Made to Display - Kingdom Righteousness

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Now enjoy this message. Well, it's so good to be here

with you. You know, last week we talked

about Repent, about getting a change of thinking and it's

moving me over into a thought process today that's really

important for us. Because the world needs us to

live righteous. Amen.

We were made to display. I said we were made to display.

And so turn over to Matthew. Chapter 633 is your turn In

there. I want to remind you a very

familiar verse that I use often here.

It's in Matthew 15, three where Jesus Christ himself said, why

do you forsake the commandments of God?

For the sake of your traditions? And, you know, there's a lot of

traditions out there that even try to use scripture.

And it takes things out of context.

And, you know, I've been around people who honestly just want to

do right. But they have some of the most

frustrated lives because there's nothing more frustrating than

trying to do right and still feel like you ain't right.

That on the inside, that action did not achieve the goal of

personal peace. It hasn't brought you to the

place that you're all that you're trying to do to do right.

Couldn't get you there. In fact, Paul himself said this.

He said, you know, everything I was trying to do and not do.

I found myself doing what I wasn't wanting to do, no matter

how much I tried, he said. The things I didn't want to do,

I found myself actually doing them.

And then he just acknowledged man.

I'm, I'm just in sin. I can't get out, he said.

Who's going to help me? He said thanks be to God.

He said thanks be to God that he causes us to triumph in Christ

Jesus. Amen.

So again, you know, obviously as a church we have people that

come into from other churches, from other backgrounds, all

kinds of things. And that's why we say, you know,

there may be a tradition that you've heard, and when we go

through scripture, you may have to abandon that tradition.

So that you follow the plan of God #2.

We also say this, you don't need to believe anything.

I'm saying just cause I'm saying it.

But if you'll search the scripture for yourself, then you

know the Holy Ghost is going to teach you and guide you in the

right direction. Are you hearing me?

Amen. I think to myself, especially

when we do our confession over our offering, I'm thinking, you

know, first time guests could think, wow, these people are

just like, you know, reciting things.

Well, you know, when I go to a game, there's cheers that take

place. And everybody's reciting

something together now. We all, nobody even talks about

that, right? But that don't bring any change.

I would love to believe that the cheerleaders actually change the

game. That's why when they lose, I

always blame the cheerleader. I'm gonna say it's your fault

because I mean, you're cheering. Supposed to inspire the team

now. I do believe that there is.

A place where the emotions and the energy that is in the

stadium will affect the players. I do believe that absolutely.

But at the end of the day, they win because they actually

achieve the plan. So their focus may get a little

more focused because they realize this win would mean a

lot more. To win just for me, but

everybody in the stands and at the end of the day you still

have to be focused to carry out the game plan.

Are you hearing me? You know, we were made to

display some things because God wants us to carry out a plan.

Are you hearing me? And in Matthew 633 he's very

clear, he says. But seek first his Kingdom and.

His righteousness. So it's not just his Kingdom.

Because here's the thing, you can't seek his Kingdom and get

separated from His righteousness because the Kingdom is going to

let us know what's the right way of doing it.

The King's way, who is by all right life and love.

He is the author of creation. This is why we've said often,

you know, when it all comes down to it, it comes down to who are

you going to let define the words you're thinking?

Who are you going to let give you the definition of that?

If we're going to actually take the time of why we are doing

what we do based upon what we've heard, well then let's go back

to the author of words for the Scripture says in the beginning.

I said in the beginning, before there was a heaven and earth.

In the beginning, God. In the beginning was God, and

the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

So God is the author of words, so he has the right to define

them. Amen.

And anyone else defining God's words is going to fail.

And even when you try to define it to be right, it will be

wrong. Now, what do I mean by that?

The Bible says is there's a way that seems right to a man, but

what happens in the end is death.

Now, death is not ceasing to exist.

Death just means to be separated, to be separated.

And you understand there's a way that you can try to do things

and still be separated from God, and that is a very frustrating

existence. Because in all rights, based

upon all that you're trying to do, you really just don't want

to be at odds with the Creator, correct?

I mean, we don't want to be at all, in fact, the whole

humanity. I mean, there are very few

people that literally want to be against God, but at the end of

the day, they're still worshipping something, right?

You know, if you get into Satanic worship, you know which

is against God. Well, he's a God anyway to you.

And for whatever reason, you think he'll win, but he's

already been defeated, and that's unfortunate, All right.

For the ones that say I don't even believe in a God, that's

not true. Because the reality is there's

something you're always believing in, and anything you

put in front of God becomes a God.

So no one can say I don't believe in God, because then

anything you pursue is your God, period.

In fact Jesus himself did not acknowledge the gods of the

world that man has made, but he did acknowledge 1.

Not because it's an actual God, but it functions like God is was

to function in your life and that was mammon because here in

Matthew 6 he says you can't serve both God and mammon or

wealth. Now he didn't say you can't have

wealth, he just said you can't serve both.

Because you'll love one and hate the other.

In essence, he says, money has a way to get inside you and and

govern how you live. Many people have said, well, I

can't afford, well, who said you can't afford your wallet?

Or God, because there's many things I've done without it

being in my wallet. But before I got to the place

that it was necessary to have some kind of finance, God was

able to get it to me. Either get it to me directly or

get it through someone to me or God just let someone say don't

worry about paying. At the end of the day, I did

what I was to do because God said do it, not because my

wallet did Hallelujah. So my car doesn't define me.

Are you hearing me? So whether I'm driving something

that people would not consider luxurious, or whether I am

because the car itself doesn't, my house does not define me.

Notice how we put definitions? I'm a millionaire.

Well, no, you're not. You're a child of God that

happens to have $1,000,000 and that's a different perspective.

