WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.240 Kia ora whanau, good morning. Trust you are all well. Wow, what a Sunday it's been. 2 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.840 Thank you Jesus. 3 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:49.280 Ok, just waiting for you fellas to get online. 4 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:54.720 Kia ora whanau. Stuart, Francis, Nash, Joe, Kathy. 5 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:32.880 Ke toto atawhai, manaakitia mai, au te aroa. 6 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:41.360 God of nations at thy feet, hear our voices we entreat. 7 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:49.440 In the bonds of love we meet, God defend our free land. 8 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:57.600 God pacific's triple star, from the shafts of strife and war. 9 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:06.400 Make her praises heard afar, God defend New Zealand. 10 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:11.520 Praise you Jesus. May our mountains ever be, 11 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:19.360 freedoms rampant on the sea. Make us faithful unto thee, 12 00:02:19.360 --> 00:02:27.200 God defend our free land. Guide her in the nation's van, 13 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:35.280 preaching love and truth to man. Working out your glorious plan, 14 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:42.640 God defend New Zealand. Our national anthem is one of the, I think 15 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:46.400 it's the best in the world. It's a karakia, it's a prayer. 16 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.440 I love those last words. Preaching love and truth to man, 17 00:02:49.440 --> 00:02:54.400 working out thy glorious plan. God has a glorious plan. 18 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:58.400 God has a plan for you and for me. God has a plan for His church. 19 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:03.280 God has a plan for this nation. God has a plan for the earth. 20 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:07.920 I was just sharing with my family this morning that on our devotionals 21 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:14.400 that God had a plan for Joseph and he had a dream for Joseph. 22 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:19.280 Powerful dream, incredible dream and Joseph carried that dream in his 23 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.400 spirit but then something happened when his brothers 24 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:30.320 sold him of envy, sold him as a slave and he ended up in Egypt as a slave. 25 00:03:30.320 --> 00:03:35.600 He ended up as a refugee and so I guess he thought where's my plan, 26 00:03:35.600 --> 00:03:39.120 where's God's dream, where's God's plan for my life now? It's like 27 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:43.120 how is it ever going to happen? And then he got thrown in prison 28 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:47.600 unjustly for a crime he didn't commit. So you imagine if you're Joseph with all 29 00:03:47.600 --> 00:03:50.880 these dreams and these plans in your heart that God put there 30 00:03:50.880 --> 00:03:54.000 and now you're in a Middle Eastern prison and 31 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.280 there's no way you're going to get out and I'm talking 32 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.440 13 years later he's still in jail after getting 33 00:04:01.440 --> 00:04:05.680 those visions and those dreams 13 years later. 34 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.800 And I guess you know sometimes you can think God where 35 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:12.880 you gave me a dream, you gave me a plan, you gave me a vision for my life, for my 36 00:04:12.880 --> 00:04:17.200 marriage, for my family, for my ministry. You gave me a dream, a vision for my 37 00:04:17.200 --> 00:04:22.240 nation, for my city and look just if God has given, if 38 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:24.240 there's a God dream in your heart whānau, 39 00:04:24.320 --> 00:04:29.760 it hasn't died. Your dream can't die because God can't die and if you put a 40 00:04:29.760 --> 00:04:32.720 dream in your heart you've just got to understand that the 41 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:38.480 ways of God, here's a teaching for free, the ways of God many Christians they 42 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:43.360 know the acts of God. It's said that Moses, that Moses knew the 43 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:46.160 ways of God, that Israel they knew the acts of God but 44 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.320 didn't know his ways and the ways of God are 45 00:04:48.320 --> 00:04:52.000 in principle, a general principle is that when God puts a dream 46 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:54.800 it's called the birth of a vision, the birth of a dream. He will give you a 47 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:59.200 dream. Conception's easy, birthing's hard okay 48 00:04:59.200 --> 00:05:02.000 and so sometimes 49 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.080 When you get a dream, it's wonderful. A wonderful vision and someone prophesies over you and just say, oh, it's like wow, wonderful. 50 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:16.880 But then the next stage of a dream, it's like a seed. If you're going to grow a crop of wheat, right? 51 00:05:16.880 --> 00:05:23.440 So you get the wheat and that's wonderful. But the wheat, the seed's no good in your hand. 52 00:05:23.440 --> 00:05:26.640 It's going to fall into the earth. It's going to die. 53 00:05:26.640 --> 00:05:32.640 And it's got to go under the earth where you can't see it anymore, because faith is the evidence of that which we don't see. 54 00:05:32.640 --> 00:05:37.440 And so sometimes, not sometimes, when God gives you a dream, births in your vision, 55 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:43.520 he will take that dream and it will seem like it dies. It will seem like, oh man, what's it's like? 56 00:05:43.520 --> 00:05:47.120 How can this ever happen now? That's called the death of the vision. 57 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:52.880 OK, the ways of God, the birth of the vision, the first step, number two, then the death of the vision. 58 00:05:52.880 --> 00:05:56.880 And you have to leave it there and let it die so that you can't make it happen. 59 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:02.560 Only God can make it happen. God promised Abraham and Sarah, you're going to have a son. 60 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:08.720 And out of that son, you're going to have descendants that are going to be more than you can number, more than the stars of the sky. 61 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:16.400 And hello, Abraham's 75, Sarah's 65. And so they wait and wait for this vision. 62 00:06:16.400 --> 00:06:20.480 And, you know, a couple of years later, nothing happens. Years later, nothing happens. 63 00:06:21.200 --> 00:06:25.680 So Abraham thinks, well, let's help God. Let's be God's little helper. 64 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:32.720 Maybe he means we'll have a son and I'll have sex with my maid and we'll get a son that way. 65 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:37.680 And so they interfered with God's plan. Instead of waiting for God's plan, 66 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:43.120 he had sex with his maid Hagar and she birthed her son called Ishmael, 67 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:47.920 from whom we get all the Arab nations today. But then they're a blessed nation. God has blessed them. 68 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:53.120 And God says, no, that's not the way. Your dreams is not ready to go. 69 00:06:53.120 --> 00:07:02.160 So 25 years later, when Abraham's 100 and Sarah's 90, God says, now you've got to have a son. 70 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:07.440 And we're going to do it my way, not your way. See, Ishmael was not the promised son. 71 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:11.360 Isaac was the promised son. Here's another thing you need just for free. 72 00:07:12.320 --> 00:07:17.840 That whenever God gives you a dream and a vision, the devil will try to push you to make it happen. 73 00:07:17.840 --> 00:07:23.280 He'll try to get you to make it happen. He'll try to get you because God wants us to leave 74 00:07:23.280 --> 00:07:27.360 the dream in the seat, the seat in the ground, leave it in him and trust him. 75 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:34.640 He doesn't want us trying to make it happen. Okay. And so sometimes we try to make it happen. 76 00:07:34.640 --> 00:07:39.920 And so what happened with Abraham, he produced Ishmael and Ishmael was not the promise. 77 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:44.880 Ishmael ended up becoming a problem. And then he learned the lesson when he waited and he got the 78 00:07:44.880 --> 00:07:50.560 Isaac. And sometimes when God gives you a dream, a vision, sometimes the devil will send an Ishmael 79 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:56.640 to you. He'll send you in a situation or circumstances so you can try and make it happen. 80 00:07:56.640 --> 00:08:02.160 And it's not the Isaac. It's not the promise of God. It's an Ishmael. So be very, very careful. 81 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:08.240 I've seen so many believers lose their destiny, actually lose the calling on their lives 82 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:14.480 because they accepted the Ishmael instead of the Isaac. And you've got to know before your promised 83 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:19.200 dream comes to pass, the devil's always going to send an Ishmael first. That's why some of you, 84 00:08:19.200 --> 00:08:23.840 lights might be going on. That's why it didn't come to pass because it wasn't the timing of God. 85 00:08:23.840 --> 00:08:30.080 Remember, revelation, interpretation. The third thing is application. That talks about the timing. 86 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:36.720 That talks about the way of doing it. And so anyway, that's for free, isn't it? So going back 87 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:43.679 to Joseph, okay? So Joseph had a dream in his heart. God put it in his heart. God put a dream in your heart. 88 00:08:43.679 --> 00:08:48.800 Now he goes to prison where he's in. He's in Egypt for 13 years. He's in prison for 13 years. 89 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:54.080 There's the death of it. First step, birth of a vision. Second step, death of the vision. The third step, 90 00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:01.040 yay, it's the supernatural fulfillment of the vision. The supernatural fulfillment. Birth of 91 00:09:01.040 --> 00:09:05.840 the vision, death of a vision, supernatural fulfillment of the vision, okay? If it's a God 92 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:12.640 vision, it will be supernatural, okay? And so with Joseph, we see that after 13 years in Egypt, 93 00:09:12.640 --> 00:09:18.320 and several of those years, he was a prisoner in jail. He interpreted the dream of the butler and 94 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:24.960 the baker. And two years later, Pharaoh had a dream. He couldn't understand it. And the butler 95 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:29.520 remembered that Joseph could interpret dreams. So he said to Pharaoh, I know a guy who can interpret 96 00:09:29.600 --> 00:09:36.800 your dream. And so the Pharaoh, you know the story, Pharaoh called for Joseph. Joseph went from the prison 97 00:09:36.800 --> 00:09:43.760 to the palace suddenly overnight. Now it wasn't overnight. It was 13 years. So often Christians 98 00:09:43.760 --> 00:09:49.280 see other ministries just booming on the scene. They think, well, just overnight, God just raised up 99 00:09:49.280 --> 00:09:54.480 David. Overnight, God just raised up Joshua. Overnight, uh-uh, he raised up Joshua over 40 years. 100 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:59.760 Oh, 80 years, actually, to lead the children of Israel. Now he didn't, Joseph's ministry... 