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Hi, I'm Nancy Dufresne. Welcome to our podcast channel. We know you'll be blessed by today's message. Can I quote you Psalm 107, verse 8? Oh, that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works. And so my, you know, milieu, if you want to call it that, my safe spot is more stories and a bit more preaching and things. But the Lord spoke pretty clearly to me and said, I want you to talk about righteousness. And so I'm titling this thoughts on righteousness because you can't cover righteousness in a sermon. You can't cover righteousness in 10 sermons. Righteousness is such a large, broad and massive subject and it is so life changing. Pastor's been preaching on righteousness for a while. And if you, if you learn to meditate, pay attention to what God is. God is always showing us things, but those that are over us, we should pay attention to the emphasis that they're making that God is making in them. Because if there's a divine connection, that emphasis becomes our emphasis, whether God has spoken that to you or not. And he automatically has by the divine association. And so I've been meditating and most people I've talked to or learned, they don't really understand what righteousness is and they don't really even think about it because it's one of those redemptive words that sounds a bit confusing and it's complicated, at least in people's minds, and it's really not. And so I just want to, I just. Can we just get into it, if that's okay. And just going to start my timer because dear God, like I said, you can't get through this in a week. So I have to make sure that I get through it in the allotted time frame would be good. But I just want you to turn quickly, if you would, to Genesis 15. I want to just share some thoughts with you. Genesis chapter 15 we're talking about. Pastor's been emphasizing the goodness and we're about to see in this passage. Could there be any greater display of his goodness than this? Have a look. I'm gonna read. I got lots of scriptures. I wanna move quickly. I'm not gonna read the whole chapter, but look at, start with verse seven and it says Genesis 15:7. And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees. He's talking to Abraham to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said, lord God, whereby shall I know that I'll inherit It how do I know that this will happen? And he said unto him, take me a heifer. In other words, what God is saying, the way you're going to know that my promises are true is because I'm going to come into covenant with you. Take a heifer of three years old and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old and a turtledove and a young pigeon. And he took them all these and divided them in the midst and laid each piece one against the other. But the birds he divided not. There's reasons for all this which I'm not going to get into. But basically they split the animal down the spine. They didn't just hack it up. There was a specific way they did it. And they would lay the pieces opposite each other, over, against each other or opposite. And what that did is it caused. And normally, if you study the way they did it, that the ground was slightly leaning or not indented, but there was a slight ebb in the land because it would basically funnel the blood and it would make a path of blood between the animals. So he says now. And when the fowls were. Verse 11. When the fowls came down upon the carcass, Abram drove them away. When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon him. And lo, a horror of great darkness. This represents Jesus dying on the cross and going down to the place of darkness or horror, which is hell. And he said unto Abram, know of a surety that thy seed shall be estranged in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and. And they shall be afflicted 400 years. Abram already knew by prophecy that they were going to be serving the Egyptians for 400 years. And also that nation whom they shall serve, I will judge. And afterward they will come out with great substance. Remember, they came out no feeble among them. And I spoiled the Egyptians. I wish above all things that you would prosper and be in health. This is an eternal concept. This is not just, oh, New Testament. They came out prospered and healthy. So he's prophesying that. He's telling Abraham that verse 15 and thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace. Thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again. For the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Now watch verse 17. And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp. Abram's sleeping. But in order to cut covenants, somebody has to walk the path of blood. Abraham didn't walk the path of blood. So Abraham didn't cut covenant, did he? People, we're going on little journey, so just stay with me. I know redemptive things can sound complicated, but they're really not. And it came to pass when the sun went down, there was a dark. Behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp passed between those pieces. And in the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, unto thy seed have I given this land from the river Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates. And basically this is a very important part of scripture because this is basically what is happening here. God is. God is. I'm gonna. There's theological stuff, but it's sometimes better not to look at theology because it can make things complicated. So I'm just gonna put this in simple language like I explained to my 8 year old son who understood. God is basically saying when you cut a covenant. And Abraham understood this because that was the day they cut covenants. Unlike today, if you, you have to call. That's what Deuteronomy 28 is all about is they were on one mountain, the others were on the other mountain and they called blessings and curses. If you obey the covenant, you're blessed. If you disobey the covenant, the curse comes on you. But what is the curse? We talk about stuff like the curse, but what is it? The curse is what happened to the animal will happen to me. That is the curse. They are saying by when they would pronounce curses and blessings, they would walk through the path of blood. Their feet had to be wet with the blood. Oftentimes they would do other things. They would cut their own wrists or. But I'm just saying with animals, animals were that substitute. And they would walk the path of blood and they would call. If I obey the covenant, this will happen. Blessing. And if I disobey the covenant, listen carefully. Let the curse that has come upon this animal come upon me. What you were doing is you were calling upon yourself death if you broke the covenant. Now, this was a common understanding in the ancient world. To us it's maybe new, but not to them. God knew. Abraham understood that. So God says, Abraham, you cut the animals, you get the path of blood ready, you do all that, but then boom, you're sleeping. Why could God not have Abraham walk the path of blood? Because if Abraham walked the path of blood, he had to call upon himself the curse of the law, that if he broke the covenant, that he would die. Not just die physically, but die spiritually in terms of eternal separation from the other covenant holder, which in this case is God. So how could God cut the covenant with a man, knowing the man is going to fail