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His Righteousness
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[00:00:00] You are the Everlasting Father, the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the Wonderful Counselor.
[00:00:09] Lord, You are our everything.
[00:00:12] We thank You for the blood You shed on the cross.
[00:00:15] We thank You that You rose from the dead on the third day.
[00:00:18] You conquered hell and death.
[00:00:22] Lord, for those of us that would believe that would take up our cross and follow You, Lord,
[00:00:28] through the blood of Jesus and the word of our testimony and loving not our lives unto death,
[00:00:32] we can overcome Satan in this world and sin and this whole system that is antichrist.
[00:00:40] Lord, we thank You today for all that You've done.
[00:00:45] And it's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.
[00:00:50] Hallelujah. You may be seated this morning.
[00:00:52] We welcome everyone.
[00:00:55] Fire and Grace Church.
[00:00:57] Well, I had a couple of things I thought I was going to do.
[00:01:02] I'm not going to do either one of those things this morning.
[00:01:06] You know, as we were singing that last song there,
[00:01:08] Running After You, Thirsty For You, Hungry For You,
[00:01:12] I just thought about a verse that came to my mind.
[00:01:16] And, brother, I want to tell you this verse, this passage is for you.
[00:01:21] Because when the Lord spoke it to me over there and gave it to me over there,
[00:01:27] He said, you just tell Saul that this is for him.
[00:01:31] Let's everybody turn to Psalm 37 this morning.
[00:01:37] Psalm 37.
[00:01:45] So everybody had two messages, different messages planned this morning.
[00:01:48] Didn't know which one.
[00:01:49] This is the third that I didn't know about.
[00:01:54] Let me get there myself.
[00:01:55] I'm thinking before jumping ahead.
[00:01:59] Psalm 37.
[00:02:04] Everybody there?
[00:02:10] And let's go to verses 23 and 24 this morning.
[00:02:18] I want to tell you this morning that I'm glad that I live in the new covenant.
[00:02:27] I'm glad that Jesus, when he came at that last supper,
[00:02:32] that Passover meal, took that cup and said,
[00:02:36] this is the New Testament in my blood, which is shed for many.
[00:02:44] I'm glad that he took that bread and he said,
[00:02:46] this is my body that is broken free.
[00:02:50] I am grateful that we are not under the system anymore
[00:02:55] of the blood of bulls and goats that were a shadow of things to come.
[00:02:59] They were just to teach us, as Leviticus 17 says,
[00:03:03] that the life of the flesh is in the blood.
[00:03:05] The Lord said, I have given it to you upon the altar
[00:03:07] to make an atonement for your souls.
[00:03:10] All things are cleansed, all sin, all uncleanness.
[00:03:16] It takes blood to cleanse it away.
[00:03:20] And I'm thankful that the blood of bulls and goats
[00:03:22] was only a shadow of things to come.
[00:03:26] Because God, in eternity past,
[00:03:31] decided that he would take on the form of human flesh
[00:03:34] at a certain time in history so that he could live as us,
[00:03:43] live a sinless life, and then willingly lay down his life
[00:03:47] and shed his holy, spotless, sinless blood
[00:03:52] to wash our sins away, to make a way that all sin
[00:03:56] could not just be covered, but it could be washed away.
[00:04:03] And I'm thankful today that because of this new covenant,
[00:04:07] because of the blood of God, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ,
[00:04:12] that I don't have to be perfect.
[00:04:17] I don't have to be sinless.
[00:04:22] Now, I should strive for it.
[00:04:23] I should press toward that mark.
[00:04:25] I should want to be because I want to be close to Him
[00:04:29] and I want to please Him.
[00:04:31] But I'm thankful today that even if I fall,
[00:04:35] He's not ready to throw me aside.
[00:04:38] And He knows the difference between someone falling
[00:04:41] and someone going to live in sin.
[00:04:46] He knows the difference between someone struggling
[00:04:49] and someone playing games.
[00:04:51] God is not deceived.
[00:04:53] But I am grateful today for the blood of Jesus Christ.
[00:04:58] I am grateful today as what Paul called in Romans,
[00:05:01] the gift of righteousness that comes through His blood,
[00:05:05] through faith in His blood,
[00:05:07] that I don't have to go to a high priest,
[00:05:09] a Levitical high priest and bring a bull or a goat or a lamb.
[00:05:15] I'm grateful for that today.
[00:05:18] I love the new covenant.
[00:05:21] And I'm not going to try to mix it with the old
[00:05:25] because it's new.
[00:05:26] And Hebrews 8 says we have a better covenant
[00:05:29] with better promises.
[00:05:31] We have a new covenant
[00:05:34] and it is through the shed blood of Jesus.
[00:05:38] And it is by faith, not by the works of the law.
[00:05:47] And people call this heresy now.
[00:05:52] They want to go back and try to keep 613 Old Testament laws
[00:05:56] they can't keep.
[00:06:03] But I'm grateful today for the blood of Jesus.
[00:06:07] Now I want to read this verse right here,
[00:06:10] these two verses.
[00:06:15] And remember, we may look at it in a minute,
[00:06:17] but Revelation 12, 11 says we overcame Him.
[00:06:22] We overcome Satan.
[00:06:23] He's talking to me the verse before that old serpent,
[00:06:25] the devil, Satan, the one that deceives the whole world.
[00:06:27] Says we overcome Him by the blood of the lamb,
[00:06:30] the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
[00:06:32] by the word of our testimony
[00:06:34] because we love not our lives unto death.
[00:06:35] We're willing to lay down our lives
[00:06:38] for that truth and for that faith
[00:06:39] and for that relationship with Him.