101 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:01.960 wasn't overnight, it was 13 years. 102 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.360 David's ministry as king over Israel and Judah 103 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.320 wasn't overnight, it was 17 years in the making. 104 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.320 So you gotta understand, there's a process 105 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:11.800 and if God's given you a God vision, a God dream, 106 00:10:11.800 --> 00:10:13.480 just because coronavirus has come, 107 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:15.840 just because the world's shut down, locked down, 108 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:17.560 doesn't mean your dream's locked down. 109 00:10:17.560 --> 00:10:19.040 But just be patient and wait, 110 00:10:19.040 --> 00:10:23.040 so faith and patience, we inherit the promises. 111 00:10:23.040 --> 00:10:27.720 So just trust God, leave the Isaac in the womb, 112 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.000 don't dig it out, leave it alone 113 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:32.200 because God will bring it to pass in His time. 114 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:33.480 And God's gotta bring to pass 115 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:35.440 His plan for His church in His time. 116 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.200 Coronavirus is not the destiny of the church, 117 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:39.680 He's building a church the gates of hell 118 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:41.680 can't stand against, let alone a little virus, 119 00:10:41.680 --> 00:10:42.600 are you kidding me? 120 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:45.200 So anyway, this is speaking to somebody 121 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:47.320 about the vision, the dream that God's given. 122 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.520 This is encouraging you, it stays, 123 00:10:49.520 --> 00:10:51.800 it's in the process of death of a vision. 124 00:10:51.800 --> 00:10:54.640 Don't worry about it, God will bring it to pass in His time. 125 00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:56.200 You just do what you're called to do 126 00:10:56.200 --> 00:10:58.240 and live every day for the glory of God. 127 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:00.440 Give God your best, give people your best, 128 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.680 and God will order your steps and it will come to pass. 129 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:05.480 Now, so we see the supernatural birth 130 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:06.680 of the vision for Joseph, 131 00:11:06.680 --> 00:11:08.560 he went from the prison to the palace, 132 00:11:08.560 --> 00:11:10.600 he went from being a prisoner to the Prime Minister 133 00:11:10.600 --> 00:11:12.320 of the most powerful nation, 134 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:14.960 suddenly, just like that, not like that, 135 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.320 we went through the process, okay. 136 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:19.360 So I'm not even talking about that today, whanau, 137 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.480 I'm gonna talk to you about, 138 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:24.400 well, this is, I guess, the first lesson on 139 00:11:26.520 --> 00:11:27.760 healing. 140 00:11:27.760 --> 00:11:32.760 Healing is such a misunderstood topic for Christians. 141 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:36.520 I think 95% of Christians don't have a clue 142 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:38.640 about divine healing, just haven't got a clue. 143 00:11:38.640 --> 00:11:41.360 And they, yeah, often when people want healing, 144 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:44.240 I say, how do you know it's God's will to heal you 145 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:45.400 of your sickness? 146 00:11:45.400 --> 00:11:48.800 And they, I said, give me three scriptures 147 00:11:48.800 --> 00:11:52.360 to confirm, to prove that it's God's will to heal you. 148 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.520 You see, you gotta base our faith on the word of God. 149 00:11:54.520 --> 00:11:56.120 You can't base your faith on what I say 150 00:11:56.840 --> 00:11:59.000 or what you feel or what you think. 151 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:00.600 Heaven and earth's gonna pass away. 152 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:01.920 Word of God won't pass away. 153 00:12:01.920 --> 00:12:02.960 Hey, what day is it? 154 00:12:08.520 --> 00:12:10.080 Day seven, is it? 155 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:11.720 Is it day seven? 156 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:12.760 I think it is. 157 00:12:12.760 --> 00:12:15.080 Day seven for a activist cause. 158 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:15.920 So, 159 00:12:19.560 --> 00:12:24.120 so I asked Christians, what is the word from God? 160 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:27.440 And so when people want healing over the online, 161 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.800 I say, yeah, here's my process. 162 00:12:29.800 --> 00:12:33.240 I want you to go and find three scriptures, 163 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:35.320 two or three scriptures from the Bible 164 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:36.920 that confirm it's the will of God 165 00:12:36.920 --> 00:12:38.400 that he wants to heal you, number one. 166 00:12:38.400 --> 00:12:40.880 I want them to put their faith in the word of God, 167 00:12:40.880 --> 00:12:42.520 not in me when I pray for them. 168 00:12:42.520 --> 00:12:44.240 When they come back with their two words, 169 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:47.040 I say, okay, number two, we're gonna timestamp this. 170 00:12:47.040 --> 00:12:48.400 We're gonna ask God in faith. 171 00:12:48.400 --> 00:12:49.680 We're gonna believe for it. 172 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:52.360 And if you can do that, 173 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.280 then I'll agree with you online and we pray. 174 00:12:56.280 --> 00:12:58.080 And number three, God does the miracle. 175 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.040 Okay, so anyway, I'm rambling a bit. 176 00:13:01.040 --> 00:13:02.680 Sorry about that. 177 00:13:02.680 --> 00:13:04.280 So I'm gonna talk to you about something 178 00:13:04.280 --> 00:13:08.680 that's been in my spirit for years. 179 00:13:08.680 --> 00:13:11.400 It's the power of righteousness. 180 00:13:11.400 --> 00:13:13.600 The power of righteousness. 181 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:17.080 So I'll let you take a photo of that. 182 00:13:20.680 --> 00:13:25.080 The power of righteousness, okay? 183 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.360 What is righteousness? 184 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.720 Well, what is unrighteousness? 185 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:34.720 Unrighteousness, let me just read you some scriptures, okay? 186 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:41.080 Righteousness and unrighteousness, it's a state of being. 187 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:42.880 It's a condition, okay? 188 00:13:42.880 --> 00:13:44.240 It's a condition. 189 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:48.440 And so 1 John 5, 17a, 190 00:13:48.920 --> 00:13:50.920 all unrighteousness is sin. 191 00:13:50.920 --> 00:13:52.560 I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, whānau, 192 00:13:52.560 --> 00:13:53.480 because I love you, 193 00:13:54.560 --> 00:13:56.640 because you need this truth in you. 194 00:13:56.640 --> 00:14:01.640 After this broadcast, I'm gonna send the notes through. 195 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:06.320 I'm gonna put them on the broadcast, okay? 196 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.800 So these notes will be there, I don't know. 197 00:14:08.800 --> 00:14:10.720 That's up to you how you print them out. 198 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.320 But the power of righteousness. 199 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:15.360 Righteousness is a state of being. 200 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.600 All unrighteousness is sin. 201 00:14:17.640 --> 00:14:20.120 So righteousness is being right with God. 202 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:22.240 It's simple as that, it's being right with God. 203 00:14:22.240 --> 00:14:24.720 Unrighteous is being not right with God. 204 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:26.600 Righteousness connects us to God. 205 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.120 Unrighteousness disconnects us from God. 206 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.760 So righteous is a state of being. 207 00:14:30.760 --> 00:14:32.600 Righteousness is a state of being right. 208 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:34.360 Righteousness is a state of purity, 209 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:37.000 of holiness with God. 210 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:42.000 So, and if you're clothed with righteousness, 211 00:14:42.280 --> 00:14:43.560 you can walk with God. 212 00:14:43.560 --> 00:14:45.640 I mean, God's right, not self-righteousness. 213 00:14:45.640 --> 00:14:48.040 Our self-righteousness is as filthy rags, 214 00:14:48.040 --> 00:14:50.520 and it's not righteousness by the works of the law. 215 00:14:50.520 --> 00:14:53.240 That separates us from God. 216 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:55.480 But true right, the righteousness of God, 217 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:56.600 it connects us to God. 218 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:58.720 So the power of righteousness, 219 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:00.040 and you're gonna get. 220 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.240 Some of you are going to get healed as you get the revelation of this, the power of righteousness. 221 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.800 So let me read you some scriptures. 222 00:15:07.800 --> 00:15:09.640 Righteousness is a state of being. 223 00:15:09.640 --> 00:15:11.160 It's a state of being. 224 00:15:11.160 --> 00:15:16.600 And we have Romans 3, 23 said, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 225 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.840 When you and I were born, we were born unrighteous. 226 00:15:20.840 --> 00:15:24.480 We were born into an unrighteous world. 227 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:32.200 You can have unrighteous environments like brothels and drug dens and temples where people 228 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:33.200 worship idols. 229 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.320 That's an unrighteous environment. 230 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:42.520 But unrighteousness is not just an environment, it's not just actions, unrighteous actions 231 00:15:42.520 --> 00:15:44.680 of lying and stealing. 232 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:46.720 Unrighteousness is a state of being. 233 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:48.720 It's a spiritual state of being. 234 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.800 Unrighteousness is a spiritual state of being. 235 00:15:50.800 --> 00:15:54.360 And unrighteousness separates us from God. 236 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:56.080 Unrighteousness connects us to God. 237 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:57.080 Yeah. 238 00:15:57.080 --> 00:15:58.080 Jesus is the righteous one. 239 00:15:58.080 --> 00:15:59.080 It's through Jesus. 240 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:00.080 Okay. 241 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:01.720 But we're going to get to the answer in a minute. 242 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:06.480 So let me read you a bit more. 243 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:07.480 Okay. 244 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:13.880 Do you know there are only three righteous human beings on the planet? 