So what we identify ourselves with actually becomes our God.

And anyone who is doing this is still trying to live a right

life. I get it, I get it.

But in order for us to actually live a right life, we have to

actually seek His righteousness. It says this, but seek first His

Kingdom and his righteousness. Now, if you'll just do those two

things, what will occur? All the things, all these things

will be added to you. Now if you want to know what

these things are, you have to actually go back up a few

verses. And he says don't worry about

what you're going to eat, what you're going to drink, what

you're going to wear. And that's he said don't worry

about the necessity of life. Don't worry about what's going

to come to you in things when life, because I can get that to

you, no problem. And man, I can be a living

testimony of God getting it to me no problem.

No problem. Because if I just do the first

two, I'm guaranteed the rest. And what happens is I actually

get what everybody else is worrying.

To get what everybody's in anxious to have, what

everybody's in turmoil, to possess God, just hand it to us

because we seek His Kingdom and His righteousness.

Righteousness is not a religious word, and neither is Kingdom,

because Kingdom is a government. And God came to reestablish a

government on the earth. So this may be a little shocking

to any guests here because you're like, oh, I thought this

was separation of church and state.

Well, you understand that's something in the United States.

But God never expected the state to be separated from the church

as far as he's concerned, because we are his government in

the earth. We are in his Kingdom.

We reign with him. And that government is tangible,

but it's not limited to natural territory. the United States has

a, you know, a boundary that has been described through some

process that says this line of dirt is legally the US, not

Mexico, or it's legally the US and not Canada.

I mean, you can just literally do this.

I've been up there to New York when we went over to Niagara

Falls and I literally if this is Speakers Canada and this the

United States stood like this. One foot is legally in the US,

the other foot is legally in Canada.

Well how do I know this? Cause the words telling me OKA

word is telling me this. Well you understand God's not

limited in territory with his Kingdom.

He owns the planet. So His Kingdom can function

everywhere and does function everywhere if we are functioning

in it according to His righteousness.

Because righteousness is not a religious word.

It means right standing with the governing authority.

It's in essence, Lord, what do you say?

And when you do that, then you're righteous.

Now how's this effect in the natural well?

We see this in multiple stages. We see this concerning driving.

Can you be a righteous driver? Can you be an unrighteous

driver? Yes, Yes you can.

You can run a red light and that makes you unrighteous.

You can go 20 miles over the speed suggestion.

I mean, we all interpreted that way.

You know you do. 55 is the speed suggestion.

But when the police officer pulls you over doing 85 and a

55, what seems to be the problem?

Officer and I love what did you know?

Did you know you were speeding? Right.

Did you know? Really, I didn't know.

And then some would try to cry to get out of it.

And what are you doing? You're trying to find mercy.

Because again, is it not true that the majority of everybody,

even in this room right now, when you're driving down the

road and you see a police officer, you put take your foot

off the gas? Why do we have this habit?

Inevitably, we're like we must be unrighteous.

We'll pull it off and start to break.

Amen. That is the easiest way for me

to describe righteousness and unrighteousness.

So we talking about righteousness with God.

It's the same thing because God has ways that his Kingdom

functions, and when we are violating that, there's a sense

of guilt that can show up. Right now, that doesn't mean

God's not merciful and give you a warning.

Many of you have speed. You know that you deserve the

ticket. You should have to pay the fine.

You should have to go through the class.

But that officer was merciful, gave you a warning.

And a warning gets typed into their computer so that if you

get picked up 100 miles later, they'd be like then we just

warned you 100 miles ago. Apparently we're going to have

to go ahead and let you feel the brunt of your choice.

Amen. All right, so righteousness is

right, standing with the governing authority, and God

wants us to seek His righteousness first.

1 John 3 · chapter mention

John chapter 3, verse four says this.

Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin

is lawlessness. Now I like this because again,

it really just equates what sin is.

So if righteousness is doing it God's way, unrighteousness would

not be doing it's God's way. Then righteousness is according

to God's. In one sense we could say law.

And when I say that, I'm not trying to say anything that, you

know, gets people into legalism. I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying he's king. He speaks and that's.

And there is a law in the new covenants called the law of the

spirit of life in Christ Jesus. And I am under that law, thank

God, because the minute I got under that law, I got freed from

another law. And that's the law of sin and

death. And that law legally bound me to

the devil and to a way of living that was contrary to God.

But Jesus redeemed me. I said he redeemed me.

He paid the price. Now I had to pay the debt.

But I couldn't pay it. But he could pay it, and he paid

it. So then sin is lawlessness.

Or sin, Simply put, is not doing it God's way?

Come on. So he goes on.

Say everyone who practices, say, practice.

Say practice. Now practice is someone who just

does it. This is what they do.

So anyone who's not in Christ, this is what they do.

And the church has really done a terrible job.

The religious church has done a terrible job of trying to make

lost people right without the way they should be right.

I can't believe you're doing that.

How can you not believe they're doing that?

They are separated. They can't help but sin.

What we should be is like so how's this life treating you?

Would you like a better life? Are you going to tell me I can't

do? You're going to do and I am.

I'm not going to tell you you can't because you are.

You're going to do it. And no matter how much you try

to stop, you're just going to substitute it somewhere else.

I'm just asking, do you want something different?

Because that's going to be different.

Amen. So, you know, we don't be

surprised. When things are happening,

people so surprised. What's going on in our own

nation? Why are you surprised?

The Bible tells us it's going to happen.

Amen. So he goes on and says, for you

know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him

there is no sin, no one who abides in him Abides, abides,

say abide abides in him, sins, and no one who sin has seen him

or knows him. So the minute you abide in him,

then sin is not your problem. All right.

Little children, make sure no one deceives you.

