# The Progress Of Salvation Pt.6

An episode of [Prophet Isaac Love Pappoe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1508539654), 7 Jul 2025, 1 h 03 min.

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In this episode, prophet teaches on Righteousness as the 2nd progress of salvation under which he explains what righteousness means according to the bible and 10 divine facts about righteousness. Kindly listen and be blessed.

## Transcript

[0:00] Hallelujah. So we started a teaching series
[0:04] on what we call the progress of salvation.
[0:07] The whole world must hear this message.
[0:11] If you are serious about this message, you will never have
[0:14] questions about salvation again. These these are scarce
[0:19] teachings. That is not being heard in the
[0:20] church again. Because you see, the basic
[0:24] understanding is that the teaching of salvation is not
[0:26] deep. But I'm telling you, if you
[0:27] don't understand salvation is going to affect your
[0:31] understanding of spiritual warfare.
[0:34] If you don't understand salvation, it's going to affect
[0:36] your prayer life. It's going to affect your
[0:42] experience of God because teachings like this should build
[0:46] you up as a Christian. You know, I don't know where our
[0:50] hearts are, but our interests must be in Christ.
[0:54] Our message must be centered on Christ, not on things, not on
[0:57] God meeting your needs in as much as God does.
[1:00] So our focus, our heart, our eyes must be on Jesus.
[1:06] That's why we are called to know him.
[1:08] Our possible credences that I may know him not own a business.
[1:15] So everything we are doing business.
[1:17] What you do ministry, career. If if your career is the reason
[1:21] why you don't know Jesus, there's a problem with your
[1:23] career. So everything we are doing the
[1:27] focus is to know Jesus. You are working so you receive
[1:30] salary so you can have a comfortable home to know Jesus
[1:33] so you can have transport to come to church to come and know
[1:35] Jesus so you can have a comfortable place where you can
[1:38] be able to spend time with Jesus to know Jesus.
[1:40] Are you following? I'm teaching you that so the
[1:42] goal of everything we are doing is to know Jesus.
[1:45] If God heals you, it is to know Jesus.
[1:49] If God blesses you, it is to know Jesus.
[1:52] If God gives you a new job is to know Jesus.
[1:54] If God gives you a new car is to know Jesus.
[1:57] If God heals your blindness is to know Jesus.
[2:01] If God changes your status, it is to know Jesus.
[2:04] So it is a shock to God that all these things comes to us and
[2:09] they become the reason why we walk away from Jesus.
[2:13] Am I teaching good here? Am I teaching good here?
[2:17] Hallelujah. So this teaching is like a
[2:21] heartbeat for me. It's the center of this
[2:26] ministry. This ministry is called for this
[2:28] teaching. I'm teaching you on the progress
[2:31] of salvation. So last week we looked at the
[2:37] serving problems of the four. Do you remember we said the
[2:41] first problem of the fall is what the first problem of the
[2:46] fall is? Sin, the second problem, man,
[2:50] the third problem, God the 4th problem what death, the fifth
[2:56] problem, Satan and demons, the 6th problem, the law and the 7th
[3:01] problem. So we set the four brought about
[3:06] 7 problems. The first problem was sin,
[3:09] because now man had sinned and through the sin, sin had entered
[3:14] in the world. Are you following?
[3:17] And now the power of sin was activated.
[3:21] We said. The second problem was man.
[3:24] Man had now become a Sinner by nature by default.
[3:28] He was now judged. He was separated from God.
[3:32] He had inherited the nature of sin.
[3:35] He was condemned, he lost his authority, he lost his identity,
[3:42] he lost his position. The third problem was God.
[3:47] Man now became an object of the wrath of God because sin is
[3:52] contrary to sin and every sin attracts God wrath, God's wrath.
[3:58] The reason why today you sin and God does not give you or make
[4:02] your experiences wrath is because Jesus has experienced
[4:04] the wrath of God on your behalf. So don't make sin a light thing
[4:08] in your life because nothing is happening to you.
[4:11] The reason why you are working freely is because God punished
[4:16] your sins in His Son on the cross.
[4:19] Are we following this now? The So the problem was God.
[4:23] Now man has to face the wrath of God.
[4:25] It's it's God's nature to punish sin because it is contrary and
[4:31] opposite to God. So all sin must experience God's
[4:35] wrath. The Bible says the wrath of God
[4:37] is revealed upon all unrighteousness.
[4:42] The front problem we said was death.
[4:44] Now man did not only become a Sinner, he died spiritually and
[4:49] man was subjected to the bondage of death.
[4:53] The fifth problem of the four was Satan and demons.
[4:56] Now Satan became the master of man.
[4:59] In the book of John 844 the Bible says you are of your
[5:02] father, the devil. So Satan was once your spiritual
[5:05] father. So he had dominance.
[5:08] He has a right over your life, because in obeys Satan subjected
[5:14] himself to the forbid of Satan. Because we said in the book of
[5:17] Romans 616 that to whom you obey his servant you become.
[5:23] So whoever you give obedience to, you begin to serve that
[5:27] person as a slave. And that was what happened.
[5:30] So now man was a slave to demons and to Satan.
[5:36] The fifth problem was the law. God's righteous standard is the
[5:41] law, but the problem is that no man can obey the law, no man.
[5:49] So now the law became becomes a problem.
[5:53] The serving problem is the law is is the world.
[5:59] Now the systems of the world begins to dominate man.
[6:04] The Bible called Satan, the God of this world.
[6:06] So he orders the systems and the systems begin to control the
[6:09] thinking parting. It begins to control the culture
[6:12] of man. So now the world teaches us how
[6:15] to dress. The world teaches us the meaning
[6:18] of sex, which is why there's homosexuality is the world's
[6:22] standards now beginning to program the mind of man of how
[6:26] man should live. So the problem again is the
[6:30] world, the systems governing the world.