the covenant? Because then man will be lost forever because you cannot violate covenant. So God and his master, genius comes up with a plan, which is what the devil couldn't understand. Cause if he understood it, he would have made sure Jesus never died in his genius. God came up with a master strategy, and he said, you can't walk, but I can walk. Whoo. My God. But I've got a son who's going to meet the requirements of man being fully man, born of a virgin, but fully God, with the blood of the Father in his veins, who are perfect life. He qualifies as your sacrifice, but he's never made a mistake. Do you understand? So I, in my son, can walk the path. Abraham, you can't. Cause you're going to fail. It's in your nature. No matter how hard you try. If it's not this week, it's gonna be next week. Sarah's gonna say something. You're gonna slap her. We know something's about to happen, okay? You're gonna do something. And anyway, let's not even talk about the. The other one that he, you know, had Ishmael with. I mean, he knows. Abraham, you're basically a loser. Like, this is not going to work. I love you. You're the patriarch, But I still know your nature. You're going to fail. So I can't have you walk the path because you'll be lost forever. But if I don't come into covenant, I can't bless you. And I so want to bless you. So I've come up with a plan. It's not the best plan, but it's still a plan. And what we're gonna do is we're gonna use animal blood. That's not perfect, but it's going to be a temporary holding place. And you can't walk it, because as soon as you miss it, you're gone forever. I can never bring you back. So I'm gonna walk the path in my son. And he came down. Jesus appeared as a burning furnace and a burning lamp. That's a beautiful image in and of itself. And Jesus walked the path. While Abraham is sleeping, he walked the path of that animal blood, calling upon his himself, the curse of death. If he fails, Father, if he fails, I'll take it for him. What was he doing? He was prophesying his return. He was saying, I have to come back because a price has to be paid for the breaking of the covenant. And I'm calling on myself the curse. And whoever calls upon their self, they have to die. So Jesus, by this act he was sealing his death, but he was also sealing our salvation. And he's walking the path and he's saying, father I'll. There's a lot more, but for sake of time I'm not gonna get into all of it. But basically he's calling upon himself the curse of the covenant. He's saying, listen, God didn't need a covenant with himself, God is one. Why did God cut covenant? Why did Jesus basically cut covenant with God, the pre incarnate Christ? God didn't need covenant with himself, we needed humanity needed. But the only way to cut that was with his son. Because that's the only way. Why Jesus is never going to make a mistake. So because he's never gonna make a mistake, he should never be the one paying the price for that curse. But because he knows all of us are gonna make the mistake and he's the only one that qualifies, he's gonna say, I'll pay the price. Even though I don't deserve to pay the price. I'll pay the price for. Listen. From Abraham and past to Adam and future, to as many generations as the Lord shall call, including today. This is trans dispensational. That blood and that price of those animals. Now just stay with me, this blood of animals is for the Old Testament. But what God is thinking in his mind is, are you listening to the genius? If I do this now, every generation from Abraham to Jesus is safe. Because what they have to do is honor the covenant. So they have to do all this stuff, meet every year, kill the bull, sprinkle the stuff, have the high priest and make an atonement for sin. Because you have to keep doing it. Because animal blood can only cover it, can't remove. But at least they've got a way to stay in covenant. They've entered into the covenant through the burning lamp with the Father. And when they miss it, the burning lamp has to pay the price. But the actions of the covenant, once a year, the atonement, you know, the day of atonement is the most holy day in the Jewish year. That is going to keep them operating in this system until the mastery of my plan is fulfilled. And I'll send Jesus, the burning lamp will come back, but he's got to come back as human. But he's also got to come back perfect. Because otherwise he doesn't qualify. Son of man and Son of God. So he comes, he lives perfect. He comes to that cross and he. And they are whipping him. And there's seven sheddings of blood we won't get into. But all that blood he is walking. What he did on that cross is he was the lamb split. His perfect precious blood, better than those goats and bulls. Hebrew says he walked the path of his own blood. My God, talk about the goodness. He said, Father, every sin from Adam until every person that will ever live, I call their curse upon me. Let me take it. I. I'll be the scapegoat. I'll be the one to hold the price. Charge me, make them innocent, and he dies having paid the ultimate sacrifice. I know this is basic, but you've gotta understand, you know, where we get into righteousness on this is basically, I think a lot of people. Cause I've pastored for some years, I've preached for some years before that. And most people, when I talk to them, if you really get into depth with them, like not just a surface thing, and you really try to ask them pointed questions. There is a general attitude that I find with a lot of Christians. Ministers, not so much, although some ministers have it as well. But with a lot of Christians, and that is, I am here and God is there. I have this covenant because my pastor told me, but I don't really understand it. But I'm in covenant with God, I guess, and I'm over here. And Jesus, who's perfect and untouchable, he's over here and he loves me and he wants to draw me close. But you know, I make a lot of mistakes all the time and I keep messing up. So I never feel like I can really get too close to him because. But I know I have covenant and if I confess, he'll forgive me. Do you understand? There is a mentality that is fundamentally skewed. I am here and Jesus is here. And I've got to try to do my best. And when I miss it, I got to really try to make it up to him. And that's where the guilt and condemnation comes. And I've got to really try to. And I got to try to draw closer to him because he's kind of over there and I'm over here. And that is an eschewed mentality. And a lot of Christians believe this. They actually subconsciously, they don't even mean to, but they just see Jesus here and I'm here. What you need to Understand is you didn't cut covenant with God. You didn't make a covenant with God. If you think that you've created the covenant, you're going to see yourself as separate. You didn't. Jesus called upon himself the failures that you would do when he was on that cross. Because he knew that Abraham and many others in those generations and all the other, they're going to make mistakes and somebody has to pay. And he says, I'm going to pay. Talk about the eternal goodness of God, I'm going to pay. So he called it on himself. Now listen, Jesus cut covenant with the Father. Not that they needed it, but we needed it. Both Old and New Testament, we needed it. So he on the cross, better than the blood of goats and bulls. He on the cross with his own blood, cuts a covenant