The one who practices righteousness they practice is

righteous, just as he is righteous.

The one who practices sins they practice is of the devil, for

the devil has sinned from the beginning.

The Son of God appeared for this purpose.

What, to destroy the works of the devil?

No one who was born of God practices sins.

They practice. Because his seed abides in him

and he cannot say cannot. So you cannot.

If you're a child of God, say I'm just a sorry Sinner saved by

grace. You can say I was a Sinner.

That's just what I did. I was separated from God.

I wasn't doing it his way. I was trying to do away.

I was trying to do things right, but it always felt empty, no

matter what. There was these high moments and

low moments. High moments and low moments are

like whoo. But then all of a sudden I'm

still confronted with myself and I'm deficient and life's

frustrating and I just want to be set free from that and Jesus

comes along. And the message of Jesus and the

price he paid of Jesus comes along.

And we believe in that. We receive it by faith, through

grace. Or by grace through faith.

Then we become born again. We'll see about it here in a

minute. And now we become believers.

And believers cannot in their spirit sin.

It's not their nature anymore. I said it's not their nature

anymore. Are you hearing me?

So we need to identify with our new nature cause we were made to

display, we were made to display.

Now I know what the problem is and it's founded first John.

I mean first Thessalonia is 5/23.

He says now that our spirit, soul and body is to remain

blameless. The problem is the majority of

churches are teaching one-dimensional man, and man is

not one-dimensional. Man is spirit, soul and body.

Now here's the thing. Man before Christ, his spirit is

dead. So in essence, man only operates

through 2 dimensions. His soul, his emotions, his

mind, his thinking. It's where he connects, his will

of choice of what he wants to do.

And he's always siding with how he feels.

And what's happened to him and what took place?

Because the things that he sees pushes his narrative.

And then by how he feels, how he feels.

And so he goes, if it makes me feel good, I do it.

Even though after you do it, you find out that you don't feel so

great. And there's this vicious cycle

of feeling great in your body and then feeling horrible

inside. But God, I said, But God.

But God then when he he makes our spirit alive and he does

something to that spirit that changes everything.

But now that spirit in us has to get our soul together now and

tell our body. You ain't telling me what to do

no more. And it get puts in you such a

strong spirit that it there's no excuse for it not to affect the

other two parts of your life. Are you hearing me?

So he goes on and says this. No one who was born of God

practices the sin because his seat abides him, and he cannot

sin because he is born of God. By this the children of God and

the children of devil, of the devil.

Or what? What are they?

Come on, What are they? It's obvious.

So when you look out on humanity, you cannot look out on

humanity by how they look. How tall they are, how short

they are, how much weight they have, how little weight they

have, what gender they are, what gender they are are not.

You can't look at the color of their skin because there's only

two types of people, those in the family of God and those in

the family of the devil. Only two.

And the devil has in his family every tongue, tribe and nation,

every gender he has, every economic status.

He has, every color of skin. He has it all.

But guess what? In the Kingdom, so does the

Lord. So does the Lord Highland.

And those are the only types of people on planet Earth today.

It's the only ones. And he says that these two are

obvious. Which tells us then if I because

of the finished work of Jesus and made righteous, then I was

made to display I should be obvious that the devil is not my

daddy. It should be obvious.

Obvious by this the children of God and the children of devil

are obvious. Anyone who does not practice

righteousness is not of God nor the one who does not love his

brother. Now why is this even in play?

Why does Jesus even have to come to destroy the works of the

devil? Well Genesis chapter one.

In Genesis chapter one we know that the Bible tells us in verse

26 God said. Then God said, let us make man

in our image according to our likeness, and let them rule or

have dominion over the fish, to see birds of the sky, over all

the cattle, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth,

over all the earth. And so man was to have dominion,

both male and female. They were to have dominion.

They were created in the image of God.

In essence, that word means they were a carbon copy.

They are not God, them themselves, but they are in the

image of God. They had the DNA of the Creator.

And he is life, he is love, he is righteousness, he is light.

And in him as no darkness so there's no sin associated with

him. He is perfection.

And so he creates both male and female and he breathes into

them, breathes into this one skin suit the breath of life.

He becomes a man. We know him as Adam out of Adam

From his rib side he creates woman.

Her name is Eve and they both together Co labor together to

dominate the earth like God. In essence they've been made

righteous. There's no sin, none.

Yet God needs to see their righteousness on display, needs

to see it. How is he going to see his their

righteous. And I mean, they're made

righteous. They're rights that God comes

down the cool of the day. I mean, he talks with them,

fellowships with them. There's no issue.

They run to him. I said they run to him.

Now, you know, somebody's got challenges with God if they

can't run to church because Jesus is the head of the church.

We're the body of Christ. Now you may have problems going

to some because they're not. It's not the church Jesus is

building. I get it.

But the church Jesus is building is in the planet.

I can tell you there's one right here in Saint Augustine, and you

can run to it and be safe. Hallelujah.

But they would run to him. They would hear him.

They would talk with him. I mean, when the Lord came and

said Adam, why don't you name the animals?

You know what? He did not find Adam behind a

tree hiding. Okay.

I'm gonna say that again when he came and said, Adam, listen,

this is how I want you to take care of the garden.

You're going to tend here. You're going to multiply here.

You're going to do this. He's giving him instruction,

right? Is Adam, like, scared?

Is he afraid because he's righteous?

He has no problem talking with the Lord.

The Lord said name these things, name these animals.

And he keeps bringing them by 1 by 1.

No problem. But then in Genesis chapter 3,

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verse seven, after they eat the fruit.

For the Lord says you can eat from any tree of the garden.

But if the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not

eat from the day you eat, you will, surely you'll die.

