Kia ora whanau, good morning. Trust you are all well. Wow, what a Sunday it's been.
Thank you Jesus.
Ok, just waiting for you fellas to get online.
Kia ora whanau. Stuart, Francis, Nash, Joe, Kathy.
Ke toto atawhai, manaakitia mai, au te aroa.
God of nations at thy feet, hear our voices we entreat.
In the bonds of love we meet, God defend our free land.
God pacific's triple star, from the shafts of strife and war.
Make her praises heard afar, God defend New Zealand.
Praise you Jesus. May our mountains ever be,
freedoms rampant on the sea. Make us faithful unto thee,
God defend our free land. Guide her in the nation's van,
preaching love and truth to man. Working out your glorious plan,
God defend New Zealand. Our national anthem is one of the, I think
it's the best in the world. It's a karakia, it's a prayer.
I love those last words. Preaching love and truth to man,
working out thy glorious plan. God has a glorious plan.
God has a plan for you and for me. God has a plan for His church.
God has a plan for this nation. God has a plan for the earth.
I was just sharing with my family this morning that on our devotionals
that God had a plan for Joseph and he had a dream for Joseph.
Powerful dream, incredible dream and Joseph carried that dream in his
spirit but then something happened when his brothers
sold him of envy, sold him as a slave and he ended up in Egypt as a slave.
He ended up as a refugee and so I guess he thought where's my plan,
where's God's dream, where's God's plan for my life now? It's like
how is it ever going to happen? And then he got thrown in prison
unjustly for a crime he didn't commit. So you imagine if you're Joseph with all
these dreams and these plans in your heart that God put there
and now you're in a Middle Eastern prison and
there's no way you're going to get out and I'm talking
13 years later he's still in jail after getting
those visions and those dreams 13 years later.
And I guess you know sometimes you can think God where
you gave me a dream, you gave me a plan, you gave me a vision for my life, for my
marriage, for my family, for my ministry. You gave me a dream, a vision for my
nation, for my city and look just if God has given, if
there's a God dream in your heart whānau,
it hasn't died. Your dream can't die because God can't die and if you put a
dream in your heart you've just got to understand that the
ways of God, here's a teaching for free, the ways of God many Christians they
know the acts of God. It's said that Moses, that Moses knew the
ways of God, that Israel they knew the acts of God but
didn't know his ways and the ways of God are
in principle, a general principle is that when God puts a dream
it's called the birth of a vision, the birth of a dream. He will give you a
dream. Conception's easy, birthing's hard okay
and so sometimes
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.
But then the next stage of a dream, it's like a seed. If you're going to grow a crop of wheat, right?
So you get the wheat and that's wonderful. But the wheat, the seed's no good in your hand.
It's going to fall into the earth. It's going to die.
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.
And so sometimes, not sometimes, when God gives you a dream, births in your vision,
he will take that dream and it will seem like it dies. It will seem like, oh man, what's it's like?
How can this ever happen now? That's called the death of the vision.
OK, the ways of God, the birth of the vision, the first step, number two, then the death of the vision.
And you have to leave it there and let it die so that you can't make it happen.
Only God can make it happen. God promised Abraham and Sarah, you're going to have a son.
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.
And hello, Abraham's 75, Sarah's 65. And so they wait and wait for this vision.
And, you know, a couple of years later, nothing happens. Years later, nothing happens.
So Abraham thinks, well, let's help God. Let's be God's little helper.
Maybe he means we'll have a son and I'll have sex with my maid and we'll get a son that way.
And so they interfered with God's plan. Instead of waiting for God's plan,
he had sex with his maid Hagar and she birthed her son called Ishmael,
from whom we get all the Arab nations today. But then they're a blessed nation. God has blessed them.
And God says, no, that's not the way. Your dreams is not ready to go.
So 25 years later, when Abraham's 100 and Sarah's 90, God says, now you've got to have a son.
And we're going to do it my way, not your way. See, Ishmael was not the promised son.
Isaac was the promised son. Here's another thing you need just for free.
That whenever God gives you a dream and a vision, the devil will try to push you to make it happen.
He'll try to get you to make it happen. He'll try to get you because God wants us to leave
the dream in the seat, the seat in the ground, leave it in him and trust him.
He doesn't want us trying to make it happen. Okay. And so sometimes we try to make it happen.
And so what happened with Abraham, he produced Ishmael and Ishmael was not the promise.
Ishmael ended up becoming a problem. And then he learned the lesson when he waited and he got the
Isaac. And sometimes when God gives you a dream, a vision, sometimes the devil will send an Ishmael
to you. He'll send you in a situation or circumstances so you can try and make it happen.
And it's not the Isaac. It's not the promise of God. It's an Ishmael. So be very, very careful.
I've seen so many believers lose their destiny, actually lose the calling on their lives
because they accepted the Ishmael instead of the Isaac. And you've got to know before your promised
dream comes to pass, the devil's always going to send an Ishmael first. That's why some of you,
lights might be going on. That's why it didn't come to pass because it wasn't the timing of God.
Remember, revelation, interpretation. The third thing is application. That talks about the timing.
That talks about the way of doing it. And so anyway, that's for free, isn't it? So going back
to Joseph, okay? So Joseph had a dream in his heart. God put it in his heart. God put a dream in your heart.
Now he goes to prison where he's in. He's in Egypt for 13 years. He's in prison for 13 years.
