Joseph Prince - Feed on His Grace and See Good Days
Prophetically speaking, it was in Mount Zion that God says he will spread a feast. Let’s look at that verse again: «And in this mountain,» what mountain is that? Well, the ending of the chapter before this says it’s Mount Zion. So continuing that phrase there, «In this mountain,» Zion, «shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations,» amen?
A lot of the spiritual blindness will come off and we’ll understand the New Covenant. We’ll understand the centrality of Christ in all the scriptures, amen. We’ll see him. Praise the Lord. And that’s going to happen. Before that happens, there will be a great feast, amen. Notice that «in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things». Notice the phrase, «the Lord of hosts». It’s a very interesting phrase. Do you know where this phrase first appears? It appears in 1 Samuel chapter 1, the story of Hannah. Do you know that in that chapter, it’s the first time the Lord of hosts appears, this name, the Lord of hosts. And the first person to use this title, the Lord of hosts, when she prayed, was Hannah. And she prayed for a baby, right? She said, «O Lord of hosts».
And in Hebrew, Yahweh Tsebaoth, the Lord of the armies, amen? The Lord of the angel armies, one translation says. But it’s not just angel armies. The Lord of the armies referred to everything that is at his disposal, amen. He’s the Lord of hosts. And it denotes warfare. When this phrase is used, it has the idea of the Lord declaring war against his enemies. So in other words, if it says, «In this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people,» there is a war going on and the war is won by us eating. The war is won, the victory is won, by us eating, amen. God will spread a feast and we eat, amen? «And the Lord of hosts will make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined». «A feast of fat things».
The word «fat things» is the Hebrew for shemen. Shemen is where you get gethshemen, geth means to press, shemen is oil, oil press, gethsemane. You know, there’s a garden called Gethsemane, amen, in Jerusalem, amen. Just at the foot of Mount Olives where Jesus went through his agony, he sweat blood. That’s where they have the olive press, okay? Geth, press; shemen, oil. So you have God saying here, a feast, a mishteh, in Hebrew of shemenim. In Hebrew, plural, shemenim. A feast of fat things. Oil, hallelujah, amen. There’ll be increase of anointing. And we will, just like olive oil, amen, we can drink it in the natural, amen. We will enjoy and feast on this rich anointing that God will spread out on Mount Zion.
Friend, we are not under Mount Sinai. We are under Mount Zion. We are not under law. We are under grace. We are not under demand. We are under supply, amen? So remember this, there’s going to be a feast. Now look up here. God’s Word says: «In this mountain,» Mount Zion, «shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things». There’s going to be a spread of anointings, amen. And notice, «a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow». I want to speak on this. «Fat things full of marrow». There’s also going to be fat things full of marrow. And this word «fat things» again is the same word «shemen,» which is oil. In the plural, shemenim, all right? And shemenim, full of marrow. What is this? Full of marrow.
If you study this word «marrow» in the Hebrew, it is the word «machah». Machah is… the primary use is not marrow. Machah is actually used for this: blot out, exterminate, wipe out, abolish. And only one time, is used as marrow. It can be used as marrow, don’t misunderstand, all right? But it is not often used as marrow. It is used for blotting out, exterminate, wipe out, abolish, marrow. Now listen, friend. On Mount Zion, God is going to spread an anointing of blotting out, exterminating, wiping out, abolishing disease, sickness, a lack, praise the Lord, depression and the powers of darkness that has oppressed you, your mind, amen, all this time. God said he’s going to wipe it out. Praise the Lord. He’s going to exterminate it in your life.
There’s going to be a feast of blotting all these things out. Maybe the idea of marrow is there because marrow is where you get your immune system from, okay? Your immune system is basically manufactured in your marrow. So the idea of marrow means to blot out all the invaders that come into your body that might cause harm, amen. The immune system will swallow it up, amen? And now God’s given you a feast, an anointing of blotting out, a very rich anointing, amen, an overflowing, a spread of anointing of wiping out.
