Tonight I'm going to talk to you about training terrain.
All right? I actually had another title.
It was kind of political. Be honest with you, because I
wanted hits on YouTube and I thought if I use this, maybe,
you know, people just in general would go after this particular
phrase and then they would find us.
But at the end of the day, I'm like, I'm not here for them.
We're training for raining. So Matthew chapter 6 verse 33
says this, but seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness
and all these things will be added to you.
Most of the time when I open up service, I open up service
praying that the Holy Spirit would do 4 things for us and I'm
not doing that by routine. I'm doing that so we have
revelation that the Holy Spirit, I'm not number one.
I'm not here to entertain you, although you know I don't want
you to be bored. I'm not here to entertain.
I'm here to to impart a spiritual truth that can only
come as the Spirit reveals it. So I can deliver it by the
Spirit, but you have to catch it by the Spirit and let it renew
your mind. So you have to understand the
working of the Holy Ghost is to cause things to come to your
remembrance, teach you all things, guide you into all truth
and excuse me then disclose things to come.
There are gifts that function right in the church and that's
awesome. Although Pastor Marcy didn't say
thus saith the Lord, I am good all the time.
The reality is why she up here in the 1st place.
It's definitely she had some prompting in her spirit by the
Holy Ghost to communicate that. Now if you've been trained, you
realize that she just really gave the gift of prophecy, which
is just an A word of edification so that the church can be
edified, encouraged and strengthened concerning
something of our Father. And she did that even though she
didn't come up and say thus saith the Lord, because
obviously the Lord has said he is good, right?
He is a good father and He works things for our good and what the
devil meant for bad, he turns for right.
So she's communicating Scripture by unction of the Spirit.
And even though we're not saying it, we had the gifts in
operation tonight. We had the gifts in operation,
You know, cause a lot of times if we don't pay attention in the
Spirit, then a lot of times things are happening and we
think it's just us when it's really God moving and when God
opens or reveals things in your mind by the Spirit, something
that is a move of God. Please, we, we will not be the
church that's going to box or a believer that puts God in a box.
That a move of God is only when the miraculous happens or a move
of God is only when everyone's shouting, screaming, running,
dancing, and, you know, jumping for joy.
In fact, Pastor Denise had a phenomenal message on joy at
camp meeting. It was amazing.
I text her after I said I didn't text her.
I went to and talked to her. I said, Pastor Denise, I said
that that needs to be a book with your name on it.
It was such a great, solid teaching on the joy of the Lord.
It was awesome and needed for the body of Christ, you know,
because again, there are aspects that God does and it and it
elates us, it excites us. It is fun, it is awesome, but
it's not only a move of God. Are you hearing me?
And so we need to know know this.
Do you understand if I just read Scripture in a monotone voice
and you hear the Scripture, that's a move of God.
So. So everything God is saying is
exciting. Everything God is saying is
moving. And when you receive it by the
Spirit, it's an amazing thing. So we've already had the gifts
in operation tonight. We're going to have the
impartation of the Spirit tonight.
And again, how it is tonight will be will is, is directly
linked to your expectation, Amen.
And if I think you're getting too familiar with my voice, I
might come slap you don't want you sleeping on me.
Amen. All right, so Matthew 633 we say
this because it says but seek first.
This is even though we're using some of the same scriptures.
Could we learn more from it? So he said, but seek when first
I'm I will forego to breakdown, but but seek first his Kingdom
and his righteousness. We love the Kingdom because the
Bible's about a king, his Kingdom and his royal offspring.
Actually, it is about King's dominion and we are only trying
to go back to original intent. God is trying to give us
revelation of something that existed in the garden.
And so, you know, we're just trying to get technically back
to the beginning of what God intended in the 1st place.
But yet not only do we seek His Kingdom, we also have to seek
His. So first we are to seek His
Kingdom and 1st we are to seek his.
We are to seek His righteousness.
When righteousness is God's way of doing it, it's God's way of
doing it. It's righteous because it's
God's way of doing it. So we are to seek God's way of
doing it. When now we all have to admit
we've all been in situations where the latter part of that
was not first. We sought a way to overcome our
challenge or to over go through this situation of our own
understanding. Even though we have a scripture
that says lean not on your own understanding, but in ALL, all
your ways acknowledged and he'll make your pass.
OK, But what do we do? We tend to, you know, based upon
our knowledge, based upon our experiences, even based upon our
faith victories. We say God did it here like
this. He's going to do it again like
this. Well, he may not do it the same
way, but the results is going to be the same.
OK, So we need to seek first His way of doing it.
Righteousness means we're in right standing with the
governing authority, and you're in right standing with the
governing authority when you are doing it the way He said to do
it, Say Amen. And is God always right?
Is God always right? He is never wrong.
God is not a man that He should. He does not lie OK, so the seek
first his Kingdom and his righteousness and all these
things will be added to you. So not only do we need to seek
the Kingdom, we also need to seek his way of doing things,
which I find interesting because of how righteousness is and I so
I want to talk a little bit about the righteousness of God.
OK, turn over to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 to 21.
Because there are, there are. It's just like salvation.
Salvation is a door. We were in the domain of
darkness. We are transferred into the
Kingdom of his beloved Son through the cross of Jesus
Christ. Jesus is the way, the truth and
life. He's the door, He loud.
But through our belief in him as Savior, through his death,
burial and resurrection that he has wiped away all of our sin.
He's paid the price for by accepting him as Lord of our
lives. We enter through the door into
the Kingdom of God. We do not stay at the door.
We are to enjoy the benefits that are associated with our
salvation. Now many are stuck at the door
because they they're in and that's all they know and that's
it. But that was never God's intent
to get you in the door. Standing by the door, He wanted
you to enjoy the benefits that are associated with His Kingdom.