245 00:16:13.880 --> 00:16:17.240 Only three human beings, righteous human beings. 246 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:21.920 So the first two righteous human beings were Adam and Eve, as you know, God created Adam 247 00:16:21.920 --> 00:16:23.760 and Eve. 248 00:16:23.760 --> 00:16:26.640 And they were righteous because they were able to walk with him. 249 00:16:26.640 --> 00:16:29.480 They walked with him in the garden in the cool of the day. 250 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.120 And you can't walk with God if you're unrighteous. 251 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:39.160 And so we can conclude that when man was first created, generally when mankind was created, 252 00:16:39.160 --> 00:16:41.880 he was created righteous. 253 00:16:41.880 --> 00:16:43.960 God created humanity to be righteous. 254 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:44.960 Why? 255 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.700 So that we might have relationship with him and that we would walk with him as sons and 256 00:16:48.700 --> 00:16:50.040 daughters of God. 257 00:16:50.040 --> 00:16:56.560 That we have not only know our identity is in God, but our destiny is in God and righteousness 258 00:16:56.560 --> 00:17:00.080 because we're Adam and Eve were born righteous. 259 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:02.120 They were connected with God. 260 00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:08.200 And when you're a righteous, you're not only are you connected with God, the devil has 261 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:09.760 no power over you. 262 00:17:09.760 --> 00:17:12.319 Did the devil have power over God? 263 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:13.319 No. 264 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:14.319 Does he? 265 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:15.319 No. 266 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:16.319 Never will. 267 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:17.319 Did the devil have power over Adam and Eve? 268 00:17:17.760 --> 00:17:20.880 Well, you read of the serpent in the garden in Genesis three. 269 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.400 He didn't have power over them, Farno. 270 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:25.400 He didn't have power over them. 271 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.720 He was able to speak into their minds, he was able to tempt them, but he didn't have 272 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:36.800 power over them until they submitted to his thoughts, till they submitted to sin. 273 00:17:36.800 --> 00:17:41.400 The devil still had no power over you, over Adam and Eve. 274 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:42.400 And that's important. 275 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:47.080 You can realize that now that you're a righteous in Christ, the devil has no more power over 276 00:17:47.840 --> 00:17:48.840 you. 277 00:17:48.840 --> 00:17:52.640 However, he still has power to put temptation in your mind. 278 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:57.000 He still has power to speak into you, lies, and to tempt you. 279 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:01.680 He still has power, but he's power to put that thought there, but he hasn't got power 280 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:02.680 to make you do it. 281 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:06.460 He hasn't got power over you, okay? 282 00:18:06.460 --> 00:18:07.460 Because you're righteous. 283 00:18:07.460 --> 00:18:11.040 Okay, let's look at Adam and Eve, they were born righteous. 284 00:18:11.040 --> 00:18:13.000 So what are the effects of righteousness? 285 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:19.080 For Adam and Eve, it was connection with God, totally connected, the sons of God. 286 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:20.080 Number one. 287 00:18:20.080 --> 00:18:21.320 Number two, blessing. 288 00:18:21.320 --> 00:18:25.840 When you walk with God, when you walk in righteousness, you're not under curse, you're under blessing. 289 00:18:25.840 --> 00:18:29.360 So the blessing of God, the favor of God was upon them. 290 00:18:29.360 --> 00:18:31.900 Number three, power. 291 00:18:31.900 --> 00:18:34.520 They had dominion over the devil. 292 00:18:34.520 --> 00:18:36.680 They had authority over the devil. 293 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:41.200 He made Adam and Eve in his image, and he gave them dominion over every creeping thing 294 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:43.440 on the earth, including serpents. 295 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:46.440 They had dominion over the devil, okay? 296 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:48.400 That's the power of righteousness. 297 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:52.880 Another thing, righteousness, because they're righteous, there's no curse on them. 298 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.560 Because there's no curse on them, there's no decay in their body. 299 00:18:56.560 --> 00:18:59.760 There is no sickness and no disease in their body. 300 00:18:59.760 --> 00:19:04.840 There's no mental illness in their soul, in their body, or their spirit, because they're 301 00:19:04.840 --> 00:19:05.840 righteous. 302 00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:09.040 That is the power of righteousness. 303 00:19:09.040 --> 00:19:10.800 Righteousness is a state of being. 304 00:19:10.800 --> 00:19:15.400 And while they were righteous, they had authority over the devil, they had health and wholeness 305 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:21.000 in their life, they had connection with God, they had destiny and purpose. 306 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:25.960 And then the devil came along and said, and you know the story, that the moment they were 307 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:31.200 sucked in, the moment they accepted the devil's lies, the moment they sinned, they went from 308 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:34.080 righteousness to unrighteousness. 309 00:19:34.080 --> 00:19:35.080 You with me? 310 00:19:35.080 --> 00:19:37.320 They went from righteousness to unrighteousness. 311 00:19:37.320 --> 00:19:39.520 What was the effect of unrighteousness? 312 00:19:39.520 --> 00:19:42.000 Well, it's on all humanity. 313 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:47.480 Adam and Eve are the first two human beings that from that one blood, that one man, that 314 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:52.960 one woman, comes every blood, comes every man, comes every woman, comes every nation, 315 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:57.840 comes every tribe, every human being on the planet today, comes through them. 316 00:19:57.840 --> 00:19:59.840 And unfortunately, because they were unrighteous, they went from unrighteousness to unrighteousness. 317 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.400 were born, they went into sin, okay? 318 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.600 The DNA of sin in Adam and Eve, 319 00:20:07.600 --> 00:20:09.320 the DNA of unrighteousness, 320 00:20:09.320 --> 00:20:12.020 the state of unrighteousness in Adam and Eve, 321 00:20:12.020 --> 00:20:13.880 now is in you and me. 322 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:17.120 It's in every human being on the planet. 323 00:20:17.120 --> 00:20:19.680 Every human being born on the planet 324 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:22.940 is born with the DNA of the first Adam. 325 00:20:22.940 --> 00:20:26.320 The DNA of sin, the DNA of unrighteousness, 326 00:20:26.320 --> 00:20:28.880 Romans 6.23, all have sinned 327 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:30.960 and fallen short of the glory of God. 328 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:33.960 Romans 6, sorry, that's Romans 3.23. 329 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:37.720 Romans 6.23 says, the wages of sin is death. 330 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:41.040 The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. 331 00:20:41.040 --> 00:20:42.500 So the wages of sin is death. 332 00:20:42.500 --> 00:20:45.000 So you were born into unrighteousness. 333 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:46.760 What was the effect of unrighteousness 334 00:20:46.760 --> 00:20:48.980 to the first two human beings? 335 00:20:48.980 --> 00:20:51.200 Number one, they were separated from God. 336 00:20:51.200 --> 00:20:53.760 Unrighteousness will separate you from God. 337 00:20:53.760 --> 00:20:57.600 Number two, it gave Satan power over them. 338 00:20:57.600 --> 00:20:59.900 Unrighteousness gives the devil power over your life. 339 00:20:59.900 --> 00:21:03.240 Number three, they came under not the blessing of God, 340 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.760 but the curse of God and the curse on the ground, 341 00:21:05.760 --> 00:21:07.080 the curse on their lives. 342 00:21:07.080 --> 00:21:10.000 So unrighteousness brings a curse upon you. 343 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:13.440 Number four, the fruit of the curse in Deuteronomy 28, 344 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:18.440 verses 14 all the way through to 60 something. 345 00:21:19.040 --> 00:21:22.760 The fruit of the curses is sickness and disease. 346 00:21:22.760 --> 00:21:24.280 It's mental illness. 347 00:21:24.280 --> 00:21:25.680 It's marriage breakups. 348 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:27.640 It's poverty. 349 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:30.880 It's disaster after disaster. 350 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:33.520 It's just bad stuff. 351 00:21:33.520 --> 00:21:36.960 That's the effect of unrighteousness. 352 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:39.200 And we see that's what happened to Adam and Eve, 353 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:41.760 and that's why humanity is, this is why we are 354 00:21:41.760 --> 00:21:42.600 the way we are. 355 00:21:42.600 --> 00:21:44.240 This is why the world is a mess, 356 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:49.160 because unrighteousness is a state of being, okay? 357 00:21:49.160 --> 00:21:52.120 So Adam and Eve are called the first Adam. 358 00:21:52.120 --> 00:21:54.080 Adam's called the first Adam. 359 00:21:54.080 --> 00:21:55.560 Okay, what's the solution? 360 00:21:55.560 --> 00:21:57.440 Wow, this is where it gets good. 361 00:21:57.440 --> 00:22:02.080 So understand, because you were born in unrighteousness, 362 00:22:02.080 --> 00:22:04.080 you were disconnected from God, 363 00:22:04.080 --> 00:22:05.720 the devil had power over you. 364 00:22:06.980 --> 00:22:10.200 Curses were on your life, whether you believe it or not. 365 00:22:10.200 --> 00:22:13.080 Sickness and disease was part of, it clung to you. 366 00:22:13.080 --> 00:22:15.360 You can't escape. 367 00:22:15.360 --> 00:22:17.200 If you're unrighteous, sickness and disease 368 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:20.400 is allowed legal tender on your life, okay? 369 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:23.120 That's the effect of unrighteousness, right? 370 00:22:23.120 --> 00:22:27.720 Now Jesus comes to the earth, okay, 4,000 years later, 371 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:30.760 but Jesus isn't born in unrighteousness 372 00:22:30.760 --> 00:22:33.520 because he's not born by the blood of man. 373 00:22:33.520 --> 00:22:36.560 He's not born by human means. 374 00:22:36.560 --> 00:22:39.080 He's born, conceived by the Holy Spirit. 375 00:22:39.080 --> 00:22:40.640 He's born in righteousness. 376 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:41.820 You with me? 377 00:22:41.820 --> 00:22:43.960 Imagine if you and I were born in righteousness. 378 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:45.440 You know what? 379 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:47.120 If we were born in righteousness, 380 00:22:47.120 --> 00:22:49.480 we'd wake up totally connected to God. 381 00:22:49.520 --> 00:22:51.320 Devil have no power over us. 382 00:22:51.320 --> 00:22:53.000 Curses have no power over us. 383 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.280 No sickness and disease upon our bodies. 384 00:22:55.280 --> 00:22:56.840 Wouldn't that be amazing? 