[6:34] So we said, how did God solve the problem?
[6:36] The first problem was solved by Jesus on the cross.
[6:39] The problem of sin was solved when Jesus the Lamb of God took
[6:43] it away through the cross. We said the second problem was
[6:49] solved in the sense that the problem which was a man becoming
[6:52] a Sinner. Now when you believe in Jesus
[6:55] Christ, you are no longer a Sinner.
[6:57] Look, you may sin, you may fault, but that doesn't make you
[7:03] a Sinner because when you were in Adam, without Christ, no
[7:08] amount of good could ever qualify you to become a
[7:11] righteous man. Are we following this teaching?
[7:13] So we need to understand that the cross solved the problem of
[7:17] man in the sense that man was restored back to his position.
[7:21] He's now seated with Christ. Man is now a new creature.
[7:26] He has a new nature. The nature of God is in Him now.
[7:31] This is the record that God has given to us eternal life, and
[7:33] His life is in His Son. Whosoever has the Son has life.
[7:37] So every born again man carries the DNA of God in His spirit.
[7:45] So that problem was solved. Are we here at all #3 Was the
[7:49] problem of God because because of sin, man was separated from
[7:54] God? Man was subjected to the wrath
[7:57] of God. How did God solve that problem?
[7:59] He solved the problem by cancelling sin, by punishing sin
[8:04] so that man can now be reconciled again back to God.
[8:07] Are we following then #4 the problem of death?
[8:17] Death was abolished. Death's power was destroyed when
[8:21] Jesus rose from the dead, so he solved the problem of death.
[8:24] Death can no longer be a threat to man.
[8:26] Did you hear what I said? I said what death can what no
[8:31] longer be? Oh, please speak louder.
[8:34] Death can no longer be a someone says.
[8:41] But what about physical death? A physical death is not actually
[8:47] a problem because life is beyond physical and man does not die.
[8:54] That is a painful experience because we lose loved ones.
[8:58] But in the realm of the Spirit, death is nothing because life
[9:01] still goes on after death. Are we following this?
[9:04] So Jesus has handled the main problem of death.
[9:07] The main problem of death was separation from God.
[9:12] It was eternal distraction. That was the main problem of
[9:15] man. It was eternal destruction.
[9:17] You eternal destruction is saying that you are eternally
[9:20] separated from God, and that's what Jesus Christ solved.
[9:25] The last issue with death, which is physical death, is what Jesus
[9:28] is going to handle when he appears again and He transforms
[9:33] our vow bodies to conform with His glorious body, our teaching.
[9:39] And then we said the next problem was what Satan and his
[9:42] demons. Today Satan has been defeated.
[9:44] Look, demons cannot intimidate you again because Jesus took the
[9:49] authority from them in Colossians 215.
[9:52] He disarmed principalities and powers and made a public
[9:55] spectacle, triumphing over them in it.
[9:59] No demon can enslave you again. But you see, you must know these
[10:03] truths. Satan was paralyzed.
[10:06] He was destroyed Hebrews 214 and 15.
[10:10] In as much as the brethren are partakers of flesh and blood, he
[10:13] himself likewise partook it the same.
[10:15] That's to death. He might destroy him that had
[10:20] the power of death. That is the devil.
[10:23] So Satan no longer has the keys of death and hate.
[10:29] So the fear of death is demonic. The fear of death will limit
[10:36] your life. If you don't know that Jesus
[10:38] took the keys of death, you can never take authority over death.
[10:43] Are you here with me at all? The devil was destroyed.
[10:48] Jesus says I was dead and I am alive.
[10:52] Behold, I hold the keys of death and hate.
[10:55] So the keys of death and hate is no longer in the hand of the
[10:58] devil. Demons were destroyed.
[11:05] I beheld sit and fall like lightening.
[11:07] Behold, I give unto you power to trample upon snakes and
[11:11] scorpions and over all the powers of the enemy and nothing
[11:14] shall buy enemies hurt you. You go into someone's house and
[11:19] you realize you're talking to the person, the person that are
[11:20] behaving like a Kung Fu like that and then you were scared.
[11:25] Remember this the Bible says this sign shall follow them that
[11:28] believe in my name. You shall what cast out devils.
[11:31] It is says for pastors. It's in my name.
[11:34] It's not for pastors. It's not for those who were
[11:35] clerical. These signs shall follow them
[11:39] that believe. Cast the devil.
[11:40] Cast that demo out. The Bible says nothing shall by
[11:43] enemies hurt you. Are you here with me?
[11:52] Number six? The problem was the problem of
[11:54] the law. It was solved.
[11:56] Jesus fulfilled the law for us. He says, do not think I came to
[12:03] destroy the law, but I came to fulfill it.
[12:05] So all the requirements of the law that you could not obey
[12:08] Jesus in obeying God fully obeyed the fulfillment of the
[12:13] law, the requirements of the law, He obeyed it on your
[12:15] behalf. Because in the Old Testament,
[12:18] this one I'm going to teach, in the Old Testament, righteousness
[12:21] could only be made possible by the obedience of the law.
[12:26] But the problem was that the law was spiritual, but man was kind
[12:29] of dead in trespasses and sins. So Jesus came to obey and
[12:35] fulfill the law so that you will not be required to obey the law
[12:40] to be made righteous, but that you can receive righteousness as
[12:43] a gift. That's my teaching for today.
[12:53] Is this class here with me at all?
[12:57] So now you don't need to obey the 10 commandments.
[12:59] You'll be righteous. I hear all kinds of teaching.
[13:02] If you don't obey the 10 commandments, you'll not be
[13:04] righteous. If you don't obey the 10
[13:05] commandments, you go to hell. What from that false teaching?