And here's the thing, when you were outside, you knew nothing
about this. You didn't know how to function
here. So what happens is when you get
in your spirit's different, but your mind still thinks like it
did when it was outside. This is why you must renew your
mind. That's your responsibility and
you can because your spirit man is alive.
Not only is it alive, but it has been made righteous in right
standing with God. So second Corinthians chapter 5
verse 17 through 21 says, therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he's a new creature. The old things passed away.
Behold, new things have come. Now all thing from God, who
reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry
of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling
the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses
against them. And he committed to us the word
of reconciliation. Therefore say, therefore, we are
ambassadors for Christ, as though God we're making an
appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God. He made him who knew no sin to
be sent on our behalf, so that we might what become the
righteousness of God in Him. So what we could not do in and
of ourselves. We could not have a
righteousness or we could not produce separate from God the
ability to make a demand in front of the throne that I'm
right with you of my own merit. Our spirit man was dead,
separated, cut off. We because of what Adam did,
because he fell, because of that transgression that transmitted
across the board to all of humanity.
We are not in right standing with God and only Christ could
pay a price that gives us the right to become righteousness.
Now, what does it mean to become righteous?
We must be a new spirit. We're a new creature in Christ
the new creature or the new spirit man is righteous.
It's in Christ, it's in the king in essence, it's the spirit of
the king. Now it's our spirit, not his,
but our spirit is in his likeness.
Now how do we know what that looks like?
Well Genesis 1 he breathe into into the Adam or the dirt suit
and he became a living being and from God he made man so of his
being he breathed into him the breath of life.
So Adam spirit was alive to God. It was of the nature of God.
But Adam himself is not God. He is a child of God.
Jesus did the same before he was ascended to heaven.
He went in and saw his disciples in a room.
He breathed on them and said receive the Holy Ghost because
they had made him Lord. And when they had made him Lord,
they became new creatures. While Jesus was there, they
experienced a new birth. He breathed on them to receive
the Holy Ghost because you cannot put new wine and old old
wineskin. So Jesus experienced the new
birth, meaning he saw his disciples do that.
But then he said now wait until you have power from on high
before we you go out start witness.
You need there's there's another work of the Holy Ghost.
OK, so we know then that we become a new creature, which
means the spirit man. We are a we have a body.
This is our body. We have a soul, which is our
mind, our intellect, our emotions, OK?
And then we have our spirit. Now before Christ, that spirit
was cut off from God. Dead just means separated from
God. It had no ability to be right
with God. Even when through your mind and
body you're trying to be right. That's why Paul said, look, man,
I mean, I was trying to do everything to be right with God,
only to find out I'm not right with God.
I'm not right with him so, but once he made Jesus Lord, then he
became a new spirit. That spirit that Paul could not
do through his own personal efforts and work to earn a
spirit that was alive to God. He could not do it.
None of us could do that. But confessing Jesus as Lord, a
man who knew no sin became sin so that we might become the
righteousness of God in Christ, the new creature is immediately,
instantaneously in right standing with God.
That spirit, when you're born again, is right with God,
period. And you don't have to do
anything then with that. That spirit is alive.
You didn't do it. God gave it to you, gave you
that spirit, and that spirit has the ability to follow God, hear
God, and actually wants to be in right standing.
That's the desire of your new spirit man.
I want to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness because my
spirit is of Him. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
That is not your work that did that.
That is the finished work of Jesus that did that to you on
the inside. So your spirit man has been made
alive. It's been made righteous.
You know confidently that you are alive with God, not of any
self effort, but because of the effort of Jesus.
Isn't that amazing? That is resident in you?
Hallelujah. Thank you.
This is exciting stuff because I think sometimes we forget of who
and and what we possess as a new creature, as a new creature that
God said, I'm going to put a spirit in you that's alive to
me. Now I'm giving you a new one.
And now I'm going to throw my whole it throw the third person
of the Godhead. He's going to bear witness with
that spirit that he's in right standing.
No more guilt, no more shame, no more condemnation, glory to God
and is in right standing with God.
That spirit is alive, but that spirit is a babe, or we could
say a seed. OK, let's turn over to Romans
chapter 5, Romans chapter 5, verse 12, and then we'll jump
down to 15 to 19. It says therefore, just as
through one man sin entered into the world and death reigned, or
death through sin, so and so death spread to all men because
of sin. But verse 15 but the free gift
is not like the transgression for if by the transgression of
one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by
the grace of the one man Jesus Christ abound to many.
Now if the first thing I want to point out before I finish
reading this passage 16 to 19 is that the free gift is not like
the transgression. The first thing I want to point
out about what it's not like is it's not it's not automatically
transferable because when Adam died, he produced after his own
kind all sinned man. It's it's your cut off when
Jesus through hit through the grace gift of God and the
finished work of Jesus. Now it's available for you to be
alive and righteous, but you're going to have to decide free
will. So again, we're lit.
We all sinned because Adam blew it.
Think about that for a moment. Now you understand how where
God's at in this deal. OK, so I tell Adam to produce
after his own kind, meaning him and his wife.
They have a godly race that are in my image.
Problem is he disobeys me and he's dead now him and he both.
So now they can't produce spirit beings that are like me.
They're of their father. Now they have fallen.
We use this term, they have fallen yet now guess what, we
are all grabbing that nature. I said we're grabbing that
nature. It's within us, we're grabbing
that nature and we're all for all have what sinned and fall
short of the glory of God. It is a transfer of which, but
God says, well, that's all right, I can fix it, Amen.
What's what's automatically being passed on?
I will make atonement for it. I'll pay the price for it.
And every one of them can be forgiven of it.
So they will not be able to stand before me and say, how can
you send me to the lake of fire? Adam ate the fruit.