Now I was meditating on this recently. And one day, after meditating on this, I was just thinking about this feast. How does it look like? This feast of wiping out this anointing, how does it look like? And I was reading one morning, I got up and I opened the Scriptures. And straightaway, my eyes fell on this portion. And it’s like God is saying, «You’ve been meditating on that. I’m showing you how it looks like». Would you like to see it? Amen, this is Jesus and, «Jesus departed from there, skirted the Sea of Galilee, and went up on the mountain and sat down there».
Now this mountain is not Mount Zion, but the type, the type of the story is here. «Then great multitudes came to Him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others; and they laid them down at Jesus’s feet, and He healed them,» hallelujah! So there was an anointing on Jesus. There was an anointing on him. And we all know that the Father gives him the Spirit without measure. It’s a spread, hallelujah! It’s an overflowing anointing, amen. So that wherever he is, and any sick person that comes to him, they bring the lame, they bring the maimed, they bring the sick, they bring the blind, amen. He brings the anointing. He is the anointing. He is the feast that exterminates all this blindness and maim and those who are lame. He just wipes it out and saves all these people, heals them and gives them a brand new life, hallelujah!
That’s how it’s going to look like, amen. That’s what we are going to experience very soon. It must be in our day and age. But it’s incumbent on us to preach that Jesus not only saves, he heals, amen? Not only heals, Jesus protects. Especially in the day we live in today. And there are those who preach Jesus saves. Guess what? People get saved. But there are people, many a times, who don’t get healed if you just preach «Jesus saves,» amen. You must preach the full gospel of Jesus Christ, amen, amen. Where people can see not only… this is the part where they hear faith comes. And we know that without faith, it’s impossible to please God. Faith is the currency of heaven, amen. Like the woman who received healing from Jesus, Jesus turned around and says, «Your faith made you well». Now obviously, the power is all Jesus, but he gave her the credit of «your faith made you well».
So in other words, whatever we hear, faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God. Whatever we hear, we have the faith for. And that’s why we need to preach Jesus saves, Jesus heals, Jesus protects, amen. Jesus prospers, amen. Praise the Lord. Jesus will grant you a family where there’s light in all your dwellings, amen. A wonderful family life, amen, like days of heaven on the earth pertaining to family life, amen? In Deuteronomy 11. So we see here a picture of what can happen, amen, or what will happen, I should say, amen, in these days when Jesus spreads out an anointing, a shemenim, a rich anointing, an overflowing anointing to exterminate that disease that the doctor says you’ve been diagnosed with, amen.
There’s going to be anointing that will exterminate it, amen. There’s going to be a blotting out of all your debts, hallelujah, amen. Even your physical debts, if there is, amen. He’s going to exterminate it, hallelujah, amen. He is going to eradicate it, hallelujah. Everything that came as a result of the Fall will be blotted out, hallelujah, will be abolished, and the last one will be death. He’s going to abolish death itself, hallelujah. So we are in this day, say amen. Praise the name of Jesus. But the holiness that comes under grace is so much greater. It’s true holiness. It’s genuine holiness. The fruit of the Spirit, which includes self-control. Self-control is the fruit, hallelujah! Praise the name of Jesus.
So being under grace is vital for us, amen? Look at Moses now. And when God first called him, remember that Moses represents the law, amen. And God gave the law to Moses on Mount Sinai. Literally, God gave him the two stones, right? And Moses represents the law. John 1:17 tells us the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ, amen. Very clear. The law was given to a servant. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ, the Son, amen. The law is characterized by demand. Grace is characterized by supply, amen. So every time we are demand-minded, demand-minded, we put stress on ourselves and we think God is doing this demanding, and we get depressed, remember this: it’s not God. You are now actively under the law, amen?
And the law only brings a curse. But under grace, we are supply-minded, amen. We receive his supply, hallelujah. The first time God appeared to Moses was in the burning bush. You all know the story. Let’s follow the story in closing and see what we can learn from here. «Moses was tending the flock of Jethro,» all right, and where was he? «He led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb». Horeb is Mount Sinai, the mountain of God. «And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire».