with the Father on behalf of all humanity, past or present. And he is saying, father, we don't need covenant. But they need covenant. So what we're going to do is we're going to come into a divine agreement through my blood. Now, Father, this is so powerful. This covenant that I'm making with you can never be broken because I'll never fail. And I've never failed. Being tested in all points, I've passed the test. I am beyond reproach. I am perfect. And for all eternity, I'll be perfect. Which means the covenant cannot be broken. Because God cannot fail and Jesus cannot fail. And the covenant is secure. It is perfect, it is eternal, and it is free. God has set this master plan now because Jesus did it. Not because he needed it, but because we needed it. What we come is, he says, now, come, I'm the door. Come through me. Let's call it being born again. Come through me. Come into me. Come be seated in heavenly places in me. I want to be in you, and I want you to be in me. And I want you to be called my body and I'll be your head. Now, the human being comes in that process. We didn't cut nothing. He cut it. I enter the benefits of that covenant through him. Now that he's in my heart, I've entered the covenant. I am the body of Christ. I am one with him. I'm seated with him. That means all the benefits that he has with Daddy, I have with Daddy. And it can never fail because he's never going to sin. So if you look at it like that, it's not me here and God here, it's God here and I'm here. I am in Christ. We have these in him. Scriptures but do we really know what it's saying? Jesus cut the covenant, his blood. But he brought me in. I'm outside, I'm in. I am in him, in his blood, in his covenant. I have the benefits of the covenant if I ever fail, which I shouldn't, but if I do, I have an advocate lawyer who stands up and says, no, no prosecuting attorney, Satan. No accuser. No, no, I know what my blood did. And he's. He's in me. He's in me. You can't touch Him. He's in me. The problem with Christians is that they see themselves as separate. That's how guilt, condemnation, low self esteem, self loathing, all this nonsense works. The devil works on them, brings back their failure, brings back their sin, brings back this, that and all the other stuff. And they're constantly on a hamster wheel of medit on their failure because they don't realize that they did nothing except say yes. Do you think that you authored your covenant? That's why all the pressure is on you. Jesus authored it. You simply entered it. He paid the price. You simply cashed in on the price. It's between him and the Father now. It's between you, him and the Father. He did it. I'm not separate. I'm in. Do you understand? That means if you meditate on this, I'm in the blood. I'm in Christ. I can't be separated from him because I'm in Him. I'm not saying it, I don't think the right way because it's too potent almost to speak about. 2nd Corinthians 5:21. Can we read that for a second? Let me just calm down. I need to read a scripture to calm down because I can't. It's almost like this is too. It's too lofty, it's too precious. 2nd Corinthians 5:21. And it says these words, for he has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made. Made the righteousness. The word made means to generate or to become something that I might become the righteousness of God in him. Because I am in Him. I didn't get in this on my own. I didn't create anything. He did everything. He just said, come. Why would anybody not get saved? He just said, come. And I said, thank you. And I came in him, born again through the door, born of the Spirit in Him. Now I sit with Him. I'm in Him. I'm in the blood. I'm in perfection. Listen, I am in Righteousness. I have become righteousness. And it's not because I'm great. This is where people miss it. You keep looking at yourself. It's because he's great. He paid it. I could never do it. He did it. It's between him and the Father. He's perfect. He proved perfection. I'm not, but I'm in Him. And therefore I've become right because I'm in Him. If you meditate on that, I swear you will never have another day of past memory. You'll never have another day of torment because of your failures. You'll never wake up thinking, oh, God, I need to talk about. I'm sorry about this. I repent about that. Listen, if you miss it, you repent. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying you don't repent, but I'm saying there is a consciousness of failure in most Christians, and it's a master stroke of Satan because he knows if he can get you to meditate and see yourself somehow separate, he'll get you. You'll constantly live defeated. You'll constantly live in fear. You'll constantly try to works and prove things to God. In the Old Testament, they did works. In the New, we don't because there's no works needed because Jesus did it. I am in Him. That means I am righteous. I am completely, fully righteous. I can't be any more righteous because it was a perfect sacrifice that he did. It's not based on me, it's based on Him. It's not based on if I miss it, which I probably will, because he'll never miss it. That's why I'm safe with him. Because no matter what I do, as long as I humble my heart and say, lord, I've missed it, the advocate says, my blood washes. Stop thinking of yourself as separate. You are in. You are in Him. I don't know how to say it. I could say it in tongues better. I don't really know how to say it, but I'm trying to. It's like a spiritual discerning. It's a revelation. It hit me some time ago. I was actually at Pastor Jay's church. Pastor Nancy was preaching on righteousness. And it was a marked moment in my life. That's why it matters that you go to the services that God prompts you to go to. The plane was late. There was an accident outside the airport. I was running late and I said, I'm not going. I'm not showing up late. I don't do Things like that. And the Lord said, you're going. So I had to get changed. Have you ever got into a suit while you drive? I have. I still to this day don't know how I did it, but thank God for cruise control and adaptive steering. I mean, I took. Well, I don't want to give you all the details, but my britches stayed on. But everything else, socks, undershirt, tie, all with steering through the knees. And I still showed up 10 minutes late. And the worship was going and I don't like coming in. And I rushed in there and she preached. Life changing. That's why God wanted me there. When God prompts you, pull out all the stops. There's no inconvenience, there's no price, there's no cost too great. And I saw something. It was the beginning, but I saw something about righteousness that I'd never really heard anybody teach me before. And I went home and I started studying and praying and saying, lord, give me more. And he started to show me. Son, the reason you don't understand this is because you see yourself as separate. Like you did something, like, you're great. But son, you did nothing except sin. I. I did everything. Come. You're in me. You don't realize that. You think you're here, but you're here. You're in me. You're in the blood. The fountain of blood is ever present over you. You are in a shower of the blood, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You are hidden in Christ. You are seated with me. You are perfect. You are righteous. But Lord, I don't feel it. I don't care what you feel. I made you that. Now