And we've said before, if Adam had never eaten the fruit, where

would he be today? So he wasn't looking to go to

heaven because heaven came here. Are you hearing me?

So he's righteous, yet God says display it.

How do you display it? Through obeying.

And he's perfect. I mean he it's not like he's got

to take a class. He's not having to renew his

mind. His mind's wide open.

More wide open than our minds even.

I mean, he knows all in the context of his mind is not

impeded with sin at all. Wow.

And God says display your righteousness.

Show me you love me. Keep my word.

Now, this is important because there's a false statement about

God that runs in the planet today, and that is, God is in

control. Well, let me tell you, if God

was in control, Adam never would ate that fruit.

Because don't you think God couldn't come down and snatch

that apple out of his hand? Don't you think God could have,

when he went to reach for, put a force field around it, had an

Angel appear? What are you doing, bro?

Then Dad, say don't touch the stuff.

Oh yeah, you're right. Go on.

Now the reason why this such a damaging statement is because

when we give God control of everything, then the devil makes

God look bad. Well, if there's a God in the

world, why is there war in Israel right now?

Well, because somebody else is in the world.

Because somebody else came to the garden.

I said somebody else came to the garden because what God told

Adam was keep my word. You keep my word, you maintain

rights. And he says, Son keep the garden

so he's in heaven. And there's anointed chair by

the name of Lucifer who tries to rebel against God's Kingdom

realm. And Jesus said, I saw Satan fall

like lightning from heaven. God expelled him, kicked him

out, his rebellion against the Kingdom forced him out.

And everyone who sided with his party he he kicked out of the

heavens realm and put him down in the earth.

So now a serpent shows up, which is the Satan of old, the

deceiver. God didn't have to come down and

say Son because he's already given his son all authority.

We are not forced to be with God.

So this is what I like to say. God will let you do whatever you

want to do. He does not control your life,

but he will hold you accountable with whatever you do.

Because ultimately the day will come that everything is

according to the standard of life.

And the choices I make when I follow God is because of life.

It doesn't stop me. It's life.

How many ever touched a hot oven when you were a child?

Yep. Should listen to your parents

because you know they told you, right?

Did they want to control your life?

No, they didn't want you to get hurt.

I mean, what parent is going to let a child go across US1 at 3

three years old and just say, well, it's your choice.

I don't want to control your life.

They'll figure it out. And if the Lord wants them

alive, they'll stay alive. Who does that?

No one does that in their right mind, right?

I mean, nobody does that unless they're demon possessed.

Honestly, because the demon possessed person is of the

operation of the devil, which is to kill, steal and destroy they

they would do that. So when you say no, don't go

across the road, you're not controlling them, you're

offering them life. And that's what God's

righteousness is for us. It's offering life, not

controlling me. He's offering me life, he said.

I just want to give you life because at the end of the day,

I'm going to choose. I can choose and say I ain't

going to do what you say. And then I get the opposite of

life. And opposite of life is death.

That means separation from something, Separation.

God's not stopping me from having sex.

Hey, stopping me. I can sleep with anybody I want

to, but I'll have what's associated with that kind of

lifestyle. Cause God says now if you want

life and sex, then you got to do it in marriage according to my

design and it'll be awesome, be fruitful.

But if you do it a different way, it brings death again.

I can lie anytime I want to, but what does it bring?

The results of death. It separates things.

My wife doesn't control me. I don't control my wife.

I choose to be with her every day and she's better than silver

and gold. My my mom.

It's awesome. Because her righteous life and

my righteous life makes our marriage a righteous.

You better watch out now. I don't want to.

I had to. I had to say let's let's pray

now. Glory, dear God, I'm telling if

you, if you are a believer, you better have sex way more than

the world. I'm just being honest.

I wouldn't let some person out in the world telling me about

all the all the times they're having.

I'll be like, bro, you ain't got Jack on me and my wife.

Nothing. All right.

God gave that for us. The devil's killing people and

then they wake up with stuff on their bodies, then they got

stuff in their wombs and there's all kind of stuff that takes

place. And God's like, I never designed

that like that. Y'all doing all right.

OK Everybody wants you to be real till you start preaching

real. Just be real, pastor.

Just be real, OK? I'm being real, right?

I mean the you. There should not be more dancing

on Saturday night in the club than there is in the church.

Shouldn't be. Shouldn't be more shouting in

the stadium than in the church, right?

I mean, come on, what are we doing here?

I don't know about you, but he saved me.

He filled me. He delivered me.

He gave me life, man, and life more abundantly.

And I'll honor him and worship him because he has set me free.

My God. He has set me free.

Whoo. Oh my gosh, man, you know, I I

look at some people's lives. I'm like, praise God, I have

been redeemed. And that's not because I have

pity for them, not because I'm looking down.

I'm just like, there's a better life.

You don't even know where you're at now.

You've been puking your guts out because you are partying.

Really. No, I get drunk in the spirit

right here and get stronger by it and get revelation by it.

And get what wisdom by it and have wealth by it.

Oh, praise the Lord. So the devil deceives Eve.

She eats the fruit, gives it to her husband.

He eats and it says both of their eyes, Genesis 3, seven

were open and they knew they were naked.

They sewed some fig leaves together, made themselves loin

coverings, and they heard the the sound of the Lord God

walking in the garden of the cool of the day.

And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of

the Lord. Never done that before.

Because when you're righteous you don't hide.

Never done that before. I said they've never done that

before because when you're righteous you don't hide.

Amen. Lot of good excuses by

believers. Well, pastor, you know when I

was working. No.

You hiding Because if you're letting your work dominate you

so much that you can't be in fellowship with the Lord, we got

to miss priority. It's called seek, not your job.

You need to get control of your life.

Say, Lord, help me get control of my life.

