Pastor Deborah
Our Lord prepares everything for us. There is nothing else we desire but His presence.
”The kingdom is not discovered in one place or another, for God’s kingdom realm is already expanding within some of you.”“
Luke 17:21 TPT
Kingdom is translated as realm.
Heavenly realm or earthly realm
Jesus came and said He wants to show us kingdom of heaven.
There is another realm we are supposed to live in. Living in the realm of God
The body contact the physical world
All of us are very powerful in the physical
The moment we understand spirit soul and body, we live the victorious life in the kingdom of God
”I know and am convinced by personal revelation from the Lord Jesus that there is nothing wrong with eating any food. But to the one who considers it to be unclean, it is unacceptable.“
Romans 14:14 TPT
The kingdom is not about food but about holy spirit. Filled with righteousness, peace and joy
Your mind consist of thinking to align with your spirit
Righteousness in the realm of the Holy Spirit
You must wait for the holy spirit
He came and bring forth understanding of these 3 things : righteousness, peace and joy
God clearly state in His Word, righteousness peace and joy comes from the Holy Spirit
Why must be first righteousness
Romans 1:16
The Just Live by Faith
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Salvation :
many christians think saved means go heaven only.
During this time before they die, they don't really know what to do with this life.
The gospel which is the good news is the power.
Salvation means sozo, deliverance, nothing missing, complete
Romans 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
In the good news (gospel), the righteousness of God is revealed.
Many has misunderstand the word righteousness
There is a righteousness of God and there is a righteousness of man
”This gospel unveils a continual revelation of God’s righteousness—a perfect righteousness given to us when we believe. And it moves us from receiving life through faith, to the power of living by faith. This is what the Scripture means when it says: “We are right with God through life-giving faith!”“
Romans 1:17 TPT
Gospel and holy spirit only come once and tell us we are sinners.
In the good news, you will have eternal life, to live the powerful life is a continual revelation of God's perfect righteousness given to us when we believe
Moves us from receiving life through faith to the power of living by faith
The first apostles moved from receiving life through faith to the power of living by faith
Receiving life through faith > living life by faith
What did you receive when you believed and accepted Christ?
What you did not receive?
Romans 8:15
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
”And you did not receive the “spirit of religious duty,” leading you back into the fear of never being good enough. But you have received the “Spirit of full acceptance,” enfolding you into the family of God. And you will never feel orphaned, for as he rises up within us, our spirits join him in saying the words of tender affection, “Beloved Father!”“
Romans 8:15 TPT
Fear we are not good enough:
Scare of what people think of you
comparison
When a person has symptoms, has flu, running nose come out
When a person fear of not good enough, the symptoms is try to portray yourselves as good
Fear of rejection : so don't dare to show people our weaknesses.
Self-conscious
God is your Abba, your heavenly Father
Spirit that receive : God has become our heavenly Father
He is our heavenly Father and will take care of our needs
If your physical father is super rich, will we worry about our needs?
our heavenly Father cares for us and loves us
”For the Holy Spirit makes God’s fatherhood real to us as he whispers into our innermost being, “You are God’s beloved child!”“
Romans 8:16 TPT
The first church filled with holy spirit
What happened today after church age? The leaders think that these has ceased already. Holy spirit lives in them but they did not acknowledge the holy spirit
If we have a fantastic father, do we want to depend on our father or our sweat and toil?
Only that revelation can comes from holy spirit
We are His child. God is our Father
Why believers are living as if we are orphans?
We are heirs. We have a God who is rich and yet we think we are poor
Our Father is rich. Why are we so scare?
We are joint to Christ, we inherit all that He is and all that we have!
”And since we are his true children, we qualify to share all his treasures, for indeed, we are heirs of God himself. And since we are joined to Christ, we also inherit all that he is and all that he has. We will experience being co-glorified with him provided that we accept his sufferings as our own.“
Romans 8:17 TPT
What is the righteousness of God?