[00:06:43] And we overcome Him.
[00:06:45] I want to show you this right here.
[00:06:46] This is absolutely one of my most favorite passages
[00:06:50] right here, this verse in the south, this is for you.
[00:06:53] Here's what it says.
[00:06:57] Psalm 37, verse 23.
[00:07:01] The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord
[00:07:05] and He delighteth in His way.
[00:07:08] Though He fall, He shall not be utterly cast down
[00:07:11] for the Lord upholdeth Him with His hand.
[00:07:16] I want you to understand that right there.
[00:07:21] The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord.
[00:07:26] Now let me just tell you,
[00:07:27] I looked this up in Hebrew yesterday
[00:07:28] and when it says here the steps of a good man,
[00:07:30] if you notice maybe in your King James
[00:07:32] that the word good is in italics,
[00:07:35] meaning it's not in the original text,
[00:07:36] but they're just putting it in there
[00:07:37] to try to help give some understanding,
[00:07:40] some context, some description.
[00:07:42] But when you look this word up,
[00:07:44] it's not just man here.
[00:07:46] It means valiant man.
[00:07:48] It means warrior.
[00:07:50] It means one who is gonna fight for the Lord,
[00:07:54] the one that loves the Lord enough to be a warrior,
[00:07:56] a soldier, a fighter who's gonna fight
[00:07:59] to run after Him, to fight to stay true to Him,
[00:08:03] to fight to stay with Him.
[00:08:05] And guess what the good news of the gospel is?
[00:08:08] The good news of our Creator is this,
[00:08:11] is that if you love Him,
[00:08:13] if you run after Him,
[00:08:15] if you believe Him,
[00:08:17] if you're willing to change your ways,
[00:08:18] if you're willing to repent,
[00:08:20] if you're willing to take up your cross and follow Him,
[00:08:22] and you're running after Him,
[00:08:24] even if you fall down,
[00:08:26] even if you make a big mistake,
[00:08:28] even if you blow it,
[00:08:29] it doesn't mean it's over.
[00:08:32] It doesn't mean it's over.
[00:08:34] We serve a supernatural God,
[00:08:36] a miracle God,
[00:08:38] a God of mercy and compassion and patience.
[00:08:42] And He knows if you love Him with all your heart
[00:08:45] and if you're running after Him with all your heart.
[00:08:48] And I wanna tell you,
[00:08:48] there's nothing more that He will honor
[00:08:51] and bless and forgive and help
[00:08:53] the man or the woman that's a warrior,
[00:08:55] that's valiant,
[00:08:56] that's ready to run after Him.
[00:09:03] Man, let me tell you,
[00:09:06] the steps,
[00:09:08] the steps of a warrior,
[00:09:13] the steps of a valiant man or a woman
[00:09:18] are ordered by the Lord.
[00:09:20] Now listen to this part.
[00:09:23] He delights in your way.
[00:09:26] We don't think about that too often, do we?
[00:09:30] That God delights over us.
[00:09:35] He looks down just like we look down.
[00:09:37] You know what?
[00:09:38] Just a minute ago,
[00:09:39] when you told your little baby,
[00:09:41] she went over to touch the guitar over here,
[00:09:45] and Sal told a little baby, no.
[00:09:47] And she's little, how old is she?
[00:09:50] One year or so, one year old.
[00:09:53] He said, no.
[00:09:54] And she took her hand back and turned around
[00:09:55] and obeyed her dad.
[00:09:59] And I thought, boy, that just delighted you, didn't it?
[00:10:03] It delights you to see that.
[00:10:05] Now I know she's not a perfect little child, is she?
[00:10:08] But it delights you when you see that.
[00:10:11] You see the little joy in her.
[00:10:12] She didn't have a problem with that.
[00:10:13] She didn't fuss, she didn't cry.
[00:10:15] She went and ran back.
[00:10:16] She ran over her dad smiling and laughing.
[00:10:19] You see, God delights over us.
[00:10:24] And he knows the difference between the people
[00:10:27] who love him and are running after him,
[00:10:31] and running after the truth.
[00:10:35] And I'm talking about keeping things in context.
[00:10:41] And he knows the difference between those kind of people
[00:10:43] and the people that are trying to say, you know what?
[00:10:47] Grace covers my sin, I can do what I want.
[00:10:57] This shouldn't be hard to figure out.
[00:10:59] And yet, we got constant insanity,
[00:11:04] constant deception, constant, you know,
[00:11:08] either the devil trying to tell us, you know what?
[00:11:10] Even the devil trying to tell us.
[00:11:12] And I'm talking to people right now,
[00:11:13] I'm not talking to people playing games.
[00:11:15] I'm talking to people that are serious
[00:11:17] about walking in New Covenant, New Testament,
[00:11:21] relationship with Jesus Christ.
[00:11:25] You need to understand something.
[00:11:28] God's not looking to banish you because you fall down.
[00:11:32] He's not looking to punish you.
[00:11:34] He's not looking to beat you up.
[00:11:36] He's not looking, in fact, he knows
[00:11:38] if you're running after him, he delights over you.
[00:11:41] And even if you fall, he promises this.
[00:11:44] Think about this, he will uphold you.
[00:11:50] He says, though he falls, this valiant warrior Christian,
[00:11:59] though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast out.
[00:12:05] Ooh, somebody say that's good news, isn't it?
[00:12:10] Let me tell you, I had somebody had the audacity to say
[00:12:15] that Pastor Dean thinks he's God.
[00:12:18] Really?
[00:12:20] Somebody said that this week.
[00:12:22] Isn't that hilarious?