[13:08] It doesn't matter if the person is an Archbishop.
[13:10] Nobody can obey the law fully. It's not possible.
[13:13] What are you telling me? If your obedience of the Lord
[13:16] can take you to heaven, the work of Jesus is useless.
[13:19] Did you hear me? If your obedience of the law,
[13:22] the 10 commandments and other requirements of the law is what
[13:25] qualifies you for heaven, the blood of Jesus is a scam.
[13:32] That means there is no faith nobody should believe.
[13:35] That means our Christianity is useless because people don't
[13:40] understand that the Bible says whoever wants to continue in the
[13:43] law must must actually be under the case of the law.
[13:47] In other words, once you want to obey the law, we we must not
[13:50] bring gods and animals when you sin.
[13:55] And if you obey 1, you must obey all.
[13:58] If you disobey 1, you have disobeyed all.
[14:00] I mean, look at the requirements 613 laws, you know them.
[14:03] Even the thing you have not even memorized it.
[14:09] That's why after in the book of Acts, when Peter got born again
[14:12] and the Gentiles began to receive the gospel and they
[14:14] received the Holy Spirit, they said don't let any bedding on
[14:18] them, which even Moses and his people could not fulfill.
[14:26] So I wonder those who under New Testament say they want to be
[14:29] justified by the law. Meanwhile, those who are really
[14:32] under the Old Testament were were seeking to be justified by
[14:35] faith. And you know that you're under
[14:37] New Testament, you want to be justified by law and law you
[14:42] don't understand. Are you with me?
[14:49] And the problem of the world was solved in that Jesus overcame
[14:51] the world. You overcame the systems of the
[14:55] world and brought a new culture, the culture of heaven.
[15:00] That's the culture that must dominate us.
[15:03] So though we are in this world, we are not of this world.
[15:07] We're not of it. So now today's message, very
[15:12] powerful message on the second progress of Savage.
[15:16] So I've taken my time to teach you the first progress.
[15:18] We said the first progress is what?
[15:20] Forgiveness. I've taught you the seven things
[15:22] Jesus did to our sins. I've taught you on why we must
[15:26] confess our sins, why God Forgives sins.
[15:30] And I've taught you the 7 problems of the four Good
[15:34] teaching. Go through the notes, refresh
[15:37] your mind, be established in it. Because it will be an
[15:41] embarrassment that a member of this church will go somewhere
[15:45] and to ask him or her questions about salvation and your
[15:49] fumbling. It's a shame.
[15:51] What have you been hearing? What have you been hearing?
[15:56] So listen to these teachings over and over and be
[15:59] established. Are you here with me at all?
[16:01] Thank you Holy Spirit. So today I'm looking at the
[16:04] second progress of salvation. The second progress of salvation
[16:09] is what we call righteousness. Righteousness.
[16:15] Can you say 3 times loudly #1 #2 #3 righteousness.
[16:23] I love the word though righteousness.
[16:32] Righteousness. Now the subject of righteousness
[16:40] is a subject that has not been understood by many Christians.
[16:45] And the reason why the teaching on the progress of salvation
[16:51] hands are on righteousness as the second progress is because
[16:56] without a proper understanding of righteousness, you cannot
[17:02] live a victorious Christian life.
[17:07] Let me tell you the truth, this whole Christianity is about
[17:10] understanding. If you don't have understanding,
[17:16] your Christianity will be epileptic.
[17:22] Why is it that anytime you are in prayer, you are feeling your
[17:25] prayers cannot be heard? It's your lack of understanding
[17:27] of righteousness. Why is it that you stand the
[17:32] purse of God? You feel condemned.
[17:37] Why do you think you're to a place where you believe God
[17:39] cannot answer your prayer? You see, all this thing is a
[17:42] problem of lack of understanding of righteousness.
[17:48] We go to God with our works. Lord, I have not seen in the
[17:52] course of the week you are supposed to do something for me.
[17:55] Look at you. Look at you pompous self
[18:01] righteousness, righteousness, tell somebody righteousness.
[18:12] So it is the lack of understanding of righteousness
[18:18] that has made a lot of Christians mess up their lives.
[18:25] So today we are looking at this thing called righteousness.
[18:27] It's it's Oh my goodness, it's the foundation of Christianity.
[18:35] So now what is righteousness? Now today, somebody should go to
[18:40] Google and type righteousness there and read the first
[18:45] meaning. They give to you righteousness.
[18:51] Shout it, shout it. You don't need microphone.
[18:53] What did they say? It says righteousness according
[18:57] to the dictionary means what? Acting?
[19:02] Acting in accordance with moral or or ethical what principles?
[19:10] So now if you open your dictionary, the dictionary
[19:16] defines righteousness as the act of what?
[19:22] Acting in accordance with what moral and ethical principles.
[19:26] So the focus on righteousness in the dictionary is action.
[19:37] But you see, there is a New Testament understanding of
[19:41] righteousness which is very powerful.
[19:46] The church doesn't know it. So we will define New Testament
[19:57] righteousness, Bible righteousness.
[20:00] After Jesus died, the definition of righteousness changed.
[20:05] Are you here with me? After what?
[20:08] After Jesus died, the definition of what righteousness did, what
[20:11] changed? So in a New Testament,
[20:22] righteousness is not first what you do.
[20:24] Righteousness is first. What you become, you are made.
[20:34] So let me quickly begin to explain or define righteousness.
[20:38] Pay attention, your eyes will be open #1 Righteousness is simply
[20:44] means being right or right standing with God.
[20:49] Righteousness means right standing with God.
[20:56] Righteousness means right standing with God.
[21:08] Are you here? Are you here?
[21:12] So righteousness #1 means what? Right standing with God.