when you miss it, repent quick. Because for a moment you step to the side of the shower. As soon as you say, I repent, you're back in the shower and the blood is ever over. That's how he showed it to me. Like a felt like a waterfall of blood that is ever over me. I am in him. I'm not trying to get somewhere. I'm not trying to. I know we grow, but I'm talking positional truth. Two kinds of righteousness. One is your lifestyle, but one is positional. I am in him. I am righteous. I can't ever be more. Because he. If I could be more, then he didn't do enough. Now I could be more holy. I could live better. But positionally, I'm as far as I'm ever going to get, which has gone to the uttermost. It changed my thinking when the Devil would bring things, and he will. I'd say it's too late. You have to go through the waterfall of blood. Oh, sorry, you can't. The blood is against you. You can't. No, no, no. You can't bring that stuff up. No, no, no. Because I'm in him and he already took care of it. And it's not based on if I miss it. It's based on if he missed it and he never missed it. So my covenant is secure forever. I'm never in danger. I'm never in guilt. I'm in him. I'm in him. I'm in him. But listen, you have to meditate. You have to meditate until it becomes part of your DNA. It's got to be. For you to pull this out of me, you have to pull my heart out of me. It has to get from head knowledge into revelation in your spirit. It has to wash and cleanse your mind. You have to become it. A lot of people hear sermons, but they don't want to go home. Do you realize every time someone preaches, especially a PhD master, you know, there's a kindergarten in this place in terms of revelation quality. When pastor preaches, other people preach. It's always homework. It's always homework. It always requires more. Church is not just in the building. Church is at home. Church is. You gotta. It's a lifestyle. I meditate until it becomes my revelation, until it's part of my DNA. And it took some time. And I'm telling you, the devil fought me like you wouldn't believe. Talk about pressure on the mind. I thought I would lose it at times, the pressure was so great. But I realized he's doing this because I'm touching something of nuclear power. He knows he's losing grip and he's afraid. So he's tightening the last grip that he has. But I kept going. I'm telling you. I'm telling you, until I found that place. And we're all still growing, don't get me wrong. But I found that place of freedom in the mind. I found that place of. And it's all because he did it. He cut the covenant. I entered into him. I entered the covenant because of him. I didn't do anything. I received it and I meditate on it. And I'm grateful for it. And if I sin, I repent. But I stay under the waterfall of blood. I am righteous. You cannot convince me otherwise. And let me say this. Are you okay? I hope I'm not boring you. I know you couldn't Be bored. I don't mean to say it that way, but this is a bit of a. Oh, God, 27 minutes already. Jesus help us. Because you get the point. At least what I'm trying to in feeble lips say, meditate, that you're in him. You are not separate. You are not over here and he's over here. There's no gulf between you mentally, emotionally. There's nothing even when you sin. Do you understand? You just got one foot outside the shower, but you're still in. Just like she said last night, humble your heart, be quick to repent, just get back. You never really fully leave. You just. It's just a Lord, I missed it. I'm sorry. I repent. And you're back. Why are you letting the devil. Why are you letting him oppress you and lie to you? It's. You don't know that you're in him. You still think there's something different about you and him. That is Jesus and you. No, it's Jesus and me. We are in this together. He brought me in together with him. I have been made righteous. I am perfect. I may miss it. But perfection is not just about doing everything right. Perfection in the Greek word means to be complete. So I am perfect because I am complete. I may miss it once in a while, but I am complete in him. There's this peace that comes. Oh, there's a peace that comes when you're not striving all the time because you think God is some kind of a taskmaster and believe it. I know theologically you say, oh, I know he's not. But most people live like he is. You may say you know things, but your lifestyle is really if you know things or not. Your words coming out of your mouth tells if you know something or not. The way you think proves if you know something or not. Because this is something that is life changing. And I know it sounds so simple, I know it sounds overly simple, but it's a discerned revelation to really get that Jesus cut the covenant knot me. He did it for me. He didn't need to do it except for me. I have entered in the benefits through him. That means I'm in him. That means I'm in the blood. That means I'm righteous. That means no devil can convince me of past this. That. Listen, low self esteem, self hatred, suicide, all this is connected to righteousness. If you understand righteousness, you basically hit the lottery. Do you understand? It's like winning the lottery in your emotions, in your finances, in your healing, in Everything. If you can just get this, it covers everything. Pastor would say that, and I'd be like, what does she mean? I don't understand. What does she mean? But I would go and I'd study and I'd listen and I'd study and I'd listen to the sermon again, and I'd pray in the Holy Ghost until light dawned. It is everything. It's connected to everything. If he can get you unrighteousness, he's got you on a lot of other dominoes. You've got to understand it. Which is why he accuses the devil fights it so hard, because he knows if you get this, it's going to change the way you think. It's going to change your life. So he accuses, why? As understanding, righteousness gives you rights to certain things. The Lord said that one day to me. He said, you see the word righteousness, that means you're right with me. He said, yeah, and if your son is right with you, does he not have rights and privileges as a son? I said, yes. He said, well, if you're right with me, and you're not a rebel on the outside, but you're right with me and you stay humble before me, do you not? Therefore, does righteousness not produce rights? That's why the devil fights righteousness, because he doesn't want you to have your rights. Do you understand? So what does he do? All he has is accusing. So he fights your consciousness of righteousness to have you a consciousness of sin. That's his goal. That's his goal. And people let all this stuff come, this accusation. They let the accuser of the brethren in, and they wonder why they don't have victory. They wonder why they don't have healing. They wonder why they don't prosper. Because if you don't get the righteousness thing right, nothing else works the way it should. You'll have a measure of everything else working, but you'll never have fullness. So the devil fights it. He accuses. I want to read you a quote by Pastor Nancy last night. See, while you were sleeping, I was studying. No, I'm just. