1 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:14,240 We're going to talk about, in fact, the title of my message 2 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:20,960 today is Justice Fulfilled and and Being Established in 3 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:25,840 Righteousness. Such a huge topic and we're just 4 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:29,440 going to start in Galatians chapter 2, verse 20. 5 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:32,640 And I'm just going to read some scriptures to you. 6 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,080 Yes, stand up for the reading of the word. 7 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:42,040 Galatians 220 says I have been crucified with Christ. 8 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:47,120 It is no longer I who live, but it's Christ that lives within me 9 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,120 and the life which I now live in the flesh. 10 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:55,760 I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave 11 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,720 himself for me. Amen. 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,880 You can be seated. You have Christ in you. 13 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:07,160 You have the greater one in you. And, and if we don't make it a 14 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:13,680 spiritual habit every day to remind ourselves who we are in 15 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,920 Christ, then we'll come up in here in the church. 16 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,680 And the church is such a great corporate anointing and a place 17 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,320 where we can unify, we can get the truth. 18 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,840 We can grow in the truth. But what happens when you're 19 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:33,400 faced with a crisis out there? And what happens when you're 20 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,560 when you're faced with brokenness in here? 21 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,600 And what happens when you're at home sitting on your couch and 22 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:47,800 the battle is raging in your mind, 'cause we can come in here 23 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,000 and we can get built up and we should. 24 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,640 But what happens when you go home? 25 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:59,280 And God desires that we be of one mind of 1 accord, 1 spirit, 26 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,160 thinking the same thing. And so we're going to talk about 27 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:07,960 how to live in victory every day, every hour, every minute. 28 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:10,759 I want to read Galatians 220 to you. 29 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:15,320 In the Passion translation. It says this new life is no 30 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,040 longer mine, for the anointed one lives his life through me. 31 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:25,160 We live in union as one. My new life is empowered by the 32 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,680 faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave 33 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:35,200 himself for me, dispensing or imputing his life into mine. 34 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:39,120 We're going to talk about what that word imputation means, but 35 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,360 first let's go to Ephesians chapter 2. 36 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:49,040 Ephesians chapter 2 verse one says, And you He made alive, who 37 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:53,680 were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked, 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,200 according to the course of this world, according to the Prince 39 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:00,040 of the power of the air, the Spirit, who now works in the 40 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,960 sons of disobedience, Among whom also we all once conducted 41 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,320 ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of 42 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:15,520 the flesh and of the mind. And we were by nature children 43 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:20,160 of wrath, just as the others. But God, everybody say but God, 44 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:27,120 but God who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with 45 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:32,360 which He loved us even when we were dead in trespasses, He made 46 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,960 us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved and 47 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,600 raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly 48 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,840 places in Christ Jesus. That in the ages to come, 49 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,400 sometimes we need to remind ourselves where we're seated, 50 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,120 that you're seated. The Scripture says in Ephesians 51 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,440 one that that God has placed all things under Christ's feet. 52 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,040 Everything is under his feet. And then it says, and he placed 53 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,760 him at the right hand of the Father. 54 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,000 And then it goes on in chapter 2 to say, and now he's seated you 55 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,920 with him in heavenly places. So spiritually speaking, you're 56 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:18,399 seated in righteousness. Justice has been fulfilled and 57 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:21,560 we're going to look at that. But you got to remember where 58 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,760 you're seated because you're always every hour, all the time 59 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:31,720 above, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion 60 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:37,360 and every name that is named always, every hour, all the 61 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,200 time, not just when you're here. It reminds me, and I've shared 62 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,400 this before, but it reminds me years ago when the Lord spoke to 63 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:51,480 me about when David used to go play for Saul and it and it and 64 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:56,560 it eased his mind and it eased the demonic pressure that he was 65 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,680 feeling. He had peace in those moments. 66 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:04,480 But but when David left, he went right back to to the torment and 67 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,360 the affliction in his mind. And sometimes as church people, 68 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:14,000 I'm not saying this is you, although we all should be going 69 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,040 from faith to faith and from glory to glory. 70 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:21,000 And if you think you've arrived or you think that you don't have 71 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,400 any mind renewal to do, then then I got a spot for you right 72 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,120 up here in just a little bit because we all should be 73 00:05:30,120 --> 00:05:33,800 growing. It wouldn't be right even in the 74 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:38,000 my marriage with my husband if I just expected that I'm just 75 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:43,160 right now I'm just this perfect wife, although maybe so that I'm 76 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,320 just this perfect person. I should always be growing. 77 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:53,520 I should always be saying God search me, see if there's any 78 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,840 offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. 79 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,600 We all should be in that place. So it so it says, we're seated 80 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,600 together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to 81 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:11,040 come, that's right now, that in the ages to come he might show 82 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,400 the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness toward us 83 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,400 in Christ Jesus. In other words, God wants to 84 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:24,200 show out through you His grace, His kindness towards us who 85 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,880 believe. For by grace you have been saved 86 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,160 through faith, and it's not of yourselves. 87 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:34,440 It's the gift of God. It's the gift of God, not of 88 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:38,960 works, lest anyone should boast. Colossians chapter 2 verses 9:00 89 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:40,120 and 10:00. I'm going to read it in the 90 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:45,520 Living Bible. It says for in Christ there is 91 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:51,040 all of God in a human body. So you have everything when you 92 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,480 have Christ. You have everything when you 93 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,120 have Christ. Let me say that again. 94 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:59,280 So it so it gets in you, you have everything. 95 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:05,360 When you have Christ, you have everything and you are filled 96 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,960 with God through your union with Christ. 97 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:12,720 He is the highly highest ruler with authority over every other 98 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,280 power. Christ in you, the hope of 99 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,120 glory. The Scripture says, are you God 100 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,920 conscious? Are we Christ conscious? 101 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,320 You know, Kenneth Hagin said this, You want to find somebody 102 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:30,040 spiritual, you don't come up in the church to find them. 103 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:34,480 You follow them home because anybody can. 104 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:38,080 Anybody can look spiritual and play the part in here. 105 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,960 And I'm not saying we're a bunch of pretenders, but I'm just 106 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:45,400 saying what happens in your mind when you go home? 107 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:50,560 And this is a passion for me because because we over the 108 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:55,480 years have have counseled and talked with a lot of people and 109 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,800 and people walk through things because of circumstances in 110 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,360 life. But sometimes we go around the 111 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:08,120 same mountains and the same strongholds in the same patterns 112 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,280 in our lives because of the way we think. 113 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,200 And God redeemed you, but he asked you to do something with 114 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,560 your mind. And it's not hard. 115 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,000 The Bible said his, his, his yoke is easy and his burden is 116 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,040 light. But you got to get in this 117 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,840 spiritual habit of waking up every day and saying, God, 118 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:34,240 you're good, God, you're in me. Christ, the greater 1 is in me. 119 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,559 Holy Ghost, you're leading me. Thank you, Lord, that I hear 120 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:39,360 you. You got to wake up because if 121 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,400 you hit the floor and you and you immediately go to how you 122 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:47,880 feel, then your feelings are going to be sitting on the 123 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:48,480 throne. Come on. 124 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,760 And we want to be a people who are of one mind. 125 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,080 Emotions aren't sitting on the throne, but we're living the 126 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:02,120 just shall live by faith. By faith. 127 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,720 Christ in me. So are we God conscious? 