385 00:22:56.840 --> 00:22:59.160 Well, good news coming. 386 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:01.200 Okay, so Jesus comes to the earth, 387 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:02.920 and he's called the last Adam. 388 00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:05.360 Not the second Adam, the last Adam, 389 00:23:05.360 --> 00:23:07.760 because the first Adam of sin, that race, 390 00:23:07.760 --> 00:23:12.600 God's, the last Adam deals with sin. 391 00:23:12.600 --> 00:23:15.760 And so the last Adam, Jesus, he is born righteous. 392 00:23:15.760 --> 00:23:17.560 He's the son of righteousness. 393 00:23:17.560 --> 00:23:19.360 And when he's born into the earth, 394 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:21.040 he's born under the radar. 395 00:23:21.040 --> 00:23:22.840 Even the devil doesn't know who he is. 396 00:23:24.080 --> 00:23:26.680 So he's born righteous. 397 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:28.760 He's born connected to God. 398 00:23:28.760 --> 00:23:31.480 Even at the age of 13, he said to his parents 399 00:23:31.480 --> 00:23:34.200 when he went missing from coming back from Jerusalem. 400 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:36.480 He said, did you know, did not you not know? 401 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.840 I must be about my father's business. 402 00:23:38.840 --> 00:23:41.080 He honored his mother and his father in the natural, 403 00:23:41.080 --> 00:23:42.400 but it was his spiritual father. 404 00:23:42.400 --> 00:23:44.320 He knew his father in heaven. 405 00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:47.280 And so he had a connection with God, number one. 406 00:23:47.320 --> 00:23:50.160 Number two, the devil had no power over Jesus. 407 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:52.680 Number three, there's no curses on Jesus 408 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:54.280 because he grew in wisdom and stature 409 00:23:54.280 --> 00:23:55.920 in favor with God and with man. 410 00:23:55.920 --> 00:23:59.160 Number three, there's no sickness or disease upon Jesus. 411 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:00.760 Why was that? 412 00:24:00.760 --> 00:24:02.840 You read from age one to 30, 413 00:24:04.120 --> 00:24:06.240 there's no sickness, no disease. 414 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:08.560 He walks in righteousness. 415 00:24:08.560 --> 00:24:10.040 It's because he's born righteous. 416 00:24:10.040 --> 00:24:12.440 That is the power of righteousness. 417 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:14.640 The power of righteousness connects you to God, 418 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:15.800 breaks the power of the devil over you, 419 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:16.840 breaks curses off you, 420 00:24:16.840 --> 00:24:18.880 and keeps you in divine health all the time. 421 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:20.960 That's the power of righteousness. 422 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:25.240 Don't you wish you had that state of being in your life? 423 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:28.120 Don't you wish that righteousness 424 00:24:28.120 --> 00:24:30.640 was your state of being in your body? 425 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:31.560 Good news coming. 426 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:33.920 You're with me? 427 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:37.040 So Jesus is the third human being born on the planet, 428 00:24:37.040 --> 00:24:39.000 born on the planet to walk in righteousness. 429 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.240 The first two, they walked in righteousness, 430 00:24:41.240 --> 00:24:43.240 but then they fell away and they sinned. 431 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:47.560 So Jesus comes to restore humanity back to righteousness, 432 00:24:47.560 --> 00:24:49.120 back to relationship with God, 433 00:24:49.120 --> 00:24:51.920 to power of dominion over the devil, 434 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:53.400 to walk under the blessing 435 00:24:53.400 --> 00:24:55.840 and to have power and dominion over the earth. 436 00:24:55.840 --> 00:24:57.560 Jesus came back as the righteous one, 437 00:24:57.560 --> 00:24:59.880 as the son of God, to show you and me. 438 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:01.400 how we should be walking. 439 00:25:02.880 --> 00:25:04.920 Sons of God don't just go to church on Sunday 440 00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:07.200 and sing a few songs and clap their hands, 441 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:08.920 and that's it once a week. 442 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.440 Sons of God walk as Jesus walks. 443 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:15.240 One John 4, 17, the last, 17E, 444 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:17.280 the last piece of that verse says, 445 00:25:17.280 --> 00:25:22.280 as he is, Jesus, as Jesus is, so are we in this world. 446 00:25:23.120 --> 00:25:25.520 We're meant to be walking like Jesus in righteousness. 447 00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:27.520 Anyway, let me keep going. 448 00:25:27.520 --> 00:25:29.280 What does the power of righteousness do? 449 00:25:29.280 --> 00:25:31.320 Well, we saw what happened with Jesus. 450 00:25:31.320 --> 00:25:33.520 Jesus came into the earth. 451 00:25:33.520 --> 00:25:35.320 He had a connection with the Father. 452 00:25:36.600 --> 00:25:38.120 The devil had no power over him. 453 00:25:38.120 --> 00:25:39.800 Curses and sickness had no power over him. 454 00:25:39.800 --> 00:25:43.360 Imagine if you carried that state of being in your body, 455 00:25:43.360 --> 00:25:45.120 the power of righteousness. 456 00:25:45.120 --> 00:25:46.840 Well, this is the good news. 457 00:25:46.840 --> 00:25:48.160 You do. 458 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:49.960 That is the power of righteousness. 459 00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:54.760 The power of righteousness repels sickness and disease. 460 00:25:55.760 --> 00:26:00.000 The power of righteousness, the devil can't stand it. 461 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:05.000 It's like light, it's like burning light to a man 462 00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:07.800 who's lived in the dark. 463 00:26:07.800 --> 00:26:09.440 Have you ever come out of the dark 464 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:11.440 and your eyes are adjusted to the dark, 465 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:12.800 but you come out into the light 466 00:26:12.800 --> 00:26:15.120 and a light shone on you and it hurts your eyes? 467 00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:17.560 Well, that's what righteousness is to the devil. 468 00:26:17.560 --> 00:26:19.520 When you're clothed with Christ's righteousness, 469 00:26:19.520 --> 00:26:23.160 not your own, it's like a burning light 470 00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:25.200 to the eyes of the demons. 471 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:28.520 Come on. 472 00:26:28.520 --> 00:26:30.520 When Jesus, oh Jesus. 473 00:26:32.360 --> 00:26:34.880 I'm just giving you stage one righteousness. 474 00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:37.520 This is just stage one righteousness, okay? 475 00:26:37.520 --> 00:26:39.800 There's two stages to the power of righteousness. 476 00:26:39.800 --> 00:26:42.120 The first stage is the state of being, 477 00:26:42.120 --> 00:26:44.720 where righteousness brings you into a place 478 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:46.640 of divine health. 479 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.160 Righteousness brings you into a place of divine power, 480 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.360 the spirit of a sound mind. 481 00:26:52.360 --> 00:26:54.760 Righteousness brings you into a relationship 482 00:26:54.760 --> 00:26:56.080 with the divine one. 483 00:26:56.080 --> 00:26:57.760 Righteousness, it's a state of being. 484 00:26:57.760 --> 00:26:59.840 You've got to get into that state of being first, 485 00:26:59.840 --> 00:27:02.760 of knowing if you are righteous. 486 00:27:02.760 --> 00:27:04.400 See, when Adam and Eve were righteous, 487 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:06.000 could any sickness touch them? 488 00:27:07.040 --> 00:27:08.520 Could any curse touch them? 489 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:11.240 Could the devil touch them? 490 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:12.080 No. 491 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:17.760 Now, so you have a greater righteousness 492 00:27:17.760 --> 00:27:18.760 than what Adam and Eve had. 493 00:27:18.760 --> 00:27:20.560 Let's go to the scriptures. 494 00:27:20.560 --> 00:27:22.520 When Jesus came on that cross, 495 00:27:22.520 --> 00:27:24.280 when Jesus, sorry, when Jesus came, 496 00:27:24.280 --> 00:27:26.600 when Jesus walked there for 30 years, 497 00:27:26.600 --> 00:27:28.120 he walked as righteous. 498 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:32.000 And stage two, his righteousness had authority 499 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:32.840 over the devil. 500 00:27:32.840 --> 00:27:34.240 I'm gonna maybe talk about that later, 501 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:36.760 or maybe talk about that tomorrow. 502 00:27:36.760 --> 00:27:39.160 But when Jesus hung on the cross, 503 00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:42.840 that was the moment when he was about to break 504 00:27:42.840 --> 00:27:45.360 the power of unrighteousness off you. 505 00:27:45.360 --> 00:27:46.920 That was the moment he did it. 506 00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:49.360 That was the moment when he broke unrighteousness 507 00:27:49.360 --> 00:27:51.200 off all of humanity. 508 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:52.920 When he hung on that cross, 509 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.240 why did he have to die on the cross? 510 00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:57.640 Because no other human being could remove 511 00:27:57.640 --> 00:27:58.960 the power of unrighteousness, 512 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:01.360 the power of sin off humanity. 513 00:28:01.360 --> 00:28:04.000 The only human being that could pay that price 514 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:05.440 had to be perfect. 515 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:07.120 His blood had to be sinless. 516 00:28:07.120 --> 00:28:08.840 He had to be righteous. 517 00:28:08.840 --> 00:28:10.080 And no one is righteous. 518 00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:12.240 All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. 519 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:13.800 That's why Jesus Christ, 520 00:28:13.800 --> 00:28:16.400 that's why the Father sent his only beloved son, 521 00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:19.760 the sinless, spotless, righteous son of God. 522 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:23.640 Only he could pay the penalty of our sin. 523 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:26.360 Only he could take away our sin 524 00:28:26.360 --> 00:28:29.120 because God required a sinless sacrifice, 525 00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:30.360 not a sinful one. 526 00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:33.040 A righteous sacrifice, not an unrighteous one. 527 00:28:33.040 --> 00:28:35.400 And Jesus, the righteous son of God, 528 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:37.080 when he hung on that cross, 529 00:28:37.080 --> 00:28:37.920 this is what happened. 530 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:39.360 When he hung on that cross, 531 00:28:39.360 --> 00:28:40.360 this is what happened. 532 00:28:40.360 --> 00:28:43.520 It says, he, he who knew no sin, 533 00:28:43.520 --> 00:28:47.360 became sin for you and for me. 534 00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:48.560 When he hung on that cross, 535 00:28:48.560 --> 00:28:50.000 he became sin. 536 00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.800 He took our sin. 537 00:28:51.800 --> 00:28:54.640 He became sin for you and for me. 538 00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:58.160 That we, that we might become the, 539 00:28:58.160 --> 00:28:59.000 listen to it, 540 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:03.000 the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 541 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:04.880 That we might become the righteousness 542 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.000 of God in Christ Jesus. 