There's the death of it. First step, birth of a vision. Second step, death of the vision. The third step,
yay, it's the supernatural fulfillment of the vision. The supernatural fulfillment. Birth of
the vision, death of a vision, supernatural fulfillment of the vision, okay? If it's a God
vision, it will be supernatural, okay? And so with Joseph, we see that after 13 years in Egypt,
and several of those years, he was a prisoner in jail. He interpreted the dream of the butler and
the baker. And two years later, Pharaoh had a dream. He couldn't understand it. And the butler
remembered that Joseph could interpret dreams. So he said to Pharaoh, I know a guy who can interpret
your dream. And so the Pharaoh, you know the story, Pharaoh called for Joseph. Joseph went from the prison
to the palace suddenly overnight. Now it wasn't overnight. It was 13 years. So often Christians
see other ministries just booming on the scene. They think, well, just overnight, God just raised up
David. Overnight, God just raised up Joshua. Overnight, uh-uh, he raised up Joshua over 40 years.
Oh, 80 years, actually, to lead the children of Israel. Now he didn't, Joseph's ministry...
wasn't overnight, it was 13 years.
David's ministry as king over Israel and Judah
wasn't overnight, it was 17 years in the making.
So you gotta understand, there's a process
and if God's given you a God vision, a God dream,
just because coronavirus has come,
just because the world's shut down, locked down,
doesn't mean your dream's locked down.
But just be patient and wait,
so faith and patience, we inherit the promises.
So just trust God, leave the Isaac in the womb,
don't dig it out, leave it alone
because God will bring it to pass in His time.
And God's gotta bring to pass
His plan for His church in His time.
Coronavirus is not the destiny of the church,
He's building a church the gates of hell
can't stand against, let alone a little virus,
are you kidding me?
So anyway, this is speaking to somebody
about the vision, the dream that God's given.
This is encouraging you, it stays,
it's in the process of death of a vision.
Don't worry about it, God will bring it to pass in His time.
You just do what you're called to do
and live every day for the glory of God.
Give God your best, give people your best,
and God will order your steps and it will come to pass.
Now, so we see the supernatural birth
of the vision for Joseph,
he went from the prison to the palace,
he went from being a prisoner to the Prime Minister
of the most powerful nation,
suddenly, just like that, not like that,
we went through the process, okay.
So I'm not even talking about that today, whanau,
I'm gonna talk to you about,
well, this is, I guess, the first lesson on
healing.
Healing is such a misunderstood topic for Christians.
I think 95% of Christians don't have a clue
about divine healing, just haven't got a clue.
And they, yeah, often when people want healing,
I say, how do you know it's God's will to heal you
of your sickness?
And they, I said, give me three scriptures
to confirm, to prove that it's God's will to heal you.
You see, you gotta base our faith on the word of God.
You can't base your faith on what I say
or what you feel or what you think.
Heaven and earth's gonna pass away.
Word of God won't pass away.
Hey, what day is it?
Day seven, is it?
Is it day seven?
I think it is.
Day seven for a activist cause.
So,
so I asked Christians, what is the word from God?
And so when people want healing over the online,
I say, yeah, here's my process.
I want you to go and find three scriptures,
two or three scriptures from the Bible
that confirm it's the will of God
that he wants to heal you, number one.
I want them to put their faith in the word of God,
not in me when I pray for them.
When they come back with their two words,
I say, okay, number two, we're gonna timestamp this.
We're gonna ask God in faith.
We're gonna believe for it.
And if you can do that,
then I'll agree with you online and we pray.
And number three, God does the miracle.
Okay, so anyway, I'm rambling a bit.
Sorry about that.
So I'm gonna talk to you about something
that's been in my spirit for years.
It's the power of righteousness.
The power of righteousness.
So I'll let you take a photo of that.
The power of righteousness, okay?
What is righteousness?
Well, what is unrighteousness?
Unrighteousness, let me just read you some scriptures, okay?
Righteousness and unrighteousness, it's a state of being.
It's a condition, okay?
It's a condition.
And so 1 John 5, 17a,
all unrighteousness is sin.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, whānau,
because I love you,
because you need this truth in you.
After this broadcast, I'm gonna send the notes through.
I'm gonna put them on the broadcast, okay?
So these notes will be there, I don't know.
That's up to you how you print them out.
But the power of righteousness.
Righteousness is a state of being.
All unrighteousness is sin.
So righteousness is being right with God.
It's simple as that, it's being right with God.
Unrighteous is being not right with God.
Righteousness connects us to God.
Unrighteousness disconnects us from God.
So righteous is a state of being.
Righteousness is a state of being right.
Righteousness is a state of purity,
of holiness with God.
So, and if you're clothed with righteousness,
you can walk with God.
I mean, God's right, not self-righteousness.
Our self-righteousness is as filthy rags,
and it's not righteousness by the works of the law.
That separates us from God.
But true right, the righteousness of God,
it connects us to God.
So the power of righteousness,
and you're gonna get.
Some of you are going to get healed as you get the revelation of this, the power of righteousness.
So let me read you some scriptures.
Righteousness is a state of being.
It's a state of being.
And we have Romans 3, 23 said, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
When you and I were born, we were born unrighteous.
We were born into an unrighteous world.
You can have unrighteous environments like brothels and drug dens and temples where people
worship idols.
That's an unrighteous environment.