128 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:10,680 I only have about 50 pages, but it's fought 30, so you'll be OK. 129 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:16,240 Let me say something about true conversion real quick. 130 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,800 I just want to throw this nugget in here. 131 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,320 This might be for somebody and they know who they are. 132 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:27,720 True conversion, true faith should look very different. 133 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:33,120 Come on. When, when Saul was confronted 134 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:39,680 by the Lord and the Lord showed himself to him, Saul said, what 135 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:42,480 should, what can I do? What should I do? 136 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:48,360 What do you want me to do? And it reminds me of of the day 137 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,440 I grew up in, in, in the church, grew up in, in Baptist Church, 138 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,840 but but didn't really learn how to live by faith. 139 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,200 And I remember getting born again. 140 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,560 I got born again as a young girl at a Baptist Church camp. 141 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:07,440 And I'm so grateful for that. But it wasn't until Fast forward 142 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:14,200 in my 20s, after running my course, drinking drugs, doing 143 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,240 all those things, that the Lord arrested me. 144 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:23,120 And I remember the day that I got rid of those things and I 145 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,920 said, God, what? What do you want me to do? 146 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:29,760 What do you want me to do? How can I, how do I make you 147 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,560 Lord? How do I do this all by myself 148 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,600 in my apartment? And I, I just knew. 149 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:40,520 I just knew on the inside. Go get a Bible, Go get a 150 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,120 devotional. I remember going to the 151 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,720 Christian bookstore and I didn't know who, who Kenneth Copeland 152 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,840 was at all, but just found me a devotional and just started 153 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:52,720 reading it every day. So I, so I'd learned how to read 154 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,080 my Bible and so I started reading it every day. 155 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,760 And when my friends, you know, would, would come in with the, 156 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,120 the, the, the blunts and the marijuana and all those things, 157 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:09,960 there was just something in me that knew I can't do it anymore. 158 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,240 I can't do that anymore. True conversion should look 159 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:20,520 different. True faith should look different 160 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:26,440 if we go out into the community and our community sees us broken 161 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:34,400 in our mind, broken in our body, broken in our emotions. 162 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,160 What is? What is faith? 163 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,440 Then? What is the gospel? 164 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:49,680 Then Jesus bore it all. He carried it all, every grief, 165 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:52,880 every pain, every sorrow, every sickness. 166 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,240 But if you don't tell yourself that, and you don't tell 167 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,960 yourself what he did, then you'll just stay in the old ways 168 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,000 of thinking. You'll keep your old garments 169 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,600 on. The Bible says put on the new 170 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,800 man. When I was a little girl, I ran 171 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:16,040 out of the house without my shirt on and I forgot to put it 172 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:18,680 on. And I was horrified. 173 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,080 I remember running over to my neighbor's house and and she was 174 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:27,160 like, what's happening? And I realized I didn't have a 175 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,800 shirt on. And so I ran home as fast as I 176 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,440 could and cried and put a shirt on. 177 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:40,080 And some of us are like that. We're running around half naked 178 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:48,240 got don't have our belt of truth buckled around our waist, don't 179 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,080 have our feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the 180 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:55,240 gospel of don't have our helmet of salvation on. 181 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,720 Don't have our sword of the Spirit up with which we can 182 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,480 extinguish all the fiery darts of the evil 1. 183 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,560 And we don't have our breastplate of righteousness on 184 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:11,240 which we're going to talk about today, because think about that 185 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:16,120 breastplate, because it covers all your vital organs. 186 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:19,120 You don't wear that breastplate or righteousness. 187 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:24,160 You're dead, you're gone. So we're going to talk about 188 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:30,240 that today, Galatians 524 says, and those who are Christ have 189 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:35,000 crucified the flesh with its passions, its affections and 190 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,400 desires. And that word affections means a 191 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,160 feeling which the mind suffers or an affliction of the mind. 192 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,720 So in other words, we've crucified the things which have 193 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:49,400 afflicted our mind. We've done it. 194 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,800 We've crucified when when depression tries to come, thank 195 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,640 you Lord. The joy of the Lord is my 196 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,200 strength. When heaviness tries to come, 197 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:04,280 thank you Father, the peace of God reigns in my mind. 198 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:10,760 It's up to you. It's up to you to choose daily 199 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,360 that you're going to live this life of faith. 200 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,440 If we're going to rise, it's got to, it's got to be time for us 201 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:22,720 to become disciplined and, and skillful in our mind. 202 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:26,280 It's our job, The Bible says to be transformed by the renewing 203 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,600 of your mind so that you'll know what is good and perfect will is 204 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:33,360 for your life. And, and often times as 205 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:36,280 believers, you know, we'll, we'll be like, I just don't hear 206 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,600 him. I, I just don't know him. 207 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,000 I, I'm, I'm not sure if I know what his will is for my life. 208 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,760 Well, that's because we've become dull in our mind. 209 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,240 That's because we've allowed low level thinking. 210 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,320 And this is for every age. It doesn't matter if you're a 211 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,720 teenager. It doesn't matter if if you're 212 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,160 an adult. The same fiery darts come at all 213 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:04,040 of us. The the devil tried to to 214 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:09,320 question Jesus, his identity. Are you really the Son of God? 215 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,520 He does the same thing to you. Who do you think you are? 216 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,040 Who do you think you are that you think you can stand on those 217 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:23,120 healing scriptures? Who do you think you are that 218 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,040 you think you can walk in always walk in peace and joy in the 219 00:15:27,040 --> 00:15:32,600 Holy Ghost? He's a liar and he's under your 220 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,640 feet and you can extinguish all the fiery darts that he throws 221 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:40,680 at you. There comes a time if you've 222 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,960 examined yourself that you, that you know, there's still a wall 223 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:50,560 there, There's still a, a stronghold there. 224 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:55,800 Like I said, even in my progression of, of faith in my 225 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:59,760 life, I, I knew after that after to start reading my Bible to, to 226 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,960 find a church. I knew to go find a church. 227 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,960 I knew to attend the church. And then next thing I know I 228 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,160 got, I got hooked up with some believers of like faith and they 229 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,400 helped me grow and a pastor who helped me grow. 230 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:20,000 And then God called me to Bible college and I thank God for 231 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,840 that. And then I and then I met my 232 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:25,160 husband there and then what was I done growing at that point? 233 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,480 Not even close. I was absolute basket case when 234 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:36,080 when we got married and God healed me and he redeemed me and 235 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,600 he and he helped me transform my mind so that so that we can go 236 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,960 from faith to faith and glory to glory and have heaven on earth 237 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,440 in every area. And we all can do that. 238 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,920 We all can do that. Second Corinthians chapter 13 239 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,800 verse 5 says examine yourselves as to whether you are in the 240 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,640 faith. Test yourselves. 241 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:02,200 And King James says, prove yourself. 242 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:07,079 Do you not know that Jesus Christ is in you? 243 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,480 When you look in the mirror in the morning, do you look in the 244 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,920 mirror and go, oh, clearly I didn't look in the mirror, but 245 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,240 that's OK. Do you look in the mirror and 246 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,599 go, what's happening? Or do you look in the mirror and 247 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:26,640 go, God is in me, Christ is in me? 248 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:30,320 I don't care if you think that's silly or not. 249 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,600 I'm just telling you, you either want victory or you don't. 250 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:40,280 I remember I've shared this in light of there, there he is 251 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,400 right there. My husband and I, when we got 252 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:49,560 married, when we got married by faith and now I was a Bible 253 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,520 college student and I was growing in the word. 254 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,280 But like I said, I was kind of a mess. 255 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:58,720 And he would say to me, you're a woman of God. 256 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:04,800 You're a woman of God. And he would continue to speak 257 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,600 the word to me. Now, was I looking like that? 258 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,520 Maybe not. But he wasn't moved by that. 259 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:13,880 And that's what I'm saying to you. 260 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,960 And and there came a day as I, as I meditated on the word that 261 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:21,480 that at first I was like, that's weird. 