I didn't eat the fruit. Adam ate the fruit.
Yes. Did I sin?
But it was Adam. He transferred this nature to
me. But the Lord's like, but I've
made my nature available to you now.
And all you had to do was say yes.
So with the choice Adam made to go into sin, God's given us the
choice to get out. Hallelujah, glory to God, Amen.
So again, you can't say, oh, if I was Adam, I wouldn't eat the
fruit. Well, it doesn't matter.
You are not you are of Adam. And now you can choose to eat,
you know, the fruit of Jesus, so to speak, you know, choose life.
So if you're like, well, I can't do that.
Well, then you would have eaten the fruit if you were Adam,
right? So if you're resisting to make
Jesus Lord of your life, then if you would have been Adam, you
would have eaten a fruit, guaranteed, because you still
have choice. Now you can choose to get out,
you can choose the finished work of Jesus.
All right, 1st 16 The gift is not like that which came through
the one who sinned for the one. For on the one hand the judgment
arose from one transgressing resulting in condemnation, but
on the other hand, the free gift arose for many transgression
resulting in justification. For if by the transgression of
the one death reign through the one, much more those who
received the abundance of grace and of the gift of what
righteousness will reign in life through the one Jesus Christ, so
them as though through 1 transgression there resulted
condemnation all men, Even so, through one act of what?
One act of what there resulted justification of life to all
men. For as through the one man's
disobedience the many were made sinners, Even so through the
obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous.
So you have to choose righteousness.
Now. It's through the act of
righteousness that we are freed, which means Jesus was righteous.
Jesus was always in right standing with the governing
authority. Jesus never committed an
unrighteous act. Unrighteousness just simply
means doing something contrary to God's word.
That's unrighteousness. He did righteousness by only
doing what the Father says. That's why I said I don't speak
anything on my own initiative. I don't, don't, don't do what I
do. I only do what the Father said.
Even the baptism with John he says permitted at this time so
that all righteousness can be fulfilled.
Everything that God has written about me that's supposed to be
fulfilled at this time. Now that I'm in the earth, I am
going to complete. This is why the prophecies
written of Jesus and all that He accomplished while He was on the
earth in those short 33 years and really just three years of
ministry. But 33 years before his death,
burial, resurrection, he fulfilled so many prop the
statistic ability for one person to fulfill, I think like 365
prophecies. Statistically you can't do it.
But he did it one man Why? Because he is the righteousness.
He is his one act of righteousness has given us the
bit. He is the Lamb that is slain.
He is the blood without spot or wrinkle.
He is perfection. He is God's anointed.
He is God's, the one who obeyed his Father always and not like
his brother Adam who disobeyed. He stayed obedient and
maintained righteousness. Glory to God and because of
that, He's given us the ability to be made righteous.
Our spirit man immediately becomes in right standing with
God. But now that righteousness needs
to grow. Now why do I say that?
Just because you've been made righteous doesn't mean you're
demonstrating righteousness through your other two parts of
your being. Again, we are, we have a spirit
man, we have a soul and we have a body.
God makes our spirit man right. We cannot do that.
But once our spirit man is made right and then he puts the Holy
Ghost inside us to 'cause we are the temple of the Holy Ghost.
Those two together, my spirit and the Holy Spirit, those two
in agreement, and they are in agreement, have more than enough
power to conquer my soul realm and my body.
Come on, to put it in submission, which means when I
hear from my spirit what the Holy Spirit is saying and I
renew my mind so that this righteousness that I already am,
I just begin, Oh, I'm just going to release who I am.
Oh, let me be who I am. You know, I'm just going to be
who I am. I'm just going to be who I am.
This is just who I am. I'm just going to be who I am.
I'm the righteousness of God in crime.
I'm just going to be who I am. Well, the minute I do that, then
all of a sudden the things that are contrary to that I begin to
take control of, I be. Because I have a power on the
inside that allows me to be able to conquer it.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah. How is it that I can take
control? I not God, I can take control of
my choice. I can take control of whether I
sin or not. I can take control and how I
feel about a situation. I can take control about how I
assess situations. How can I do this?
Second Timothy 316 and 17 look at this.
He says for all Scripture, say all Scripture.
That's why we need to read the Bible cover to cover, right?
All Scripture, all Scripture is inspired by God and profitable.
Say it's profitable. Listen, reading the Bible is
profitable. It is profitable.
I mean, it's the greatest profit you'll ever have.
Amen. And I'm even over a fivefold
ministry profit. It is the greatest profit you'll
ever have. OK, so it's profitable for
teaching for reproof. Why is for proof coming because
you you thought away in your former life and so the Holy
Spirit is saying we're not that right right we're not that I'm
telling you who you are release who you are just be who you are
just be who you are. I've made you righteous so just
be righteous. Just be it OK for reproof for
what correction for here it is training in righteous.
Now this is important because what happens is we can teach a
truth in Scripture and it is true that the minute it is not
your effort that makes you in right standing with God.
It is the finished work of Jesus and you confessing him as Lord.
He made you righteous. You did not do that on your own
accord. OK and that's true.
However, that's not the end. Then now there's training in
righteousness. And many stop here and say I've
already been raised, made righteous.
I don't have to do anything. You need to be trained.
Come on, you need to be trained. And again, anything you're
training in righteousness is not a work of yourself.
It is releasing who you are. It's just releasing who you are.
Hallelujah. So there is a training in
righteousness. Why?
So that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every
good work. In essence, if you do not train
in righteousness, the implication is you're not going
to be adequate. When there's good works or what?
When you face things within life, you will not release and
we're going to see another scripture.
Your fruit of righteousness will not be seen even though you are.
It's hidden just like right now. I see no one spirit man, but I
can see the effects of your spirit man.