543 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:09.560 When Jesus died 2,000 years ago, 544 00:29:09.560 --> 00:29:12.600 he broke the power of unrighteousness over you. 545 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:14.760 He broke the power of the devil over you. 546 00:29:14.760 --> 00:29:16.520 He broke the power of curses over you. 547 00:29:16.520 --> 00:29:18.320 He broke the power of sickness over you. 548 00:29:18.320 --> 00:29:19.280 But more than anything, 549 00:29:19.280 --> 00:29:21.240 he reconnected you to the father. 550 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:23.640 He reconnected you to, to himself. 551 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:25.360 He reconnected us. 552 00:29:25.360 --> 00:29:27.400 That is the state of righteousness. 553 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:28.840 Do you know you're in possession 554 00:29:28.840 --> 00:29:31.080 of that, that righteousness right now? 555 00:29:31.080 --> 00:29:32.240 Do you understand that? 556 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:35.640 And that's why I'm gonna send you the notes 557 00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:36.480 and the study of this. 558 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:38.160 You need to meditate on this 559 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:40.520 because at the moment it might just be information. 560 00:29:40.520 --> 00:29:41.360 But I tell you what, 561 00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:42.280 when you get the revelation 562 00:29:42.280 --> 00:29:43.840 of the power of righteousness, 563 00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:45.040 oh my goodness, 564 00:29:45.040 --> 00:29:48.800 there'll be a manifestation of a dominion on your life, 565 00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:51.280 a manifestation of authority on your life, 566 00:29:51.280 --> 00:29:54.000 even a manifestation of health in your body. 567 00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:55.960 Yeah, yeah. 568 00:29:55.960 --> 00:29:57.640 That's why I'm gonna send you the notes. 569 00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:59.040 That's the power of righteousness. 570 00:29:59.040 --> 00:30:00.040 How did we get it? 571 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:08.160 Not by any works, Titus 3, book of Titus chapter 3, verse 5, it says not by any works of righteousness 572 00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:13.280 have we done, but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration 573 00:30:13.280 --> 00:30:17.920 and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. We are not made righteous by self-righteousness. 574 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:22.720 Isaiah said our self-righteousness is this filthy rags. We're made righteous by God's 575 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:28.400 righteousness. When he died on that cross, as it were, your sin, when you received Jesus, 576 00:30:28.400 --> 00:30:33.200 when he died on that cross and you received Jesus, asked Jesus into your life to forgive 577 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:40.240 you of your sins, the moment you did that, the righteousness of Jesus was transferred 578 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:46.720 to you. And your sin, your state of sin, your state of unrighteousness was transferred upon 579 00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:52.480 Jesus. Now it happened 2,000 years ago. Jesus isn't going to get on the cross every day 580 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:59.200 because of every unrighteous person. Jesus hung on the cross 2,000 years ago for every unrighteous 581 00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:05.520 human being that would ever live. Jesus took the unrighteousness of humanity 2,000 years ago, 582 00:31:05.520 --> 00:31:11.760 and the moment that you received it, you received Jesus, you received his righteousness, 583 00:31:11.760 --> 00:31:15.760 and he received your unrighteousness, figuratively speaking. You're with me? 584 00:31:16.320 --> 00:31:22.240 So you are clothed with his righteousness right now. You're in a state of, the state of being 585 00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:27.120 is righteous, a state of dominion, a state of health, a state of blessing, a state of relationship 586 00:31:27.120 --> 00:31:35.360 with God, the power of righteousness. Let's go to another scripture, 2 Peter, no, 1 Peter 2 24, 587 00:31:36.320 --> 00:31:43.440 1 Peter 2 24 says how he, Jesus, bore our sin in his own body on the tree 588 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:50.800 that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. And by his wounds, 589 00:31:52.400 --> 00:32:00.320 we were healed. By his wounds, we are healed. You see, again, when he hung on the cross, we see 590 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:06.560 that he took our unrighteousness and gave us his righteousness, that from now we would live to 591 00:32:06.560 --> 00:32:10.960 righteousness. And when you realize that you're righteous, and you realize what the power, 592 00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:15.440 what the effect of righteousness is, you walk in another realm, you begin to rule, 593 00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:21.360 and you begin to reign. Let me read you a scripture, Romans 5 17, for if by the trespass 594 00:32:21.360 --> 00:32:25.760 of one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's 595 00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:32.560 abundant provision of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, 596 00:32:32.560 --> 00:32:38.480 Jesus Christ. Jesus wants us to reign in life. Many Christians don't reign in life because 597 00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:42.560 they don't even understand the state of being they've been born into. We've been born into 598 00:32:42.560 --> 00:32:46.800 the state of righteousness, and the state of righteousness is a force, it's a power. 599 00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:56.800 Now, can I go a little bit further? Okay, Romans 8 10. It says, the body is dead. 600 00:32:57.520 --> 00:33:03.760 No, okay, Romans 1, Romans 8 1. There's no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, 601 00:33:03.760 --> 00:33:09.920 who will not by the flesh, but by the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus 602 00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:16.160 has made me free, free from the law of sin and death. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ 603 00:33:16.160 --> 00:33:20.880 Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death is why curses, 604 00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:25.920 sickness, and diseases, and these maladies come upon our bodies. Now, it doesn't mean we're 605 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:31.680 immortal. We don't have immortal bodies. We have mortal bodies, but we have a destiny in the earth, 606 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:35.920 and that when the devil comes to try and put sickness or disease to try and stop you fulfilling 607 00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:42.400 your destiny, God gives us the power of righteousness, frees us, frees our mortal 608 00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:49.760 bodies from the devil's plans to take us out early. How do I know that? Romans 8, because we're 609 00:33:49.760 --> 00:33:53.280 under a different law. We're not under the law of sin and death anymore. We're righteous. We're under 610 00:33:53.280 --> 00:33:58.000 the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. We don't have to accept the things that the old law 611 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:02.880 used to give to us. We don't have to accept what unrighteousness used to bring to us. Unrighteousness 612 00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:08.639 on us was like a magnet. It attracted curses. It attracted sickness. It attracted the devil. It was 613 00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:14.320 unrighteous like a magnet to steel, but righteousness, it attracts heaven. It attracts 614 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:20.159 blessing. It attracts health. It attracts favor. It attracts God's dominion. That righteousness 615 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:28.320 attracts something else different. Romans 8, chapter 10. Romans 8, verse 10. It says, 616 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:35.600 the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 617 00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:43.840 The body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 618 00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:50.719 So in our bodies, when we're walking in sin, the body's dead, and because of dead, the wages of 619 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:56.159 sin is death. So because of unrighteousness, the body can get afflicted and diseased and so forth. 620 00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:59.920 But then he said, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. 621 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.360 meaning that because of righteousness, 622 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:07.040 there's a spirit of life that keeps our bodies free 623 00:35:07.040 --> 00:35:09.980 from death until it's time to go. 624 00:35:09.980 --> 00:35:11.560 Let's read the next verse. 625 00:35:11.560 --> 00:35:14.360 He says, for if the same spirit 626 00:35:14.360 --> 00:35:18.080 that rose Jesus from the dead dwells in you, 627 00:35:18.080 --> 00:35:20.720 then that spirit will bring life to your, 628 00:35:20.720 --> 00:35:22.360 listen to him, mortal flesh, 629 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.440 not an immortal, to your mortal flesh. 630 00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:28.140 So the spirit of, because of righteousness, 631 00:35:28.140 --> 00:35:30.380 the resurrection life, the spirit of life, 632 00:35:30.380 --> 00:35:32.340 the spirit of health, the spirit of blessing, 633 00:35:32.340 --> 00:35:35.660 the spirit of dominion, because of his righteousness, 634 00:35:35.660 --> 00:35:38.360 that spirit lives inside of your physical body. 635 00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:43.160 That spirit's inside of your physical body. 636 00:35:44.140 --> 00:35:46.700 That is the power, the force of righteousness. 637 00:35:46.700 --> 00:35:48.380 I'm gonna leave it right there, Fano, 638 00:35:48.380 --> 00:35:50.620 because there's a lot to unpack from this study. 639 00:35:50.620 --> 00:35:51.800 I'm gonna send the notes through. 640 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:54.060 You need to meditate upon, what's the homework? 641 00:35:54.060 --> 00:35:56.940 Meditate on these notes, okay? 642 00:35:56.940 --> 00:36:00.700 I hope I'm taking you beyond the ankle depth in Jesus. 643 00:36:00.700 --> 00:36:02.340 I want to take you beyond the ankle depth, 644 00:36:02.340 --> 00:36:04.300 whatever depth you're at, whether it's ankle, 645 00:36:04.300 --> 00:36:07.500 knee, waist, I want to take you right into the river 646 00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:10.100 where we go over our head, okay? 647 00:36:10.100 --> 00:36:11.740 That's another level in Christ 648 00:36:11.740 --> 00:36:14.300 that very few will want to go in, 649 00:36:14.300 --> 00:36:17.400 because when you're in a river up to your waist, 650 00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:18.340 your ankles or your knees, 651 00:36:18.340 --> 00:36:19.980 you can control where you go in that river. 652 00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:22.640 You can resist that river, you can push against that river, 653 00:36:22.640 --> 00:36:25.540 but when you get in a river that is over your head, 654 00:36:25.540 --> 00:36:27.460 you're no longer in control of the river. 