[21:16] So you have a right standing with God.
[21:20] It's not first about something you have done right standing
[21:29] with God #2 righteousness. Please put down something.
[21:41] It's a state of being right with God.
[21:48] It's a state of being right with God, a quality that is both
[22:00] imputed to believers through faith in Christ, a quality that
[22:08] is both imputed to believers through faith in Jesus Christ
[22:15] and also developed through a life of obedience and holiness.
[22:22] So righteousness is a state of being right with God and the
[22:31] quality of a quality that is both imputed to believers
[22:37] through faith in Jesus Christ and also developed through a
[22:42] life of obedience and holiness. Are we here?
[23:00] So I put this down. When a believer receives right
[23:04] standing or righteousness from God, they are placed by grace in
[23:12] a position of righteousness before the heavenly Father.
[23:17] So righteousness. What I'm trying to say is that
[23:19] it's a placing where God places you before Him as a righteous
[23:22] person, not because you did the righteous thing.
[23:27] It's a placement. He places you in a position of
[23:32] righteousness. So He chooses to see you as
[23:36] righteous. He chooses to see you as right.
[23:46] Are you here #4 or #3? Third definition, right.
[23:53] Righteousness is the ability to stand in the presence of God and
[24:00] in the presence of the devil without a sense of shame, fear,
[24:09] and guilt. Righteousness is the ability to
[24:13] stand in the presence of God and in the presence of the devil
[24:18] without a sense of guilt, shame, and fear.
[24:42] Are you alive here? Is this thinking?
[24:59] I can't feel you? Is this thinking?
[25:02] That's right. Now hear me carefully.
[25:08] Righteousness is an inherent attribute of God that makes him
[25:18] eternally right. Righteousness is an inherent
[25:25] attribute of God. It is.
[25:33] When we say inherent attribute, we are saying it's God's nature.
[25:38] It's a nature of God that makes him eternally right by all
[25:43] standards. It's an inherent attribute of
[25:56] God that makes him eternally what right by all standards, in
[26:03] words, thoughts, purpose, motives, deeds, and abilities.
[26:16] So it makes him eternally right by all standard in Word, in
[26:21] thoughts, in purpose, in motives, in deeds, and in all
[26:27] his abilities. So when we're Speaking of
[26:33] righteousness is God's qualities, God's nature is
[26:37] inherent in God. It makes him eternally right by
[26:41] every standard in everything God thinks about in anything God
[26:45] says, in anything God does, in every purpose, motive and
[26:51] abilities of God. In other words, what what was
[26:55] the colour of this pillar? Can someone tell me or can the
[26:57] whole chapter, What's the colour?
[26:59] You can call it Greek and call it what ash for now, those who
[27:07] know colours will tell you that this one is do shock you.
[27:12] I had I saw a colour and I said it's braces.
[27:15] No, it's Miranda brown. I said Miranda Brown, Muscatella
[27:20] blue, Turkish green, Emerald green, Green, green.
[27:31] Are you here? Spaghetti White and also free.
[27:38] Talia White and also free. Hallelujah.
[27:47] Oh yeah, now. So this is green, right?
[27:52] When you ask God, you know this is great and you ask God that
[27:56] this what color is this God? And God says white.
[28:01] It is white because you'll be shocked that by the time you
[28:08] turn after asking God that he checked it is white.
[28:12] That is the righteousness of God we are talking about.
[28:16] It's an inherent quality that makes him right by all
[28:19] standards. Please are you follow what I'm
[28:23] teaching you. So if God says that Kingsley is
[28:28] not Kingsley, He's obeyed, He's obeyed.
[28:32] He's right, you see, is there, is it righteousness is God's
[28:36] rightness? God is right.
[28:42] Are you following? Now let me give you some few
[28:43] scriptures. Psalm 145, the verse 17.
[28:46] Look at that. Psalm 145, the verse 17.
[28:49] We're going to see some things here.
[28:51] Are you there? Psalm 145, the verse 17.
[29:01] Now can we read very loudly? 1 to go.
[29:06] The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works.
[29:13] So now the Bible establishes that God is righteous in every
[29:18] possible way. You see, this is where people
[29:22] who think they know better than the Bible will tell you that God
[29:26] cannot kill. Why?
[29:30] Because they feel because God is love.
[29:32] When he kills, he has sinned. Please, I even want to hear you
[29:44] look when you murder is a case when God kills his, right?
[29:56] So I don't know when people get to the place where they want to
[29:58] compare them, their experience with God.
[30:00] Can you imagine someone says God cannot have rods because the
[30:07] Bible says wrath is not good. It's a work of the flesh.
[30:10] So how is it that God said that we should not have wrath, we
[30:15] should not be angry, and that he himself has wrath?
[30:21] How can you? No, how can you creature
[30:25] challenge creator? It's like your mother said, go
[30:30] and sleep at 8:00 as a student. He said, man, I don't know how
[30:33] someone called that eight. No, that's what you're trying to
[30:37] say to God. So, so people who think they
[30:44] know better, that's what he said.
[30:45] So God said that when he, he kills, he's righteous.
[30:51] And you are saying that when God kills, he's not righteous.
[30:54] How dare you? So just like cannot challenge
[31:00] your parents when he tells you can't watch this program, you
[31:05] can't challenge God. You can't compare your rat with
[31:07] God's rat. God's rat is holy.
[31:10] Your rat is selfish. Anytime you exhibit anger, if
[31:17] that anger is not exhibited within the confines of
[31:20] scripture, is sin. But anytime God's wrath is
[31:26] activated, it is holy. It is always holy.