But unrighteousness is not just an environment, it's not just actions, unrighteous actions
of lying and stealing.
Unrighteousness is a state of being.
It's a spiritual state of being.
Unrighteousness is a spiritual state of being.
And unrighteousness separates us from God.
Unrighteousness connects us to God.
Yeah.
Jesus is the righteous one.
It's through Jesus.
Okay.
But we're going to get to the answer in a minute.
So let me read you a bit more.
Okay.
Do you know there are only three righteous human beings on the planet?
Only three human beings, righteous human beings.
So the first two righteous human beings were Adam and Eve, as you know, God created Adam
and Eve.
And they were righteous because they were able to walk with him.
They walked with him in the garden in the cool of the day.
And you can't walk with God if you're unrighteous.
And so we can conclude that when man was first created, generally when mankind was created,
he was created righteous.
God created humanity to be righteous.
Why?
So that we might have relationship with him and that we would walk with him as sons and
daughters of God.
That we have not only know our identity is in God, but our destiny is in God and righteousness
because we're Adam and Eve were born righteous.
They were connected with God.
And when you're a righteous, you're not only are you connected with God, the devil has
no power over you.
Did the devil have power over God?
No.
Does he?
No.
Never will.
Did the devil have power over Adam and Eve?
Well, you read of the serpent in the garden in Genesis three.
He didn't have power over them, Farno.
He didn't have power over them.
He was able to speak into their minds, he was able to tempt them, but he didn't have
power over them until they submitted to his thoughts, till they submitted to sin.
The devil still had no power over you, over Adam and Eve.
And that's important.
You can realize that now that you're a righteous in Christ, the devil has no more power over
you.
However, he still has power to put temptation in your mind.
He still has power to speak into you, lies, and to tempt you.
He still has power, but he's power to put that thought there, but he hasn't got power
to make you do it.
He hasn't got power over you, okay?
Because you're righteous.
Okay, let's look at Adam and Eve, they were born righteous.
So what are the effects of righteousness?
For Adam and Eve, it was connection with God, totally connected, the sons of God.
Number one.
Number two, blessing.
When you walk with God, when you walk in righteousness, you're not under curse, you're under blessing.
So the blessing of God, the favor of God was upon them.
Number three, power.
They had dominion over the devil.
They had authority over the devil.
He made Adam and Eve in his image, and he gave them dominion over every creeping thing
on the earth, including serpents.
They had dominion over the devil, okay?
That's the power of righteousness.
Another thing, righteousness, because they're righteous, there's no curse on them.
Because there's no curse on them, there's no decay in their body.
There is no sickness and no disease in their body.
There's no mental illness in their soul, in their body, or their spirit, because they're
righteous.
That is the power of righteousness.
Righteousness is a state of being.
And while they were righteous, they had authority over the devil, they had health and wholeness
in their life, they had connection with God, they had destiny and purpose.
And then the devil came along and said, and you know the story, that the moment they were
sucked in, the moment they accepted the devil's lies, the moment they sinned, they went from
righteousness to unrighteousness.
You with me?
They went from righteousness to unrighteousness.
What was the effect of unrighteousness?
Well, it's on all humanity.
Adam and Eve are the first two human beings that from that one blood, that one man, that
one woman, comes every blood, comes every man, comes every woman, comes every nation,
comes every tribe, every human being on the planet today, comes through them.
And unfortunately, because they were unrighteous, they went from unrighteousness to unrighteousness.
were born, they went into sin, okay?
The DNA of sin in Adam and Eve,
the DNA of unrighteousness,
the state of unrighteousness in Adam and Eve,
now is in you and me.
It's in every human being on the planet.
Every human being born on the planet
is born with the DNA of the first Adam.
The DNA of sin, the DNA of unrighteousness,
Romans 6.23, all have sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God.
Romans 6, sorry, that's Romans 3.23.
Romans 6.23 says, the wages of sin is death.
The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ.
So the wages of sin is death.
So you were born into unrighteousness.
What was the effect of unrighteousness
to the first two human beings?
Number one, they were separated from God.
Unrighteousness will separate you from God.
Number two, it gave Satan power over them.
Unrighteousness gives the devil power over your life.
Number three, they came under not the blessing of God,
but the curse of God and the curse on the ground,
the curse on their lives.
So unrighteousness brings a curse upon you.
Number four, the fruit of the curse in Deuteronomy 28,
verses 14 all the way through to 60 something.
The fruit of the curses is sickness and disease.
It's mental illness.
It's marriage breakups.
It's poverty.
It's disaster after disaster.
It's just bad stuff.
That's the effect of unrighteousness.
And we see that's what happened to Adam and Eve,
and that's why humanity is, this is why we are
the way we are.
This is why the world is a mess,
because unrighteousness is a state of being, okay?
So Adam and Eve are called the first Adam.
Adam's called the first Adam.
Okay, what's the solution?
Wow, this is where it gets good.
So understand, because you were born in unrighteousness,
you were disconnected from God,
the devil had power over you.
Curses were on your life, whether you believe it or not.
Sickness and disease was part of, it clung to you.
You can't escape.
If you're unrighteous, sickness and disease
is allowed legal tender on your life, okay?
That's the effect of unrighteousness, right?
Now Jesus comes to the earth, okay, 4,000 years later,
but Jesus isn't born in unrighteousness
because he's not born by the blood of man.
He's not born by human means.