When I see the fruit of your spirit man producing the fruits
of the spirit, when I see you respond and behave as the
Scripture says, 'cause the minute you get into a situation
and you're doing it according to the Word, now I'm seeing your
spirit man because your spirit man that's been made right by
the finished work of Jesus would do these things.
How do we know this, 'cause you're a new creature in and
Christ only did the will of the Father.
He just did him. So he just did him.
I'm just releasing who I am. This is just who I am.
Oh, you think you're so good. I'm just me.
This is me. This is who I am.
This is what God said I am right.
Now, here's the thing, a lot of times when you live, right?
Well, I'll get to that later. Maybe I'll come back to that
later. OK, so there's training.
Let's look at this word training.
This word training is really cool.
This word training means this. It means the whole training and
education of children. Are you a child of God?
All right, so God wants to train you.
He wants to train you in who you are, OK, That He made you
through his finished work, He said, which relates to the
cultivation of mind and morals and employs for this purpose.
Now commands and admonitions, now reproofs and punishment.
It also includes the training and care of the body.
Now that can be the body of Christ, but it also can be your
physical body, because again, your body doesn't tell you what
to do. You actually have control over
your body. You can tell your body, yes, I
understand you're attracted to that person.
But we're not going there. We're not married, right?
I'm not doing, you know what? I understand that you could put
that in you and it make you feel a certain way, but it's just
killing brain cells. It's killing this, killing that.
You're not, I'm not doing it. Same thing.
You know what, I could eat that, but at the end of the day, I'm
not putting that in me because I know I'm not healthy.
When I do that, it doesn't help my body.
And you actually can't control that.
Hallelujah. And when you do that, you're
just being you. OK, I'm going to talk more about
that. Whatever in adults and whatever
in adults also cultivates the soul, especially by correcting
mistakes and curbing passions. This is training.
It also, it means it's instruction which aims at
increasing virtue. Are you hearing me?
In essence, it is training so that God reveals what are the
evils by which he would visit man so that you do not function
in those capacities. So when he's training and
righteous, he's saying, you know who you are.
This is who you are. Because again we say, oh, wait a
minute, now you're getting into a bunch of do's and don'ts.
You know, that sounds like religion.
Let me tell you what religion is.
Religion is you determining what you would do with God and what
you won't do with God. Now you've entered back into
works you have because when you don't release who you are as a
righteous person, you are actually going back to works.
Because when you keep some scripture, but you choose to not
keep others and say, well, I don't have to do it.
You're actually in works now because you're dictating which
things of God you won't do. But a righteous person says I
just do what the Father says. That's just who I am.
I don't have to work this. It's just my nature and it's not
works. It's just it's who I am.
I enter into works when I am doing something opposite of my
nature and expecting God to be OK with it.
Oh, you don't want to hear that? It's fine.
I Every believer enters into works when we know we are doing
something contrary to His word, which is contrary to our nature,
and we're wanting God to still be OK with us.
That's works. That self effort.
That's the whole point of works is what do I do that that God
would be pleased enough with me and you're making the choice
that is works and you can do it as a righteous person, right?
Meaning you can you hear God speak to yourself, you can do
this. That's just who you are.
And you're like, I can't do that.
What do you mean you can't do that?
I mean your old man can't do it. Your mind can't do it, but I'm
here to renew that. I'm here to train you.
The training is just release who you are, Lord.
But then what's he going to say? Just kick in my grace, right?
My grace is sufficient. Just release who you are.
But Lord, you know what? Doesn't matter what?
It doesn't matter what anyone's done, doesn't matter what
anything's happened, doesn't matter anything in this
situation. You just need to handle the
situation the way God's telling you to handle it.
Now, that doesn't mean, as Pastor Marsh just said, and I've
said before, preach love is not a doormat.
A response, a righteous response, is not always I'll
forgive you and just act like it didn't happen.
Sometimes it is. I have already forgiven you.
The problem is you've not asked for it.
So our relationship actually isn't walking in reconciliation.
And I cannot condone what you're doing actively.
And so because you're actively choosing to separate from the
relationship, although you say I'm leaving you, you actually
left me because of your behavior.
This is why we're not fellowshipping anymore here.
You did this, I didn't. And whenever you're ready to
come back here I am. Sometimes love does that and
that's the righteous because a lot of times we do get prone to
let's just you know what? Can't do it this time, this time
can't act like it didn't happen. Can't act like it's not happen.
It's not there's no real repentance.
Or you know what I the righteous thing to do is to put them in a
position to be able to repent. Well, you know, again, if we
don't watch out, we, we like at certain aspects of Scripture,
but we don't care for other aspects of Scripture.
And then you and it all comes out so well, pastor or apostle,
which one do we do? The one that God says to do at
the time. That's the one you do.
That's the one you do whatever he says to do at the time.
You know, Jesus came to the earth and acted one way.
The next time he's come in a different way.
He came as a suffering servant. When he comes back the next
time, he will not come back as a suffering servant.
I mean, why can't he come back as a suffering servant?
Because that's not the righteous way to come back.
That's not the will of the Father.
When the great tribulation, those are righteous acts.
That's the righteousness of God responding to the situation.
Amen. The only way you know how to do
this is you have to become trained.
It's not one-size-fits-all. Every situation it call it's
calls for training because the enemy's tactics are different
and we're not ignorant of them. Which means then God will train
us how to respond to each one and release who we are.
Hallelujah, come on now. So Hebrews 12/11 says it this
way. All discipline.
This is the exact same Greek word that we just read in Second
Timothy 3 when it said training. The word training and righteous,
same word that they use as discipline here, but you could
say all training for all discipline for the moment seems
not to be joyful, which tells us when you're having training and
righteousness, guess what? It won't seem like why is it not
joyful? Because God saying now you can
do this and your flesh and old way of thinking says not doing
it that way. We're going to do it my way.