[31:29] There is no carnality in God's attribute, and one of His
[31:33] attributes is wrath. Please, are you following what
[31:37] I'm teaching you? So righteousness is God's
[31:44] standard of righteousness. Now Psalm 19, verse 9, Psalm 19,
[31:52] verse 9. Look, the Bible says the fear of
[31:56] the Lord is clean and during forever.
[32:02] The judgment of the Lord are true and righteous all together.
[32:08] So His judgment is righteous. Sodom and Gomorrah being
[32:13] destroyed was cross righteousness, He was right.
[32:17] The flood that destroyed the earth, it was right.
[32:20] You see, this is where if people want to know bigger and better
[32:24] than God, they say that how can a good God kill innocent people?
[32:30] How can a good God rain fire and bring stones on people?
[32:36] If you ask questions like that, you don't know God.
[32:41] Because when people now want to bring God to their standard of
[32:45] thinking, that's where they fall into sin.
[32:51] They want to measure God by their small logic, their small
[32:55] theology, their small logic, the box they have put God.
[32:59] They want God to fit into their box.
[33:03] Look, if God is it. This phone, I bought it, I from
[33:10] what, earlier? 12?
[33:14] I can choose to destroy it and buy a new one.
[33:20] Will you kill me? I can smash it on the wall and
[33:26] buy a new one tomorrow as an example.
[33:34] Nobody can arrest me because I bought it.
[33:35] My money. But when you, Mr. Eben, on your
[33:41] own authority, take my phone and say, Papa come to destroy your
[33:43] phone, you just know that your generation is about to suffer.
[33:56] It's a legality. I know what I'm saying.
[33:58] Which is why God can create the same God can kill.
[34:02] You can't. You can't.
[34:03] You can't complain, but you can't kill because you didn't
[34:05] create. Look, God is here, you are
[34:13] there. So if you brings you there,
[34:14] comfort yourself. It's a privilege.
[34:22] Do you know God? He's thrice holy, you thrice
[34:27] holy. The angels go holy, holy, holy,
[34:30] thrice holy. It dwells in unapproachable
[34:35] lights not and now access, but you now say Hey God.
[34:40] So all these truths we are enjoying from God, it is to
[34:42] humble us, which is why the more you know God, the more humble
[34:47] you become. Anybody who exhibits arrogance
[34:51] doesn't know God. I'm telling you something
[34:53] serious. Anybody who exhibits arrogance
[35:02] doesn't know God. It doesn't matter how many years
[35:04] you've been a Christian, the privilege of access, all these
[35:10] things are things that should humble us.
[35:12] So when we come to church, we are worshipping and see people
[35:14] standing there watching the light they've pocketed.
[35:19] I said worship time you are pocketing may go translate some
[35:28] of us back into the Old Testament.
[35:35] May you translate some of us back.
[35:38] Look at the mountain, Mountain High.
[35:42] Even Moses, the moderator of the covenant, they say.
[35:45] Me myself, I exceededly fear in my tremble there was blackness
[35:51] and darkness. Oh, your mistake.
[36:00] You enter by Yehabian. What's singing?
[36:03] A machine. Whereas Akan do the people can
[36:09] speak against such leadership. Akan he came and say, hey, we
[36:14] too, we too can hear the voice of God.
[36:16] We also want to be priests. Moses, Moses Koichi.
[36:20] Gossip Moses Koichi. Moses went back, bowed the earth
[36:24] open broom. They all entered.
[36:26] He and his entire family. Is he Akon?
[36:30] Akon. Yeah.
[36:35] It was a fearful thing. No, But today, see, which is why
[36:39] some of you went because it's good for everybody to understand
[36:43] Old Testament. That's why Old Testament came
[36:45] before New Testament. Because I can tell you, those
[36:48] who had grace for the first time, who have not experienced
[36:52] love before and those who are messing up.
[36:57] That's why we studied theology before Christology.
[37:02] You appreciate the New Testament where you see the severity of
[37:05] the Old Testament. So people who have first hand
[37:09] experience of grace are those who are there saying that.
[37:11] You're saying that don't matter. You can do what you want because
[37:13] you have the righteousness of God.
[37:19] If you know the system of the Old Testament, you tremble when
[37:23] God shows you mercy and grace. You will fear this man teaching
[37:31] you where I have a strong balance.
[37:33] Oh, because I've been every in every doctrine, in every
[37:37] extreme. I've passed there before.
[37:45] So we have learnt how to value the gift of God, the gift of
[37:50] mercy and grace. We don't take it for granted.
[37:53] That's why I'm crazy. I'm a crazy giver.
[37:55] I'm a crazy worshipper. I'm a crazy servant, tired,
[38:01] still worshipping God. So when Apostle Paul understood
[38:07] because he also understood the law system.
[38:09] So when he caught grace, grace was never a reason why he became
[38:13] lazy and lukewarm. He says I live better.
[38:16] I thank God that I live better, more abundantly than other
[38:20] apostles, yet not hide by the grace of God.
[38:31] As a lot of Grisby checkers are small, they are lazy.
[38:36] The understanding of rest has made them rest.
[38:40] They don't pray again, they don't live.
[38:42] But they said long prayers is not important because we are
[38:45] enjoying the love of the Father. You don't understand that we are
[38:50] sons, yet God makes us servants. As sons we have a relationship.
[38:57] As servants, we have a responsibility anyway,
[39:03] righteousness. That's about righteousness now.
[39:08] So, so we said, is an inherent, what attribute or quality of God
[39:15] that makes him right by all standards.
[39:17] So his word, his deeds, his thought, his motive, his
[39:20] actions, his abilities are all right.
[39:24] I follow him. But here's the challenge.
[39:27] The challenge was that for God to relate with man, man must
[39:34] have his same qualities so he can flow with God.
[39:38] Are you listening for God to flow?
[39:41] For for God to walk with man, man must have his nature.