So the Angel of the Lord appeared to him. In other words, it was not hidden. It wasn’t something that, you know, the Angel was there but refused to show himself. He appeared to Moses in a flame of fire. From where? «From the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, 'I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.'» Now, very interesting, he is not turning aside from the Angel in the midst of the fire, which I will show you that this Angel is the Lord himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Lord, amen. The Angel doesn’t mean many of the innumerable company of angels, one of them. No, no, the Angel of the Lord refers to the Lord Jesus Christ in his pre-incarnate appearance here. «I will now turn aside and see this great sight».
Now he got distracted from seeing Jesus who appeared to him in the bush and he got distracted by the bush, why the bush is not burning. «So when the Lord saw that he turned aside,» he’s getting distracted from the main person, «aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, 'Moses, Moses! ' And he said, 'Here I am.'» Notice, God called him from where? «From the midst of the bush». Just now we saw the Angel of the Lord appeared where? «From the midst of the bush». And now God called him from the midst of the bush. That tells me the Angel of the Lord here is divine. It is one of the divine persons of the triune Godhead, praise God. It’s Jesus himself. Because God called him from the midst of the bush, amen.
«Then He said, 'Do not draw near this place.'» God said, «Do not draw near this place». That’s the first thing you need to understand, all right? Yeah, this story has all amazing truths for us to see for Moses. The first time God spoke to him, this is the first time God spoke to him, all right, and what did God say? «Do not draw near this place». Now, when Jesus shared the parable of the prodigal son, remember that? The son went to a father and told his father, «Give me my share of inheritance. I can’t wait for you to die».
In other words, all right, I want my share now. So the father divided his inheritance among his two sons and the son, the younger son, went to a far journey with the inheritance and then spent his time in riotous living. And when his money ran out, his friends also ran out on him. And then he was poor and he started looking for food and someone hired him to feed the pigs. And then down there, he came to his senses and said, «In my father’s house, there’s bread enough and to spare».
Don’t you forget, child of God, in your Father’s house, there’s bread enough and to spare. Out there, you are settling for morsels. You are settling for handouts, amen? In the Father’s house, there’s bread enough and to spare, amen? Don’t neglect God’s house. Praise the Lord. Don’t neglect tuning in every Sunday, praise the Lord, amen. Why? Because this is the Father’s house, hallelujah. We are all coming together to hear the Word from the Father. This is the bread that feeds you and there’s bread enough and to spare. As well as finances, amen. It’s described today in today’s vernacular as bread. You got some bread, bro? You know, bread, amen, supply. Supply characterized by bread. There’s bread enough and to spare, hallelujah, amen.
«And he came to his sense and he said this». He had a rehearsed speech. «I’ll go to my father and I’ll say, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and earth. I’m no more worthy to be called your son. Just make me one of your hired servants, '» okay? And with his rehearsed speech, he went to his father. He’s quite smart because he knows that even the hired servants have bread enough and to spare, amen. They eat well in the father’s house. So he wanted to be a hired servant just to feed his stomach. He never dreamed the father would welcome him back, right? But on his way back, the Bible says this, all right? «He arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him».
Now who is sharing this story? Our Lord Jesus. So this father, he is referring to his Father, this God and this is his posture under grace, amen? The son had sinned. No doubt about it. He has broken more than one of the Ten Commandments, okay? No doubts about it, okay? Yet the father saw him under grace, had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. But to Moses, under law, what did God say? Now, the law wasn’t given just yet, but Moses represents the law. The idea is still the same here.
«Do not draw near this place,» amen? But for the prodigal son, the father, who represents our Father in heaven, praise the Lord, our Father will run to you the moment you take one step towards him, amen. But under law, it says, «Don’t come near. Don’t come near me». But under grace, God doesn’t even wait for you. Grace doesn’t say, «You come near to me now. You can come». It’s not even that. It supersedes that. The father ran to be near the son. That’s grace. Under the law: don’t come near, amen? Under grace: the father ran to be near the son. And how near? He lavished kisses on him, embraced him, and kissed him. And the Greek there is repeatedly kissed him. All right, back to Moses again. So the first thing, «Do not draw near this place». Second thing, «Take your sandals off your feet».