I've been God. I've been in this situation more
than one time. I got this one.
The Lord's like you don't have that one.
That man's dead. The the real you, it handles it
this way. Just release yourself when I I
don't know that I like that I don't know.
And the reason it hurts because you have to crucify your flesh
and self to release your righteousness.
It's painful, it's painful. The easiest thing to do is just
respond fleshly. I mean, we were professionals at
it, right? To be carnal, all those things.
But man, when you want to live righteous, then it gets pretty
painful. Why?
Because all the Lord said don't do this.
And now all of a sudden, everything in your response is
way different. Amen.
And it's painful, it's sorrowful.
Yet to those who have been, what?
There's that word trained by it afterwards, not before.
Come on, come on. Afterwards it yields the
peaceful fruit of righteousness. So when you're born again,
you've been made righteous. Nothing you've done.
God made you a new spirit that's in right standing with him,
alive to God. And then put the Holy Ghost in
you to let you know your spirit man is alive to God.
No condemnation, no guilt. You're right before God.
You can boldly come before the throne of grace.
However, we need the world to see the fruit of this.
Amen. So in order to see the fruit,
we're going to do some training because if we do not do any
training, you will be alive to God on the inside, but nobody's
going to know it. Come on.
Have you been around a Co worker that they come to you and told
you they were born again and you're shocked?
You're like, man, I there's no evidence.
I mean, I would have I I've been praying for them to get saved
and the whole time they're telling me they're born again.
This is amazing. What are you what are we missing
the fruit of righteousness because if they're truly born
again that that's really who they are and that's the easiest
response. It's the natural response for
them. However, because they do not
allow the training process, we cannot get the fruit cannot get
the fruit. That's tough deal.
This is why Jesus said go into all the world and make not
converts because conversion will not let you walk in fruits of
righteousness. You may be right with God, I'm
not judging you on that, but what I am saying is I can't see
it's fruit and the only way we're going to see the fruit is
to get training. And training comes from the word
of God being rightly divided where we say, OK Lord, what do I
do here? Because again, when you have
cancer in your body and the Lord saying to you, hey, you're the
righteousness of God in Christ, and one of the benefits of being
a righteous child is that by his tribes, you're healed, son,
believe me. And that righteousness will
permeate and heal your body. Glory to God.
How? What a benefit of righteousness
that now body you get in alignment.
Now, I can't stop this body from breaking down to the point that
it will let go of my spirit man over a period of time because
it's not a glorified body. But I will get one of those one
day. But until then, I can keep it
functioning at the highest capacity until the Lord calls me
home. And I'm telling you, I'm talking
high capacity. I don't even listen to people.
And oh, now when you get the sage, I just want to say shut up
and come out or get thee behind me.
Satan, Don't talk to me and tell me because I get older, I'm
going to feel a certain way. You know, I am quickened by the
Spirit. If I eat right, workout, I keep
myself, I'll keep this thing functioning at high capacity.
I understand it's getting a little bit older, I reckon, but
I don't have to have the ailments.
I'm going to be strong in the Lord and the power of his might.
I get the supernatural power on my natural because again, Moses
is 120 years old before he departs and it says he was
strong and you can't, well, it's just different now.
It's not different. He wasn't even born again,
didn't even have the Spirit of God on the inside of him.
Caleb is at 85 taking mountains. Well, our diet is different.
We'll change your diet and get a good one then.
Don't blame it on what everyone's doing.
Take the time and discipline yourself to do something
different. You can do this.
If you want that result, I get it.
If it doesn't, you go on to be with the Lord.
We understand that. We settle for what we want, and
I want the fruit of righteousness to show up in my
life, not only in my soul realm, so that my emotions match my
spirit. Because you understand, as
spirit beings, we are not emotionless.
We're just not led by them. I'm led by a spirit that
produces an emotion that's in right standing with God.
That's why in mourning, I can be joyful.
You know, when something bad happens, I can have a cheer
about it instead of being depressed about it, 'cause I'm
trained in righteousness and it will yield the fruit of
righteousness. So we have to allow ourselves to
be trained. OK?
So those who've been trained by it afterwards, say afterwards
will yield this peaceful fruit of rights.
It is not it, it, it is not joyful, but sorrowful at the
time. But once we get through now,
just recently, my wife signed us up to go have a massage.
And so she did deep tissue. OK.
And so, you know, you know, she's talking about deep tissue
before. No problem.
And you know, I've obviously thought maybe, you know, I was
having some deep tissue. I remember one time at Tulsa we
did 1 and I was convinced that my massage lady was mad at
somebody. Maybe I had a bad day with a
relationship or something and was taken out on my body.
And I'm like, I don't know that I asked for deep tissue right
now. I mean, you know, you're
working. However, I realized she really
want deep tissue. She would just firm because you
know, now I'm, I'll be honest with you, I really don't care
for guys to massage me at all. But there was a guy, you know,
at the end of the day, Marcy signed us up.
Two guys walk out and I'm like, but that's I'm already like, you
know, I'm mentally having to deal with this right now, So I'm
like, OK, it's fine. I just like LG is my trainer
right now. I'm going to be fine, right.
I'm going to be think more sports now that's I was already
thinking more sports. So, you know, get on the thing
and he comes in his deep chips. Yeah you know well, bro, he came
in with elbows. I had a for the first time, true
deep tissue torture or massage. I mean, it was, I was, I was
learning what my pain tolerance is.
I'm telling you, I was learning. I am on the table now.
I'm glad I was face down first 'cause you can do a lot inside
that pillow that nobody sees. You can grimace and nobody knows
nothing, right? I mean, I was like, so I mean, I
mean he's on and I'm like Jesus, he's going to go to the other
side of my back. I mean, it got hot in there.