That my job doesn't keep me out. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. So they hid themselves from the

presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden.

The Lord called man and said, where are you?

He's still asking that question today.

Because it's not because he stinks at hide and go seek.

It means what position are you in now?

And This is why we want to be right, is because we really want

our position back. We want dominion.

And he said, I heard you in the garden and I was afraid because

I was naked. So I hid myself.

And he said, Who told you you were naked?

Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to

eat? I told you, don't eat it.

You'll die. I'm not controlling you.

I just want you to live. And you chose death.

You know that same thing is here.

Joshua said it so clearly I sat before you.

Life and death. But then he actually has to give

you the answer to the test question.

Choose life. And you know what?

They did not. Still didn't do it.

What does this mean? It means being born righteous

and living righteous are two separate things.

Because Adam was made righteous, but he had to now live it.

I said he had to live it. And a lot of people in the

church today get born again so that they can be made right.

But then they don't. They don't live it.

And it's unacceptable for God's kids to not live it.

Now I'll give you I, I, I granted some of them a lot of

big disadvantage because they've been sold something that's just

not entirely truth. Now when I say that, I mean

there's a layer of truth to it, but it's not how we were

supposed to live. And that is ask Jesus into your

heart and save you so when you die, you go to heaven.

We are not accepting Jesus for death like after we leave so we

can be in heaven. Yes, if you die, you'll be

present with the Lord, if you've made Jesus the Lord of your

life. But it's not about where you're

going, It's about him coming. I said it's about him coming

because when you get born again, that means you become a new

creature in Christ and the Holy Spirit himself comes and lives

on the inside of you. That means God comes and makes

his abode with you. God not wait for you to get to

heaven to be with you. He wants to be with you now.

And he wants to change you now. And he wants to give you

dominion now. And he wants to change

everything about the circumstance in your life now.

Because he wants to deliver you now.

He wants to save you now. He wants to heal you now.

He wants to prosper you now. He don't want to wait till you

get up there. He wants to you to display

already put in you. So once he does in the Spirit

what you could never do, now it's your responsibility to do

in the soul and in the body what you can do because he's put the

greater one on the inside of you.

So if you're not seeing all the benefits of the righteous coming

out, it's not because you haven't been made righteous.

It's because you're not practicing your righteousness

and you are made to display. And there's a lot of people that

are out in the world that honestly, justifiably so because

even the Bible says that the world slanders God because of

his own kids. It's because they going to run

and go to the club, talk like them, act like them, have

relationships like them, pursuits like them.

And they going to tell them, yeah, but I have.

She's in my heart and he saved me and I'm going to go to

heaven. But you're not.

And they're like, OK, I mean, it doesn't do you a whole lot of

good here. And you're going to tell me

you're you're in a better place with God and you act just like

me just because you believed in your heart that Jesus died on

the cross and rose from the grave.

That's just very difficult to believe.

And if that is true, then I'll wait, so then we scare them.

But you don't know when you're going to die.

What? Have you died today when we were

drinking together? At least we can go to heaven

together as drunks. Hallelujah.

No? But when you start living, some

people like how do you do that? I mean you are peculiar people.

You should stand out. That doesn't mean you won't be

persecuted. But let me tell you, Jesus is

righteous, but he also had to choose to live righteous.

Look what it says, the first Peter chapter 2, verse 21 to 22.

1 Peter 2:21–22

It says for you have been called for this purpose since Christ

also suffered for you leaving you an example for you to follow

in his steps who committed no sin.

That's pretty powerful statement.

Jesus left you an example to follow his his steps who

committed no sin nor was any deceit found in his mouth.

He's like that's an example for us.

Now you can say, well I could never do that on Jesus.

Well, are you in Christ? If you know who you are, then

you'll know sin doesn't on you anymore.

You've been redeemed from the law Senate.

Sin don't. Sin can't tell you what to do

anymore. You got a new daddy.

Your old daddy can't come up to talk to you anymore and tell you

you know good. You sorry.

You ain't never gonna mount to nothing.

You never mounted nothing. He's hollering at you over a

great abyss. You're like, shut up.

You're not my dad no more. I got a new name.

I got a new name written in glory.

Yeah, it's been written. My name's in the Lands Book a

lot. I got a whole new life.

Now I'm beyond a witness protection program.

I mean, I'm a totally different person.

I don't even know who you're talking about because that

person's dead. So he goes on and says, and

while being revived, he did not revive in return.

While suffering, he uttered no threats, but kept entrusting

himself to God who judges righteously and he himself who

bore our sins. Come on, look at this in his

body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to we

might what? Die to sin.

Live to righteousness. I'm not a sorry Sinner, say by

grace. I'm not stuck having to sin.

I don't have to sin anymore. I've been redeemed from that.

I've been changed. I've been made brand new.

I get to live to righteousness. I get to live to actually do

what God says. And I want to do it, and I can

do it. And I've been empowered to do

it. And I do it by faith.

And I'll have life in everything I touch, for we were continually

straying like she. But now you have returned to the

shepherd and guardians of your soul.

He's renewing my mind saying Corinthians 517 to 21 says

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature.

Say new. This is not a remodel.

Your spirit's not getting to remodel.

Your mind's getting to remodel. But your spirit's not.

Your spirit's not. I mean, most of you were running

with a 4 cylinder that was running on one.

I had a minister come who bought a Tesla this weekend and he's

not happy. He's like they said I could go

300 miles. And I traveled up here and it

took us a lot longer. I could not.

I was stopping all the time to have to charge the car.

So he called. He said, man, you sold me this

vehicle under false pretenses. You told me I get 300 miles.

He says now you can get 300 miles, but you cannot go over 70

miles an hour nor turn on the air condition.