[00:12:23] I told my wife, I think I'm God, yeah right.
[00:12:29] Let me tell you, I believe I'm a warrior for Jesus Christ.
[00:12:33] I believe I'm a soldier for Jesus Christ.
[00:12:35] I believe I've been in this battle a long time
[00:12:37] and I have no intention on quitting,
[00:12:41] slowing down, or stopping.
[00:12:44] But I know one thing, I'm not God.
[00:12:47] And I have fallen down many times on this journey.
[00:12:55] I have fallen down, I have sinned,
[00:12:57] I have made terrible mistakes, I have blown it.
[00:13:03] But you know why I'm still here preaching?
[00:13:07] Because of this right here.
[00:13:10] I can't tell you how many times in prayer I've said,
[00:13:13] Lord, I thank you that the steps of a good man
[00:13:16] are ordered of the Lord.
[00:13:18] And that though he fall,
[00:13:21] he will not be utterly cast down.
[00:13:24] Because you know what would happen when I'd fall?
[00:13:28] I'd get back up and say, Jesus,
[00:13:33] you said in John chapter one through your apostle John,
[00:13:36] if we confess our sins, you are faithful and just
[00:13:40] to forgive us of our sins
[00:13:42] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
[00:13:46] You are faithful to not remember our sins and iniquities.
[00:13:51] You are faithful because of what you did on the cross.
[00:13:55] You are good and you are sinless and you are perfect
[00:13:59] and you are holy.
[00:14:00] And my faith is not in what I can do.
[00:14:04] My faith is not in that I can do it perfectly all the time.
[00:14:07] My faith is in the blood of Jesus.
[00:14:10] So for those of you out there who say I'm Dean,
[00:14:12] Pastor Dean thinks he's God, no, I don't.
[00:14:14] My faith and the only thing that makes me righteous
[00:14:17] and clean and holy and just is the blood of Jesus
[00:14:21] and my faith in the blood of Jesus and his resurrection
[00:14:24] and my willingness to when I sin and when I fall down
[00:14:27] to say, God, please forgive me, please help me.
[00:14:29] Help me, help me get up and keep walking and keep running.
[00:14:41] I just laughed, I just blows my mind.
[00:14:43] He thinks he's God, no, I don't.
[00:14:54] The absolute insanity.
[00:14:58] But of course, that's the,
[00:15:00] that's Jezebel's talking out there, all right?
[00:15:05] It's just amazing, you know?
[00:15:09] Just amazing.
[00:15:12] Faith in his blood.
[00:15:15] That's such a good thing.
[00:15:17] You know, I think we forget sometimes.
[00:15:19] No matter how righteous as Christian,
[00:15:22] and listen, I'm saying there is a New Testament standard
[00:15:26] of righteousness that God wants us to walk.
[00:15:29] But I can tell you this, we're never gonna walk you back.
[00:15:35] Don't tell me you're never gonna say anything
[00:15:36] that you shouldn't say.
[00:15:38] Or you're never gonna think anything you shouldn't think.
[00:15:40] Or you're never gonna do anything you shouldn't do.
[00:15:43] Don't tell me, don't tell me.
[00:15:44] I mean, there's some people out there that actually preach
[00:15:46] that a Christian should never sin anymore.
[00:15:48] They should, or that they never,
[00:15:50] they can live in sinless perfection.
[00:15:55] Now granted, in theory, that may be right.
[00:15:58] I've heard people theorize that,
[00:15:59] well, can you live without sin and thought, word,
[00:16:01] or deed for one second?
[00:16:03] Well, yeah.
[00:16:04] Well, then if you could do it for one second,
[00:16:06] then you could do it for five seconds.
[00:16:07] And then if you could do it for five seconds,
[00:16:08] you might make a whole minute.
[00:16:11] So theoretically, yeah.
[00:16:13] But guess what?
[00:16:15] Our lives are lived in weeks and months and years.
[00:16:20] Right.
[00:16:24] My wife and I were discussing a certain individual,
[00:16:26] a certain situation this morning.
[00:16:29] And my wife has good discernment.
[00:16:30] I'll have to say that.
[00:16:33] And she asked, sometimes she says,
[00:16:35] well, you know, I just got a bad feeling
[00:16:36] about this particular situation.
[00:16:40] And I said, well, one thing we know,
[00:16:43] time will always expose you, right?
[00:16:48] Might not get exposed this week or a month from now,
[00:16:51] maybe two years from now, maybe three years from now,
[00:16:54] but it'll happen.
[00:16:57] That's why the Bible talks about not putting a novice
[00:16:59] or one newly come to the faith
[00:17:01] in a position of authority or leadership
[00:17:03] where there needs to be time to tell, are they faithful?
[00:17:08] Are they faithful to this walk, to this journey,
[00:17:10] to the scriptures, to the truth?
[00:17:13] Time will always tell.
[00:17:19] That's why I laugh.
[00:17:21] People come at me with all kind of crazy stuff.
[00:17:25] And I'm like, you know what?
[00:17:26] I don't care what they say.
[00:17:28] Because you know what?
[00:17:30] Anybody could go back in my past and find a sin
[00:17:32] and find a mistake.
[00:17:35] You got to go back in my past and find something?
[00:17:37] Got news for you.
[00:17:39] You're trying to dig up stuff
[00:17:41] that the blood of Jesus has washed away.
[00:17:45] So good luck with that, right?
[00:17:50] I mean, recently, I've had everything thrown at me
[00:17:52] from divorce and remarriage issue,
[00:17:55] which I'm going to have to address biblically.
[00:17:59] In fact, I might address some of that this morning.