655 00:36:27.460 --> 00:36:28.780 The river will control you, 656 00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:31.120 and Jesus is resetting the church 657 00:36:31.120 --> 00:36:33.460 to get control of his church again, 658 00:36:33.460 --> 00:36:35.500 where we're willing to get into the spirit of God, 659 00:36:35.500 --> 00:36:38.580 we're willing to step into him over our head, 660 00:36:38.580 --> 00:36:41.060 over our rationale, over our ways, 661 00:36:41.060 --> 00:36:43.280 and allow the spirit of God to take us, 662 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:44.780 the river of God to take us 663 00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:47.800 where he wants to take us in Aotearoa, 664 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:50.380 not where we want to take ourselves anymore. 665 00:36:50.380 --> 00:36:53.460 And so there's a lot to unpack in this, 666 00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:55.260 the power of righteousness. 667 00:36:55.260 --> 00:36:58.020 He who knew no sin became sin for you and me. 668 00:36:58.020 --> 00:37:00.780 The moment I realised I was made righteous, 669 00:37:00.780 --> 00:37:04.320 oh man, life was so much easier. 670 00:37:05.460 --> 00:37:07.340 I used to think I'm not holy enough, 671 00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:08.740 I'm not worthy enough, 672 00:37:08.740 --> 00:37:11.420 I'm not righteous enough to serve the Lord, 673 00:37:11.420 --> 00:37:14.020 because I'd have unrighteous thoughts. 674 00:37:14.020 --> 00:37:17.180 I would say, I'd do something I shouldn't do. 675 00:37:17.180 --> 00:37:18.900 I'd sin sometimes. 676 00:37:18.900 --> 00:37:22.100 Oh, how can God use me? 677 00:37:22.100 --> 00:37:23.420 And that's part two. 678 00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:25.980 I'm gonna tell you, look, it doesn't matter. 679 00:37:25.980 --> 00:37:28.220 The devil has no power over you, 680 00:37:28.220 --> 00:37:30.700 but he can still put temptation in your thoughts. 681 00:37:30.700 --> 00:37:32.300 He can still do that to you. 682 00:37:32.300 --> 00:37:33.140 How do we know that? 683 00:37:33.140 --> 00:37:36.020 How can he still tempt a righteous man or woman? 684 00:37:36.020 --> 00:37:37.660 Well, he tempted Adam and Eve, 685 00:37:37.660 --> 00:37:39.460 and they were righteous, didn't he? 686 00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:42.740 He put temptation into the head of Jesus 687 00:37:42.740 --> 00:37:44.980 when he was righteous, didn't he? 688 00:37:44.980 --> 00:37:46.980 Remember, in the wilderness, in the garden, 689 00:37:46.980 --> 00:37:48.740 in the wilderness? 690 00:37:48.740 --> 00:37:49.580 And the devil says, 691 00:37:49.580 --> 00:37:52.340 you're the son of God, turn these stones to bread. 692 00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:55.860 See, that's an unrighteous thought, 693 00:37:55.860 --> 00:37:57.620 but Jesus didn't submit to it. 694 00:37:57.620 --> 00:38:01.220 So the devil said to Eve, did God really say? 695 00:38:01.220 --> 00:38:04.180 Don't eat of the tree of, did God really say? 696 00:38:04.180 --> 00:38:06.580 And Eve, not only, she took the thought 697 00:38:06.580 --> 00:38:07.900 and she submitted to it, 698 00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:09.660 but when the unrighteous thought came to Jesus 699 00:38:09.660 --> 00:38:12.340 and the devil, he didn't take it, he didn't submit to it. 700 00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:14.900 Instead, he quoted back, it is written, 701 00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:16.340 man shall not live by bread alone, 702 00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:18.620 but every word that comes out of the mouth of God. 703 00:38:18.620 --> 00:38:20.620 So the devil, he took off again, 704 00:38:20.620 --> 00:38:21.980 then he came back to Jesus. 705 00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:24.860 If you're the son of God, jump off the temple, 706 00:38:24.860 --> 00:38:27.380 for it's written, the angels will give you charge over them. 707 00:38:27.380 --> 00:38:31.580 And Jesus said, it's an unrighteous thought, right? 708 00:38:31.580 --> 00:38:34.180 But Jesus didn't submit to an unrighteous thought. 709 00:38:34.180 --> 00:38:36.860 Instead, he spoke back with the sword of the spirit 710 00:38:36.860 --> 00:38:37.700 out of his mouth. 711 00:38:37.700 --> 00:38:38.660 He said, it is written, 712 00:38:38.660 --> 00:38:42.060 you shall not test the Lord your God, okay? 713 00:38:42.060 --> 00:38:45.580 And so, I'm just saying this to bring a point 714 00:38:45.580 --> 00:38:46.820 that because you're righteous 715 00:38:46.820 --> 00:38:50.860 does not mean you'll be free from temptation 716 00:38:50.860 --> 00:38:52.300 and thoughts of temptation, 717 00:38:52.300 --> 00:38:54.220 but it doesn't mean you're unrighteous. 718 00:38:54.220 --> 00:38:57.300 You can be righteous and still be tempted, okay? 719 00:38:57.300 --> 00:39:00.300 Jesus was Adam and Eve. 720 00:39:00.300 --> 00:39:02.820 It's what you do with that temptation, okay? 721 00:39:02.820 --> 00:39:05.340 And if you fall and you submit to the temptation 722 00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:07.740 and you sin, then you've become unrighteous. 723 00:39:07.740 --> 00:39:09.100 How do you get clean again? 724 00:39:10.460 --> 00:39:13.140 1 John 1.9. 725 00:39:13.140 --> 00:39:16.180 If we confess our sin, 726 00:39:16.180 --> 00:39:20.060 he's just to forgive and cleanse us of all unrighteousness, 727 00:39:20.060 --> 00:39:20.900 okay? 728 00:39:25.700 --> 00:39:29.140 The grace of God, friends, the grace of God, family, 729 00:39:29.140 --> 00:39:30.580 the grace of God. 730 00:39:30.580 --> 00:39:31.980 So I'm righteous. 731 00:39:31.980 --> 00:39:33.420 And people say, how righteous? 732 00:39:33.420 --> 00:39:36.060 I'm as righteous as Jesus. 733 00:39:36.060 --> 00:39:37.980 That's why I can spend time with my father 734 00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:39.420 in the presence of God, 735 00:39:39.420 --> 00:39:41.580 because righteousness opens a door. 736 00:39:41.580 --> 00:39:42.780 Jesus is the door. 737 00:39:43.420 --> 00:39:44.780 He's the son of righteousness. 738 00:39:44.780 --> 00:39:46.260 I'm as righteous as Jesus. 739 00:39:46.260 --> 00:39:48.580 And so because I'm righteous as Jesus, 740 00:39:48.580 --> 00:39:51.020 I'm as confident, yeah? 741 00:39:51.020 --> 00:39:52.380 If our heart condemns us not, 742 00:39:52.380 --> 00:39:54.900 we have faith, we have confidence before God. 743 00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:55.900 I used to feel condemned. 744 00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:57.460 I was never righteous enough 745 00:39:57.460 --> 00:39:59.220 because I was trying to be righteous in myself, 746 00:39:59.220 --> 00:40:00.060 righteousness. 747 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.200 and the works of the law, 748 00:40:01.200 --> 00:40:03.520 and my little religious chores I'd do. 749 00:40:03.520 --> 00:40:05.620 I thought, well, now I must be pleasing to God, 750 00:40:05.620 --> 00:40:07.240 but God said, no, you're pleasing to me 751 00:40:07.240 --> 00:40:09.080 because of what my son did for you. 752 00:40:09.080 --> 00:40:11.400 You're righteous to me because of what my son did for you, 753 00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:12.840 not what you did for me, son. 754 00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:14.480 I've always loved you. 755 00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:17.360 I've always loved you, but you weren't always righteous. 756 00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:19.200 Now you're righteous through my son, 757 00:40:19.200 --> 00:40:21.320 and that love can be expressed to you. 758 00:40:21.320 --> 00:40:24.200 So, if you sin, if you stuff up, 759 00:40:24.200 --> 00:40:26.680 okay, just get over it. 760 00:40:26.680 --> 00:40:28.520 Get over it, confess to God, 761 00:40:28.520 --> 00:40:31.240 fess it up, fess it up to God, 762 00:40:31.240 --> 00:40:32.520 acknowledge what you did, 763 00:40:32.520 --> 00:40:34.360 and ask for forgiveness, and he will, 764 00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:36.440 and he'll cleanse you of all unrighteousness. 765 00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.600 I'll close with this story. 766 00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:41.960 Back in 1983, 82, 83, 767 00:40:41.960 --> 00:40:44.000 I was a maitre deacon, 768 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.480 and then an elder in the Presbyterian Church 769 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:47.560 down in Oamaru, 770 00:40:48.820 --> 00:40:53.300 but I was still having a few struggles with alcohol. 771 00:40:53.300 --> 00:40:55.880 God, Jesus, had set me free from drugs. 772 00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:58.000 He had set me free from violence 773 00:40:58.000 --> 00:40:59.600 and from a lot of bad stuff, 774 00:40:59.600 --> 00:41:02.680 but I still was having an issue with alcohol, 775 00:41:02.680 --> 00:41:04.560 and from time to time, 776 00:41:04.560 --> 00:41:06.520 I would go out and get on the booze, 777 00:41:06.520 --> 00:41:10.160 and I'd come back drunk as a skunk, 778 00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:12.840 come back home, and the next morning on Sunday, 779 00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:14.640 I'd wake up to go to church, 780 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:16.920 and this is what happened. 781 00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:18.840 A couple of times, or two or three times it happened, 782 00:41:18.840 --> 00:41:22.520 but I'd be in church holding my communion, right? 783 00:41:22.520 --> 00:41:26.040 The night after getting drunk, 784 00:41:26.040 --> 00:41:28.240 and I remember the first time I did this, 785 00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:30.400 and I'm feeling so condemned 786 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:32.360 because here I am, I'm a deacon, 787 00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:34.240 I'm an elder in the church, 788 00:41:34.240 --> 00:41:35.760 and I was wishing the cracks in the floor 789 00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:37.440 would open up and swallow me 790 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.200 because I don't feel righteous. 791 00:41:39.200 --> 00:41:41.300 Should I even be having this communion? 792 00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:43.700 I felt so guilty, so condemned, 793 00:41:43.700 --> 00:41:45.040 but in my heart, I was saying to God, 794 00:41:45.040 --> 00:41:47.360 I'm so sorry what I did last night. 795 00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:50.040 I feel such a loser, such a fake, 796 00:41:50.080 --> 00:41:51.240 and he said to me, son, 797 00:41:51.240 --> 00:41:54.080 there's no condemnation to those in me. 798 00:41:54.080 --> 00:41:56.000 He said, son, I love you, 799 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.160 and he said, this will work for good 800 00:41:58.160 --> 00:41:59.860 and work according to my purpose. 801 00:41:59.860 --> 00:42:00.700 Do you love me? 802 00:42:00.700 --> 00:42:01.600 I said, yes. 803 00:42:01.600 --> 00:42:03.280 He said, well, all things work for good 804 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:04.520 to those who love me. 805 00:42:04.520 --> 00:42:07.460 He said, just confess to me what you did, 806 00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:10.400 and I'll forgive you, and we'll move on. 807 00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:13.560 I said, you mean, just ask you to forgive me right now? 808 00:42:13.560 --> 00:42:15.000 He says, right now, 809 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.400 and I said, you'll forgive me, and we move on? 810 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:19.840 He says, I'll forgive you, and we'll move on. 811 00:42:20.640 --> 00:42:22.200 You don't have to try to do anything to make up 812 00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:24.440 because my blood will cleanse you again 813 00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:26.740 and put you back in righteousness with me. 814 00:42:26.740 --> 00:42:28.840 I said, it doesn't seem fair. 815 00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:30.920 Maybe I feel like I have to do something 816 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:32.760 to earn this place back. 817 00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:34.480 He says, you can't do anything to earn it. 818 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:35.760 It's by my grace, son. 819 00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:39.120 It's by my love, so ask me to forgive you, 820 00:42:39.120 --> 00:42:43.200 and so I'm holding this wine and this bread, 821 00:42:43.200 --> 00:42:45.440 and I got the dry horrors from the night before. 