Righteousness is Right-standing
E.W. Kenyon's definition of God's righteousness?
Righteousness is tbe ability to stand before a holy God without any sense of inferiority, guilt or shame of any kind
Righteous = justified "Just - as if - l'd - never sinned
When the word of God burn in your heart, it is very hot.
He was very clear in bringing out grace, righteousness and new creation
New creation reality : spirit soul and body
The ability to stand
Sometimes when we do wrong we dare not come before our parents
We feel guilty
Man was born with guilty conscious of sin
Religion comes in, man trying to do good to clear off the guilty conscious and try to do good to come before God
Righteousness is justified as if I have never sinned
Ephesians 1:7
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Release from bondage or imprisonment
-Forgiveness or pardon of sins (letting them fo as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty
It is very terrible to carry the unforgiveness till they go to grave
You can be free from that!
The one who cannot forgive is the one who is in prison
How does forgiveness comes about?
Why is it difficult for us to forgive? We categorise big sin and small sin
We don't understand the extend of Jesus' payment for our sins. Jesus paid it!
All has sin. Only Holy Spirit can show us we were that bad
That has to come from holy spirit. He can show us the reality of the spirit
We have that revelation and we realise we need the forgiveness of God
The one who is forgiven is not going out to sin
When children do wrong the last person they go to is to their parents
If we can go to someone who can understand and said lets work it out
Righteouness comes with wisdom
”Clouds and thick darkness surround Him [as at Sinai]; Righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.“
Psalms 97:2 AMP
We love Him because He first loved us
Jesus died for you on the cross to be our sin substitute
To take the punishment for our sin
He died for us means He took the punishment we are supposed to be punished
Jesus came close to us and said He will take our punishment on our behalf
Foundation is very important
”But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.“
Matthew 6:33 AMP
Seek His kingdom : righteousness peace and joy
His way of doing and being right
His way is simple. Believe. Believe He took our punisbment. Is all about belief and faith
His way is believing Him
Heavenly Father feeds us. Why worry ?
We are believers, so believe.
Righteousness is conforming to the Will of God
”For the mystery of lawlessness (that hidden principle of rebellion against constituted authority) is already at work in the world, [but it is] restrained only until he who restrains is taken out of the way.“
2 Thessalonians 2:7 AMPC
Where is inquitity at work:
”“Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. So you, also, outwardly seem to be just and upright to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.“
Matthew 23:27-28 AMP
”We have all become like the unclean; all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. All of us wither like a leaf; our sins, like the wind, carry us away.“
Isaiah 64:6 CEB
Our blood is R! Righteous blood
”But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God [revealing His plan of salvation], and righteousness [making us acceptable to God], and sanctification [making us holy and setting us apart for God], and redemption [providing our ransom from the penalty for sin],“
1 Corinthians 1:30 AMP
Jesus is made unto us righteousness
Our means of right standing with God
What is not God's righteousness?
”I bear them witness that they have a [certain] zeal and enthusiasm for God, but it is not enlightened and according to [correct and vital] knowledge. For being ignorant of the righteousness that God ascribes [which makes one acceptable to Him in word, thought, and deed] and seeking to establish a righteousness (a means of salvation) of their own, they did not obey or submit themselves to God's righteousness.“
Romans 10:2-3 AMPC
”Christ is the goal of the Law, which leads to righteousness for all who have faith in God.“
Romans 10:4 CEB
End of struggle for righteousness by the law for everyone who believes in Him
Understand what is to be given to us in Christ
The power of gospel
Righteous by faith and your struggle ceases
Religion is trying to be good
We are made good by Jesus
Romans 5:17
For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
”Finally, let’s draw near to the throne of favor with confidence so that we can receive mercy and find grace when we need help.“
Hebrews 4:16 CEB
He wants to do new wonderful things in our lives. Leave our old.
The Holy Spirit is going to remove the fear of not good enough.