He's born, conceived by the Holy Spirit.
He's born in righteousness.
You with me?
Imagine if you and I were born in righteousness.
You know what?
If we were born in righteousness,
we'd wake up totally connected to God.
Devil have no power over us.
Curses have no power over us.
No sickness and disease upon our bodies.
Wouldn't that be amazing?
Well, good news coming.
Okay, so Jesus comes to the earth,
and he's called the last Adam.
Not the second Adam, the last Adam,
because the first Adam of sin, that race,
God's, the last Adam deals with sin.
And so the last Adam, Jesus, he is born righteous.
He's the son of righteousness.
And when he's born into the earth,
he's born under the radar.
Even the devil doesn't know who he is.
So he's born righteous.
He's born connected to God.
Even at the age of 13, he said to his parents
when he went missing from coming back from Jerusalem.
He said, did you know, did not you not know?
I must be about my father's business.
He honored his mother and his father in the natural,
but it was his spiritual father.
He knew his father in heaven.
And so he had a connection with God, number one.
Number two, the devil had no power over Jesus.
Number three, there's no curses on Jesus
because he grew in wisdom and stature
in favor with God and with man.
Number three, there's no sickness or disease upon Jesus.
Why was that?
You read from age one to 30,
there's no sickness, no disease.
He walks in righteousness.
It's because he's born righteous.
That is the power of righteousness.
The power of righteousness connects you to God,
breaks the power of the devil over you,
breaks curses off you,
and keeps you in divine health all the time.
That's the power of righteousness.
Don't you wish you had that state of being in your life?
Don't you wish that righteousness
was your state of being in your body?
Good news coming.
You're with me?
So Jesus is the third human being born on the planet,
born on the planet to walk in righteousness.
The first two, they walked in righteousness,
but then they fell away and they sinned.
So Jesus comes to restore humanity back to righteousness,
back to relationship with God,
to power of dominion over the devil,
to walk under the blessing
and to have power and dominion over the earth.
Jesus came back as the righteous one,
as the son of God, to show you and me.
how we should be walking.
Sons of God don't just go to church on Sunday
and sing a few songs and clap their hands,
and that's it once a week.
Sons of God walk as Jesus walks.
One John 4, 17, the last, 17E,
the last piece of that verse says,
as he is, Jesus, as Jesus is, so are we in this world.
We're meant to be walking like Jesus in righteousness.
Anyway, let me keep going.
What does the power of righteousness do?
Well, we saw what happened with Jesus.
Jesus came into the earth.
He had a connection with the Father.
The devil had no power over him.
Curses and sickness had no power over him.
Imagine if you carried that state of being in your body,
the power of righteousness.
Well, this is the good news.
You do.
That is the power of righteousness.
The power of righteousness repels sickness and disease.
The power of righteousness, the devil can't stand it.
It's like light, it's like burning light to a man
who's lived in the dark.
Have you ever come out of the dark
and your eyes are adjusted to the dark,
but you come out into the light
and a light shone on you and it hurts your eyes?
Well, that's what righteousness is to the devil.
When you're clothed with Christ's righteousness,
not your own, it's like a burning light
to the eyes of the demons.
Come on.
When Jesus, oh Jesus.
I'm just giving you stage one righteousness.
This is just stage one righteousness, okay?
There's two stages to the power of righteousness.
The first stage is the state of being,
where righteousness brings you into a place
of divine health.
Righteousness brings you into a place of divine power,
the spirit of a sound mind.
Righteousness brings you into a relationship
with the divine one.
Righteousness, it's a state of being.
You've got to get into that state of being first,
of knowing if you are righteous.
See, when Adam and Eve were righteous,
could any sickness touch them?
Could any curse touch them?
Could the devil touch them?
No.
Now, so you have a greater righteousness
than what Adam and Eve had.
Let's go to the scriptures.
When Jesus came on that cross,
when Jesus, sorry, when Jesus came,
when Jesus walked there for 30 years,
he walked as righteous.
And stage two, his righteousness had authority
over the devil.
I'm gonna maybe talk about that later,
or maybe talk about that tomorrow.
But when Jesus hung on the cross,
that was the moment when he was about to break
the power of unrighteousness off you.
That was the moment he did it.
That was the moment when he broke unrighteousness
off all of humanity.
When he hung on that cross,
why did he have to die on the cross?
Because no other human being could remove
the power of unrighteousness,
the power of sin off humanity.
The only human being that could pay that price
had to be perfect.
His blood had to be sinless.
He had to be righteous.
And no one is righteous.
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
That's why Jesus Christ,
that's why the Father sent his only beloved son,
the sinless, spotless, righteous son of God.
Only he could pay the penalty of our sin.
Only he could take away our sin
because God required a sinless sacrifice,
not a sinful one.
A righteous sacrifice, not an unrighteous one.
And Jesus, the righteous son of God,
when he hung on that cross,
this is what happened.
When he hung on that cross,
this is what happened.
It says, he, he who knew no sin,
became sin for you and for me.
When he hung on that cross,
he became sin.
He took our sin.
He became sin for you and for me.
That we, that we might become the,
listen to it,
the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
That we might become the righteousness
of God in Christ Jesus.
When Jesus died 2,000 years ago,
he broke the power of unrighteousness over you.
He broke the power of the devil over you.
He broke the power of curses over you.
He broke the power of sickness over you.
But more than anything,
he reconnected you to the father.