[00:18:02] About the university I'm affiliated and associated with
[00:18:05] in Nigeria, that it's listed on the legal universities
[00:18:10] in Nigeria, but most people don't understand
[00:18:11] that Nigeria is run by Muslims and corrupt leaders.
[00:18:18] It's funny if they're legal, why are they still going?
[00:18:21] But I might address that in a minute.
[00:18:25] But isn't it crazy?
[00:18:26] And this is not, listen.
[00:18:28] Some people say, oh, why are you whining?
[00:18:30] No, I'm happy.
[00:18:35] Paul made a defense.
[00:18:36] He said, this is my answer to those who examined me.
[00:18:38] Paul made a defense of his life, his ministry,
[00:18:41] his salvation experience, what he preached, what he taught.
[00:18:47] He always made a defense of those things.
[00:18:51] He was, oh, don't defend yourself.
[00:18:53] Well, you know what, I'm not.
[00:18:55] I'm defending what God's done in my life.
[00:19:00] Don't try to poo-poo on what God's done in my life.
[00:19:02] I don't like your poo-poo.
[00:19:04] Eat your poo-poo till you set, right?
[00:19:09] But let me read something to you.
[00:19:12] This is something awesome.
[00:19:14] I won't share the guy's name,
[00:19:17] because he's a new believer.
[00:19:21] Let's see if I can find this real quick.
[00:19:24] But this is the kind of stuff I rejoice in.
[00:19:28] And he was messaging me this morning.
[00:19:31] But I get this message this week,
[00:19:33] on top of the crazies attacking me from every angle.
[00:19:37] But here's why I keep getting up.
[00:19:41] Number one, I love Jesus.
[00:19:43] And I know he is the way and the truth and the life
[00:19:46] and the only true God.
[00:19:47] And I know he loves me.
[00:19:48] And I know he gives me the strength
[00:19:50] and the power over the devil.
[00:19:52] And I know that no matter what happens one day,
[00:19:54] I'm gonna be with him, right?
[00:19:58] So this guy, Ken, that's all I'm gonna say.
[00:19:59] He may be listening right now.
[00:20:00] He's in Canada.
[00:20:03] And this is what he said.
[00:20:05] He said, your videos have brought me back to Jesus
[00:20:09] and away from the lies of Eastern mysticism
[00:20:14] and Eastern nonsense.
[00:20:17] I said, that's wonderful to hear.
[00:20:18] I praise the Lord Jesus for that.
[00:20:19] I'd love to hear more about that.
[00:20:22] So a little while later, he comes back and he says,
[00:20:24] I practice Buddhism.
[00:20:27] He said, but for some reason,
[00:20:29] only when I would pray to Jesus,
[00:20:30] I would feel that that was the truth.
[00:20:33] So I was back and forth, confused.
[00:20:36] So I came across flat earth and really wanted the truth.
[00:20:40] I couldn't find the flat earth
[00:20:42] and the true nature of creation
[00:20:43] he's talking about here in Buddhism at all
[00:20:46] in any of their teachings.
[00:20:48] But I know the earth is flat.
[00:20:49] So he came to this conclusion
[00:20:51] about the true nature of our creation.
[00:20:55] And he said, he'd really been searching.
[00:20:57] He said, then I found your videos out of nowhere
[00:20:59] with the Bible verses on flat earth
[00:21:00] started to understand biblical scripture.
[00:21:03] Then I came across your videos on Buddhism,
[00:21:06] Eastern mysticism.
[00:21:09] And he said, I just had to search you on Facebook.
[00:21:13] He said, the serpent power, the Kundalini thing
[00:21:16] and how it teaches we all can become gods.
[00:21:19] He said, I practiced that for a period.
[00:21:24] And he said, then I thought about it.
[00:21:26] He says, because if you think about it,
[00:21:28] Hollywood's pushing this Buddhism
[00:21:29] and this occult teaching a very strong way.
[00:21:32] So it's making all sense to me now.
[00:21:34] The Kings of this world are master deceivers.
[00:21:38] And I just know it's not true.
[00:21:40] Something was always missing.
[00:21:43] He says, all their stuff is just supernatural hocus pocus.
[00:21:47] He said, they've done a good job infiltrating
[00:21:49] the whole world with their cult.
[00:21:52] He said, they really had me for years,
[00:21:55] but not anymore, not anymore.
[00:22:02] You see the truth of God's word,
[00:22:05] the truth of the cross of Jesus Christ,
[00:22:09] of the new covenant, power, gospel,
[00:22:15] sets people free.
[00:22:19] And you know what?
[00:22:20] I get these quite often.
[00:22:23] I get these testimony.
[00:22:27] So you know what?
[00:22:29] Let them just keep writing them out.
[00:22:32] Because the day's coming,
[00:22:33] we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ
[00:22:35] to give an account of the things that we have done
[00:22:38] in this body and in this life.
[00:22:40] And we will give an account of them,
[00:22:42] whether they be good or bad.
[00:22:46] I will stand there.
[00:22:48] You will stand there.
[00:22:50] You will stand there.
[00:22:52] Everyone will stand there all day.
[00:22:57] And the Lord's just gonna look,
[00:22:58] did you love me with all your heart?
[00:23:05] Did you live a life of faith running after me?
[00:23:11] And I love that.
[00:23:12] Remember Matthew 5 where Jesus said,
[00:23:13] blessed are they that do hunger
[00:23:15] and thirst for righteousness.
[00:23:17] They will be filled.
[00:23:19] Well, guess what?
[00:23:20] That doesn't mean running back
[00:23:21] to try to keep the feast and the Sabbath
[00:23:23] and the circumcision and the dietary laws
[00:23:25] and the old covenant.