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Believe me. Let me read this quote from last night. The accuser of the brethren brings your flesh and your natural back to you. When he starts on. When he starts in on you, start talking about your success, I'm right with him. He did it all right? And then he credited to me as though I did it right. That's what the Blood of Jesus does. It puts back as though you never missed it. The devil wants you sin conscious, so you constantly draw back from the goodness of God. The accuser's main purpose is to get you into sin consciousness. That means to magnify wrong above his goodness. Or we could say above his righteousness, above your place. He's trying to magnify things above your place of rightness with him, above the rightness that he made you. Sin consciousness is not realizing that the blood made it as though you've never missed it. You see, if you understand that you're in the blood, you're in him and you are righteous. You realize it doesn't matter what you've done, it's as though it never happened and the devil has no power over you anymore to remind you. So the accuser will try to bring you into sin consciousness instead of righteousness conscience. Listen, how do we overcome the accuser? You know this theologically, but can we read a verse, one of my favorite, please? In the book of Revelations, chapter 12. Hold on. If you've got a wig, you need to put your hand there right now because it's about to flip. In our church we got these precious ladies from the Caribbean that have a different wig every week. And I'm like, who's that person? Oh, that's, that's them. They were blonde last week, now they're red. Revelations 12:10. If you've got a wig, hold it right now. Put your hand on it. It's about to flip. It's about to flip. I'm telling you something, it's about to flip. Yes, I can see hands all over, holding their heads. Now in this seven year tribulation, we're up there getting rewards, having dinner with Jesus, and Jesus is having dinner with his bride. He's basically gone a honeymoon. And the devil, who's planned this for billions of years, what a loser. I mean, he's planned this for billions of years to storm heaven and take God's throne. That's always what he's been after. He's a murderer. He wants to kill Jesus. He wants to be on a throne. And so he's. All these years of strategy and if you read the Bible, he storms heaven. Jesus doesn't even stand up from supper with us. I mean, talk about an insult to the devil. Somebody been planning it all this time. And he doesn't even, he doesn't even draw his sword. And he looks at Michael and says, I'm giving you the field version. He looks at Michael and he says, Deal with that fool. And he goes back to eating with his bride. Michael, the Bible says. And the angels go and kick Satan and his angels out. All of that preparation for nothing. He can't touch it. He can't touch. Can't touch this. Don't get me started now. Don't get me started. You can't touch this. No, you can't touch this. You can't. I think it's amazing that Jesus doesn't even stand up. He don't even stand up. He just says to the angels, deal with him. And this is where we pick it up. Verse 9. And the great dragon was cast out. That old serpent, there's nothing new. He's old and ugly and wrinkly and leathery, called the devil and Satan which deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him. This is in the middle of the tribulation. That's. Listen. People say the devil knows his time and short. No he doesn't. He's that deceived, he thinks he's going to kill God. It's not till he's cast out mid of the tribulation. Then he comes down. And the Bible says, woe unto you inhabitants of the earth, for the great dragon comes with great fury. That's when he goes and he possesses the Antichrist. That's when he sits down and does the abomination of destination and kills the pig in the holy of holies. That's when he realizes I'll never have the throne, but I'm going to sit on Jesus throne that he is scheduled to sit on for the thousand years that he tabernacles in Jerusalem. And so the Antichrist possessed with him sits down. But that's when he knows he's done. He doesn't think he's done today he is so deceived he thinks he's going to kill God. That's when he realizes his time is short. Read revelations, you'll see that. But I just want to get to the point that he is kicked out from this great effort to take God's throne. He is kicked out and cast down to the earth. And his angels are. Now listen to this. Verse 10. And I heard a loud voice in heaven. Now is come salvation. In other words, everything's been culminating to this moment because this was his big shot at the title. And now is come salvation. That means we are secured for eternity and strength. That means Dunamis power, dynamite power. And the kingdom of our God. That's the royalty of heaven, which is Jesus. Now has come the power of his Christ, which is the exusa. The authority and sovereign dominion of our Lord. This is his angel shouting. Now is come. They just whipped the devil and kicked him out. And the angel makes an announcement. We're gonna hear it. When we're there, we'll hear it. Now is comes salvation and the power, the strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his grace. For the accuser. For the accuser. For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. Listen, he was cast down out of heaven, but in our life he's cast down already. Jesus cast him down at the cross. This is talking about an insurrection in heaven, but applies to us today because the accuser has been cast down. Why are you listening to him? And how do you overcome him? The answer is in verse 11. And they overcame this accuser by what? The blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. What does that mean? You testify about what the blood has made you. How do you overcome the accuser who was constantly fighting your consciousness of righteousness? You start talking, I have been made by the blood righteous. I testify what the blood has made me. But if you just think it and you don't actually say it, and say it with conviction and say it with faith and say it with strength, it won't work for you. When those thoughts come, how do you overcome that accuser? How do you overcome sin consciousness? You're under the fountain of blood. Talk about it. The blood has made me right. The blood has made me perfect. I may have sinned, but I don't remember. God don't remember. Nothing remembers because the fountain is over me. The blood has made me righteous. That's how you overcome the accuser. As you talk about what the blood made you. It made you righteous. Hallelujah. Praise God. It's just not that complicated. It's just not that complicated. Now I got too much to say. But I just. Because Pastor often says this. I just want to give a scripture that is in line with it, you know, as if I've never sinned. Right? Could you just. Quickly, very quickly. There's many scriptures. I'll just quote some to you. You can read them later. The blood is on us. Hebrews 10:22, like it was in the Old Testament. On that animal blood. Hebrews 9:19. Now what has the blood done? It saved us and cleansed us of our sin. That's Hebrews 9, 12, 22 and 28. What else has the blood done for us, it's sanctified us and made us holy and consecrated. That's Hebrews 10, verse 10 and verse 14. But I want to focus on chapter nine, verse 14. Can you just quickly look there? Hebrews chapter nine and verse 14 is very powerful and it says. It's not the only verse that says it, but it's one of the main ones. How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience? That means cleanse your. If you look