He reconnected you to, to himself.
He reconnected us.
That is the state of righteousness.
Do you know you're in possession
of that, that righteousness right now?
Do you understand that?
And that's why I'm gonna send you the notes
and the study of this.
You need to meditate on this
because at the moment it might just be information.
But I tell you what,
when you get the revelation
of the power of righteousness,
oh my goodness,
there'll be a manifestation of a dominion on your life,
a manifestation of authority on your life,
even a manifestation of health in your body.
Yeah, yeah.
That's why I'm gonna send you the notes.
That's the power of righteousness.
How did we get it?
Not by any works, Titus 3, book of Titus chapter 3, verse 5, it says not by any works of righteousness
have we done, but according to his mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration
and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. We are not made righteous by self-righteousness.
Isaiah said our self-righteousness is this filthy rags. We're made righteous by God's
righteousness. When he died on that cross, as it were, your sin, when you received Jesus,
when he died on that cross and you received Jesus, asked Jesus into your life to forgive
you of your sins, the moment you did that, the righteousness of Jesus was transferred
to you. And your sin, your state of sin, your state of unrighteousness was transferred upon
Jesus. Now it happened 2,000 years ago. Jesus isn't going to get on the cross every day
because of every unrighteous person. Jesus hung on the cross 2,000 years ago for every unrighteous
human being that would ever live. Jesus took the unrighteousness of humanity 2,000 years ago,
and the moment that you received it, you received Jesus, you received his righteousness,
and he received your unrighteousness, figuratively speaking. You're with me?
So you are clothed with his righteousness right now. You're in a state of, the state of being
is righteous, a state of dominion, a state of health, a state of blessing, a state of relationship
with God, the power of righteousness. Let's go to another scripture, 2 Peter, no, 1 Peter 2 24,
1 Peter 2 24 says how he, Jesus, bore our sin in his own body on the tree
that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. And by his wounds,
we were healed. By his wounds, we are healed. You see, again, when he hung on the cross, we see
that he took our unrighteousness and gave us his righteousness, that from now we would live to
righteousness. And when you realize that you're righteous, and you realize what the power,
what the effect of righteousness is, you walk in another realm, you begin to rule,
and you begin to reign. Let me read you a scripture, Romans 5 17, for if by the trespass
of one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's
abundant provision of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man,
Jesus Christ. Jesus wants us to reign in life. Many Christians don't reign in life because
they don't even understand the state of being they've been born into. We've been born into
the state of righteousness, and the state of righteousness is a force, it's a power.
Now, can I go a little bit further? Okay, Romans 8 10. It says, the body is dead.
No, okay, Romans 1, Romans 8 1. There's no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus,
who will not by the flesh, but by the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
has made me free, free from the law of sin and death. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death is why curses,
sickness, and diseases, and these maladies come upon our bodies. Now, it doesn't mean we're
immortal. We don't have immortal bodies. We have mortal bodies, but we have a destiny in the earth,
and that when the devil comes to try and put sickness or disease to try and stop you fulfilling
your destiny, God gives us the power of righteousness, frees us, frees our mortal
bodies from the devil's plans to take us out early. How do I know that? Romans 8, because we're
under a different law. We're not under the law of sin and death anymore. We're righteous. We're under
the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. We don't have to accept the things that the old law
used to give to us. We don't have to accept what unrighteousness used to bring to us. Unrighteousness
on us was like a magnet. It attracted curses. It attracted sickness. It attracted the devil. It was
unrighteous like a magnet to steel, but righteousness, it attracts heaven. It attracts
blessing. It attracts health. It attracts favor. It attracts God's dominion. That righteousness
attracts something else different. Romans 8, chapter 10. Romans 8, verse 10. It says,
the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
The body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
So in our bodies, when we're walking in sin, the body's dead, and because of dead, the wages of
sin is death. So because of unrighteousness, the body can get afflicted and diseased and so forth.
But then he said, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
meaning that because of righteousness,
there's a spirit of life that keeps our bodies free
from death until it's time to go.
Let's read the next verse.
He says, for if the same spirit
that rose Jesus from the dead dwells in you,
then that spirit will bring life to your,
listen to him, mortal flesh,
not an immortal, to your mortal flesh.
So the spirit of, because of righteousness,
the resurrection life, the spirit of life,
the spirit of health, the spirit of blessing,
the spirit of dominion, because of his righteousness,
that spirit lives inside of your physical body.
That spirit's inside of your physical body.
That is the power, the force of righteousness.
I'm gonna leave it right there, Fano,
because there's a lot to unpack from this study.
I'm gonna send the notes through.
You need to meditate upon, what's the homework?
Meditate on these notes, okay?
I hope I'm taking you beyond the ankle depth in Jesus.
I want to take you beyond the ankle depth,
whatever depth you're at, whether it's ankle,
knee, waist, I want to take you right into the river
where we go over our head, okay?
That's another level in Christ
that very few will want to go in,
because when you're in a river up to your waist,
your ankles or your knees,
you can control where you go in that river.
You can resist that river, you can push against that river,
but when you get in a river that is over your head,
you're no longer in control of the river.
The river will control you,
and Jesus is resetting the church
to get control of his church again,
where we're willing to get into the spirit of God,
we're willing to step into him over our head,
over our rationale, over our ways,
and allow the spirit of God to take us,
the river of God to take us
where he wants to take us in Aotearoa,
not where we want to take ourselves anymore.