Quit. I'm like Jesus.
And I'm so I so I mentally kicked.
I said, OK, I'm treating this like a workout, you know, cuz
I'm a gym guy and I'm like, sometimes you go in the weight
room and it stinks. It is hurting.
You're hating it. You're hating every Rep, every
bit of it. But then when you finish, you're
like, thank God I went today. Yeah, you feel good.
I'm like, I am in sorrow right now, but there's joy awaiting
me. There is a fruit of my benefit
that is waiting on the other side.
I'm like, man, I'm so glad I went to the gym.
I said, I'm fixing this massage is that experience.
So I'm like, it's all I am going to be so happy this happened
after it's over. So I embraced the pain and it
kept working and man, I was and I did so good all the way
through till he flipped me over. And then they do this where they
get up underneath, you know, your neck here and they want to
work these traps here. And man, he came back to the
trash right at the end. I mean, I'm like an hour in 50
minutes. What in and I've, you know, been
good, but man, he hit some knots or something at another level
and I and so I broke silence. I was like, who?
You hit some knots there, didn't you?
And that was like, God, I'm hurting right now and I wish you
would stop. You know, he never once says, is
this too much pressure? He didn't care about me.
He didn't care about my painting.
He was like, deep tissue is what you want, bro.
We gonna give it to you. And he was like, I mean, I did
not know the elbow could do that.
The arm. I'm like the man, not even he
didn't even have to have hands because I don't think he used
his hands the whole time. All I'm saying is is that once
it was over, I was like, Dang, man, I I'm better.
I am better. So then I decided maybe I should
do one every quarter. Definitely not every month.
And maybe it's only half, maybe twice a year.
I don't know yet. I haven't decided.
But there was a benefit because there were.
I needed it. I had some issues and you know,
a lot of us are living with issues.
We become we're functioning with issues that a little deep
tissue. You hear what I'm saying?
So training in righteousness, got to get some deep tissue on
you. He'll be like, all right, we
going to work on this so that something different comes out
and you're like, whoa, hey, you want to say Nah, we ain't doing
that today. And some of you getting off the
table is like, look, I'll get the knot out.
I can, I can get rid of this. I can get rid of this build up.
I can get rid of what's going on in your muscle.
I can fix that, right? LG, we can fix this.
I mean, I don't go to LG because he uses needles.
I mean, that's a whole nother level, right?
I don't even know what that means, right?
You know, willfully let him put acupuncture all over me and
stick me. No man, I don't know.
I mean, I did go to LG one time, but he didn't put a needle in me
and I'm thankful to God he did not.
I probably would do the cup thing, you know, the cupping
that would probably, I'd probably do that.
Maybe I had a bruise, whatever. But the needle, you know, I
mean, I cannot handle it, sure, but I don't know how many pins
on how many putting in me. I'm not like that's enough
today. I already looked like a
pincushion. Please stop.
OK, so again, fruit, what fruit is, is that which originates or
comes from something and effect or result.
It's a work and act, a deed. So when you are trained in
righteousness, afterwards the peaceful fruit of righteousness
shows up, which means not only do you see it, but everyone
around you sees it as well. Now here's the thing, when you
put out your fruit cause fruit seen, a seed is in the ground
and then has to produce the plant that then produces fruit.
Fruit seen and fruit is to be eaten.
I can offer you my fruit of righteousness, but you can
choose not to bite it. But it's there nonetheless
because I know when I'm producing righteousness.
Are you hearing me All right, Matthew 510 so know this.
So we're starting to wind down now.
Blessed are those who have been what persecuted for the sake of
now this is you need to know this for theirs is the Kingdom
of heaven. You know why yours is the
Kingdom of heaven? Because only righteousness
exists in the Kingdom. There are no half righteous,
it's total righteousness. No 9090 percenters are there
100%. Now good news is is spirit.
I get it, but don't think you're going to go to heaven as a
spirit being made righteous and you get to keep your earthly
thoughts. Let me tell you what you won't
go before the throne and say, yeah, I don't, I don't know,
Lord, let's talk about that. You know, we, we had this
discussion when I was on the earth.
That's not what that's going to sound like.
Because when you get in front of pure holiness, righteousness,
the power of God, number one, you're already on your face.
I mean, you're on your face. I mean, Isaiah is called up
there and he, he's like, I can't even get in front of it.
I mean, he felt so unworthy. And it's like, get the coal,
touch his tongue so we can have a conversation.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now Paul, on the other hand,
said, I knew a man, whether in body or out of body, I do not
caught up. And there was something about
his spirit man that obviously was righteous and he was able to
have some conversation with the Lord.
There's no indication of anything because he doesn't
write about it. However, we know this, when you
get before the Lord, it's not like you're going to hold your
own opinion. You're going to want his and you
know why you're going? Because that's who you are.
Who you are wants Him because He's life.
Your spirit man's longing to be released.
That's the point and the only way for your spirit man that's
been made righteous to be released as you have to train
it. But here's the catch, as long as
you're down here, if you start producing a lot of righteous
fruit, you're going to be persecuted.
And here's the thing about persecution is what do you
typically do when all of a sudden people start coming at
you're like, what did I do? How come there sometimes you're
going to just conclude I'm just righteous And again, you're not
right. He's right.
And if you're doing what he says, then guess what?
It makes you look like you're right.
You know, if people say to you, well, you just think you're
always right. Well, if I'm always doing what
God says, then God puts me in that position that I'm always
because he's always so again, in the earth, you're going to look
like you're always right. You'll always hang.
It's like, and they just get mad and they get so mad at that.
Like I just can't you just think you're well, I mean, at this
point, I'm definitely responding the way the Lord says to come
on, that's good. And how you are this Scripture,
this Scripture, this scripture. Well, you just think you're I'm
not, I'm just saying what the Lord said.