at the word conscience in the Greek, it means consciousness or your perception of yourself. That's what it means, how you see yourself. So the blood cleanses your consciousness from dead works. That means stuff of the past that you've done so that you can serve. Because if you keep thinking about the past, you can't do much for God. Okay, now there's other verses. I'm not going to read all of them, but there's others. But I really want you to look at chapter 10, verse 2, because this is very. This is the Hebrews 10. Two is what Pastor means when she says it's as if you've never done it. There's no memory of it, there's no focus of it. Okay, basically let me just tell you what verse one and two is saying and then we'll read verse two. Basically it's saying, listen, if in the Old Testament they're doing all these repeated sacrifices, okay, if this really worked, Paul's teaching that it didn't work, it was a temporary fix. But he's saying if it really worked, verse two, then would they not have ceased to be offered if the every year the boats, goats and boats, if it was working, they would stop doing it. But they couldn't stop because the only thing that was going to work was Jesus. Now listen to this statement. It's so powerful. So he's saying if this yearly thing was working, they would have ceased to give those sacrifices. Now watch. Why would they have ceased to give it? Because. Look at verse two. Because that the worshipers Old Testament, once cleansed or purged, should have no more consciousness of sin. It didn't work. They had to keep doing it because they kept having a consciousness of sin, but now bring it into the New Testament Because Jesus blood shed once and for all, never repeated. It has worked. The worshipers, us in the New Testament because of what he did, cease to now have a consciousness of sin. There is no more consciousness of sin because the purging, the cleansing of our lives by the blood has done an eternal work forever. And it doesn't have to go the hamster wheel every year like they had to do. We've got it better because we're in Him. There is no more consciousness of my sin. That doesn't mean I don't repent of my sin. You better repent. And you better repent beating your breasts like Jesus talked about. Not like the Pharisee that thinks you're so great. You better turn your face to the wall like Hezekiah. There's got to be a true heartfelt repentance. But when that happen, before the words leave your lips already that blood has put you right back into perfection with God. And there's no more consciousness, memory, that word. If you study it clearly, what it means is this. It means that there's no more consciousness, memory, awareness, or focus. People focus on sin, they're aware of sin, they memorize their sins. No, if you're righteous, it's done. Everything is connected to righteousness. I'm telling you, people don't realize it because it sounds like a complicated subject. And by the way, chapter 10, verse 17 says God has no memory. And if he has no memory, you have no memory. If you're not conscious of it, how could you really be thinking about it? God has no memory. So we live. Can we read quickly here in the Passion translation? The Passion translation, I don't always use, but it's got a great. It's got a great reference here for Romans 8. 4. If we just quickly look at that with me. Romans, chapter 8, verse 4. Because we are understanding a little bit more about righteousness. And the accuser wants to stop that. But our meditation and confession of who we are in the blood keeps us out of his grasp. But living righteously, we are righteous instantly. But we have to also live. He will lead us in paths. Plural of righteousness, there's two kinds, and so we are instantly, positionally. But what about our experiential living? It takes a little bit of effort and work. But look at this. Romans, chapter 8 and verse 4 in the Passion translation. Wonderful verse if I can find it. And it says so. Now, every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit. Watch. Every righteous requirement is fulfilled through the Anointed One living in us. We live righteously because it's not complicated, although it sounds like it is, because righteousness is in me. Because Christ is in me and I'm in him. Which means I'm righteous. But listen, that righteousness is in my spirit. It takes time to get my mind renewed, but my spirit. Now listen, if you'll just learn to live out of your spirit. Everything you ever do is going to be the acts of righteousness or the fruits of righteousness. That's why we're constantly trying to get people to live out of their spirit. Because the righteousness positionally is in here, but now it has to come out into the actions, the thinking, the words. And if you live out of your spirit, you'll find the fruits work. They just work. But you gotta live out of your spirit and renew your mind so that your thinking over time matches your spirit. So that you're thinking righteous, you're speaking righteous. Right things, appropriate things. This is called consecration and holy living. It is the outflow of what is in your spirit. So I am righteous, but I have to live righteous. I have to pursue righteousness. Why do you have to pursue it if you already are? Because lifestyle has to be right. The way you talk to your spouse, the way you talk, the way you think, the way you handle things at work, all of that is the outflow of the righteousness inside you. And the more you yield to it, the more your actions become pleasing, the less you yield to it, the more you're a duality. You're perfect in here, but you're acting like the devil out here. And now you're always confessing, you're always repenting, you're always feeling guilty. But what you got to do is understand I'm in him. I am perfectly righteous. If I repent, I've got an advocate. But I'm right back. And Lord, that doesn't end there, because that's who I am. But now how am I going to live? How am I going to treat my wife? What am I going to do in this situation that is bothering me? My flesh wants to do this, but I'm going to live out of the righteousness inside me. And my actions, thoughts and words and deeds are going to be. They're going to follow my spirit and I'm going to get a lifestyle of purity and consecration and righteousness. But that's why there's so much emphasis in the New Testament on living out of your spirit. Do you understand? There is rights. As I close, there's rights to righteousness and can I just say the blessing of Abraham. There's a lot of things you can include in that. But if you just Take the baseline, just the baseline of the most important blessings, the most important elements of the blessing. There are basically four things, and it is your victory or deliverance over your enemy. It is your protection. If you study the Bible, these are the four basics. It is your health and it is your prosperity. Okay? Now this is a very, what I find at least to be a very fascinating, fascinating thing, the Passover meal. Remember, they killed the lamb and they ate and the death angel passed over and that's called Passover. That's called the Seder meal, okay? We have a ministry in Israel. And so sometimes I go and they this precious Messianic Jews, they teach me some of this stuff which is, which has deep symbolism and we don't live off it, but there's some good things there. And so there's something in the Seder meal that we wouldn't