262 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,000 That's so weird. And you're phony and stop saying 263 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,680 that to me. And there's nothing weird about 264 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:29,880 it. If you're going to live by 265 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,960 faith, you got to learn how to say God is in me. 266 00:18:33,160 --> 00:18:36,280 The greater 1 is in me. Thank you, Father God, I'm the 267 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:38,960 heel to the Lord. Thank you that you're Jehovah 268 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,320 Jireh, that you meet all of our needs. 269 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:45,040 You got to learn to do it, whether you feel it or not. 270 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,960 This is how you overcome. This is how we overcome. 271 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,320 I need to move on. I just want to stir you up today 272 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:55,720 about this. Who are you? 273 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:59,760 What did God say about you? This is life or death for you. 274 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,040 And that doesn't mean that you're you're going to fall over 275 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:06,520 and die, but you can have the effects of death in you and the 276 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:13,440 effects of death, sorrow, grief, brokenness, depression, 277 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:18,640 sickness, a broken mind. There's so many. 278 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:23,320 And Jesus paid for all of them. He conquered all of them, All 279 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,520 your insecurity, all all your insecurity. 280 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:31,320 There's a word in Scripture that we glaze over and we 281 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:33,080 misunderstand it. We don't. 282 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:38,240 We don't know the weight of it. And if you don't understand it, 283 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,560 you'll do things in your own strength to appease your 284 00:19:43,560 --> 00:19:48,640 conscience before God. You'll do things in your own, in 285 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:53,800 your own actions to make you feel good before the Father and 286 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:59,800 God never wanted you to do that. God even in the, even in the Old 287 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,360 Testament, when, when Adam and Eve fell, you know, we know that 288 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:06,760 they hid themselves and, and they were naked, not ashamed, 289 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:10,640 and they sinned and they hid and there was shame, there was 290 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:14,000 guilt. And and instead of waiting for 291 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:19,160 God to clothe them, they found their own clothing. 292 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,880 And that's really just a foretelling and a picture of man 293 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:30,400 doing what he can in the natural to cover his own shame and his 294 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,080 own guilt and his own insecurity. 295 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,200 We do all kinds of things. We we find our security in our 296 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,160 jobs. We find our security in our 297 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,880 finances. We find security and people 298 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:51,680 pleasing. Your security can only be in 299 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:56,760 Christ alone. This word is righteousness. 300 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,720 It's righteousness. Righteousness is so big. 301 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,760 If I was to, if I was to bring the mic and come down and say, 302 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,200 what is your definition of righteousness? 303 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:13,080 Hands down, most of you would say doing the right thing. 304 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,880 And that's half of it. If you don't understand that he 305 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:24,880 made you righteous. If you don't understand the gift 306 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:29,400 of righteousness, you're doing righteousness will all be in 307 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,600 your own strength. It'll all be what you do on your 308 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:35,280 own. So we're going to look at it 309 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,360 here for just a minute. Part of it is doing 310 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:40,320 righteousness. But even when I teach 311 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:48,360 righteousness and in FCUI take 6-7 weeks just to just to hammer 312 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:53,800 who you are and the gift of righteousness because we as in 313 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:58,360 our in our human nature, we have a tendency to try to work things 314 00:21:58,360 --> 00:22:02,400 out on our own. We try to do things to feel good 315 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:05,560 before God. We come to church. 316 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,920 It makes us feel good we read our Bible. 317 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:12,000 It makes us feel good. When you read your Bible, it 318 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,440 should be to to know Him, to know who He is, to understand 319 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,800 what He said about you. When you come to church, it's 320 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:23,080 you coming in this corporate anointing to learn, to grow, not 321 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,000 so you can feel good about yourself. 322 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:28,960 And you got to guard it. We all have to guard it. 323 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:34,200 When we understand the gift, then we can become so, so wise 324 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:39,000 and so skillful in our mind to line it up with who we are in 325 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,040 Christ every day, all the time. Hebrews chapter 5. 326 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:48,160 Let's go there. Hebrews chapter 5, verses 12 327 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,240 through 14. Now, now pay attention to this 328 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:55,400 scripture. It says, for though by this time 329 00:22:55,760 --> 00:23:00,480 you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again 330 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:05,120 the 1st principles of the oracles of God, and you have 331 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:07,840 come to need milk and not solid food. 332 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:13,160 Now listen to verse 13. For everyone who protects only 333 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:20,120 of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a 334 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:26,720 baby, but solid food belongs to those who are a full age. 335 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,080 And let me go back to verse 13. For everyone who protects only 336 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:38,200 of milk is unskilled in what the word of righteousness for he's a 337 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,520 babe. I I in our in my class that I 338 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,480 teach I I'm reminded always of the Avatar movie and I I will 339 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:50,400 say you stupid you a baby. It's time to grow up and I'm not 340 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,160 I don't literally call them stupid, but it's just to get 341 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:57,680 their attention. Verse 14, though, says, But 342 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:06,360 solid food belongs to those who are a full age or mature, that 343 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:09,360 is, and it explains what those people do, those mature 344 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:13,120 believers. It says, that is, those who by 345 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:21,840 reason of use, have their senses exercised to discern both good 346 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:27,440 and evil. When it says that the babes are 347 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,040 unskilled, that means they're inexperienced. 348 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:38,160 But when it tells us that the believer that's mature, the one 349 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:44,360 who by reason abuse, that means habit, habit has their senses, 350 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,040 exercise. That's your mind, that's your 351 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,320 emotions. When you understand 352 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:54,640 righteousness, this word of righteousness, then you went 353 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,880 you'll, you'll, you'll speak to your mind. 354 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,480 When your mind says otherwise, if that makes sense, you'll tell 355 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:08,040 your mind what to think. You have to line your thinking 356 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,920 up with who God created you to be. 357 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,400 You cannot take counsel in your own mind. 358 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:21,960 You cannot take counsel in your own thoughts, so the Scripture 359 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:28,120 says, but those who by reason of use are by habit have their 360 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:34,680 senses exercised to discern good and evil. 361 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,240 In other words, when something comes at me that's against what 362 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,840 God says, I'm so quick to say, Nope, I take that thought 363 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:48,080 captive and I put it up underneath the obedience of the 364 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:53,120 word of God. God, you said, and we're quick 365 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:56,360 to do it. It it's habit for us. 366 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:01,240 We get in the habit. Honestly, a lot of us get in the 367 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:06,680 habit of just getting up, going through our day, going to work. 368 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,800 We don't meditate. We don't we don't take captive 369 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:14,320 our thoughts And then we get home and we're wiped out and 370 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,440 we're funky and we don't want to talk to our spouse and we don't 371 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:26,760 want to deal with our kids. That's on you by reason of use, 372 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:32,040 by habit, you got to count it joy. 373 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,040 No matter what you're doing, if you're working with kids in the 374 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,080 preschool, you got to count it joy. 375 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:44,120 You might not feel like doing it tomorrow, but you say, Father, I 376 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:47,000 thank you, Lord, the love of God has shed a bright in my heart by 377 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,360 the Holy Ghost. I can love these kids, help 378 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,800 these kids. When I used to work at the 379 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:58,840 detention center back in Tulsa, OK, when I got the job, I said 380 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:02,480 God with every with every word, with every action, with 381 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,600 everything that I couldn't openly talk about Christ or the 382 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,520 Bible. So I just said with everything 383 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,360 that I do, every touch, I thank you, Lord, that, that you'll 384 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,600 make your word known and they'll ask me. 385 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,560 And, and if they asked me, I could tell them. 386 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,120 And so, so that was my prayer. And God opened so many doors. 387 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,360 I didn't always feel like going. There was a lot of rough things 388 00:27:22,360 --> 00:27:25,800 that happened in the detention center on a daily basis. 