And so there's a lot to unpack in this,
the power of righteousness.
He who knew no sin became sin for you and me.
The moment I realised I was made righteous,
oh man, life was so much easier.
I used to think I'm not holy enough,
I'm not worthy enough,
I'm not righteous enough to serve the Lord,
because I'd have unrighteous thoughts.
I would say, I'd do something I shouldn't do.
I'd sin sometimes.
Oh, how can God use me?
And that's part two.
I'm gonna tell you, look, it doesn't matter.
The devil has no power over you,
but he can still put temptation in your thoughts.
He can still do that to you.
How do we know that?
How can he still tempt a righteous man or woman?
Well, he tempted Adam and Eve,
and they were righteous, didn't he?
He put temptation into the head of Jesus
when he was righteous, didn't he?
Remember, in the wilderness, in the garden,
in the wilderness?
And the devil says,
you're the son of God, turn these stones to bread.
See, that's an unrighteous thought,
but Jesus didn't submit to it.
So the devil said to Eve, did God really say?
Don't eat of the tree of, did God really say?
And Eve, not only, she took the thought
and she submitted to it,
but when the unrighteous thought came to Jesus
and the devil, he didn't take it, he didn't submit to it.
Instead, he quoted back, it is written,
man shall not live by bread alone,
but every word that comes out of the mouth of God.
So the devil, he took off again,
then he came back to Jesus.
If you're the son of God, jump off the temple,
for it's written, the angels will give you charge over them.
And Jesus said, it's an unrighteous thought, right?
But Jesus didn't submit to an unrighteous thought.
Instead, he spoke back with the sword of the spirit
out of his mouth.
He said, it is written,
you shall not test the Lord your God, okay?
And so, I'm just saying this to bring a point
that because you're righteous
does not mean you'll be free from temptation
and thoughts of temptation,
but it doesn't mean you're unrighteous.
You can be righteous and still be tempted, okay?
Jesus was Adam and Eve.
It's what you do with that temptation, okay?
And if you fall and you submit to the temptation
and you sin, then you've become unrighteous.
How do you get clean again?
1 John 1.9.
If we confess our sin,
he's just to forgive and cleanse us of all unrighteousness,
okay?
The grace of God, friends, the grace of God, family,
the grace of God.
So I'm righteous.
And people say, how righteous?
I'm as righteous as Jesus.
That's why I can spend time with my father
in the presence of God,
because righteousness opens a door.
Jesus is the door.
He's the son of righteousness.
I'm as righteous as Jesus.
And so because I'm righteous as Jesus,
I'm as confident, yeah?
If our heart condemns us not,
we have faith, we have confidence before God.
I used to feel condemned.
I was never righteous enough
because I was trying to be righteous in myself,
righteousness.
and the works of the law,
and my little religious chores I'd do.
I thought, well, now I must be pleasing to God,
but God said, no, you're pleasing to me
because of what my son did for you.
You're righteous to me because of what my son did for you,
not what you did for me, son.
I've always loved you.
I've always loved you, but you weren't always righteous.
Now you're righteous through my son,
and that love can be expressed to you.
So, if you sin, if you stuff up,
okay, just get over it.
Get over it, confess to God,
fess it up, fess it up to God,
acknowledge what you did,
and ask for forgiveness, and he will,
and he'll cleanse you of all unrighteousness.
I'll close with this story.
Back in 1983, 82, 83,
I was a maitre deacon,
and then an elder in the Presbyterian Church
down in Oamaru,
but I was still having a few struggles with alcohol.
God, Jesus, had set me free from drugs.
He had set me free from violence
and from a lot of bad stuff,
but I still was having an issue with alcohol,
and from time to time,
I would go out and get on the booze,
and I'd come back drunk as a skunk,
come back home, and the next morning on Sunday,
I'd wake up to go to church,
and this is what happened.
A couple of times, or two or three times it happened,
but I'd be in church holding my communion, right?
The night after getting drunk,
and I remember the first time I did this,
and I'm feeling so condemned
because here I am, I'm a deacon,
I'm an elder in the church,
and I was wishing the cracks in the floor
would open up and swallow me
because I don't feel righteous.
Should I even be having this communion?
I felt so guilty, so condemned,
but in my heart, I was saying to God,
I'm so sorry what I did last night.
I feel such a loser, such a fake,
and he said to me, son,
there's no condemnation to those in me.
He said, son, I love you,
and he said, this will work for good
and work according to my purpose.
Do you love me?
I said, yes.
He said, well, all things work for good
to those who love me.
He said, just confess to me what you did,
and I'll forgive you, and we'll move on.
I said, you mean, just ask you to forgive me right now?
He says, right now,
and I said, you'll forgive me, and we move on?
He says, I'll forgive you, and we'll move on.
You don't have to try to do anything to make up
because my blood will cleanse you again
and put you back in righteousness with me.
I said, it doesn't seem fair.
Maybe I feel like I have to do something
to earn this place back.
He says, you can't do anything to earn it.
It's by my grace, son.
It's by my love, so ask me to forgive you,
and so I'm holding this wine and this bread,
and I got the dry horrors from the night before.
I mean, I got a bit of a headache
because I must smell like beer.
A deacon and an elder in the church sitting with communion,
but Jesus said, confess it to me as sin,
and I'm just to forgive and cleanse you,
and cleanse you of all unrighteousness.