So if you don't go over 70, you don't run the A/C, you'll be

able to do 300. Now see, that's in the fine

print, people. So you're watching the

commercial, We're saving the planet and you're going to get

all these miles, but don't turn that A/C home.

This is why I struggle with Priuses, because all you little

Prius drivers except my daughter, you got the little

green gauge in there telling you you're maximizing your battery

life and you're on A1A and the speed limit is 55 and you go on

35 to maximize your battery. Well, you need to get you need

to get one of those electric bikes and get on the sidewalk so

that us that like to do the speed limit and determine

whether or not it's suggestions or not can keep going.

You know I hate having to go 85 to get around.

You hate having to get there 35 and it take I had to get up to

85 to pass that whole string of electric cars.

So by the time I get home, I've averaged 55 miles an hour.

So it's like taking your 4 cylinder that's on one, pulling

it out and they put a jet engine in there.

I mean this whole new power because really, honestly, you

just got to understand this. You didn't even get a 4 cylinder

on one cylinder. You had a engine that was locked

up. You were going, in essence you

were Flint stoning it. You had an engine that was

locked and you were having to push your car everywhere because

your engine not even running. It's dead.

But God snatches that thing out, puts you in a jet engine.

You got more power. You don't even know how to

handle all the power, although he'll train you how to handle

the power. And we're pushing our jet engine

cars because we're not displaying our righteousness.

Oh, Hallelujah. He goes on to say he's a new

creature. The old things passed away, but

whole new things have come now. All things, these things are

from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave

us the Ministry of Reconciliation.

Ladies, listen, Y'all's games go a little bit longer than an

hour, so I'm conditioning them to be able to handle your game.

You know, those things get a little long, right?

And then people can't be like, I got to go, this is more than an

hour. I'm going to have to leave.

No, we stay to the end, people. We stay to the end of the game.

So you'll be able to handle their games.

It won't matter if it goes 2 hours, you'll be able to handle

it. All right, so let's go on.

Namely that God was in Christ reconciling the world to

himself, not counting their trespass against them.

And He committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were

making an appeal through us, and we beg on behalf of Christ be

reconciled to God. Verse 22 He made him who knew no

sin to be sin on our behalf because what we could not do,

Jesus did so that we might become what the righteousness of

God in him. Say I'm righteous.

Say I'm righteous. You've been made righteous.

Your spirit man is alive. When you call on the name of the

Lord, your spirit man is alive. It comes alive.

It's what the whole world wants. Life with God.

They want life. They want why they're here.

They want why they were created. They want to know why they're

breathing. And you'll find it when your

life with God and he'll make you righteous.

He will not go through a checklist of all you've done

wrong. He's already paid that price.

He's like my God. I don't have time to sit here

and talk to you about everything you did.

I paid the price for that. It's taken care of.

It's under the blood. I just need you to make me Lord

so I can put a new spirit in you.

Put my own spirit in you, and then you can change the way you

think and hold control. Your body was playing like

righteous life because the Bible tells us at first in Romans 116

and 17, he says. But I'm not ashamed of the

gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone

who believes, to the Jew 1st and also to the Greek.

For it is the righteousness of God.

For in it the righteous of God is revealed from faith to faith,

as it is written, but the righteous man shall what live.

By faith. What will righteous man do?

Live by faith. How does faith come?

Faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God.

It's the word of the king. What's the king saying?

How's his way of doing it? What's he want to do?

How's he wants you to handle that situation?

How does he wants you to respond right now?

And then he gives. Us fruits that come with His

spirit. That means when we want to be

mad and punch somebody out, we can actually have selfcontrol.

When somebody keeps, you know, aggravating us, we can walk in

long-suffering because now we say no, no, no, no.

You don't get to do what you want to do.

Emotions. You don't get to talk like you

want to. You don't get to act like you

want to anymore. I got somebody on the inside and

me, I'm different. And you don't control me

anymore. No, my spirit controls.

Everything else is going on out here.

Hallelujah, because I can do it. God's way I've been made

equipped. Proverbs 2022 says So you will

walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the

righteous. You got to keep to the path.

Now I'll just tell you. Can you stray?

Yes. What do you do?

Repent. You confess.

The Bible tells us at first. John 19.

It's to believers, not lost people, that if you sin, right,

if you're unrighteous, because that sin unrighteousness, if we

confess our sin, he'll cleanse us from our unrighteousness,

right? So he'll do that.

Because why you'll actually know when you're fixing to go wrong.

Because now someone's in you that can talk to your spirit

that's alive to God and can hear from God and say, hold on a

minute. Now before you say that, hold on

a minute Now before you throw that punch, hold on it, which

he'd be talking way before the punch is coming.

You know, that's because some of y'all just got muscle memory.

Hold on now, before you act that way.

But then if you act that way, he'll say, why'd you act that

way? And then if you like, Lord, I

shouldn't acted that way, forgive me.

He says, OK, I forgive you. Now let's keep training on how

to respond righteously, because you were made to display this.

So in order to display righteousness, here's the thing.

God's not going to do it for you.

God has made your spirit man alive, so you now can.

But you still control it. I say you control it.

You control it. You know, a lot of times in

universities, they like to pick on God because again, they have

the false premise. God's in control, right?

Well, if God's in control, then he can stop this bottle from

breaking. You know, you've heard that and

then it bounced and it didn't break.

That doesn't prove that there's God, cause God doesn't have to

prove to you that he is God. He is God and he's already

proven it through creation. So you're without excuse anyway.

In fact, if you're trying to pick up, I mean, if you don't

even think he exists, why are you bringing up in the classroom

anyway? Have you ever noticed that?