[00:23:26] It means running after the new.
[00:23:31] It means running after intimacy and relationship
[00:23:35] with the Lord Jesus Christ,
[00:23:37] who died on the cross and rose from the death.
[00:23:40] It's about spending time with Him.
[00:23:42] It's about worshiping Him.
[00:23:44] It's about learning to hear His voice.
[00:23:46] It's about letting His Holy Spirit lead you
[00:23:48] and guide you into all truth and teach you.
[00:23:52] It's about freedom.
[00:23:53] It's about peace.
[00:23:55] It's about joy.
[00:23:57] It's about healing you of spiritual
[00:23:59] and emotional wounds and hurts.
[00:24:02] It's about healing the brokenhearted.
[00:24:10] People wanna call me.
[00:24:11] People wanna call me a false teacher.
[00:24:16] And all I do is talk about Jesus is the way,
[00:24:21] the Jesus of the Bible,
[00:24:23] the Jesus of this new Testament,
[00:24:25] the Jesus that was foretold by the prophets
[00:24:28] and the old covenant,
[00:24:30] the Jesus who is God in the flesh,
[00:24:32] the only one worthy,
[00:24:34] not Barry, not Buddha, not Krishna,
[00:24:37] not Allah, not Muhammad,
[00:24:40] but Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
[00:24:45] I don't say Pastor Dean is the way.
[00:24:47] I don't say Fire and Grace Church is the way.
[00:24:52] No, Jesus is the way.
[00:24:55] He's the only one that can wash your sins away.
[00:24:57] He's the only one that can drive
[00:24:58] the demons out of your life.
[00:25:00] It is His name, His blood, His resurrection,
[00:25:03] His kingdom, His creation.
[00:25:06] It's all His.
[00:25:12] I'm just glad to be in it.
[00:25:15] Amen.
[00:25:16] I'm happy.
[00:25:18] I'm happy this morning.
[00:25:19] I'm telling you, I'm happy to be in Jesus Christ
[00:25:23] through faith in His blood.
[00:25:27] That's that simple gospel, remember?
[00:25:29] We like so much.
[00:25:30] Just the simple gospel.
[00:25:32] You know, we were singing this morning,
[00:25:34] those songs, and of course,
[00:25:35] those of you that joined us around 11,
[00:25:37] you probably just heard the end of one.
[00:25:39] But we're worshiping the Lord this morning,
[00:25:41] and I'm just thinking how wonderful it is
[00:25:44] to know Jesus, to really know Him,
[00:25:47] to truly be born again.
[00:25:50] Listen, no one can talk me out of it.
[00:25:53] No one.
[00:26:02] If you can be talked out of it,
[00:26:03] then you don't have it.
[00:26:06] You hear me?
[00:26:10] Because I'm gonna tell you something.
[00:26:12] What is it?
[00:26:12] Romans 14 says this.
[00:26:14] The kingdom of God is not meat and drink,
[00:26:17] but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
[00:26:23] Not righteousness from striving after the law.
[00:26:26] It's not the righteousness of the law.
[00:26:28] It is the righteousness by faith in Christ Jesus.
[00:26:31] And I got a message coming, Torah terrorist.
[00:26:34] I got one coming for you.
[00:26:40] Almost did it today.
[00:26:41] I already got 50 slides, but I'm not done yet.
[00:26:54] The kingdom of God is not meat and drink,
[00:26:55] but righteousness, peace, and joy.
[00:27:00] I don't know, if you get down on your knees,
[00:27:01] I'm gonna tell you something.
[00:27:02] If you get down on your knees,
[00:27:04] and you're like, I thank you God,
[00:27:06] I keep the Sabbath, I thank you God,
[00:27:09] I'm not like these other Sunday Christians.
[00:27:14] Go to church on Sunday, God forbid.
[00:27:17] I'm so glad, I'm not like that.
[00:27:24] Your righteousness is in exactly that.
[00:27:29] You know what I say?
[00:27:32] I say, I thank you Lord, that my righteousness
[00:27:36] is in what you have done, not what I have done.
[00:27:46] Isn't that good?
[00:27:47] See, that's rest right there.
[00:27:50] And I say it all the time when I'm in prayer.
[00:27:52] You know what I say?
[00:27:53] I say it in prayer all the time.
[00:27:54] I say, Lord, God, thank you for shedding your blood for me.
[00:28:01] I don't look to my ability to keep it way perfect.
[00:28:06] I thank you Lord, I thank you,
[00:28:10] that it's only your blood that makes me work.
[00:28:16] It's only the blood.
[00:28:22] We got some of these torteres,
[00:28:23] I'm gonna cover this in the week ahead,
[00:28:24] but some of these torteres, they're calling Paul
[00:28:27] a false apostle and a false teacher
[00:28:32] because they cannot grasp the realities of the New Covenant.
[00:28:39] Because they've been duped by slick little deceivers
[00:28:43] and they're thinking, I've got to make myself righteous
[00:28:47] by keeping the law.
[00:28:56] Well, they got answers for it all, man, I'll tell you.
[00:29:00] They got their own, they got their own,
[00:29:03] they got their own New Covenant.
[00:29:10] So I could spend this whole morning,
[00:29:13] but let's go to a verse, let's go to the book of Romans
[00:29:18] that they hate, of course, they hate Paul.
[00:29:23] But you know what?
[00:29:25] They wanna hate on it, they can hate on it.
[00:29:28] It's still for us, right?
[00:29:32] Just because they hate it doesn't mean it's not for us.
[00:29:44] Let's go to Romans chapter five.
[00:29:46] I'm gonna take this, where's my water?