So I said, Jesus, I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry for what I did.
I got drunk, and I made a spectacle of myself,
and I apologised, and I asked for forgiveness.
I'll never do it again, Lord,
and I felt Jesus, you're forgiven, son.
Let's move on.
I said, but I remember.
He says, I don't.
He says, I've just removed your sin,
and so I took my communion, and I thought, wow,
and that's how I understood the power of righteousness.
I thought, wow, I'm righteous by what he did for me,
and you know what?
I never did that again until next month.
I did the same thing again the following month,
and so I go before God, I said, what am I doing?
I said, I'll never do this again.
He says, stop boasting in yourself.
Just take one day at a time,
and he says, this will work out for good.
He says, ask me to forgive you.
It's no biggie.
I'll cleanse you, and let's move on,
so I said, Jesus, again, I'm sorry.
Please forgive me of getting drunk last night,
of not giving a good witness of who you are,
and I felt Jesus, you're forgiven,
and I wouldn't say I never did that again.
I went through a process before I got set free
from that curse of alcohol,
but I'm sharing this with you
that righteousness is a state of being,
and it's not self-righteousness,
by our little chores, our little works.
It's the righteousness of God
that comes through Christ Jesus,
and that if we get our clothes dirty,
our robes of righteousness dirty,
it's all right, the blood washes it off.
As long as we fess it up to God,
he just, no worries, let's move on.
Okay, fine, I hope you've enjoyed this morning,
the power of righteousness.
The power of righteousness is also the power of healing.
It's the power of deliverance.
It's the power of dominion over the devil.
It's the power of divine favor.
It's the power of sonship with God.
It's the power of righteousness, part two, tomorrow.
Kia ora, oh, no, not kia ora.
Whānau time, healing time, ministry time.
Okay, there've been so many, I don't know,
well over 50.
Healings and miracles since we've been doing this WOTVAC course, so I'm praying now for
people who need healing in your body and I want you to lean into the presence of Jesus
on the count of three, I give you praise, I give you praise, I give you praise.
When I get my stand working, I'll start blowing the coowo over you.
Bit hard to blow the coowo and hold this at the same time, so there must be somebody out
there that knows how to stop my phone from doing that, oops, did I lose you, it must
be somebody knows, no matter what I do, I put it on my stand and it does it, come on
someone out there, God's given you wisdom, God's given you ability to help me get this
thing on a stand so I can do more to the body of Christ, so come on, show somebody, it's
not my gifting, I'm not no techie, thank you Jesus.
Okay get ready to lean into the presence of Jesus, the healing presence of Jesus on the
count of three, again I'm saying don't look to me for your healing, okay, some people
try to ring me and they want me to pray for them, I say look, I can't heal you, my prayer
is no better than anyone else's prayer and often when people say I want you to pray for
me, you're not looking to Jesus, you're looking to me and nothing will probably happen.
So as I say, I rarely lay hands on people, I let Jesus do it, I mean I do lay hands on
people, I anoint people, I do lots of things, I spit in eyes even, but it's Jesus that heals
and I'm so confident that he's going to heal you today, I'm so confident, this miracle's
about to break forth, I'm so confident, why?
Because I know he already healed you, you're already healed, you just don't know it, but
you need to connect your faith to that healing and faith is an action and so by leaning forward
to the presence of Jesus, that's the faith action that's going to connect you to that
which Jesus has already purchased for you.
You see, you don't have to do warfare to get forgiven of your sin, do you?
You know, when I lead people to Jesus, I don't try to warfare for them to get forgiven, oh
God, I bind sin over there, I rebuke sin, I decree that they shall be forgiven, I don't
have to do that, Jesus forgives sin, eh whānau?
We don't fight or warfare for people's sin to be removed, we just get them to ask Jesus
and we know just like that, that he takes their sin because he did it 2,000 years ago,
it's just they haven't received it yet, just like you and I, I was born, when I was born,
Jesus had already forgiven my sin, but it was going to take 24 years before I had received
that, before I had knowledge to receive that, he had already forgiven my sins, yeah?
I just had to receive it, but in the like manner, he had already healed me as well,
he had already healed me of all my diseases and that's something that he hadn't been taught,
he hadn't been taught he only forgave sin, look, Psalm 103, he forgives all our iniquities
and heals all our diseases, when he forgives sins, he also heals diseases, it's synonymous,
when he takes away sin, he takes away our disease at the same time, he takes away the
curses and so he has, that's why I'm confident he's already healed you, he's already purchased
your healing, it's just a matter of you receiving it right now, I'm not having to warfare for
you and you need, some of you need to stop trying to warfare because you're actually
reinforcing unbelief, you're reinforcing that you don't believe Jesus has already done it,
you think you've got to do your little bit, you think you've got to bind your devils and
take power over your principalities, listen, the principalities are stuffed, don't you
know that?