389 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:30,920 We worked at the group home here in Saint Augustine before we 390 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,040 adopted our boys. And, and day after day after 391 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,480 day, we had to remind and we, this was our confession. 392 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:40,360 If we're here, God's here. And if God's here, then then 393 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:44,600 these boys have to change. That's got to be the confession 394 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,080 of faith. That's got to be the confession 395 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,880 of Saint Gerard. If I'm here, God's here. 396 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,760 And if God's here, then these girls are going to change, their 397 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,160 minds are going to change, their hearts are going to be healed. 398 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,600 That's got to be your belief system, your confession by 399 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,480 reason of use. Now the Bible tells us to seek 400 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:11,480 first this righteousness. Matthew 633 says seek first the 401 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,600 Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these 402 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,520 other things will be added unto you, His righteousness. 403 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,800 It's not seek first the Kingdom of God and and doing the right 404 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,040 thing. It's first seek first the 405 00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:32,960 Kingdom of God and your position in it and then all these things 406 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:37,680 will be added to you. Doing righteousness is going to 407 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:42,120 be an automatic thing when you understand I am the 408 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:44,720 righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 409 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,320 We're supposed to seek it first. Seek first the Kingdom of God 410 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:55,000 and your legal position in it. Romans 1417 says, for the 411 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,560 Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, 412 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,240 peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. 413 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,440 It does not matter how much you come to church, it does not 414 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,480 matter how much you pray in the Spirit. 415 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,800 If you don't have peace and joy, then you don't understand 416 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:17,800 righteousness. You can pray in the Spirit all 417 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,240 day long, but I'm telling you, faith is a rest. 418 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:28,680 Faith is a peace on the inside. Joy and peace are not. 419 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:35,080 They're not an emotion. They both are a spiritual force. 420 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,080 Man, it'll affect your feelings though. 421 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,360 I'm telling you, if you get in the the habit, the spiritual 422 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:46,400 habit of saying thank you, Lord for the joy that is my strength, 423 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:50,840 then your body and your emotions start lining up with that. 424 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:53,960 It's like it's like in a marriage. 425 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,480 I don't, I didn't wait till I felt something. 426 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,480 Although I loved my husband when we got together, but but if I 427 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,600 wasn't feeling it on a certain day, I didn't wait till I was 428 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:07,280 feeling it to tell him I love him with the love of God that's 429 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,000 been shed. I love you with the love of God 430 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,800 that's been shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost. 431 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:17,080 You got to call it done. You got to say it's that. 432 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,080 OK, let's go to Hebrews chapter 1. 433 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,480 Your feelings will always line up, always line up. 434 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,800 Righteousness is your access. Hebrews chapter 1 says God, who 435 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,680 at various times and in various ways spoke in times past to the 436 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,880 Father's by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by 437 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:44,200 His Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, through whom 438 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:48,240 also He made the world's. Who being the brightness of his 439 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:52,720 glory, and the express image of His Person, and upholding all 440 00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:58,440 things by the word of His power. When He had by himself purged 441 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:03,640 our sins, He sat down at the right hand of majesty on high, 442 00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:07,840 having become so much better than the angels as he was by 443 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,320 inheritance, as He has by inheritance, obtained a more 444 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,080 excellent name than they when you speak the word. 445 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,880 Let me just say this before I go to verse 8, the word of his 446 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:19,840 power. When you speak the word, you're 447 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,600 not trying to get something from God. 448 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:29,280 When you speak the word, there's power in the word that you 449 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:33,160 speak. And so when I'm not feeling it 450 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,320 and I speak it, you know, they, they had that old saying, name 451 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:41,600 it, claim it, blab it, grab it. They can say whatever they want. 452 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:45,840 We're going to live by faith and that means I'm calling those 453 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:52,600 things that are not as though they are, verse 8 says, but to 454 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:57,400 the Son he says, your throne, O God, is forever and ever. 455 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,920 A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of the Kingdom. 456 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,080 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. 457 00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:11,080 Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of 458 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,080 gladness more than your companions. 459 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,560 Hallelujah that that verse says that righteousness is your 460 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,240 access. This scepter. 461 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,360 If you remember the story about Esther when she had to go to the 462 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:27,160 king, if he did not extend the scepter to her, then she would 463 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,840 be killed. If he didn't extend the scepter 464 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,920 to her. That was access for her. 465 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,320 That was her access to come boldly before the King and 466 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:44,720 present her case before him. The Scripture says righteousness 467 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:49,080 is your access, Righteousness is your scepter. 468 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:53,480 Not doing, don't think OK, if I just do the right thing, I have 469 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:57,360 access before God. It's being righteous. 470 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,760 It's being the gift that God has made you to be, and out of that 471 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,920 you will do the right thing. By faith, you will do the right 472 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,560 thing. The the Bible says, let me tell 473 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:14,560 you what scepter means actually. It means access, it means favor, 474 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:21,280 it means acceptance in Him. Justice is fulfilled when you 475 00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,960 stand in righteousness, in His righteousness. 476 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,760 The Bible says in Romans 8, the righteous requirement of the law 477 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:34,440 is fulfilled. When you walk in the Spirit, the 478 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,640 righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled. 479 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,040 Justice is fulfilled when you live by faith. 480 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,400 You don't want to get out of your seat. 481 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,080 You don't want to get out of your place. 482 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:51,560 You don't want to get out of this legal position that God has 483 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:56,680 given you. Righteousness is that legally He 484 00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:00,240 justified you, legally he's justified you. 485 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:05,400 Romans chapter 5 verse one says therefore having been justified 486 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,800 by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 487 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,880 This is something every day that word justified and the word 488 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,280 righteous or interchangeable so much in Scripture I can say 489 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:22,080 therefore having been made righteous by faith, therefore 490 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,520 having been justified by faith, I have peace with God. 491 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:32,600 There's no guilt, there's no shame, there's no unworthiness 492 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:39,920 that follows me around. He's made you worthy in him. 493 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,480 Romans chapter 4, verse two and three says, for if Abraham was 494 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,920 justified by works and he has something to boast about, but 495 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,239 not before God, for what does the Scripture say? 496 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:55,159 Abraham believed God. Abraham believed God and it was 497 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:57,040 accounted to him for righteousness. 498 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,400 You sing the song. I sing the song. 499 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:05,440 Sing the song. Father Abraham, come on. 500 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,480 And so are you. Yeah. 501 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:16,240 What's the first action? Or like this? 502 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,680 Yeah, we all sang it and we didn't have a clue. 503 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,560 We did not have a clue what we were even singing. 504 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:32,000 The Scripture says before Jesus ever died was was buried, 505 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,680 resurrected and gave us his righteousness. 506 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:40,120 That Abraham was given was it was transferred from God's 507 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,800 account to his account. That's what imputation is. 508 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:49,160 Abraham was given righteousness just because he believed God. 509 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:56,320 By faith you believe God and it's accounted to you for 510 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:01,320 righteousness. That's why Abraham's your daddy. 511 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:06,040 Romans 10/10 says For with the heart you believe under 512 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:11,440 righteousness, with the heart you believe unto righteousness, 513 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,880 and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 514 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:19,840 Romans 517 I will never forget Romans 517 because when I was a 515 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,320 Rhema student and Doug Jones was teaching our righteousness class 516 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,040 and he would tell us all the time you're carnal if you have a 517 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,920 favorite teacher. And so we would be like, OK, we 518 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:35,920 don't have a favorite teacher, but when he read this Scripture, 519 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:39,040 I never, I never heard of righteousness. 