This is righteousness and I'm just releasing who I am.
You want to release who you are because guess what, we're all
right when that happens and when we're all right when that
happens, then guess what we are we're in unity, no issues, but
let's go on. Let's read it ourselves.
Look at Philippians chapter 3. Philippians chapter 3 will start
verse one. It says finally my brother
rejoicing the Lord Paul said to write the same things again to
use no trouble for me. It is a safeguard for you and
then look what he says in verse 2.
Beware of the dogs, beware of evil workers.
Beware of false circumcision for we are of the true circumcision
who worships in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus
and put no confidence in the flesh right now here's the
thing, nobody in here or any other church is going to say
Paul's wrong. But if we were living in Paul's
day, make no mistake, there was a group that said Paul's wrong.
We're the true righteous ones. He's really not.
Well, guess what? In our day people are saying no,
we're the true and their faults. And I was like, no, we're the
true. Well, guess what, there is a
true and there is a false. And you know that you're the
true when you are letting his way of doing it be the way you
do it. Then he goes, although myself,
my confidence in the flesh, if anyone else had put in mind to
put confidence in flesh, I far far more and then he begins to
say this is what I did. He says circumcised the 8th day
the nation of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews
as the law of zeal, our Pharisee as to zeal, a persecutor of the
church as a righteous which is in the law found blameless,
which means if you help me according to that, I was right
on. If you watched it, I did it.
I performed. However, his nature was gone, he
said. But whatever things were gained
to me, those things I counted as loss for the sake.
So if anybody knows about self religion, Paul did.
But he goes on and says this, more than that, I count all
things to be lost, in view of the surpassing value of knowing
Christ my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things,
and count them but rubbish, so that I might gain Christ, and
may be found in him. Not having a righteousness of my
own derived from the law, but that which is through faith in
Christ, the righteousness which comes from God.
On the basis of what faith that I may what know Him and the
power of His resurrection, the fellowship of his suffering
being conformed to his death, meaning I die daily to do His
will. I release who I am.
Then he goes on verse 11 in order why that I may attain to
the resurrection of the dead, not that I have already obtained
it. He says right now that I've
already become perfect. This one says, but I what press
on so that I may lay hold of what is he doing.
I'm constantly training in righteousness so that I
constantly bear fruit of righteousness.
I've been made righteous. But here's the thing, I'm
constantly training. I'm dying to self daily.
I do not allow my own personal opinion or what I think about or
how that made me feel or any of these things that move me.
No, I press on so that I may continue to train and righteous.
Now look at what he says in the second Timothy chapter 2 verses
20 to 25. He says, now in a large house
there are not only gold and silver vessel, but also vessels,
the wood of earthenware, and some of honor and some to
dishonor right, which means you can be righteous but not be
honorable. Therefore if anyone cleanse
himself from these things, he'll be a vessel for honor,
sanctified, useful for the Master, prepared for every good
work. Who cleanses?
You have a cleansing you have to do after you've been made
righteous, after you're born again, and that is the washing
of your mind, the renewing of your mind through the washing of
the word and then keeping your body at Bay.
Right? He goes on and says, now look
what he says. Now flee from useful lust and
pursue. But wait a minute, Paul, I
thought you just told us that we were made righteous.
Why do we have to pursue it? So see, there's two avenues of
righteousness. It is the one that we've been
made of, not of our own doing or our own self righteousness, but
only by faith that we accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and the
finished work, the blood has taken care of all of our sin and
He made us righteous. He took on our sin so I could
take on His righteousness. But now I'm pursuing
righteousness, meaning I'm pursuing daily to release just
who I am just so my nature will come out God's way of doing any
situation because for me it's not acceptable to say, well,
they're doing it and seem like they're getting away with it.
What's why should I work so hard?
I'm not working hard. I'm just letting myself be.
You work hard when you do things that are unrighteous and think
it's acceptable to God because you asked him to come to your
heart and save you. Now you're working, you're back
into works, you're determining how much sin or what can you do
that God's going to let you be OK with.
Now again, if a person is doing that, if they die, obviously
they're not going to hell. We're not saying the minute you
sin one time, you're cut off from God.
What we are saying is you didn't release who you were, so you did
move back into works because you're trying to produce a
fruit, not not just releasing who you are through
demonstrating rights. Meaning you are not going to
produce righteousness when you are producing or living
unrighteous doing things you know God said don't do.
That's what I'm saying. So he tells us to flee.
Who's responsible for that? It isn't God.
God's not coming to the room and say close your eyes, don't do
it. I got you where I'm in control.
Christians fail. Why?
Because they don't flee. He said flee the appearance.
I mean, we're just talking the appearance.
I remember one time you've heard me say this, that I was drinking
root beer one time. And you know, it's so crazy that
God did that, but I know why now.
But I was drinking root beers in a brown bottle, which, you know,
Brandon, let me know that apparently there's somebody has
a blue bottle now, which stinks. So now I'm probably not going to
be able to drive around with my Saratoga's anyway, but my brown
IBC root beer and the Lord said do not drink this in public
again in my vehicle nowhere. Why?
Because he knew there's coming a day that people be drinking all
the time and I would be associated with people who just
drink. But I don't drink.
I drink the Holy Ghost. I get drunk on the new wine that
I do, but I don't drink alcohol because I don't want anything to
mess with my mind. I've cut that off.
It's not a part of my life, OK? So I don't even want to be at.
So I flee. Even the appearance.
I mean, my wife and I, we go down to a particular restaurant,
down a Flagler, and every time we ask for sparkling water, they
always bring it in these fancy glasses that you normally get
wine and all kind of drinks in. I'm like, just give me a regular
cup now. I went with Jack Myers, you
know, who's an evangelist and we, I had when he came in to do
our graduation and we sat down and he wanted to a root beer.