[00:29:50] Let me read a little bit.
[00:29:53] And you know, you start preaching like this,
[00:29:55] oh, he's a anti-nominee, he's one of the Nicolations.
[00:30:02] I actually found out recently,
[00:30:04] there's a bunch of Torah people
[00:30:07] that believe that unless you're into the Torah observance,
[00:30:13] if you're into that,
[00:30:14] then you're the five wise virgins
[00:30:17] in the parable that Jesus gave.
[00:30:19] And the rest of us poor Sunday Christians
[00:30:21] are the foolish virgins that are gonna be left out.
[00:30:24] But then they'll say, same people will say
[00:30:26] it's not a salvation issue.
[00:30:29] Double-talking, four-toned little serpents.
[00:30:36] I don't care, I'll call you what you are.
[00:30:38] Let's read this from verse one, Romans five.
[00:30:43] I love this.
[00:30:45] Therefore being justified,
[00:30:47] that means made righteous, clean by faith,
[00:30:50] we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
[00:30:54] by whom also we have access by faith into this grace,
[00:30:58] wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
[00:31:02] And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also,
[00:31:06] knowing that tribulation worketh patience
[00:31:09] and patience experience and experience hope.
[00:31:12] And hope maketh not a shame
[00:31:13] because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts
[00:31:15] by the Holy Ghost which is given to us.
[00:31:18] For when we were yet without strength in due time,
[00:31:21] Christ died for the ungodly.
[00:31:23] For scarcely for a righteous man will one die,
[00:31:26] yet per venture for a good man some would even dare to die.
[00:31:30] But God commended his love toward us
[00:31:32] in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
[00:31:35] Look at verse nine.
[00:31:36] Much more than being now justified by his blood,
[00:31:40] we shall be saved from wrath through him.
[00:31:44] For if when we were enemies,
[00:31:45] we were reconciled to God by the death of his son,
[00:31:47] much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
[00:31:52] And not only so, but we also joy in God
[00:31:55] through our Lord Jesus Christ,
[00:31:57] by whom we have now received the atonement.
[00:32:00] Do you notice how many times he says, rejoice?
[00:32:04] How many times he says, have joy.
[00:32:06] We rejoice and we have joy that we have been justified.
[00:32:11] We have been made righteous.
[00:32:13] We have been made righteous and have access to God
[00:32:18] through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross,
[00:32:22] through his righteousness, his righteousness.
[00:32:27] Love these people, they wanna keep talking about the law,
[00:32:30] but do they hear the law?
[00:32:32] Tell me, as Paul said in Galatians,
[00:32:34] tell me you who desire to be under the law,
[00:32:36] do you not hear the law?
[00:32:38] Isaiah said, Isaiah, what is it?
[00:32:41] 64, 65, 66, one of those chapters,
[00:32:44] he said, our righteousness is as filthy rags.
[00:32:49] Paul said in the book of Romans 10, he said,
[00:32:52] the Jews are going about to establish
[00:32:54] their own righteousness according to the law
[00:32:56] and have not submitted themselves to the righteousness
[00:32:59] of God for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness.
[00:33:04] He fulfilled it.
[00:33:05] He did what none of us could do.
[00:33:08] He did what none of the prophets,
[00:33:10] none of the old covenant people, nobody.
[00:33:13] He did what no one could do.
[00:33:17] He came and lived it out.
[00:33:18] He fulfilled it, completed it perfectly,
[00:33:22] has been fully God and fully man.
[00:33:29] Then he willingly took the penalty of sin,
[00:33:32] even though he had not sinned
[00:33:34] so that we could have righteousness in him.
[00:33:38] And how do we have that?
[00:33:39] We believe that he died for us.
[00:33:42] We believe that.
[00:33:44] We believe that God shed his righteous,
[00:33:47] holy sinless blood for us
[00:33:53] and that there is nothing good that we can do to get it.
[00:33:59] We simply must believe and confess with our mouths.
[00:34:02] And yes, we must be willing to repent and follow him.
[00:34:06] But that is not what makes us righteous.
[00:34:13] Amen.
[00:34:19] Faith in his blood makes us right.
[00:34:24] Walking with him in new covenant,
[00:34:28] truth and context and reality keeps us in relationship.
[00:34:38] You hear what I'm saying?
[00:34:42] The holiest one of us in here is going to sin again.
[00:34:46] I mean, the apostle Paul in Romans seven says,
[00:34:51] as a spirit-filled believer, he says,
[00:34:54] things I wanna do, I don't,
[00:34:57] things I don't wanna do, I do.
[00:34:59] Even though I want to do what God's word says, perfect.
[00:35:03] I wanna do, I delight him,
[00:35:07] but I don't know what you're doing.
[00:35:09] Think about that.
[00:35:10] The people that are born again like the apostle Paul
[00:35:13] that want to do it all right,
[00:35:16] that try hard, that are running after God,
[00:35:19] that are being warriors still fall down.
[00:35:27] Still blowing, still sinning.
[00:35:35] Tell me it's not good news to know.
[00:35:38] It's not over at that moment.
[00:35:45] Tell me it's not good news to be able to get up and say,
[00:35:49] I sinned, I blew it, I fell down.
[00:35:55] Forgive me, Lord, wash me, Lord.
[00:35:57] My faith is in your blood to cleanse me and wash it away.
[00:36:03] I'm gonna try to do better, but I might not do better.
[00:36:09] You know what?
[00:36:10] We're messed up.
[00:36:13] As my wife says, all of us, we have issues.
[00:36:19] Well, you're supposed to be full of the Holy Ghost.
