Joseph Prince Teaches that Mickey Mouse was Rich, Believes in Prosperity Gospel
Textbook Antinomianism
Word of Faith and famed antinomian heretic, Joseph Prince, has come out swinging against nomenclature like “poor as a church mouse,” arguing that poverty should not be associated with the church because Mickey Mouse is rich and full of prosperity.
Prince is the senior pastor of the 34,000-member New Creation Church based out of Singapore. Famously, the church spent $500,000,000 to purchase and renovate its church and then another $300,000,000 to purchase the mall the church was attached to.
Prince, who regularly tours the conference circuit with other big names in the prosperity preaching game, raised his profile in evangelicalism for his message of “total grace” that rejects God’s law.
In this contemporary times and all that, you find that God is now restoring the truth about healing and prosperity. Now, what is happening is that every time God restores the truth in the past, the people attack, Martin Luther, for example, on justification by faith. They assassinated his character.
And then when the truth about the baptism of the Holy Spirit was restored back, the truth was attacked, was attacked by the enemy, because the enemy is afraid every time God restores truth that means what? The church becomes richer spiritually, becomes richer in their health, richer, even financially, even be able to provide.
So the devil put in all kinds of sayings like, for example, ‘as poor as a church mouse.’
Why must (it) be a church mouse? Right? Whereas Mickey Mouse is so wealthy. All right, you’re talking about health wealth, well Mickey Mouse is still alive. Looks quite healthy and forever young, right? So someone should come up against Mickey Mouse, saying that he believed in the health wealth doctrine.
h/t Revealing Truth on YouTube.
Bonus material on Prince
His prominence began after supposedly hearing God’s audible voice in 1997, which told him…
“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” (Destined to Reign, Forward)
According to Prince, God wrote the Ten Commandments on two tablets of stone and the Devil “armed himself with the law to accuse and condemn man” (emphasis in original), but “when God nailed the law to the cross, He made a public spectacle of the devil and all the powers of darkness.” After the cross “the law no longer had the power to condemn man as long as he believed on Jesus. If you insist on being under the law,” warns Prince, “you are actually arming the devil again” and “the devil is the one using the law to bring about death and condemnation and to put believers under oppression!” (source link)
Prince says things like, “The law is not for you the believer, who has been made righteous in Christ! The law is not applicable to someone who is under the new covenant of grace” (same source). Needless to say, Prince isn’t mincing words like a New Covenant theologian who might stumble on the term “Moral Law” versus “Law of Christ” or “Law of Love.”
No, what Prince espouses is textbook Antinomianism.
Prince denies that Christians need to ask forgiveness for their sins (and apparently overlooks the way Jesus taught us to pray, “Forgive us of our debts, as we forgive those…”), saying “Under the new covenant, we don’t have to keep on asking the Lord…for forgiveness because He has already forgiven us” (Destined to Reign, Chapter 1, Page 7). Again, this is textbook antinomianism. Prince says insanely antinomian things like:
“I have also heard some believers pronouncing, ‘If God does not judge America for all its sins, God has to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.’ Well, let me say this with honor and respect: If God judges America today, He has to apologize to Jesus and what He has accomplished on the cross! My friend, God is not judging America (or any country in the world today)” (Destined to Reign, Chapter 5, page 49).
Prince denies that the Holy Spirit can use the Law to convict or quicken one spiritually, writing:
“You see, faith does not come by simply hearing the word of God because the word of God would encompass everything in the Bible, including the law of Moses. There is no impartation of faith when you hear the Ten Commandments preached” (Destined to Reign, Chapter 7, page 75).