[39:46] Have you noticed before God could walk with man in the
[39:48] garden, He had to make him in His image or what likeness that
[39:53] was where he could have fellowship with man in the cool
[39:56] of the day. The moment Adam sinned, that was
[40:00] what we call separation because God's quality could not be found
[40:10] in man. Are you following?
[40:19] So man carries the nature of sin.
[40:24] God is righteous. And God still wanted to relate
[40:28] with man, so now the law system was released to give us a
[40:39] physical version of God's righteous standards.
[40:43] So if you want to understand the nature of God's righteousness,
[40:46] look at the law, please. I hear so.
[40:51] God gave them the law for a reason.
[40:56] Are you ready for this? Are you ready?
[40:59] The law was never made to be obeyed.
[41:10] It's a very important thing you're hearing.
[41:12] God did not give the law to them for them to obey it.
[41:18] He knew they can obey it. He brought the law to trap man,
[41:22] to let man know that by himself he cannot.
[41:26] So that man will realize that he has tried several times.
[41:30] Now the Lord said that shall not commit adultery.
[41:32] He does not even want to commit it, but the thoughts, the
[41:34] inclinations in his heart is all adulterous.
[41:37] So man will realize an utter impossibility in obeying God's
[41:42] requirements that He will cause the Lord.
[41:44] I can't save me. That was why He gave the Lord to
[41:47] Israel. So you will bring every man on
[41:50] his knees to realize that it's an utter impossibility because
[41:54] by the strength of man he cannot prevail.
[41:58] So God gave the law. So man will see his mistakes, he
[42:03] will see his death, he will see his problems.
[42:07] So now he will call on a Savior so that Jesus comes to take the
[42:10] place of the earth. Now you'll be shocked to know
[42:15] that Jesus had 12 disciples, but he was working with three Peter,
[42:23] James, and John. Now, very interestingly, there's
[42:27] nothing like a coincidence in the Bible.
[42:29] The Bible is not full of coincidences.
[42:32] You'll be shocked to know that Peter means stone and the 10
[42:36] commandments was written on a stone.
[42:41] You'll be shocked to know that James means to exchange or to
[42:44] replace, and John means the grace of God and they were
[42:49] working with Christ. When you put their names
[42:54] together, it means through Jesus Christ the law was exchanged
[42:58] with grace. So man was contrary to God's
[43:14] nature of righteousness, and God knew.
[43:20] So God through Jesus Christ, decided to give the
[43:26] righteousness that man needs to work with him to man as a gift
[43:31] and not as a work. Because if he gives
[43:33] righteousness to man as a work, man can attain it.
[43:39] So he has to give it to man by an act of grace.
[43:45] Are you here with me? So in the New Testament, God's
[43:53] quality of righteousness, God's nature of righteousness is not
[43:58] attained. It is impacted.
[44:07] You don't pay for it. It is paid for.
[44:16] You don't purchase it. It has been bought, bought and
[44:22] brought to you. Are you learning something is
[44:30] money? Now I'm going to give you about
[44:36] 10 divine facts about righteousness.
[44:39] New Testament kind of righteousness that every child
[44:41] of God must understand. Divine facts about righteousness
[44:47] now #1 Righteousness can never be attained.
[44:54] Please, if you don't understand this, your Christian life will
[44:56] be a struggle. You can never attain
[44:58] righteousness. Oh, we all want to attain
[45:12] righteousness. You cannot attain it because the
[45:15] standard is high. Romans Chapter 9, devastating
[45:25] Romans 90, verse 30. Now this is very interesting.
[45:29] When you go home, go and read all these Scriptures I'm giving
[45:31] to you. This is too powerful.
[45:33] He says, what shall we say then? That the Gentiles, you and I, we
[45:38] are Gentiles. Anybody who is not born a Jew is
[45:41] a Gentile. He says, What shall we say then?
[45:46] That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness because
[45:50] you didn't even know the law to be followed.
[45:53] He says to the Gentiles which did not follow after
[45:56] righteousness have what have are you here when we have attained
[46:04] to righteousness, what kind of righteousness?
[46:08] How did they attain it? Even the righteousness which is
[46:12] off. So look, Christ attained your
[46:23] righteousness, You believe him to become righteous.
[46:28] You can never attain righteousness.
[46:45] Here's the deal. This is righteousness.
[46:50] Man is supposed to run to attain it here, but man likes what he
[46:56] takes to attain it because he's weak.
[47:00] So this is what God does, He hooks, So I'm Christ, this is
[47:04] righteousness, this is man, He's supposed to go and attain it,
[47:07] but he's weak. So he hooks you in Christ by
[47:10] putting you into Christ. Then Christ is the one who
[47:12] attains it. So when he attains it because
[47:15] you are hooked, you are also attain it.
[47:16] Now this is serious matter. When you hear teachings like
[47:26] this, it magnifies Christ. It does not magnify itself.
[47:36] So now, no, This is why I can't take it.
[47:42] You can't take it. Please go back.
[47:43] No, you can't take it. OK, I'll come later.
[47:55] Let me lay a foundation so that I massage your mind before you
[47:57] can take it. You understand?
[47:59] Let's say I'm not Parker. Before we did dinner.
[48:01] Also taking warm water to open the intestines.
[48:03] So when I give you meat like that.
[48:06] No, open your AUSA. So righteousness #1 we said
[48:11] cannot be what be attained. So it is only Christ who can
[48:19] attain righteousness. So you see, when you get to a
[48:20] place, you say man of God, I say we can attain it.
[48:23] You are just a joke. To know that someone attain
[48:28] righteousness on your behalf should give you peace.
[48:30] It shouldn't give you a problem. So when you think that I can do
[48:35] it, that's what makes you self-righteous.