I mean if if he doesn't exist, what does it matter if someone

believes? I mean, it's really like a waste

of your talking point to try to prove something that doesn't

exist. But with that being said, God is

in control of His word, and He's giving you.

Now power, because he made you righteous, so you have to put it

on, you have to put it on in your mind and you have to put it

on concerning your body, and he says.

This and Ephesians 424 and put on the new self, which is in the

likeness of God, has been created in righteousness and

holiness of truth. So I put it on I make a choice

every day that I'm going to live the life that God saved me to.

I'm going to live for him. I'm going to live for my

Heavenly Father. I'm going to live to serve him

because he's live. I'm going to choose to obey what

he says because again, it's life.

He's keeping me from running out in the road.

He's keeping me from touching something hot.

He's keeping me so that I can always be in a perpetual place

of life. And I'm just going to follow

that. That's awesome.

How great is that? So if he says, say do this, then

I put on and I do because it brings life.

As you know, I've given this testimony before that one time I

was in the National Guard and that I was having a conversation

with some people and a person of a higher rank than me came up

here at our conversation. I happen to be talking about the

Lord and they didn't like it. And again, why does God bother

you so much? If you don't believe him, why

does he bother you so much? What's it matter if we're

talking about it? Well, it's because there is one.

And that's why. And you're trying to find a

reason not to believe. When you already know there is

and you know that you're going to have.

To lay it all down for him. But what are you laying down?

Death. That's the thing you're laying

down death to take up life. We were talking and I don't know

what. Happened, but all the next thing

you know, my cheek was burning. He slapped me in the face.

In front of all these people. Well, I happen to.

Be wearing a leather necklace back in the day.

Don't wear that today because I don't need it on the outside to

let me know what I am on the inside.

I'm not saying you can't wear them, I'm just saying I don't.

Which was WWJD. What would Jesus do?

It just happened to work that day.

He pulled it up out of my shirt. He said, What's that stand for?

I said, well, that's WWJD, What would Jesus do?

So I'm going to turn my other cheek and let you slap me there.

And I said that, well, he was a little embarrassed by that, but

that was just what the Lord told me to do.

You understand? Most people don't want to suffer

natural embarrassment, but if you'll actually do, God, it

opens up bigger things. So let me tell you the end of

the story. The person who slapped me on the

face paid mine and my wife's second year of Bible college.

Yeah, the second year, he slapped.

Me because of my God conversation, but ultimately

paid for our way to continue to learn about the God we were

talking about and. Because I did it God's way, It

gave me life to money that paid for the tuition because I did

it. His way.

And it was a year and a half later before that showed up.

The righteous life is an awesome way to live.

It may not have an immediate reward for everyone else to see,

but it definitely has an immediate war with you, with

you. Because, you know, I did what

God said, and it's going to produce life.

Again at Colossians 310, says and put on the new self who is

being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image

of the one created him. What's sad is so many believers

ask Jesus in their heart and save them.

They're they can't. They are righteous in their

spirit, but they never save their soul.

They're never putting it on, especially if they don't attend

where they can be discipled. And at the end of the day, you

know, they never live up there full potential because they're

not putting on and releasing all the power that's within them.

It goes on and says. Any Ephesians 611 put on, say

put on, you have to put it on. You've been made to display, you

have to put it on, put on the full armor of God so that you

will be able to stand against firm against the schemes of the

devil. So who's in charge of beating

the devil down now? You are, Lord, I wish you'd do.

Something about the devil. He's like, I Did you do

something? I did.

I have stripped him of his power and authority over your life.

You are no longer in his Kingdom.

You are in my. He doesn't own you.

He's been. His works have been destroyed in

your life. Now just go ahead and stand up

and put on what I made you so no believer should be saying.

The devil. No, you made you do it.

You made you do it. You chose to do it.

And God wasn't in control of that choice.

Hallelujah, Praise the Lord, I said.

Praise the Lord. If he's in 614, stand firm.

Therefore, having gird your loins with truth and having put

on, say, put on the breastplate of righteous, you got to put it

on, you have to put it on. You have to put on now what

you've been made. Now let me tell you some

benefits that happen because you're righteous.

We going to close with this in Psalms 11.

It says this for the Lord is righteous, He loves

righteousness. The upright will behold his

face. There's never an issue to come

before the Lord when you are in right standing with the

governing authority. Never.

And even if you miss mistake, make a mistake.

You know that he loves you so much He just wants you to.

Come on, come back, Let's have a conversation.

And you're like. Man, Gosh, Lord, you just told

me that I shouldn't. Done.

Thank you. I love you.

Forgive me of that. He's like done forgiven.

Is that like you Never happen. But let's just release who you

are. That's how he is.

He's awesome. He's loving.

He's loving. He's awesome.

He goes on and says this Cast your burden on the upon the Lord

and he will sustain you. He will never say, never allow

the righteous to be shaken. Never say never.

Let the righteous be shaken. There's nothing that can happen

in this planet that sends me to shaking.

Because, he said. As long as I.

Am displaying my righteousness. I'm living right.

I'm doing everything. That I'm doing.

Heart, soul, mind, strength. Serving him.

He'll never let me be shaken. Bad news don't shake me.

Because he's going to deliver me, I said.

He's going to. I can't be shaken because of the

deliverance that I get for being righteous.

Look what it says here in Psalms 3419.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers

him out of them. Come on, say it again.

Out of how many? How many?

All of them. That that doesn't mean that

you're not going to have trials and tribulations.

And it definitely does mean that the world that's not righteous

is going to afflict you. They going to talk about you.

They going to laugh at you. They going to scorn you.

They going to say that you're no good.

They going to say you're God's nothing.

They going to try to tempt you. As I told you, when I was going

to Bible college, I had a guy that at work and they when we

got off work, you know, we did a third shift and they went to a

strip club. I'm married.