But he said, now you poured in a mug and I don't want the bottle
here. He told the, the the waiter that
I don't even want it. I don't even want anyone to
look, walk around and think I have something.
Then he said, well, that's kind of extreme.
Well, if that's a personal conviction, what's the problem?
Because I understand if there's a bottle, root beer bottle and
somebody thinks I'm drinking alcohol, big deal, I know I'm
not. But if I can take it off the
table and the Lord actually gives me the instruction to do
so, then guess what? God's just saying.
I'm just trying to safeguard your life, son.
Well, who am I to disobey God and say, Nah, I'll drink my root
beer wherever I want to because I'm free, I can do what I want.
Obviously you don't know freedom, then obey God, glory to
God, Hallelujah. So he goes on, says flee this,
pursue righteousness, love faith, love, peace, and those
who call on the Lord from a pure heart because from a pure heart
you're going to pursue it. But refuse foolishness and
ignorant speculation, knowing they produce quarrels.
The bondservant, the Lord's bondservants must not be
quarrelsome. Be kind to all, able to teach
patient when wrong with gentleness, correcting those who
are in opposition, if perhaps God may granted them repentance
leading to the knowledge of truth.
So again, he sees that there's this conflict.
And what he's telling him is if you'll just pursue
righteousness, if you'll just #1 clean yourself up so that you'll
be a vessel for honor, useful for the master, and you flee
things that you that you definitely don't need, and you
just pursue God's way of doing it, then you're not going to be
foolish. And again, we don't want to be
foolish, do we? First Timothy 6 y'all doing all
right. We're going to close real quick,
he tells Timothy again, he says, but flee from these things.
You man a God and pursue righteousness.
So just because you've been made righteous doesn't mean you're
not supposed to pursue it. And it's easy to pursue it
because it's your nature. Your nature's like man, I love
to do the will of God. That's that's your in Christ
nature. I love to do the will of God.
It wakes up every morning. I love to do the will of God.
This is the day the Lord has made.
I will rejoice and be glad and it doesn't matter what comes
because of God before me. Who can be against me?
I mean, your, your spirit man's like, what do you want to say to
me, Lord? How do you want me to respond?
What do you want me to do? What do I do in faith?
Who do I talk to? How do I, you know, whatever you
know, do I lay hands on that? I mean, it's not just hearing
him to overcome a trial. It's hearing him to be able to
work the miracles and miraculous and sow seed and, and, and water
seed and all those things. Your spirit man wants to do it,
OK. But he says, flee from these
things, man of God, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith,
love, perseverance and gentleness.
Now listen, we're all these things, but we have to pursue
them. Why?
Because our mind can get off if we do not stay with the Spirit.
We'll go back to the flesh. Then he says in verse 12, fight
the good fight of faith, take hold of eternal life to what you
were called and you may and made the good confession in the
presence of many witnesses. Did Paul live a righteous life?
Well, let's look at it here. We're getting Closings.
Last passage, second Timothy 4/6 through 8.
Paul said, as I am already being poured out as a drink offering
and the time of my departure has come right then he says I have
fought the good fight. So he tells Timothy fight the
good fight because guess what, I fought it.
I have finished the course. Now you had a time that he was
thinking about going at a different time in the Lord.
He realized I'm not supposed to go, so he didn't leave.
He said I'm between two places where they're going to be the
Lord or remain here with you. I'm going to stay here.
Now he's like I've done exactly what God's called me to do.
The purpose of my life is done. I have fulfilled it.
In essence, I have lived the righteous life for my King and I
can go, He said. I finished my course, I have
kept the faith. Look what it says in the future
in the what there is laid up for me.
The This is what's so powerful about pursuing righteousness or
having fruits of righteousness. It actually produces an actual
crown. This is not symbolism.
This is a real possession because how could you cast a
crown down at the feet of Jesus if you do not possess 1?
Now why is there a crown of righteousness laid up for him?
That's the question. It's not just because he was
born again. I'm not telling you that
everyone that goes to the Lord receives a crown, because when
you read about eternal crowns, there are qualifications for
those, just like there's qualifications on how many
cities you get to govern in the millennial reign.
With that being said, let's go on.
He says. He says there's laid up for me
the crown of righteous, which the Lord, the righteous judge,
will award to me on that. He knows he's getting it now.
How awesome is that? I don't know about you, but man,
I can handle all kinds of persecution.
I can handle all kinds of to know that all this.
If I'm being righteous and you're only persecuting me
because of my righteousness, I can look at that here that
listen that and go glory to God. He is building my crown there.
There is a crown awaiting me. Wow, God, the righteous judge
will award to me on that day and not only to me, but also to all
who have loved his appearing. And listen, when you love his
appearing, you aren't called asleep.
You aren't caught doing your own thing.
You're not doing your own thing. You're not trying to pursue your
own life. You're not just saying, well, I
asked you into my heart, He saved me.
And I know when I die, I go to heaven and you know I do what I
want to do down here. I don't have to do anything.
No, you pursue righteousness and those who are always having this
expectation, I'm going to sit, stand before the King of kings,
the Lord of Lords, the Lord of glory, and he will reward me
according this, what the Bible says to my deeds, meaning what
my works in him, what I let him do through me, that was already
in me. I just did it by faith and
activated the grace of God. And again, it's not me, but it's
the grace of God in my life. But what I did do is I had faith
to release it because just who I am, it's not a show, it's not a
put on, and it's not a religious act to be right.
It's just who I am. It's just who I am.
Oh, you're just being really. I'm being righteous and Jesus
made me this way, just like you are being righteous, because
that's how the Lord made you. Amen.