[00:36:22] Yes, you're gonna be full of the Holy Ghost,
[00:36:25] but guess what?
[00:36:26] We leap.
[00:36:33] That's why I gotta keep running back to him.
[00:36:35] Fill me up, Lord.
[00:36:36] Fill me, Jesus, with your spirit again.
[00:36:38] Help me again.
[00:36:40] Help me do better.
[00:36:41] Change me.
[00:36:44] Well, you stop doing that and you're in trouble.
[00:36:49] Change me, Lord.
[00:36:51] Is that one of your prayers?
[00:36:53] You're gonna remember the Evangelist,
[00:36:54] Steve Hilda Brownsville Revival.
[00:36:56] I loved his simple.
[00:36:56] He used to get people to pray right before he'd preach
[00:36:58] all the time.
[00:36:59] He'd say, pray this with me, everybody.
[00:37:00] He said, simple prayer.
[00:37:02] Lord, speak to my heart.
[00:37:04] Change my life.
[00:37:06] In Jesus' name, amen.
[00:37:09] Speak to my heart, Lord, and change my life.
[00:37:18] Not turn me into a Jew.
[00:37:28] Trying to wear the little tassels
[00:37:29] and the little shawls and the little heads.
[00:37:37] You know, I'm quite happy being a Gentile.
[00:37:39] I'm okay with that.
[00:37:45] I had a plan for the Gentiles, didn't I?
[00:37:48] And you know, it's amazing.
[00:37:49] There's all this, but I see all this crazy stuff.
[00:37:53] I get the emails and the comments and YouTube and Facebook,
[00:37:57] and I see all this stuff people talking about.
[00:37:58] Who are the true Israelites and who's this
[00:38:00] and who's that?
[00:38:01] And I read in the scripture,
[00:38:02] said, don't be, don't, don't consume yourself
[00:38:04] with Jewish fables and genealogies.
[00:38:09] We don't know who the 10 lost tribes are.
[00:38:11] People trying to say, we're the United States and Europe,
[00:38:14] they're Manasseh and Ephraim.
[00:38:15] I don't know, but what difference does it make?
[00:38:19] I'm not supposed, according to the New Covenant,
[00:38:21] I'm not even supposed to be worried about all that.
[00:38:24] Because you know what happens
[00:38:25] when you start worrying about all that?
[00:38:26] And doesn't it become a race issue then?
[00:38:32] Well, I'm of this tribe and I'm of that tribe.
[00:38:34] I mean, I said, we're the real Hebrews,
[00:38:36] and you're, I got called this last week
[00:38:38] after my sermon last week.
[00:38:40] I got called an Esau devil.
[00:38:45] Eat a Mike devil.
[00:38:47] The Senate of Esau, I'm an eat a Mike devil.
[00:38:53] It's crazy.
[00:38:54] But I'm sitting here going, what does any of that matter?
[00:39:00] I don't care if I have true Jewish Hebrew blood and man.
[00:39:05] I don't care.
[00:39:06] I don't care.
[00:39:07] I mean, look, y'all, I know for a fact,
[00:39:10] I know I'm part Cherokee Indian and I'm part Englishman.
[00:39:14] Whoop-de-dah, right?
[00:39:18] What does it matter?
[00:39:19] Why do we get so hung up?
[00:39:22] If we're white, brown, black, yellow, purple,
[00:39:27] what is it?
[00:39:28] All that, does it matter?
[00:39:29] No, does it matter to God?
[00:39:30] No.
[00:39:33] You know what the Bible says in the book of Acts?
[00:39:35] He made all men of one blood.
[00:39:40] We all bleed red, don't we?
[00:39:45] We all have an appointment with death.
[00:39:50] And there's only one man.
[00:39:52] And let me just tell you, Jesus is not black.
[00:39:57] Jesus is not white.
[00:39:59] He's somewhere in the middle.
[00:40:00] He's brown.
[00:40:07] I'm gonna tell you, some of this crazy,
[00:40:08] I mean, I get some crazy.
[00:40:10] I mean, just crazy.
[00:40:16] And none of that matters.
[00:40:17] In Christ Jesus, what?
[00:40:19] You need a male and a female?
[00:40:22] You need a bond, no free, no Jew, no Greek.
[00:40:28] You're all one in Christ Jesus.
[00:40:36] I love it, this room, we got,
[00:40:37] we have a small crowd this morning,
[00:40:39] but we pretty much got the whole color spectrum, don't we?
[00:40:46] And that's the way it should be.
[00:40:50] There's one human race,
[00:40:53] and there's only one that came
[00:40:55] to die for the sins of that human race.
[00:41:00] And he's the one that said,
[00:41:01] I am the way, the truth, and the life,
[00:41:05] and know me comes to the Father,
[00:41:07] to the Creator, to God.
[00:41:08] There's no access to God but through me.
[00:41:12] John 14, six, that's Jesus' work.
[00:41:18] No other way.
[00:41:21] So here what I'm saying.
[00:41:24] The gospel is simply this.
[00:41:26] I love this.
[00:41:27] In fact, I can hear it in my head right now.
[00:41:29] I'm gonna quote the late Keith Green.
[00:41:32] For those of you who don't know,
[00:41:33] Keith Green is, he was a new-ager.
[00:41:38] Well, he was born Jew,
[00:41:43] was a child prodigy on the piano,
[00:41:47] wrote songs and did music for CBS Records
[00:41:50] when he was like 11 years old.
[00:41:54] In the hippie movement in the 60s and 70s,
[00:41:57] he got into all kind of Buddhism and Hinduism
[00:42:00] and Eastern mysticism.
[00:42:01] And then finally, he tried all that stuff.