Now, in the prodigal son’s story, what happened when he came back? When he came back, «the father said to his servants, 'Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.'» So the law says, amen, «Take off your shoes». In other words, you have no right to stand. You have no standing, amen. Sandals represents possession in those days, amen? Like the story of Ruth, you know? The house of the man whose shoe was loosed, you know? You lose your inheritance, your sandals, amen? You have no right to stand. Take off your sandals. But under grace, the Father says, «Put sandals on his feet. He has a right to stand in front of me,» hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
Hey, even the sandals were put on him. He doesn’t have to put on his own sandals. Grace doesn’t say, «all right, you can have sandals now, but you got to put it on,» amen. No, it’s done for him. Somebody put sandals on his feet. Put sandals on his feet, hallelujah, amen. Back to Moses again. And the third thing God said to Moses… now don’t forget, this is the first time God is speaking to Moses. So the first words he hears is, «Do not draw near, take your sandals off, for the place where you stand is holy ground». «The place where you stand is holy ground».
Friend, the reason you don’t draw near, the reason take the sandals off your feet is because the place you are standing is holy ground. But under grace, if the Father said to the Son, «Don’t come near me, the place you’re standing… we are standing now is holy ground,» the Son will never make it home. He will never be brought home. He cannot stand in front of the Father, let alone wear the sandals on his feet. No way. You know what ground we are standing on? Grace. Does that mean there is a conflict between grace and holiness? No, friend. Grace is the essence. It is the gospel. It’s never said holiness is the gospel. It’s not the gospel of holiness. It’s never said that. It’s always the gospel of grace and peace, amen.
So holiness is the nature of God. God is holy, amen. And we are to be holy as God is holy. But even in that exhortation, you keep on reading, it says: «Hope to the end for the grace that will come to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,» amen. You cannot be holy without the grace of God. Just like we read just now, let us have grace by which we can serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. So there’s no conflict. In fact, God’s holiness because of what Jesus did at the cross, he bore our sins, he who knew no sin, did no sin, in him is no sin, became sin at the cross with our sins, so that we who know no righteousness, in us is no righteousness, can become the righteousness of God in Christ, the divine exchange at the cross because of what Christ has done.
Today, we are standing on family ground, amen, on grace ground. Does that mean God is less holy now? No, his holiness is always the same. But his holiness is now on your side. In other words, if you believe that God forgives you of all your sins, God’s holiness is pleased with you, amen. In other words, God’s holiness demands the acquittal of the one that puts his trust in Christ. Because God’s holiness at the cross punished the Lord Jesus Christ for all our sins. So today, if you put your trust in Christ, God’s holiness is on your side demanding your acquittal, demanding your justification, demanding your blessing, amen.
«Be ye holy for I am holy,» amen. That’s how it should be seen. The whole context there in Peter is talking about grace, hallelujah. And he ends off this episode by saying, «Grow in the grace,» amen, «and in the knowledge of our Lord and Jesus Christ». The only way to grow is to grow in grace. When we have grace, we can truly serve God with reverence and godly fear. When you are in the new man, amen, it’s created in righteousness and true holiness, amen, amen. Praise the name of Jesus.
You know, it’s like people think that there’s a fight between law and grace. There’s no fight, my friend. There’s no fight. Just remember this, all right. The cross reconciles righteousness and peace has come together, amen. God’s demands and peace has come together, amen. Mercy and truth kiss each other, hallelujah. Praise the name of Jesus. At the cross, all the attributes of God are glorified. Even the law is magnified. How? By the death of Christ. Not by the keeping of it. By the death of Christ, he has fulfilled the entire law, amen.
Therefore, bringing us out from under the law and under his grace, amen. Don’t have this sense of holiness that makes you pull away from Jesus, amen? When he was on earth, the people flocked to him. These people are sinful people and they came to him, amen? And yet, all of them received from him. All of them, every one of them were healed, the Bible says, amen. Those that came to him. Not everyone in Israel; all those that came to him, they were healed. So will you, my friend. The feast is spread. Are you ready to partake, amen?