been preaching
to the church about the dangers of stress, but there’s a
deeper root than stress.”
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YOUR PROBLEMS ARE
NOT THE ROOT
My friend, when you go through an evil day, you are
like a sickly plant with sick leaves. You may have
leaves of sickness, poverty, a broken marriage or
depression in your life. But these are just the leaves.
These are just the manifestations of the root. It would be
foolish to attack the leaves because they are not the
cause of your problems. We all know that there’ll be no
leaf if there is no root.
Even the world knows that and many people in medical
science are beginning to realize that there is a root to
sickness. In fact, a study by a well-known medical
facility showed that about 70 per cent of all sicknesses
are due to stress.
CONDEMNATION —
THE DEEPEST ROOT OF ALL
Now, the deeper root of stress is fear. All stress is
caused by fear — fear of failing, fear of not having
enough, fear of death and so on. But that’s as far as
medical science can go. They cannot touch the deepest
root because it is spiritual. And the deepest root of all
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is condemnation. When there’s condemnation, there’ll
be fear. When there’s fear, there’s going to be stress.
And when there’s stress, there’ll be manifestations of
the curse. Now, if you disagree with me that the root
cause is condemnation, let me refer you to Genesis, the
book of beginnings.
Do you know that Adam was planted in the midst of a
finished work? Everything was prepared for him. But
the devil told him that he needed to do something to
qualify for all the things he had already qualified for.
The devil gave him a mistaken identity. He said, “You
will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you
eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like
God, knowing good and evil.” (Genesis 3:4–5)
The truth is that Adam was already like God! But
Adam believed the devil, ate the fruit and fell. And the
curse came.
Before there was poverty, sickness and death in
Adam’s life, there was stress. How do we know that?
Well, God said, “In the sweat of your face you shall eat
bread…” (Genesis 3:19) And sweat speaks of stress and
self-effort. But if you go deeper, you will find that there
was fear. Do you know what Adam said to God when
God asked
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him where he was? He said, “I heard Your voice in the
garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid
myself.” (Genesis 3:10) Adam was afraid. He was
fearful. So the deeper root of stress is fear. But before he
was fearful, he felt condemned.
THE LAW CONDEMNS
Why did Adam feel condemned? It was because he
partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It
was not even the tree of evil or the tree of sin. So what
does the tree of the knowledge of good and evil speak
of? How did it cause Adam to sin?
My friend, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is
a picture of the law because the law gives us the
knowledge of good and evil. The Bible says, “… by the
law is the knowledge of sin.” (Romans 3:20) Contrary to
popular opinion, God did not give the law for man to
live by or to make man holy. God gave the law so that
we know we’re sinners and we see our need for a
Savior.
Now, we know that the law brings about the knowledge
of sin. But what happens when you have the knowledge
of sin? You will feel condemned. So from now on, when
you think of the law, think of condemnation.
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Don’t think of the law as doing right or not doing wrong
because God did not give us the law for that purpose.
The law condemns. (2 Corinthians 3:7–9)
THE DEVIL’S TACTICS AND WEAPONRY
You might ask, “Pastor Prince, what has the law got to
do with my problems?”
My friend, our enemy the devil is smarter than many
psychiatrists, psychologists and even many believers. He
does not deal with the peripherals and the superficial.
Do you know what his first name is? It is not “thief” or
“murderer”, even though he steals and murders. His first
name is Satan, which is Hebrew for “prosecutor at law”
or “accuser”.
Do you know what the role of a prosecutor is in the
court of law? He is there to prosecute you and condemn
you. He never talks about your good points. He will
bring up all the dirty laundry and relentlessly accuse you
till you feel condemned.
“The only place where you find no
condemnation is in Christ Jesus.”
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So the devil’s name tells us that he goes straight to the
root of your problems. He doesn’t come to you and say,
“let your business slide” or “Neglect your children”. On
the contrary, he comes to say things like, “How can you
let the business slide?” or “Call yourself a Christian!
Call yourself a good father. You’re a lousy father!” He
accuses you till you feel condemned.
And he uses the law, which is holy, good and just, to
condemn you. That is why condemnation — the root
cause of all your problems — is so subtle. That is why
condemnation usually goes undetected.
I have realized that the devil hasn’t changed his tactics
even with a church like ours where I preach so strongly
against condemnation. Do you know why? Because he
has no other tactic! He has no other weapon! The devil
cannot enforce the curse in your life apart from
condemnation. The devil cannot make you sick apart
from condemnation. You have to cooperate with him
and receive the condemnation first.
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GOD DISARMED THE
DEVIL AT THE CROSS
Colossians 2:14–15
“having wiped out the handwriting of requirements
that was against us, which was contrary to us. And
He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the
cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He
made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over
them in it.”
The good news is that God disarmed the devil at the
cross. God took his only weapon — the law —
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and He nailed it to the cross! Yes, God has triumphed
over the devil and all his demonic principalities and
powers! That’s why I often tell the church that we are
not fighting for victory. We are fighting from victory.
The victory is already ours through the finished work of
Christ at the cross.
THE KEY TO NO CONDEMNATION
The fact that you can feel condemned is proof that you
have a heart of flesh, not a heart of stone. (Ezekiel
11:19, 36:26) It is proof that you are truly born again.
What, then, is the key to getting out of your evil day?
What is the key to no condemnation in your life?
Romans 8:1
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus”
The only place where you find no condemnation is in
Christ Jesus. The word “therefore” connects Romans 8:1
to the previous verses in Romans 7, where Paul talked
about how he was condemned by the law that he knew
so well. The reason there is therefore now no
condemnation, is that God loved us so much that He
gave us His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins.
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Jesus came and He was condemned for our sins at the
cross. When He hung on the cross, God took all our sins
of our entire lives, and He heaped them on Jesus. Then
He unleashed the vengeance of His fury against
lawlessness and sin on the body of Jesus Christ until
Jesus cried, “It is finished!” The reason that you
and I experience no condemnation today is that all our
sins have been punished and condemned, but in the body
of another — in the body of Jesus Christ!
WHAT IT MEANS TO OVERCOME THE
DEVIL BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB
Revelation 12:10–11
“Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, “Now
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God,
and the power of His Christ have come, for the
accuser of our brethren, who accused them
before our God day and night, has been cast down.
11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb
and by the word of their testimony, and they did not
love their lives to the death.”
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Many Christians know that we overcome the devil by
the blood of the Lamb. We know that there is power in
the blood of Christ. But what is it about Jesus’ blood
that makes it so powerful?
Now, what did Jesus say of the blood when He instituted
the Lord’s Supper? He said, “For this is My blood of the
new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission
of sins.” (Matthew 26:28)
The blood is for the forgiveness of sins! The blood is
there to ensure that you live in no condemnation! That is
what makes it so powerful!
Notice also what is said in verse 10, “… for the accuser
of our brethren, who accused them before our God day
and night, has been cast down.” The devil is called the
accuser of the brethren. And he relentlessly accuses
God’s people day and night.
But the good news is that he has been cast down! He
has been defeated! The moment he has no power to
accuse, salvation, strength, the kingdom of God and
the power of Christ will manifest in your life!
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DO NOT RESPOND TO THE ACCUSER
Some of you might say, “Pastor Prince, I have no
problem with this root. I don’t feel condemned.”
My friend, you will be surprised. Condemnation is very
subtle, especially if you are a person who believes in
doing what’s right. Continue to do what’s right, but do
not respond to the accuser.
When you choose not to respond to him, he cannot
condemn you. The root cause of all your problems is
destroyed, and you will come to the place of no
condemnation in your life!!