822 00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:47.160 I mean, I got a bit of a headache 823 00:42:47.160 --> 00:42:49.160 because I must smell like beer. 824 00:42:49.160 --> 00:42:53.320 A deacon and an elder in the church sitting with communion, 825 00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:56.000 but Jesus said, confess it to me as sin, 826 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:57.680 and I'm just to forgive and cleanse you, 827 00:42:57.680 --> 00:42:59.880 and cleanse you of all unrighteousness. 828 00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:02.240 So I said, Jesus, I'm so sorry. 829 00:43:02.240 --> 00:43:03.440 I'm so sorry for what I did. 830 00:43:03.440 --> 00:43:06.960 I got drunk, and I made a spectacle of myself, 831 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:09.320 and I apologised, and I asked for forgiveness. 832 00:43:09.320 --> 00:43:10.960 I'll never do it again, Lord, 833 00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:14.480 and I felt Jesus, you're forgiven, son. 834 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:15.920 Let's move on. 835 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:16.920 I said, but I remember. 836 00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:18.240 He says, I don't. 837 00:43:18.240 --> 00:43:21.240 He says, I've just removed your sin, 838 00:43:21.240 --> 00:43:23.840 and so I took my communion, and I thought, wow, 839 00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:26.560 and that's how I understood the power of righteousness. 840 00:43:26.560 --> 00:43:30.240 I thought, wow, I'm righteous by what he did for me, 841 00:43:30.240 --> 00:43:31.080 and you know what? 842 00:43:31.080 --> 00:43:34.640 I never did that again until next month. 843 00:43:34.640 --> 00:43:36.920 I did the same thing again the following month, 844 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:39.480 and so I go before God, I said, what am I doing? 845 00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:41.160 I said, I'll never do this again. 846 00:43:41.160 --> 00:43:44.000 He says, stop boasting in yourself. 847 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:45.520 Just take one day at a time, 848 00:43:45.520 --> 00:43:48.040 and he says, this will work out for good. 849 00:43:48.840 --> 00:43:50.640 He says, ask me to forgive you. 850 00:43:50.640 --> 00:43:51.800 It's no biggie. 851 00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:53.800 I'll cleanse you, and let's move on, 852 00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:55.840 so I said, Jesus, again, I'm sorry. 853 00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:58.200 Please forgive me of getting drunk last night, 854 00:43:58.200 --> 00:44:00.800 of not giving a good witness of who you are, 855 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:02.920 and I felt Jesus, you're forgiven, 856 00:44:04.040 --> 00:44:05.680 and I wouldn't say I never did that again. 857 00:44:05.680 --> 00:44:07.640 I went through a process before I got set free 858 00:44:07.640 --> 00:44:09.960 from that curse of alcohol, 859 00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:11.400 but I'm sharing this with you 860 00:44:11.400 --> 00:44:15.080 that righteousness is a state of being, 861 00:44:15.080 --> 00:44:17.360 and it's not self-righteousness, 862 00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:19.320 by our little chores, our little works. 863 00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:20.560 It's the righteousness of God 864 00:44:20.560 --> 00:44:22.200 that comes through Christ Jesus, 865 00:44:22.200 --> 00:44:26.000 and that if we get our clothes dirty, 866 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:27.600 our robes of righteousness dirty, 867 00:44:27.600 --> 00:44:29.600 it's all right, the blood washes it off. 868 00:44:29.600 --> 00:44:30.840 As long as we fess it up to God, 869 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:33.040 he just, no worries, let's move on. 870 00:44:33.040 --> 00:44:35.080 Okay, fine, I hope you've enjoyed this morning, 871 00:44:35.080 --> 00:44:36.760 the power of righteousness. 872 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:40.520 The power of righteousness is also the power of healing. 873 00:44:40.520 --> 00:44:41.920 It's the power of deliverance. 874 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:43.840 It's the power of dominion over the devil. 875 00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:45.440 It's the power of divine favor. 876 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:47.320 It's the power of sonship with God. 877 00:44:48.160 --> 00:44:50.720 It's the power of righteousness, part two, tomorrow. 878 00:44:50.720 --> 00:44:53.520 Kia ora, oh, no, not kia ora. 879 00:44:53.520 --> 00:44:56.720 Whānau time, healing time, ministry time. 880 00:44:56.720 --> 00:44:58.920 Okay, there've been so many, I don't know, 881 00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:00.240 well over 50. 882 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.600 Healings and miracles since we've been doing this WOTVAC course, so I'm praying now for 883 00:45:06.600 --> 00:45:11.040 people who need healing in your body and I want you to lean into the presence of Jesus 884 00:45:11.040 --> 00:45:16.840 on the count of three, I give you praise, I give you praise, I give you praise. 885 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:22.160 When I get my stand working, I'll start blowing the coowo over you. 886 00:45:22.160 --> 00:45:26.200 Bit hard to blow the coowo and hold this at the same time, so there must be somebody out 887 00:45:26.200 --> 00:45:32.400 there that knows how to stop my phone from doing that, oops, did I lose you, it must 888 00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:36.760 be somebody knows, no matter what I do, I put it on my stand and it does it, come on 889 00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:41.620 someone out there, God's given you wisdom, God's given you ability to help me get this 890 00:45:41.620 --> 00:45:47.640 thing on a stand so I can do more to the body of Christ, so come on, show somebody, it's 891 00:45:47.640 --> 00:45:50.560 not my gifting, I'm not no techie, thank you Jesus. 892 00:45:50.560 --> 00:45:54.600 Okay get ready to lean into the presence of Jesus, the healing presence of Jesus on the 893 00:45:54.600 --> 00:45:59.320 count of three, again I'm saying don't look to me for your healing, okay, some people 894 00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:04.440 try to ring me and they want me to pray for them, I say look, I can't heal you, my prayer 895 00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:09.600 is no better than anyone else's prayer and often when people say I want you to pray for 896 00:46:09.600 --> 00:46:14.320 me, you're not looking to Jesus, you're looking to me and nothing will probably happen. 897 00:46:14.320 --> 00:46:19.440 So as I say, I rarely lay hands on people, I let Jesus do it, I mean I do lay hands on 898 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:25.760 people, I anoint people, I do lots of things, I spit in eyes even, but it's Jesus that heals 899 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:29.920 and I'm so confident that he's going to heal you today, I'm so confident, this miracle's 900 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:33.000 about to break forth, I'm so confident, why? 901 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:37.880 Because I know he already healed you, you're already healed, you just don't know it, but 902 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:43.720 you need to connect your faith to that healing and faith is an action and so by leaning forward 903 00:46:43.720 --> 00:46:47.440 to the presence of Jesus, that's the faith action that's going to connect you to that 904 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:50.000 which Jesus has already purchased for you. 905 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:54.400 You see, you don't have to do warfare to get forgiven of your sin, do you? 906 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:59.000 You know, when I lead people to Jesus, I don't try to warfare for them to get forgiven, oh 907 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:04.560 God, I bind sin over there, I rebuke sin, I decree that they shall be forgiven, I don't 908 00:47:04.560 --> 00:47:07.680 have to do that, Jesus forgives sin, eh whānau? 909 00:47:07.680 --> 00:47:12.640 We don't fight or warfare for people's sin to be removed, we just get them to ask Jesus 910 00:47:12.640 --> 00:47:17.240 and we know just like that, that he takes their sin because he did it 2,000 years ago, 911 00:47:17.240 --> 00:47:23.200 it's just they haven't received it yet, just like you and I, I was born, when I was born, 912 00:47:23.200 --> 00:47:28.120 Jesus had already forgiven my sin, but it was going to take 24 years before I had received 913 00:47:28.120 --> 00:47:32.920 that, before I had knowledge to receive that, he had already forgiven my sins, yeah? 914 00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:37.160 I just had to receive it, but in the like manner, he had already healed me as well, 915 00:47:37.160 --> 00:47:41.280 he had already healed me of all my diseases and that's something that he hadn't been taught, 916 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:46.040 he hadn't been taught he only forgave sin, look, Psalm 103, he forgives all our iniquities 917 00:47:46.040 --> 00:47:52.280 and heals all our diseases, when he forgives sins, he also heals diseases, it's synonymous, 918 00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:55.760 when he takes away sin, he takes away our disease at the same time, he takes away the 919 00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:01.400 curses and so he has, that's why I'm confident he's already healed you, he's already purchased 920 00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:06.320 your healing, it's just a matter of you receiving it right now, I'm not having to warfare for 921 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:09.640 you and you need, some of you need to stop trying to warfare because you're actually 922 00:48:09.640 --> 00:48:13.820 reinforcing unbelief, you're reinforcing that you don't believe Jesus has already done it, 923 00:48:13.820 --> 00:48:17.140 you think you've got to do your little bit, you think you've got to bind your devils and 924 00:48:17.140 --> 00:48:21.580 take power over your principalities, listen, the principalities are stuffed, don't you 925 00:48:21.580 --> 00:48:22.580 know that? 926 00:48:22.580 --> 00:48:27.620 Colossians 1, that Jesus blotted out the handwriting of your sins written against you and he triumphed 927 00:48:27.620 --> 00:48:32.500 and he thus disarming the principalities and the powers over you, they have no power over 928 00:48:32.500 --> 00:48:39.900 you and every time Christians bind the devil and rebuke the devil and generally speaking 929 00:48:39.900 --> 00:48:45.900 many times, all they're doing is reinforcing unbelief, sometimes you just got to stop warfaring 930 00:48:45.900 --> 00:48:52.660 and start receiving, stop fighting for what Jesus fought for and purchase on your behalf, 931 00:48:52.660 --> 00:48:57.620 he did it, if you get it because you fought for it, it's self-righteousness, it's self-effort 932 00:48:57.620 --> 00:49:02.340 but by grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it's a gift of God, 933 00:49:02.340 --> 00:49:06.100 not of works lest any man should boast, he's not going to heal you because of your great 934 00:49:06.100 --> 00:49:13.300 works of warfare, he's already healed you, just receive, okay, okay father, I love you 935 00:49:13.300 --> 00:49:20.300 guys and that's why I get a bit oh, I feel in the spirit, I feel God's people, they're 936 00:49:20.300 --> 00:49:24.500 not healed, so many are not healed, they're walking in sickness and disease and they don't 937 00:49:24.500 --> 00:49:28.620 need to be, okay fine, on the count of three, you're going to lean forward into the presence, 938 00:49:28.620 --> 00:49:32.820 the healing presence of Jesus and his healing presence are going to come upon you and some 939 00:49:32.820 --> 00:49:35.420 of you are going to laugh and some of you are going to weep and some of you are going 940 00:49:35.420 --> 00:49:41.940 to fall off, some of you are going to fall, you're going to feel like the plaster is in 941 00:49:41.940 --> 00:49:47.180 man, it's already happening now, I can feel it, that's the power of God, yeah, yeah, be 942 00:49:47.180 --> 00:49:59.900 still, be still and know that I am God, be still and know that I am God. 943 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:27.280 I am God. Be still and know that I am God. I am the God that healeth thee. I am the God that healeth thee. I am the God that healeth thee. 944 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:44.040 Whānau, on the count of three, lean into the healing presence of Jesus. If you've got sickness in your body, pain in your body, trouble in your mind, put your hand on your heart. Ready, get ready to lean forward. On the count of three, tahi, rua, toru. Lean forward. 