520 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,520 I didn't know I saw it in the Bible. 521 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,240 I probably heard it in church when I was sitting in the 522 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,120 Baptist Church writing notes and tickling my friend's arm. 523 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:50,920 I didn't know what righteousness was. 524 00:36:51,240 --> 00:36:56,160 And Romans 517 says, for if by one man's offense that's Adam, 525 00:36:56,680 --> 00:37:03,560 death reigned through the one much more, how much more those 526 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:07,640 who receive the abundance of grace and the gift, the gift, 527 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:13,720 say the gift, the gift of righteousness will reign in life 528 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:19,400 through the one Jesus Christ. It's a gift and you got to be 529 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,080 trained in it. It's a gift and you got to stay 530 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,120 in it. You got to remind yourself about 531 00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,480 it. Second Timothy chapter 3, verses 532 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:33,320 16 and 17 says all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and 533 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:37,400 it's profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and 534 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,760 for instruction in righteousness. 535 00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,200 Why? So that the man of God will be 536 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:49,600 complete, thoroughly equipped, complete and thoroughly equipped 537 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,560 for every good work. That breastplate is so huge of 538 00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:55,200 righteousness. I want to give you a couple of 539 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,000 definitions of righteousness that I want you to write down as 540 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,520 best as you can and and remind yourself of them. 541 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:08,880 Righteousness is number one, right standing with God, right 542 00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:13,800 position, right relationship, right standing with God. 543 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:19,520 Righteousness is number 2, restoring to mankind what was 544 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:24,960 lost in the fall, restoring to mankind what was lost in the 545 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:30,640 fall #3 it is the life and nature of God. 546 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,800 He is Jehovah Sid canoe the Lord. 547 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:38,200 Your righteousness #4 and #5 are big ones. 548 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,960 They're all big, but but ones that you can remind yourself of 549 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:47,880 #4 is the ability to stand before God without the sense of 550 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:55,480 guilt, inferiority, or shame. The ability to stand before God 551 00:38:56,240 --> 00:38:59,240 without the sense of guilt, inferiority, or shame. 552 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:05,040 You have to ask yourself, do I go boldly before God or do I 553 00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:10,000 still have shame? Do I still deal with guilt and 554 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:17,680 insecurity #5 is righteousness is the ability to stand in the 555 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:24,520 Father's presence as though sin had never been as free as Adam 556 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:29,360 was before he transgressed? The ability to stand in the 557 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,600 Father's presence as though sin had never been in your life? 558 00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,320 Let me say this about righteousness. 559 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:40,200 It's what God demands, but it's what He provides. 560 00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,480 It's what He requires for access into the Kingdom, but He 561 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,760 provides it. There's a legal position that 562 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,880 God's put you in and you got to stay in it. 563 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,840 You got to legally stand in it. Remind yourself, seek His 564 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,440 righteousness first and keep your mind set on these things. 565 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,160 Let's talk about the mind for just a couple of minutes. 566 00:40:06,720 --> 00:40:10,240 When your mind tells you otherwise, which I mentioned 567 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:12,400 earlier, what are you going to do? 568 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:18,680 You got to be so quick not to give attention to something that 569 00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:27,480 doesn't line up with Scripture. Sorrow, heaviness, whatever it 570 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:36,600 is, the more hurt, brokenness, unforgiveness, the more you give 571 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:41,240 attention to it, the more it will dominate your soul realm. 572 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,640 You got to be quick to give attention to what God says. 573 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:52,440 Romans chapter 8, understanding your position of righteousness 574 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:57,200 is what's going to cause you to be stable, mature, and have 575 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,240 peace and joy. Romans chapter 8 says there is 576 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:06,440 there, for now, no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus 577 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,360 who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the 578 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,280 Spirit. There's no condemnation if 579 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,200 you'll just stay in the Spirit, if you'll just stay believing 580 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,400 who God says you are, if you'll just stay speaking about your 581 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,560 righteousness all day long. If you'll just stay calling 582 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:30,560 those things that be not as though they are, then there's no 583 00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,560 guilt and there's no condemnation to those who are in 584 00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,240 Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of 585 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:40,680 life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and 586 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,160 death. For what the law could not do, 587 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,640 and that it was weak through the flesh, God did. 588 00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:51,040 By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh on 589 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,920 account of sin. He condemned sin in the flesh. 590 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,960 Listen, that the righteous requirement of the law might be 591 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:03,800 fulfilled in US who do not walk according to the flesh, but 592 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,800 according to the Spirit. For those who live according to 593 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:14,840 the flesh set their mind on the things of the flesh, but those 594 00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:18,320 who live according to the Spirit, in other words, they set 595 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,480 their mind on the things of the spirit. 596 00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:24,440 For to be carnally minded is death. 597 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,320 Or we could say you're going to have, you're going to live in 598 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:30,880 the effects of death. But to be spiritually minded is 599 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:37,000 life and peace, life and peace, life and peace. 600 00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:42,520 The word this year for us is to dominate, to take dominion. 601 00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,680 What does it mean to be spiritually minded? 602 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,880 What does it mean to take dominion in your mind? 603 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,760 If you don't have dominion here, you'll struggle everywhere. 604 00:42:53,920 --> 00:43:00,040 You're brand new here. God lives in you, the Holy Ghost 605 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,720 is in you. But if you don't change this, 606 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:07,280 you'll struggle in every area of your life. 607 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:12,120 If you continue to believe the report that comes against what 608 00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,680 God says, then that's what you'll have. 609 00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:22,640 And it's that simple. Taking dominion in your mind and 610 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:27,840 transforming. This takes effort, but God's 611 00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,680 given you the grace and He's given you the strength and He's 612 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,560 given you everything you need the power to do it. 613 00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,920 One of the biggest fights of faith is to govern or take 614 00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:45,000 dominion or control of your thoughts in times of pressure or 615 00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:49,560 crisis. Victory comes though, when you 616 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:55,600 possess your mind. You live in your thoughts, you 617 00:43:55,600 --> 00:44:01,080 live in what you're thinking, and you've got to learn to live 618 00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,480 from the Word of God and from your Spirit man. 619 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,120 We don't look to the hills anymore. 620 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:11,920 We look on the inside. We look to what God says on the 621 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,000 inside always. What does the word of God say 622 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,800 about this? I got a, a bill that that's, 623 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,160 that looks big. What does God say? 624 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,600 Oh, he says he supplies all my needs according to his glorious 625 00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,160 riches in Christ. That's what I'm going to 626 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:29,440 believe. That's what I'm going to say all 627 00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,760 these kids are are so hard. These kids are so hard for me to 628 00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,800 parent. I'm I'm so stressed. 629 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,640 This is such a struggle. No, what does the word of God 630 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:43,280 say I'm anointed to parent. There's an anointing on me for 631 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:46,960 the love of God. I have wisdom from God. 632 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,400 You choose everyday. The Bible says today I've sent 633 00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:56,680 before you life and death choose life multiple choice. 634 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:02,600 Here's the answer. Choose life so that you can 635 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:07,800 live, so that you can prosper, so that you can have health in 636 00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,720 every area. The the scripture has a pattern. 637 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:18,200 There's a lot of finally brethren's, There's a lot of at 638 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,600 the end of Paul's writings and and other writings where where 639 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,760 it's like, OK, finally, this is what I want to say to you. 640 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,440 And when there's a finally, it means you're leaving, you're 641 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,320 transitioning, you're you're changing a season. 642 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,600 And I got some important things to say. 643 00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:39,120 We're going to sit down and we're going to talk about what's 644 00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,480 important and what needs to be done for you to have victory. 