I'm in Bible. College.

And Tommy says, why don't you come to the club?

I'm like, no, I'm not coming to the club, Tommy, come on, man.

You know you want to go to the club with us.

I said, Tommy, I am married, number one, number two.

That would be a sin against my God, just not doing it, bro.

In fact, you're looking at somebody you can't touch.

I can look and touch as much as I want to.

Tommy's like before. You graduate and leave, I'm

going to get you in the strip club, I said.

Tommy, it is more real that I'll get you born into the Kingdom of

God before you'll ever see me in a strip club.

So the last night I'm leaving at. 5:00 AM, Not seven when it's

quitting time, but 5:00 AM because I'm going to get in my

vehicle and head to Atlanta, where my wife and children

already are because we they've been there a month before we've

graduated from rain. I just stayed back a month later

and received a little more finance and I'm leaving and

everybody on shift knows. And at 4:30, Tommy says, Hey,

Earl, come here. So we went around to the back of

the warehouse, drove around there with our forklifts, cherry

pickers. I said, what's up, man?

He says. You know, you've been a real

good friend to me, he says. I want to get things right with

God. And I prayed with him to be born

again. I never made it to the strip

club. Why?

Not because it's not tempting, Not because I couldn't have.

Not because the enemy was definitely trying, But it's

because I put on righteousness. I said that man's dead.

I don't have to do that anymore. I'm not going to do.

And that's death. That it kill my mayors, That

kills everything. That kills the anointed, kills

the plan of God for my life. And I'm not going to do that.

And God delivers. Me out of all my trouble on all

of it. See, that's the good thing about

being righteous. You know, you got to deliver all

the time. You want justice, then get

righteous. Because when you're righteous,

the righteous judge, we'll judge.

And I've already said this to our congregation.

There's nothing going on in planet Earth that the king

you're not going to deal with ain't nothing you can't die and

God don't know about it and going to vindicate it's going to

happen. He goes on and Psalms 3725, he

said. I've been young and now I'm old,

yet I have not seen. I have not seen the righteous.

Forsaken or his descendants begging bread.

Oh, it's good to be righteous. I said it's good to be

righteous. He goes on and says great

wealth. Look at this in Proverbs.

Great wealth is in the House of the righteous.

But trouble. Is in the income of the wicked,

now that the wicked can have a lot of income, but there's great

wealth. In the House of the righteous,

you just stay with God. Every penny you need you going

to have, you going to have it because the world can't take.

In fact, there are people right now that aren't following God

saving money for you because the Bible says the wealth of the

wicked is laid up for the. More.

Aren't you glad you're righteous?

Aren't you glad you're righteous?

So go ahead and make billions, because the day's coming, It's

transferring and it's not when I go to heaven.

Because Heaven don't need it. Heaven paves their seats with

their. Streets with it.

Are you hearing me? And brings it to the earth?

I go talk about that, OK? Psalms 3730 to 31.

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue

speaks. If you're not righteous, you

don't. Speak justice, because only the

righteous can speak. Justice, the law of his God, is

in his heart. His steps do not slip.

And then the thing that's probably the most frustrating.

In most people's lives, I conclude with James.

Because we are to display, we were made to display our

righteousness. God caused us to be born of God

so that we can then display it in our behavior, in our actions,

controlling our flesh so that we're not subject to the things

of the world anymore. We have control now and he says,

therefore confess your sins to 1.

Another and pray for one another so that you may be healed.

The effective prayer of a righteous man.

You know, the world prays. And there's been many that have.

Prayed to God. They don't know him, so the

world prays and people are frustrated because they pray to

God expecting an answer under false pretenses.

He's in control. Why don't he do what I want?

I asked him to do this. Surely what I'm asking is the

right thing without ever asking him.

Lord, you know what I'm in. What do you want me to do?

Most people's prayers are demanding God to do it their

way. Children crying out Lord, don't.

Let Mom and Daddy get a divorce. God can't control mom and dad

not getting. A divorce, Just like he couldn't

control Adam. From eating the fruit and then

we blame God. The mom and dad ain't married or

I didn't have a dad when I was growing up.

Or this happened to me by my uncle.

God didn't control that, but the devil sure was in play.

In all these people's lives, bring in death and tell them

it's right. You know how many parents are

divorced and thinking it's right and it's better for the kids

when what's right is for them to repent, forgive each other, love

God with all their heart, act like it's never happened, and

should be godly parents for their children.

There's many things I could say, but the Bible says the prayer of

a righteous man. Now that prayer is always

answered because a righteous man will go to the.

Lord, and say, How do I pray about this one?

Lord, how do I pray? Because I'm right with you, let

me go this I can go as far as. To say this, you don't even need

to know God, but if you'll ask him, he can answer you.

Yeah, there's a man by the name of Cornelius.

He's loving God the best he can, but he ain't right with God.

He's not born again. And God sent an Angel to that

man's house and says you need to send for Peter.

You need Peter to come to your house because what he will tell

you will change your. Life and the Angel doesn't tell

him and Cornelius. Separated from God, sent for

Peter and Peter showed up and. Began to talk about the king and

the remission of sin, and repenting and being filled with

the Holy Ghost and the promise of the Father and while he was

still preaching, Cornida says. I believe in.

His heart. And he got born again and filled

with the Holy Ghost and all of a sudden Peter's like, well, they

got it. Not even give an altar call.

Church we were made to display. Saint Augustine needs us to show

them who we are in Christ. We got to put it on every day.

That way when they look at us, they'll know, man, I tried to do

what you're doing and the live the way you're living, and I

can't. What's different?

And you'll say his name's Jesus. He did it all.

And he started the process of me.

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