[00:42:06] The drugs and the hippie movement.
[00:42:08] And he finally came and found Jesus was the one
[00:42:13] who set him free.
[00:42:15] And the Lord revealed himself.
[00:42:16] Keith Green, I remember his music.
[00:42:21] He had a powerful ministry worldwide
[00:42:26] for about seven or eight years
[00:42:27] before he died in plane crash.
[00:42:30] But I believe the Jesuits tampered with his plane
[00:42:34] is why it went down.
[00:42:36] That's another story.
[00:42:39] But he used to say this.
[00:42:39] I remember at the end of his concerts,
[00:42:45] in fact, give me a favor
[00:42:47] and see if you can find Keith Green's altar call, Tom.
[00:42:50] We're gonna play that at the end if you can find it.
[00:42:53] But he used to say this.
[00:42:54] He said, the gospel is simply this.
[00:42:58] I mean, he had preached the crowds 40 and 50,000
[00:43:00] young people in a field.
[00:43:04] And he'd say, the gospel is simply this.
[00:43:07] Jesus will forgive all your sins.
[00:43:10] If you come to him humbly,
[00:43:11] bow down at his feet and say, you're the Lord,
[00:43:15] and I'll surrender the rest of my life to you
[00:43:19] to spend eternity with you forever.
[00:43:25] See, it's about, will I lay down my life?
[00:43:30] Because he did.
[00:43:33] See, that's what I'm talking about.
[00:43:35] When you meet him, when you truly encounter Jesus
[00:43:39] and you have the full revelation
[00:43:42] of what he's done for you,
[00:43:46] you want to give him your life.
[00:43:50] You're willing to make the great exchange.
[00:43:54] You can use me however you want here
[00:43:56] because I know I'm gonna be with you forever.
[00:43:58] So let's just do this thing, Lord.
[00:44:01] Do with me, do through me what you wanna do.
[00:44:06] You know why I'm here today?
[00:44:07] Why I'm still preaching after 31 years
[00:44:09] after going through hell and high water
[00:44:11] and demons and devils and all kinds of problems
[00:44:14] and you wouldn't believe.
[00:44:17] You know why I'm still here?
[00:44:18] Because a long time ago, I said,
[00:44:20] Lord, I give you my life.
[00:44:22] No longer what I will, I want what you wanna do through me
[00:44:26] because I know, Lord, if you work through me,
[00:44:28] you will help somebody through me find you.
[00:44:31] And that's what all I want.
[00:44:35] I want you to use me to help people find you.
[00:44:44] And that's why I'm here, still here.
[00:44:47] That's why I'm still doing this, listen.
[00:44:48] I could be laying on my couch watching football on Sundays.
[00:44:58] I could be sleeping till noon on Sundays.
[00:45:02] I could not stay up till one in the morning
[00:45:04] studying and get up at six o'clock and start over.
[00:45:09] Well, I want the Lord to use me.
[00:45:12] And that's the way all of us should be.
[00:45:13] Lord, I give you my life.
[00:45:16] I'm willing to be a living sacrifice.
[00:45:24] No more what I want, what you want.
[00:45:26] That's where you find joy and peace and purpose.
[00:45:32] You don't need Rick Warren's purpose-driven life.
[00:45:34] You just need to surrender to Jesus.
[00:45:40] See, the problem is we got a lot of Christians
[00:45:41] or people who call themselves Christians
[00:45:43] who've never truly surrendered at all.
[00:45:46] Remember the old hymn, I surrender all.
[00:45:52] I want y'all to hear this, you got it?
[00:45:57] Let's stand, this will be our closing song this morning.
[00:46:02] This is how he would end his concerts.
[00:46:04] And for those of you out there watching and listening,
[00:46:06] you better put up the fair yeast thing, real quick.
[00:46:10] But for those of you out there watching and listening,
[00:46:12] if you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior,
[00:46:18] it's not complicated.
[00:46:22] If you will believe that he is God in the flesh
[00:46:26] who died for your sins on the cross,
[00:46:29] born of a virgin, lived a sinless lie,
[00:46:32] died on the cross for your sins,
[00:46:34] rose from the dead on the third day.
[00:46:36] If you'll believe that and confess your sins,
[00:46:39] how many say, Lord, forgive me for what I've done,
[00:46:41] forgive the times I've hurt you,
[00:46:44] I've sinned against you, I've sinned against others,
[00:46:46] forgive me and wash it away.
[00:46:49] He is faithful and just to forgive you and wash it away.
[00:46:53] Not because you've been righteous enough,
[00:46:55] not because you've been good enough,
[00:46:56] but because he loves you.
[00:46:59] And as all he's ever wanted is for you to humble yourself
[00:47:03] and say, forgive me and help me.
[00:47:05] And Lord, I surrender my life to you
[00:47:07] and I will give you everything.
[00:47:08] I will follow you.
[00:47:10] Amen.
[00:47:11] Probably today as we come before you, Lord,
[00:47:14] we pray in the name of Jesus
[00:47:15] that the people that will see this today
[00:47:19] that are watching, listening, or who will,
[00:47:22] that they'll come to you,
[00:47:24] that they'll believe what you've done for them, Jesus.
[00:47:29] They'll call out to you.
[00:47:31] They'll surrender to you.
[00:47:34] And they'll be saved, born again, washed, cleansed,
[00:47:39] and find the joy and the peace
[00:47:41] and the salvation and the hope
[00:47:44] that you paid for, Lord, on the cross.
[00:47:49] I pray that for everyone watching and listening today.
[00:47:53] And it's in Jesus' name we pray.
[00:47:55] Amen.