Colossians 1, that Jesus blotted out the handwriting of your sins written against you and he triumphed
and he thus disarming the principalities and the powers over you, they have no power over
you and every time Christians bind the devil and rebuke the devil and generally speaking
many times, all they're doing is reinforcing unbelief, sometimes you just got to stop warfaring
and start receiving, stop fighting for what Jesus fought for and purchase on your behalf,
he did it, if you get it because you fought for it, it's self-righteousness, it's self-effort
but by grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it's a gift of God,
not of works lest any man should boast, he's not going to heal you because of your great
works of warfare, he's already healed you, just receive, okay, okay father, I love you
guys and that's why I get a bit oh, I feel in the spirit, I feel God's people, they're
not healed, so many are not healed, they're walking in sickness and disease and they don't
need to be, okay fine, on the count of three, you're going to lean forward into the presence,
the healing presence of Jesus and his healing presence are going to come upon you and some
of you are going to laugh and some of you are going to weep and some of you are going
to fall off, some of you are going to fall, you're going to feel like the plaster is in
man, it's already happening now, I can feel it, that's the power of God, yeah, yeah, be
still, be still and know that I am God, be still and know that I am God.
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.
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.
He anoints your head with oil.
He anoints your head with oil and your cup runneth over.
He sets a table before you, even in the presence of your enemies.
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.
But Jesus right now, He says, eat, this is the bread of life.
Healing is the bread of the children.
This belongs to you.
You're no longer a beggar under the table.
You're a righteous son.
You're a righteous daughter.
He's sit at the table.
He's sit before you and now eat of the healing in the presence of the enemy.
That sickness, that disease that's been with you.
And this one of you since a little child, one of you are born with it.
That has been your enemy all this life.
Well, now eat the bread because it's your enemy now has to bow.
He's the crumb under the table.
You sit as a son.
Yeah. Amen.
Healed. Thank you, Lord.
Thank you for that.
What they said was incurable.
Jesus already cured.
What they said was impossible.
Jesus said, nothing's impossible.
So I thank you for all forms of osteoporosis down the back.
All forms of rheumatoid arthritis in the knuckles, I see in the fingers.
Oh, you can hear that.
I can hear cracking as spinal cord and bones.
That rheumatoid arthritis spirit is coming.
I can hear cracking in the fingers, cracking in the body and the skeletal system.
I rebuke that spirit of infirmity, the spirit of infirmity.
Come out of come out of her in the name of Jesus.
Rise up and walk. Rise up.
Now, come do quickly.
Do what you couldn't do.
You find the spirit of God has released your spine.
That thing that's been with you 18 years.
It's gone. In Jesus name, I give you praise.
I give you thanks. That blood condition that's been there 12 years.
It's gone. Thank you, Jesus.
I give you praise. I thank you, Jesus.
Those in that air, you're born with that air problem.
It's gone in Jesus name.
Thank you, Lord, for that eye that you couldn't see it.
It's you can see look at the look at the colors coming back.
Look at the shapes coming back.
The colors. Now, there's an eye.
There's osteoporosis.
There's bones cracking as you were healed.
I want these testimonies found to testify is to glorify.
Jesus said, weren't there 10?
Where are the other nine?
There's only one that came back to give thanks.
Jesus deserves thanks.
So please, to glorify us, to testify.
Thank you, Jesus.
Leaning forward into the presence of God.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Lord, for that hip displacement, that operation didn't work,
but Jesus is operating on you right now.
There it goes.
Look, I don't know what's happening with that steel plate,
but oftentimes when the healing power comes upon people
and they've had steel plates put in their body,
when they go back to the doctor for checkup and they have x-rays
and that the steel plates are gone and new bone is there.
And so that's Jesus.
That's not me.
I mean, it just baffles me, too.
Well, how does he do that?
What he does there?
And so I just see somebody with a steel plate in your hip.
An operation didn't go well.
And I sense there's a miracle taking place right there, right now.
And also in your shoulder there right now.
Thank you, Lord.
Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.
Even toothache.
Thank you, Lord.
You put gold fillings in or new porcelain in teeth without a dentist.
You provide bread without a bread shop.
You provide healing without medicine
because you're the one who's the same yesterday, today and forever.
Lord, you're awesome, Jesus.
You're the God that healeth us.
You lay no disease upon us.
You laid upon the Egyptians.
You're Jehovah Rapha.
Lord, you are healing incurable diseases
thousands of years before medical science and the pride
and arrogance of humanity.
Lord, you're the same today.
Thank you for your miracle power just flowing through those legs, those knees.
Thank you for those ankles.
Thank you for internal disorders, for that liver,
for the spots on the liver dissolving, disappearing.
Thank you, Jesus.
I command that kidney function, function now in Jesus name.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you for a discharge from that body and for.
For some of you, you need to drink more water.
Come on, here's a net.
You need to drink heaps of water.
Flush your body, flush your body.
There's ladies, there's several of you,
get some iron into your body, get some meat into you.
Get some meat, get some iron into your body.
These are natural things.
And others, some of you get some sleep.
Stop staying up all night.
That's why your immune system's tired.
It's not spiritual, it's not the devil.
It's just common sense.
Get some proper sleep, and sleep,
and let your body recover.
Come on, God's not a slave driver.
It's you pushing yourself.
He's not pushing you.
He said, my burden's light, my yoke's easy.
So if it's a burden and it's affecting you physically,
it's not from Jesus.
Okay, so get some rest.
I thank you, Father, for your amazing healing presence
that when this live recording finishes, you don't.
Finally, the power of God's gonna move through you.
Several of you, it's gonna go through you for 24 hours.
It'll be up on you, trembling through your body,
and that's that deep internal sickness
that's coming out of your body.
Cancer's dissolving, lumps dissolving,
swelling's dissolving.
Thank you, amen.
Bless you, Father.
See you tomorrow.