[48:38] And anyone who is self-righteous can never receive anything from
[48:41] God. Two people prayed, 1 Pharisee
[48:48] and one Sinner. The Sinner prayed and said, oh
[48:51] Lord, I'm a Sinner, have mercy on me.
[48:55] And the Jewish man says Lord, I fasted.
[48:58] I pray three times a day, I fast twice a week, I give to the
[49:03] poor, Lord, I come to you. The Bible says 1 left justified.
[49:07] It was not the Pharisee. Many of you are Pharisees and
[49:17] any Pharisee is always far to see.
[49:28] Any sad to see is sad to see. Hallelujah.
[49:38] So #1 you cannot obtain righteousness #2 righteousness
[49:43] does not come by obeying the law.
[49:46] So today I'm going to close exactly at 9:15 because I'm
[49:55] launching a church bookshop. So we are all going to lunch the
[49:59] bookshop. So today, this morning, it's a
[50:01] privilege for us. We're going to lunch at church
[50:03] bookshop. So I'll be closing, I'll be
[50:08] closing at 9:15 so we can quickly do a sale meeting and
[50:11] then go and lunch it and then begin our second service.
[50:13] Hallelujah. So now you're not, we're not
[50:15] only selling ILP books, we have other books on prayer like the
[50:19] books there some it's in two categories.
[50:21] We have brand new ones that are the modern ones that you're
[50:24] receiving. And then we have home used ones,
[50:26] the home used ones, the MUFUA, if you buy it, it is possible we
[50:31] may never get those particular ones again or it will take a
[50:34] very long time. So usually I perform no more
[50:37] library. No, when they die, they ship
[50:40] them to Ghana to come and sell it.
[50:42] So if not, you have to wait for another white person to die
[50:46] before you can get some of the books.
[50:48] Some of the books, long time books, you can get it anywhere.
[50:51] And so we have some of them there.
[50:52] So you're going to launch it, you're going to give opportunity
[50:55] for you to buy some to support a bookshop.
[51:00] So very soon you're going to be having a mountain oil.
[51:02] We're going to be having we have a things communion wine there,
[51:04] we have Bibles there. Soon I can buy buy.
[51:09] We have Diaries there, we have pen.
[51:11] So nobody has an excuse. Now you can buy Bible, you can
[51:14] buy pen. We're going to encourage people
[51:15] to read. Amen.
[51:20] So so we said righteousness. That's not what come by what
[51:30] obey the law. Now let me open the Bible for
[51:32] you now. Romans chapter 3, the verse 20.
[51:38] Now look, the Bible says therefore by the deeds doing the
[51:44] law by the deeds of the law, what what was going to happen
[51:47] there shall what no flesh be justified?
[51:52] What's justification? Righteousness.
[51:55] You'll be made right. Anybody here, whoever thinks
[52:00] that by your doing of the law you are being justified is
[52:04] living in error. Is this class here with me now?
[52:10] Give that to me in NLT. He says for no one can oh, let's
[52:15] read this together. 1 to go. Uh huh.
[52:25] Gosh, no one can ever be made right with God by doing what the
[52:34] law commands. The law simply shows us how
[52:39] sinful we are. Do you remember I told you the
[52:41] law was not made to be obeyed? God knew you man would disobey
[52:44] it. The law was to reveal how sinful
[52:48] man is, KTV says. For by the law is the knowledge
[52:52] of sin. Now the problem was that man was
[52:55] a Sinner, but he did not know he was a Sinner.
[52:59] So God had to review something that was sparked the same.
[53:03] So now the law is God's righteous standard.
[53:06] Now he says you have to obey it. Man is trying to obey it.
[53:09] Then he realizes that hey, it's difficult, I cannot do it.
[53:18] Look, have you noticed that after the fall Cain will kill
[53:22] his brother? The reason why God didn't could
[53:25] not impute sin to Cain was because Cain did not know that
[53:28] murder was a sin. Please are you here with me?
[53:30] Cain did not know envy was a sin.
[53:33] So unto the Lord said, Thou shall not convert.
[53:35] Cain did not know, so God could not.
[53:37] God could not impute anything to him, because that guy doesn't
[53:40] know. So wickedness was rampant.
[53:45] So in God's plan of salvation, he chose a group of people
[53:48] called Jewish people, and he used that to test his plan or to
[53:52] execute this plan. So he gave man law.
[53:55] He said, thou shalt not commit murder.
[53:58] No man becomes angry. He takes a stone.
[54:02] He he kills somebody and he comes to his sense, he realizes,
[54:04] no me that said I will never sin.
[54:08] Look at what I just did. That means I have a problem.
[54:14] Are you here with me? So the law was only to give you
[54:17] knowledge of sin. He doesn't give you power over
[54:20] sin. Is this class here with me?
[54:28] So the Bible says in the next verse, OK, now because of time,
[54:33] let's take the next verse Romans chapter 10, the verse 4.
[54:42] Oh I love this one. I love this one.
[54:45] Let's we together 12GO for Christ is the end of the law for
[54:54] righteousness to everyone that we get to everyone that so
[55:00] Christ is your end to your effort in obeying the law to be
[55:05] justified. So when you meet Christ, you
[55:13] cannot work to be right. This is why we call it gospel.
[55:28] It cannot make sense to your logic.
[55:31] That's why people say, when you say this, like making people
[55:33] feel free, Certainly we are teaching.
[55:35] I've not finished the teaching, so I will.
[55:39] None of my teacher will make you feel that, oh, I can do what I
[55:41] like. No, no, no, no.
[55:43] You get to understand that righteousness has three
[55:45] dimensions. I'm going to be teaching it.
[55:47] The gift of righteousness. That's what I'm teaching.