945 00:50:46.520 --> 00:50:48.080 He anoints your head with oil. 946 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:52.600 He anoints your head with oil and your cup runneth over. 947 00:50:52.600 --> 00:50:59.000 He sets a table before you, even in the presence of your enemies. 948 00:51:00.520 --> 00:51:09.920 Hallelujah. I just see miraculous power being released right now, where you have sat at a table of affliction and you've been looking for the crumbs under the table. 949 00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:12.640 But Jesus right now, He says, eat, this is the bread of life. 950 00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:14.600 Healing is the bread of the children. 951 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:16.080 This belongs to you. 952 00:51:16.080 --> 00:51:18.040 You're no longer a beggar under the table. 953 00:51:18.240 --> 00:51:19.440 You're a righteous son. 954 00:51:19.600 --> 00:51:20.840 You're a righteous daughter. 955 00:51:21.080 --> 00:51:22.360 He's sit at the table. 956 00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:26.360 He's sit before you and now eat of the healing in the presence of the enemy. 957 00:51:26.360 --> 00:51:28.520 That sickness, that disease that's been with you. 958 00:51:28.720 --> 00:51:32.080 And this one of you since a little child, one of you are born with it. 959 00:51:32.680 --> 00:51:34.360 That has been your enemy all this life. 960 00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:39.200 Well, now eat the bread because it's your enemy now has to bow. 961 00:51:39.200 --> 00:51:40.800 He's the crumb under the table. 962 00:51:41.120 --> 00:51:42.240 You sit as a son. 963 00:51:42.920 --> 00:51:43.920 Yeah. Amen. 964 00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:45.240 Healed. Thank you, Lord. 965 00:51:45.240 --> 00:51:46.080 Thank you for that. 966 00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:47.920 What they said was incurable. 967 00:51:48.120 --> 00:51:49.440 Jesus already cured. 968 00:51:50.120 --> 00:51:51.560 What they said was impossible. 969 00:51:51.560 --> 00:51:54.040 Jesus said, nothing's impossible. 970 00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:59.480 So I thank you for all forms of osteoporosis down the back. 971 00:52:00.840 --> 00:52:05.760 All forms of rheumatoid arthritis in the knuckles, I see in the fingers. 972 00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:08.520 Oh, you can hear that. 973 00:52:08.800 --> 00:52:13.120 I can hear cracking as spinal cord and bones. 974 00:52:13.560 --> 00:52:15.560 That rheumatoid arthritis spirit is coming. 975 00:52:15.560 --> 00:52:20.280 I can hear cracking in the fingers, cracking in the body and the skeletal system. 976 00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:23.920 I rebuke that spirit of infirmity, the spirit of infirmity. 977 00:52:24.240 --> 00:52:26.960 Come out of come out of her in the name of Jesus. 978 00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:28.760 Rise up and walk. Rise up. 979 00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:29.920 Now, come do quickly. 980 00:52:29.920 --> 00:52:30.920 Do what you couldn't do. 981 00:52:31.080 --> 00:52:33.320 You find the spirit of God has released your spine. 982 00:52:33.520 --> 00:52:35.360 That thing that's been with you 18 years. 983 00:52:35.360 --> 00:52:37.840 It's gone. In Jesus name, I give you praise. 984 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:41.320 I give you thanks. That blood condition that's been there 12 years. 985 00:52:41.480 --> 00:52:43.040 It's gone. Thank you, Jesus. 986 00:52:43.040 --> 00:52:45.240 I give you praise. I thank you, Jesus. 987 00:52:45.680 --> 00:52:47.720 Those in that air, you're born with that air problem. 988 00:52:47.720 --> 00:52:49.280 It's gone in Jesus name. 989 00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:51.600 Thank you, Lord, for that eye that you couldn't see it. 990 00:52:51.600 --> 00:52:54.920 It's you can see look at the look at the colors coming back. 991 00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:56.720 Look at the shapes coming back. 992 00:52:56.720 --> 00:52:59.120 The colors. Now, there's an eye. 993 00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:01.600 There's osteoporosis. 994 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:05.160 There's bones cracking as you were healed. 995 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:09.280 I want these testimonies found to testify is to glorify. 996 00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:11.360 Jesus said, weren't there 10? 997 00:53:11.520 --> 00:53:13.000 Where are the other nine? 998 00:53:13.000 --> 00:53:14.960 There's only one that came back to give thanks. 999 00:53:15.160 --> 00:53:16.680 Jesus deserves thanks. 1000 00:53:16.680 --> 00:53:19.080 So please, to glorify us, to testify. 1001 00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:20.960 Thank you, Jesus. 1002 00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:23.680 Leaning forward into the presence of God. 1003 00:53:23.680 --> 00:53:25.160 Thank you, Lord. 1004 00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:29.440 Thank you, Lord, for that hip displacement, that operation didn't work, 1005 00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:31.400 but Jesus is operating on you right now. 1006 00:53:31.400 --> 00:53:32.560 There it goes. 1007 00:53:32.560 --> 00:53:34.560 Look, I don't know what's happening with that steel plate, 1008 00:53:34.560 --> 00:53:38.000 but oftentimes when the healing power comes upon people 1009 00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:40.640 and they've had steel plates put in their body, 1010 00:53:41.240 --> 00:53:45.360 when they go back to the doctor for checkup and they have x-rays 1011 00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:48.280 and that the steel plates are gone and new bone is there. 1012 00:53:48.640 --> 00:53:50.640 And so that's Jesus. 1013 00:53:50.640 --> 00:53:51.360 That's not me. 1014 00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:53.000 I mean, it just baffles me, too. 1015 00:53:53.000 --> 00:53:54.240 Well, how does he do that? 1016 00:53:54.240 --> 00:53:55.320 What he does there? 1017 00:53:55.320 --> 00:53:58.960 And so I just see somebody with a steel plate in your hip. 1018 00:53:58.960 --> 00:54:00.320 An operation didn't go well. 1019 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:03.000 And I sense there's a miracle taking place right there, right now. 1020 00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:05.320 And also in your shoulder there right now. 1021 00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:06.440 Thank you, Lord. 1022 00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:07.440 Thank you, Lord. 1023 00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:08.880 Thank you, Lord. 1024 00:54:08.880 --> 00:54:10.360 Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 1025 00:54:10.360 --> 00:54:11.960 Even toothache. 1026 00:54:12.160 --> 00:54:12.760 Thank you, Lord. 1027 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.560 You put gold fillings in or new porcelain in teeth without a dentist. 1028 00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:18.720 You provide bread without a bread shop. 1029 00:54:18.720 --> 00:54:20.920 You provide healing without medicine 1030 00:54:21.200 --> 00:54:24.080 because you're the one who's the same yesterday, today and forever. 1031 00:54:24.080 --> 00:54:25.640 Lord, you're awesome, Jesus. 1032 00:54:25.640 --> 00:54:27.360 You're the God that healeth us. 1033 00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:28.680 You lay no disease upon us. 1034 00:54:28.680 --> 00:54:29.720 You laid upon the Egyptians. 1035 00:54:29.720 --> 00:54:31.480 You're Jehovah Rapha. 1036 00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:34.760 Lord, you are healing incurable diseases 1037 00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.960 thousands of years before medical science and the pride 1038 00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:39.600 and arrogance of humanity. 1039 00:54:39.600 --> 00:54:40.760 Lord, you're the same today. 1040 00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:44.480 Thank you for your miracle power just flowing through those legs, those knees. 1041 00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:47.040 Thank you for those ankles. 1042 00:54:47.040 --> 00:54:49.040 Thank you for internal disorders, for that liver, 1043 00:54:49.240 --> 00:54:51.960 for the spots on the liver dissolving, disappearing. 1044 00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:52.840 Thank you, Jesus. 1045 00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:56.760 I command that kidney function, function now in Jesus name. 1046 00:54:57.200 --> 00:54:57.760 Thank you, Lord. 1047 00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:00.000 Thank you for a discharge from that body and for. 1048 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:03.200 For some of you, you need to drink more water. 1049 00:55:03.200 --> 00:55:04.160 Come on, here's a net. 1050 00:55:04.160 --> 00:55:06.240 You need to drink heaps of water. 1051 00:55:06.240 --> 00:55:08.480 Flush your body, flush your body. 1052 00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:12.760 There's ladies, there's several of you, 1053 00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:16.280 get some iron into your body, get some meat into you. 1054 00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:18.940 Get some meat, get some iron into your body. 1055 00:55:18.940 --> 00:55:20.560 These are natural things. 1056 00:55:20.560 --> 00:55:22.200 And others, some of you get some sleep. 1057 00:55:22.200 --> 00:55:23.440 Stop staying up all night. 1058 00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:26.540 That's why your immune system's tired. 1059 00:55:26.540 --> 00:55:28.640 It's not spiritual, it's not the devil. 1060 00:55:28.640 --> 00:55:29.840 It's just common sense. 1061 00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:32.640 Get some proper sleep, and sleep, 1062 00:55:32.640 --> 00:55:34.400 and let your body recover. 1063 00:55:34.400 --> 00:55:36.720 Come on, God's not a slave driver. 1064 00:55:36.720 --> 00:55:37.800 It's you pushing yourself. 1065 00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:38.640 He's not pushing you. 1066 00:55:38.640 --> 00:55:40.840 He said, my burden's light, my yoke's easy. 1067 00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:45.480 So if it's a burden and it's affecting you physically, 1068 00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:47.240 it's not from Jesus. 1069 00:55:47.240 --> 00:55:48.720 Okay, so get some rest. 1070 00:55:48.720 --> 00:55:51.600 I thank you, Father, for your amazing healing presence 1071 00:55:51.600 --> 00:55:55.060 that when this live recording finishes, you don't. 1072 00:55:56.600 --> 00:55:59.560 Finally, the power of God's gonna move through you. 1073 00:56:00.120 --> 00:56:02.200 Several of you, it's gonna go through you for 24 hours. 1074 00:56:02.200 --> 00:56:03.960 It'll be up on you, trembling through your body, 1075 00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:05.840 and that's that deep internal sickness 1076 00:56:05.840 --> 00:56:07.080 that's coming out of your body. 1077 00:56:07.080 --> 00:56:11.200 Cancer's dissolving, lumps dissolving, 1078 00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:13.240 swelling's dissolving. 1079 00:56:13.240 --> 00:56:15.640 Thank you, amen. 1080 00:56:15.640 --> 00:56:17.200 Bless you, Father. 1081 00:56:17.200 --> 00:56:18.040 See you tomorrow.