know because we don't really do that. But I thought this was very fascinating. There are four cups of wine. When Jesus had that last meal my pastor was talking about with Judas, there's always four cups of wine, okay? And those four cups are called the arba kasat. And they drink them throughout the meal because they are remembering the blessing of Abraham. And every cup has a blessing attached to it. The one is called righteousness or sanctification. That's the first one. They always drink. There's a reason for that because it's connected to everything else. The second one is called deliverance or victory over whatever enemy, spiritual or natural. The third one is the protection cup that God will protect you from life, from spiritual things, natural things, whatever. And the last one is the redemption cup, which has which the redemption cup really is two parts, and that is he redeemed or brought us back from Egypt. Because remember, the Passover is all about Egypt. But the redemption of Egypt includes two primary things, health and wealth. They came out with substance. They came out without feebleness. So the redemption cup is mainly about prosperity and healing. So as they're eating this Passover meal, which for us represents our salvation, it's Jesus, he's the lamb that was slain. They are constantly reminding themselves once a year that there is the blessing of Abraham connected to my covenant. They're celebrating it with drinking these four cups of wine. And the first thing they realize, and these are unrenewed mind people that aren't even in the covenant that we are today. But it goes from the Old Testament. So there's symbolic truth for us. And the first one is we are righteous. Now, it was a credit to Them because of their faith. For us, we are actually in the real deal. But the righteous is one thing and then there's the other. And so I was thinking about it one day and I thought, well, Lord, that's kind of interesting. And I looked at it the way I see it, the way I. Because I'm simple. The way I help to remind myself is like your thumb on your hand is like your. It's like your foundation finger. It connects to everything else. Ever try to pick up something without your thumb? I wouldn't pick up a glass without your thumb if I were you. It's not gonna work. The thumb is the foundation. It's the baseline. And really everything is connected because of that thumb. And if you just look at righteousness like your thumb, that was the first cup they would drink. You have to understand that righteousness connects to everything. Righteousness connects to everything. If you're not understanding it and meditating on it and believing it, you're not going to have proper victory. That's deliverance. You're not going to have proper protection, you're not going to have proper healing, and you're not going to have proper prosperity because it's all connected to the thumb. You've got to understand that this connection feeds to every part of your life. And so, for example, what is Isaiah 54:13? Those that are established in righteousness shall be far from oppression. Oppression shall be far from you and terror far from you. So if we understand the thumb of righteousness, the index finger, which could be, you know, you point that, you know, that's your commanding finger. That's our authority over devils. That's our authority over things. But notice that the oppression and the terror, our enemies that we are commanding to be far from us, that don't work. If you're not established in righteousness. The finger requires the thumb. You can pick whichever finger you want. I'm just telling you, that's the way I look at it, the middle finger. I look at it like it's the redemption of prosperity because it goes the furthest. And prosperity is supposed to extend out to every aspect of my life. But it's connected to the thumb. If I don't understand righteousness, I'll never truly understand prosperity. Because God can't get over things to you if you don't think the way he wants you to think about yourself. What does it say? Seek ye first. Matthew 6:33. The kingdom of God and his. Then all these things added prosperity. Added, added. But righteousness, righteousness, righteousness, before they're added, seeking a revelation of righteousness before they're added. Everybody wants it added, but nobody wants to understand who they are in Christ. You've got to understand the righteous thumb. If you're going to have the middle finger of all this wealth, all these things added. But you got to seek righteousness and not to seek it because you're not it. But understanding that you're it. The ring, which is the protection finger, really, the way, just to help me remind is it's a protection. God wants to protect me from a host of things that are against us in this life. But my protection is connected to righteousness. And there's a verse in Proverbs 13:6, and it says that righteousness is a shield of protection, guarding those who keep their integrity. Righteousness is a shield of protection. They drank the first cup because they had to meditate that they had been by faith righteous, even from animal blood in God's eyes before they focused on any of the other benefits of the covenant. And yet we are focusing on all the other cups of wine, and we don't even. This cup is hidden behind the bread somewhere. We don't even know where it is. It's supposed to be the revelation of righteousness first, then the revelation of I have dominion and authority and victory and deliverance over enemies. I have divine prosperity. It goes into every aspect of my life. I have divine protection like a father husband protects his wife. That ring finger and then that little finger, just so I remember it, is that healing? Remember, redemption is healing and prosperity. That healing, really, the way I look at it, it's connected to my thumb. If I understand righteousness, healing will flow like a little finger. You can get it anywhere, almost compared to the other fingers. Every nook, every cranny, from my ear canal to my hair follicle to my big toe. Healing is supposed to flow like a river into every aspect of my life. But it's connected to my understanding of my righteousness. Malachi 4:2. The son of righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings. Every aspect of my life is connected to righteousness. That's why it says the path of the righteous. It doesn't specify. All these verses I've given you specify. There's a deliverance, there's a protection, there's a healing, there's a whatever. The other one, what was it? The prosperity and the protection and the healing and the victory, all of that is connected, but there's just everything. The path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter and brighter. Everything in my life is on an upswing. Because I understand my righteousness. This is why the devil fights it. Because if he can get you to think wrong about who you are, everything is connected to that thinking. You know why there's such a fight against righteousness? Because righteousness is black and white. Righteousness is not shades of gray. Righteousness is. There's a right and there's a wrong. And have you noticed the world hates Christians. Telling them that there is a standard of absolute truth, that there is something that is absolute. Oh my God, they'll gnash their teeth at you. No, that's your truth. No, it's not my truth. It's the truth. No, no, that's not good for you. That's good for you, but don't make it good for me. Oh no, it's good for you. And whether you realize it or not, one day you'll realize when you stand before him there is a fight against righteousness. I don't just mean I'm talking about our personal life, but I mean just in general. There is a fight against it. Because the devil wants everything gray. He doesn't want any absolute truth, sexuality. Now we have 104 genders in Canada. 