645 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,080 And in Philippians chapter 4, verse 8, it says finally, 646 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:51,400 brethren, you know this is right after it says, be anxious for 647 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:55,160 nothing, but in everything with prayer and supplication and 648 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,360 Thanksgiving, make your request known to God. 649 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,480 And then it says finally, brethren, whatever things are 650 00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:07,160 true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, 651 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,880 whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, 652 00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:17,000 whatever things are of a good report, if there's any virtue, 653 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:20,440 if there's anything praiseworthy, meditate on these 654 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,200 things. I want to read to you that in 655 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:27,440 the amplified for the the rest, brethren are finally brethren. 656 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:31,080 Whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and 657 00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,000 honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, 658 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:40,880 whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind, whatever is 659 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:50,000 kind, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there's 660 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:53,200 any virtue and excellence, if there's anything worthy of 661 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:57,720 praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things. 662 00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:00,680 In other words, fix your mind on them. 663 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,600 People are going to offend you on a daily basis. 664 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,560 Maybe people are going to hurt you. 665 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,080 You're going to have trials in life. 666 00:47:15,240 --> 00:47:17,240 Are you going to count it all joy? 667 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:22,000 Are you going to are you going to say I love that person, I see 668 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,280 the good in them. Thank you, Lord, that that I can 669 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,160 pray and make power available to them. 670 00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,360 I don't hold any unforgiveness in my heart. 671 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,600 You, you have to do. That's the fight of faith. 672 00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:38,400 It takes effort. It takes effort for you. 673 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:48,760 Sometimes I want to wrestle people because it's fun, But but 674 00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:54,680 sometimes in your mind, there's a peace, there's a rest, there's 675 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,360 a joy in this fight of faith. But you got to put effort to it. 676 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,680 You can't sit on your couch. Come on. 677 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:07,080 You can't just sit at your job and be down and discouraged. 678 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,800 You know you shouldn't stay discouraged. 679 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,520 Come on, you know God came to to help you and your 680 00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,040 discouragement. Maybe your discouragement is 681 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:19,640 because your kids didn't do what you thought they were going to 682 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:21,680 do. Maybe you're discouraged because 683 00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,480 you've told that person 1000 times and they still keep doing 684 00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,800 the same thing. Maybe you're discouraged because 685 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,360 you keep seeing this debt in this one area. 686 00:48:32,240 --> 00:48:34,000 Don't you stay in discouragement. 687 00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,400 You don't let discouragement sit on you. 688 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:45,560 You be quick to count it all. Joy, brethren, sister. 689 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:50,960 And when you face trials of many kinds, because the testing of 690 00:48:50,960 --> 00:48:54,120 your faith develops perseverance, testing of your 691 00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,440 faith, it's the testing of your faith. 692 00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:04,080 Are we that, are we that soft? Are we that Pansy? 693 00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:07,680 Are we that I don't know what other word I can use up here 694 00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:15,080 that we can't Doctor Fartine and I are thinking about basketball 695 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,920 right now. I'm like, I need an athletic 696 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:20,160 mindset around here. What's happening? 697 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:25,080 You can run. What's wrong with you anyway? 698 00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:29,800 What was I talking about? Are we are we that way? 699 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:36,720 Are we pansies that we so soft that that when a trial of life 700 00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:41,520 comes like and we call our friend, guess what happened to 701 00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:45,440 me? Guess what's so and so sad? 702 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:51,080 Oh my gosh, God hates gossip. He hates it. 703 00:49:53,120 --> 00:50:00,920 He hates it, he hates it. What do you do when that trial 704 00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:06,160 comes to you? Get out of the habit of letting 705 00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:10,080 your thoughts, taking counsel in your thoughts, letting your 706 00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:12,440 thoughts and your emotions dominates you. 707 00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:18,040 Then you'll have victory. That's where your victories at. 708 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,360 2nd Corinthians. No Psalms 13 two. 709 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,040 I'm about to best bust through these last 50 scriptures. 710 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:32,640 I'm kidding. Psalm 13 two says, how long 711 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:39,400 shall I take counsel in my own soul, having sorrow in my heart 712 00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,280 daily. In other words, you want to keep 713 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,720 taking counsel in your soul, then go ahead and have sorrow 714 00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:48,680 daily because that's what you're going to have. 715 00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:52,880 Your spirit man should affect the mental, should affect the 716 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:56,920 physical, should affect the material, should affect 717 00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:03,400 everything. 2nd Corinthians 417 says for our light and momentary 718 00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:10,320 troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs 719 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:13,240 them all. Our light affliction should be 720 00:51:13,240 --> 00:51:19,200 just a moment, just a moment. Sometimes we linger way too 721 00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:23,040 long. We linger way too long on the 722 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,600 affliction. The light affliction should just 723 00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,480 be a second. The Bible says, look not to the 724 00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,640 things that are seen, but the things which are unseen. 725 00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:36,200 Psalm 20. No, Psalm 42, five says, Why are 726 00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:44,200 you cast down, O my soul? Why are you so disquieted within 727 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:49,120 me? Hope in God, for I shall yet 728 00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,080 praise Him for the help of his countenance. 729 00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:56,320 Why are you cast down on myself? David was saying this. 730 00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:59,160 Sometimes you got to look at your soul and say, Why are you 731 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,240 so sad? Why are you so upset? 732 00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:08,680 Why are you so disquieted? Why do you not have peace? 733 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:17,000 Sorrow doesn't have to rule you. Grief doesn't have to stay in 734 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,120 your life. It doesn't have to stay in your 735 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:26,080 life. Jesus bore it not so that we 736 00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:31,520 could stay in it. Jesus bore it so that it's OK to 737 00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,160 cry. And I'm not talking about being 738 00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,360 insensitive. But don't you sit in grief? 739 00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,680 Don't you sit in sorrow? Don't you sit in discouragement? 740 00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:48,400 Don't you sit in disappointment? Why are you cast down on my 741 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:52,560 soul? Proverbs 1430 says a calm and 742 00:52:52,560 --> 00:53:01,040 undisturbed mind and heart are life and health of the body, but 743 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:05,680 envy, jealousy and wrath are like rottenness in the bones. 744 00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:12,320 A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of 745 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:17,400 the body. A calm and undisturbed mind and 746 00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,680 heart, you got to do what you got to do. 747 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:25,360 Sometimes I take authority over my hormones and I say hormones, 748 00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:29,000 you get in line right now. Right now. 749 00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,520 There are seasons of life, women, that you got to do that. 750 00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:39,840 You take authority over that. Philippians 4 Chapter 11 says 751 00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,040 for I've learned how to be content. 752 00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,800 You got to learn this content while passing through your 753 00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,960 moment. Second Corinthians chapter 10 754 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,200 verses 3 and five tells us how to do this. 755 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,320 It says though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according 756 00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:00,200 to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. 757 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:05,400 But what are they? They are mighty in God for the 758 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:10,160 pulling down of strongholds, casting down arguments and every 759 00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:15,160 high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, 760 00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:21,000 bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of 761 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,920 Christ. Every thought take captive, 762 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:28,240 every thought all the time, every second, every one of your 763 00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:32,640 thoughts. There are trillions of them, so 764 00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,760 many of them in your conscious mind, in your subconscious mind, 765 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,960 they're always there. And if you will just Start 766 00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:45,200 learning how to your, your, you create these trees in your 767 00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:46,880 brain. If we were to open up your brain 768 00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,320 and look at them with there's trees that they either look 769 00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,680 healthy. Has anybody seen the inside of a 770 00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:56,520 brain before? Your trees either look healthy 771 00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:02,640 or they they look messed up and it is proven. 