[55:49] Then the fruit of righteousness, that's the what you produce in
[55:52] that gift. Then we have the kind of
[55:53] righteousness, the rewards you get for producing the fruit of
[55:55] righteousness. So I'm giving you proper food,
[56:07] balanced diet, like getting protein.
[56:10] People are always eating kabo, kabo, kabo, kabo.
[56:12] They become like a Kabo. So there are some old, that's
[56:18] all they know. Forgiveness, forgiveness,
[56:20] forgiveness, 10 years. But we're giving you balance
[56:25] diet. Are you getting the whole thing?
[56:28] So Christ, the end. Now look at what the Bible says
[56:31] in the next verse. OK, I'm going to come there.
[56:36] I don't want to go ahead of myself.
[56:38] So Galatians, shout out to the West. 21 Galatians 221.
[56:44] Now let's do together. 12GO. I do not frustrate the grace of
[56:50] God. I can't hear you.
[56:51] For if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in
[56:56] vain. How can you see this verse and
[56:59] ever think you can use your righteousness to establish it?
[57:04] Hey, so there are Christians frustrating the grace of God.
[57:12] You are making the grace of God of known effect.
[57:15] You are not defining it. You are neutralizing the grace
[57:18] of God. That's the word frustrate, he
[57:20] says. For if righteousness ever comes
[57:23] by the law, then Christ died and emptied it.
[57:32] What a powerful teaching. Anybody who thinks it's not
[57:36] supposed to be so, it's self-righteous.
[57:41] And if you ever think yourself righteousness can take you to
[57:44] heaven, you are not born again in the first place because we
[57:49] believe that Jesus died to be born again.
[57:51] We didn't do work to be saved. I'm teaching good here.
[58:01] Now look again with me to the book of Romans, Chapter 9, the
[58:05] verse 30 to 33. He says, What shall we say then?
[58:11] That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness have
[58:14] attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of
[58:17] what faith? Now look at the next verse.
[58:20] But Israel, which followed not after the law of righteousness,
[58:25] had not attained to the law of righteousness.
[58:29] So these people were following the law of righteousness through
[58:33] the obedience of the law, and they could not attain it.
[58:35] Now look, he says, why couldn't he try attain it?
[58:40] Because they shot it not by word fate, but as it were for the
[58:45] word works of the law, For they did what?
[58:48] Stumbled at what? That stumbling stone?
[58:53] Look, if you want to stumble, if you want to fall as a believer,
[58:58] live by your own righteous standards.
[59:00] That's the easiest way to fall. You see, there are two problems
[59:09] or extremes that we have in the body of Christ.
[59:11] Number one is legalism #2 is liberalism.
[59:18] Legalism is what I'm teaching. When you think you have to do
[59:20] something with your work to become righteous, you are being
[59:23] legalistic. Liberalism is also getting to a
[59:27] place where you say, oh, because Christ has done it, there's
[59:29] nothing to do. I don't do anything.
[59:31] Again, there's nothing. I don't.
[59:32] I don't work. I'm free, I'm doing anything.
[59:34] I'm fast because Christ has done it.
[59:35] You are not being liberal. You are liberal Christian.
[59:39] You will soon begin to entertain sin.
[59:40] And he says, OK, are you learning?
[59:48] Are you sure you're learning? So we said #2 what righteousness
[59:54] doesn't, what come by or being the law #3 is very interesting.
[1:00:00] But I'm going to stop here. Are you learning?
[1:00:07] All right, so because today we are closing early, let me hold
[1:00:10] on with the teaching. We're going to continue next
[1:00:14] week on the divine facts on righteousness.
[1:00:18] Hallelujah. Now rise up on your feet.
[1:00:25] You want to pray? Now let's make this declaration
[1:00:35] and pray for about 3 minutes. Lift up your right hand.
[1:00:40] Say, Father, I can't hear you Father, if you are not succeed
[1:00:45] with confidence. Say, Father, I stand on the
[1:00:50] grounds of righteousness. I thank you that I am righteous
[1:00:57] by faith in Christ. I thank you that today, because
[1:01:03] I believed in Christ, I have a right standing with you, not
[1:01:08] because I obeyed the law, but because I obeyed the gospel in
[1:01:15] believing Jesus as my Lord. Jesus, thank you for attaining
[1:01:22] righteousness for me. I'm a righteous man.
[1:01:28] I'm a righteous man. I am righteous in every possible
[1:01:33] way, not because I did good, but because I believe Jesus and I'm
[1:01:41] the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
[1:01:45] I have confidence to approach the throne of God and receive
[1:01:51] answers. I have boldness to access God's
[1:01:55] presence. I have boldness to scatter the
[1:01:59] Kingdom of the devil because of the gifts of righteousness in
[1:02:04] the name of Jesus. Thank you Father, you want to
[1:02:09] pray with the right standing that you have now the power of
[1:02:13] righteousness is prayer. So you are in a in prayer.
[1:02:19] You believe that because you are righteous God is hearing the
[1:02:22] prayers of a righteous man. That's how you should think as a
[1:02:25] child of God. So all this teaching we are
[1:02:27] giving to you is to enable you to have a quality relationship
[1:02:31] with God. So on the basis of your
[1:02:35] understanding of your right standing with God, I want you to
[1:02:39] place a demand in prayer that Lord, you have just made me
[1:02:43] realize I am righteous on account of you accepting me as
[1:02:47] righteous. Father, I pray for so, so, and
[1:02:49] so. I pray that Father, touch my
[1:02:51] auntie who is sick. Lord, I pray you touch my
[1:02:54] brother. I pray that, Lord, you're going
[1:02:56] to help this one. You're going to help this one.
[1:02:58] Touch on the understanding and foundation you have and pray for
[1:03:01] someone. Lift up your voice and begin to
[1:03:02] pray.

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