772 00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:07,520 It is proven in your physical body, your tree. 773 00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:12,040 You can have happy trees. I should have worn. 774 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:13,720 I have a Bob Ross wig right here. 775 00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:21,000 Happy trees, happy trees. When you think on the right 776 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,280 thing, your chemicals all start to get in line and they all 777 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,360 start to go talk to that tree and get on that tree, and that 778 00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,600 tree starts making itself right again. 779 00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:36,240 But when you don't, when you think on the wrong thing, your 780 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:41,200 tree looks dead, it's unhealthy, and all your chemical imbalance, 781 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:45,720 your chemicals get all out of whack. 782 00:55:46,240 --> 00:55:51,040 What you do effects every single part of you what you think on. 783 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,240 You got to fight the good fight of faith. 784 00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:56,200 You got to lay hold of this eternal life. 785 00:55:56,400 --> 00:56:01,000 You got to consider it. All joy, brethren, all joy. 786 00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:05,640 Maturity by reason of use, by habits. 787 00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:10,880 Joshua 18 says This book of the law shall not depart from your 788 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:16,520 mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, day and night, 789 00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:23,720 day and night, day and night, all the time meditate in it day 790 00:56:23,720 --> 00:56:28,040 and night that you may observe to do according to all that is 791 00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,640 written in it. For then you will make your way 792 00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:34,000 prosperous and then you'll have good success. 793 00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,800 Colossians 33 says for you have died. 794 00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:45,480 You have died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 795 00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,520 You have died. I want my, I want to have AI 796 00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:54,800 want to like get raspy and yell and yell at you or something. 797 00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:59,200 You, you're dead. You've died. 798 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,160 Your life is now hidden with Christ and God. 799 00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:10,920 Quit resurrecting your old self. Quit resurrecting the old 800 00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:14,920 patterns. Quit resurrecting that stuff. 801 00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:20,280 Kill that thing, Paul said. I die daily. 802 00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:24,720 I die daily. I beat my body daily. 803 00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:31,760 If you don't want to beat it, come see me remix. 804 00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:35,280 If you don't want to beat it, come see me, girl, I got you. 805 00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:43,000 I'll help you help you beat it. Let's beat that thing first. 806 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:48,960 John 44 says he who is in you is greater than he who's in the 807 00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:50,960 world. Are you reigning? 808 00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:56,120 And what you're thinking? Spirit, soul and body complete, 809 00:57:56,120 --> 00:57:58,080 mature. Let's go to Isaiah 54 real 810 00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:01,240 quick. Isaiah 54, and we're going to 811 00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:08,480 read verses just 14 and 17. Isaiah 54 says in righteousness 812 00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:12,840 you shall be established. I'm going to say it again. 813 00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:17,000 In righteousness you shall be established. 814 00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,600 You shall have your foundation, you stay, you shall have your 815 00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,040 feet on solid ground in righteousness. 816 00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,480 You shall be established. You shall be far from 817 00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:30,320 oppression. You will not fear. 818 00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:36,920 You will not fear, and from terror it shall not come near 819 00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:40,760 you. I mean, if I'm reading that, if 820 00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:44,280 I'm reading that I'm going to say righteousness, I'm 821 00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,200 established. I'm going to do that because 822 00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,760 this says I don't have to fear. I'm far from oppression, any 823 00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,720 kind of oppression. I'm far from terror. 824 00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:58,720 It won't even come near me. None of that even comes near me 825 00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,200 if I understand righteousness. But I tell you some in the in 826 00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,880 the you know, when I went to Bible college, there were there 827 00:59:04,880 --> 00:59:09,120 were students that were solid and mature and there to learn 828 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:14,040 the word of God and there was some flaky people and you would 829 00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:18,960 pass them and they would say all kinds of how you doing blessed 830 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,800 Holly favor. They go through all the and if 831 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:27,280 they meant it, awesome. If they believed it, awesome. 832 00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,600 But then you but then you see them in the Walmart parking lot 833 00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:35,960 doing something different. But but what what we like to do 834 00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:39,080 what believers like to do that are that can be flaky. 835 00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:43,120 They like to jump to verse 17 and say no weapon formed against 836 00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:47,320 me shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against me 837 00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:51,840 that rises against me, and it shall be condemned in judgment. 838 00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:53,840 This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. 839 00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:58,640 But if you're not established in righteousness first, you have 840 00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:02,920 no, no position. It's kind of like the sons of 841 01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:06,920 Skiva that that tried to come and start saying in the name of 842 01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,560 Jesus. This and that and and what 843 01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:12,760 happened? The demons jumped on them and 844 01:00:12,760 --> 01:00:17,960 they were naked and ran off. And you don't want to be like 845 01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:22,000 that. You want to be established in 846 01:00:22,000 --> 01:00:24,240 righteousness. In righteousness you'll be 847 01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,240 established. Far from oppression, you will 848 01:00:27,240 --> 01:00:30,880 not fear, far from terror. It shall not come near you. 849 01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:34,600 And I've created the spoiler for you to destroy. 850 01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,880 And verse 17 says no weapon formed against you shall 851 01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:42,440 prosper. And every tongue that rises 852 01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:45,440 against you in judgment you shall condemn. 853 01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:50,720 This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. 854 01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:58,360 And the righteousness is of me, says the Lord, be established in 855 01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:01,960 this righteousness. Psalm 92 verse 12 through 15 856 01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:07,360 says the righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He 857 01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,880 shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 858 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,920 Those who are planted in the House of the Lord shall flourish 859 01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:17,480 in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in 860 01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:20,600 old age and they will be fresh and flourishing. 861 01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,960 To declare that the Lord is upright. 862 01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:26,240 He is my rock and there's no unrighteousness in him. 863 01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:30,160 This Scripture particularly for me, I love because when I was 864 01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:34,080 first born again and and I don't even think I was filled with the 865 01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:38,040 Holy Ghost yet. But when I was when I was first 866 01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,760 starting to live for God, I went to a little Bible study and 867 01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,320 somebody spoke this scripture over me. 868 01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:46,880 And it's already scripture. It's already in the word. 869 01:01:46,880 --> 01:01:48,440 So I could have stood on it anyway. 870 01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:52,840 But but for them to speak that over me that I'll still bear 871 01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:56,320 fruit in old age. I have gone back to that count 872 01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:01,120 countless times because when I get discouraged or when I have 873 01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:05,760 some some some hopelessness try to come in or something comes 874 01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:09,720 against my life, I say I'll still bear fruit and old age. 875 01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,040 God, thank you, Lord, that I'm fat and flourishing. 876 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:15,000 Not fat physically, but you know it. 877 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:16,880 The scripture says fat and flourishing. 878 01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:21,880 It means like full fat and flourishing and and I'm still 879 01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:23,760 going to keep bearing fruit in old age. 880 01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:28,920 That was a Rhema word for me. And I go back to that when I 881 01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:33,280 want to jump off ship and go, Nope, I'm going to keep bearing 882 01:02:33,280 --> 01:02:35,680 fruit all the day with long life. 883 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,440 Shall you satisfy me and show me your salvation? 884 01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:41,600 And I'm going to bear fruit every single day of it. 885 01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,560 I want to say something about Romans chapter 1 because it it, 886 01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,760 it's a big deal and I can't, I'm not going to preach on Romans 887 01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:51,920 chapter 1, but sometimes I want to. 888 01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:58,840 But Romans chapter 1 says, for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of 889 01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:04,920 Jesus Christ, for in it, in the gospel the righteousness of God 890 01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:08,680 is revealed. I'm not ashamed of this gospel. 891 01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:12,840 And in this gospel the righteousness of God is 892 01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,840 revealed. And then it goes on to talk 893 01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:24,520 about man and how man, it says although they knew God, they 894 01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:28,960 didn't honor him as God, nor were they thankful. 895 01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:36,560 And so God gave them over to a debased mind. 896 01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:44,160 They began to serve the creation, the other than the 897 01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:49,160 Creator. And you wonder why we see what 898 01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,360 we're seeing in our culture today. 899 01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:56,160 Because although they knew God, although they may have grown up 900 01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:59,720 in church, they did not honor him as God. 901 01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:01,440 He was not Lord. They did not honor. 902 01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:04,240 They didn't seek first the Kingdom of God, his rights, and 903 01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:08,800 they were not thankful. A thankful heart is a happy 904 01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,120 heart. Be glad for what you have. 905 01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:15,960 That's an easy way to start. That's a veggie tale that I used 906 01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:18,280 to sing all the time when my girls were little. 907 01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:20,840 A thankful heart's a happy heart. 908 01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:25,440 Be thankful always, all the time. 909 01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:30,840 Psalm 23 I'm going to just slow down and with a few scriptures 910 01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:32,440 to build your faith in this area. 911 01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:37,360 The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. 912 01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:41,000 He makes me to lie down in green pastures. 913 01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,200 He leads me beside the still waters. 914 01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:47,640 That's a peaceful place. He restores my soul. 915 01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:53,320 He leads me in paths of what? Righteousness. 916 01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:59,080 For his name's sake, For his name's sake, for his glory, not 917 01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:02,320 for your glory. Man does what he wants to do, 918 01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,680 and he thinks God accepts it. And man gets all the glory. 919 01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:12,520 But God did the work, and we accept it, and he gets all the 920 01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:16,120 glory for it. He leads me in paths of 921 01:05:16,120 --> 01:05:18,000 righteousness for his name sake. Yeah. 922 01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:22,040 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will 923 01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,960 fear no evil, for you are with me. 924 01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:26,920 Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. 925 01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,200 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. 926 01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,400 You anoint my head with oil. My cup runneth over. 927 01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:37,440 Are you seated at the table? Because the scripture says your 928 01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,200 enemies are there. The scripture says you're seated 929 01:05:41,200 --> 01:05:43,400 at the table and there's enemies all around you. 930 01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:47,200 But what are you going to do? Are you going to, are you going 931 01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:50,440 to look at the enemy? Are you going to look at the 932 01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,960 distraction? Are you going to say, what did 933 01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:55,400 you say? Are you going to say, just pass 934 01:05:55,400 --> 01:06:01,200 me the bowl of victory, Just pass me the bowl of peace? 935 01:06:02,200 --> 01:06:05,520 Just pass me the bowl of provision. 936 01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:10,080 You got to stay seated. I remember when I first got 937 01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,120 revelation of that. I was listening to Brother Hagin 938 01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:19,160 a series called Casting Your Cares upon the Lord and he 939 01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:21,280 started talking about being seated at the table. 940 01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:24,480 And I was a Rhema student and and I pulled up. 941 01:06:24,480 --> 01:06:28,560 I was driving a little Mazda Miata at the time, and the 942 01:06:28,560 --> 01:06:33,040 driver door didn't work and I had to wear pantyhose and skirts 943 01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:36,560 to class and I had to crawl over my stick shift. 944 01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,520 It was super attractive and get out. 945 01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:45,400 And I was in my Miata and he was talking about being seated at 946 01:06:45,400 --> 01:06:49,320 the table and that your enemies are there and that they're 947 01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:52,120 talking to you and that they're saying things to you. 948 01:06:52,120 --> 01:06:57,440 But what are you going to do? And I victory came on me and I 949 01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:01,040 jumped out of my car and I took off running by. 950 01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,400 It was that night I took off running down the street all by 951 01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,400 myself because it became revelation to me. 952 01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:12,000 You can sit in here and never get revelation. 953 01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:16,880 You can sit in here and the word not ever become real to you. 954 01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:20,240 Do you know that what you receive in here is as much on 955 01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:26,720 you as it is on the preacher? We can prepare till our guts 956 01:07:26,720 --> 01:07:29,240 come out. We can spend hours and hours and 957 01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:33,240 hours being ready for you. But if you're not ready, if 958 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:36,440 you're not bringing your supply of faith, then it's just going 959 01:07:36,440 --> 01:07:39,920 to hit you and hit the floor and you're going to walk out of here 960 01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:44,760 and not be any different. Oh, you got to get revelation of 961 01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:48,120 the Word of God. We haven't. 962 01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:52,880 We can say I have lived and I've seen the faithfulness of God, 963 01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:58,400 living for God since I was 2122 when I really made Jesus Lord. 964 01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:02,880 I can honestly say God is so faithful and He is true to His 965 01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:06,560 Word and He will do what He says He will do and there's power in 966 01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,040 what He says. You just have to choose it. 967 01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:14,800 You just got to choose it every single day, every hour, every 968 01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:16,840 time the fiery dart comes at you. 969 01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:21,319 Psalm 34, when we were as students, Keith Moore was one of 970 01:08:21,319 --> 01:08:26,200 our instructors and he made us stand up every day and quote the 971 01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,399 first part of Psalm 34. And I didn't always feel like 972 01:08:29,399 --> 01:08:32,720 doing it. And when we did it, once we 973 01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:37,640 started saying it, I started like sitting standing up a 974 01:08:37,640 --> 01:08:40,120 little taller. And my spirit mind started 975 01:08:40,120 --> 01:08:43,920 getting strengthened and and I was like, yeah, but when I first 976 01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:49,240 stood up, I was like, oh again. But he wouldn't. 977 01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:53,319 He would have a stand up and say, I will bless the Lord at 978 01:08:53,319 --> 01:08:58,200 all times. His praise shall continually be 979 01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:03,240 in my mouth. My soul, my soul, say, My soul 980 01:09:04,359 --> 01:09:07,080 shall make its boast in the Lord. 981 01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:11,279 The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 982 01:09:11,560 --> 01:09:17,359 O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. 983 01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:19,439 I will bless the Lord at all times. 984 01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,120 His praise will continually be on my mouth. 985 01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,760 Praise team, you can come. I will bless the Lord at all 986 01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,240 times. His praise will continually be 987 01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,800 on my lips. Isaiah 26 three says, Thou will 988 01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:38,960 keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because 989 01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:46,240 you trust in the Isaiah 6110 says, I will greatly rejoice in 990 01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:51,920 the Lord my soul, my soul shall be joyful in my God. 991 01:09:52,319 --> 01:09:57,560 For he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, and he's 992 01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:03,160 covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom 993 01:10:03,160 --> 01:10:06,800 decks himself with ornaments, and a bride adorns herself with 994 01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:08,720 jewels. He has clothed you. 995 01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:11,000 Quit running out of the house naked. 996 01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:17,960 Proverbs 13 four says, But the soul of the diligent, the soul 997 01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:21,480 of the diligent shall be made rich. 998 01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:25,880 The soul of the diligent. You got to be purposeful to say 999 01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:29,400 I'm going to be diligent. I'm going to be diligent in my 1000 01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:33,720 thought life, in my thinking. Psalm one O 3 says, Bless the 1001 01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:38,360 Lord, O my soul and all that is within me. 1002 01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:42,320 Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and 1003 01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:48,120 forget not, do not forget all his benefits. 1004 01:10:48,440 --> 01:10:52,120 He forgives all your iniquities. He heals all your diseases. 1005 01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,400 He redeems your life from destruction. 1006 01:10:56,440 --> 01:11:00,560 He crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies. 1007 01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:06,280 He satisfies your mouth with good things so that your youth 1008 01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:12,760 is renewed like the eagles say my youth is renewed like the 1009 01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:16,720 eagles. The Lord executes righteousness 1010 01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,040 and justice for all who are oppressed. 1011 01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:21,480 Has He executed it? Has He done it? 1012 01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,920 I want to end with First Corinthians chapter 1, verses 9 1013 01:11:24,920 --> 01:11:29,240 and 10. It says God is faithful by whom 1014 01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:33,160 you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus 1015 01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:37,240 Christ our Lord. Now I plead with you, brethren, 1016 01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:42,080 oh, I plead with you, I plead with you, I plead with you, 1017 01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:49,720 brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all 1018 01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:56,000 speak the same thing, that there be no divisions among you, but 1019 01:11:56,000 --> 01:12:02,040 that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in 1020 01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:09,600 the same judgment. You've been justified freely by 1021 01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,800 his grace. Freely. 1022 01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:20,520 Don't be shaken in your mind. Second Thessalonians says don't 1023 01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:25,040 be so quick to be shaken in your mind for the day of the Lord 1024 01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:29,520 Jesus Christ is at hand. In Luke 21 when it begins to 1025 01:12:29,520 --> 01:12:32,680 tell us about all the things that in the last days that are 1026 01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:36,600 going to be happening, wars, rumors of war, all the things 1027 01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,600 that we're seeing a lot of them happening now in verse 19, I 1028 01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:45,320 think it is it says after it says all that it says. 1029 01:12:45,320 --> 01:12:51,600 Now in your patience possess ye your soul. 1030 01:12:53,320 --> 01:12:56,080 In other words, if you look up the meaning behind those words, 1031 01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:02,160 you it, you could say in your steadfastness, you possess your 1032 01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:10,320 soul in your effort, in your diligence, you possess your 1033 01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:14,040 soul. Nobody can do it for you. 1034 01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,520 The Word of God will definitely do it for you. 1035 01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:24,000 You just have to choose it every single day.