104. It went from 2 boy, girl to 104 weirdos. Every subcategory splice thing here, there. It's lunacy, asinine craziness. But don't you dare tell them that there's an absolute truth. Don't you dare tell them, hey, you are wrong and there is something that is right. And righteousness speaks about what is right. And that world system can't take it because they want to make their own form of right. That's why you have to preach it. That's why we have to preach it. We have to preach it. I was thinking somebody was called. I didn't know where it was. I found it in second Peter 2. 5. It says, and Noah, in his generation of perversity was a preacher of righteousness. Noah was. And that didn't it say in the book of Luke? I believe it's Matthew 24:37. As in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man. We are in the days of Noah. Violence, perversion, every kind of crazy thinking. And yet we are a generation of Noah's. And Noah was. He could have been called a lot of things. There's a lot of subjects. What did he call him? A preacher of righteousness. Because in the Noah generation, which is this generation, the word righteousness must Be preached regularly, strong and boldly. There is a right and there is a wrong. Don't get on the wrong side of this because of your own deception. There's a right and there's a wrong. See, righteousness is. Yes. Everything we've been talking about is who we are. We're in him. We've got all these blessings connected to it. But there's also the concept of right and wrong in our society that is going to hell in a handbasket. And if churches don't have a standard of absolute truth, we've got to be preachers of righteousness. Righteousness is about right and wrong. But righteousness, You're a preacher of righteousness. You're not just saying what's right and wrong. I'm a preacher of righteousness. Not just because I tell people, sinners and all that stuff, what's right and wrong. I'm a preacher of righteousness because I'm teaching my congregation that you are. You're not going to become. You are made righteous. The devil can't touch that. Your thought life must be sealed by that. And everything else in your life flows out of that. Hallelujah. What is Romans 14:17? The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy. The flow of heaven is righteousness. Why is righteousness mentioned first? Because it was the first cup. It's the first thing you meditate on. It's the key to everything else. It's the baseline. Without it, you can't grab things in your life you're trying to grab healing. But if you don't understand who you are, healing will evade you to some measure because your thinking will be off. Same with prosperity. Same with protection. Same with victory. It's all connected to the thumb. I hope I'm not saying it too aggressively, but I guess I feel excited that God, he's made it so easy for us and yet so many people dismiss the subject because they say, I don't understand it. It's too complicated. No, it's. It's not that complicated. Jesus brought me in, and I am made righteous. His rightness has been given to me. I don't. I don't have to think about sin consciousness. I don't have to. I. It's. It's not part of my existence. I'm under a fountain of blood. Every day when I wake up in the morning, I really do this. Whether you believe it or not. I say, lord, I'm under the fountain of blood. Whatever happened is done. It's a new day. Fresh mercies. Your goodness, your goodness, is on me today. Your goodness died for me. Your goodness came in Genesis 15 and walked the path of blood. Your goodness prophesied your own death. Your goodness forgave me when I made a mistake. Now I can access. I can access the benefits of the blessing of Abraham. I can access it fully because I think right about who I am. Praise God. I just want to say one more thing in two minutes, and I'm going to close. I'm going to skip certain parts because we just don't have it. But remember, righteousness, joy and peace. Of course, that verse there in Isaiah, chapter 32, verse 17. I'm just going to read it real quick to you because it's so. It's so good. You always see righteousness, joy and peace working together. Righteousness, peace and joy. I should say in that order. But Isaiah 32, and then we'll close. Isaiah, chapter 32. I'm so grateful for Pastor Nancy teaching us and continually bringing us back to it. Isaiah 32, 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace. And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance. Assurance means it really is faith. It's talking about a solidified confidence and trust in God, which is faith. The more you understand righteousness, the stronger your faith will be, the more peace you'll have. Do you remember when Jesus said in Mark 5. 34, he says, daughter, the woman with the issue of blood, and I'm done. Your faith. I'm just going to read it Mark, Chapter 5. 34. Because my memory is sometimes. I don't want to get that wrong. Look at this. This is powerful. The woman hearing fear and trembling, no one was done at her, came and fell down before him and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, daughter, thy faith has made thee whole. Go in peace and be whole of thy plague. We've read that a thousand times. But if you study it, the fact that he called her daughter, this is a very important phrase that people overlook because remember the woman that was bent over, she's a daughter of Abraham. Remember, woman be thou loosed. Daughter speaks of Abrahamic covenant. Daughter represents the word righteousness. What he's saying is she is right because she's a daughter covenant. She is righteous through her faith in that covenant. So we see righteousness mentioned first when he says the word daughter, because the daughter is a very powerful word. Then he says, thy faith has made thee whole. There's two different Greek words for whole. Here, faith got her healed. The word whole there. The first word means to be healed and restored. From that plague. So the issue of blood dried up and she felt there was a difference. Remember, he says, your faith made you whole. In other words, your faith got you healed. But then he says something curious, Go in peace and be whole of thy plague. But the word plague doesn't mean the issue of blood. That's what I always thought it meant. She's already healed of that. The word plague is the Greek word for a Roman whip. A scourge, as you would scourge somebody. They would often call sicknesses a scourge, a scourge of society. What Jesus was saying is go in peace and be whole. That word whole doesn't mean the first word, whole, healing. It means expand and increase over time. If you study it, that's what it means. Wholeness was a constant expanding and increasing from the effects of the scourge. But did you notice? He said, go in peace. That word means if you study it, go into peace. It means choose peace. It means you have an option. Pick peace. Why? Because. Just because you're healed, it didn't end there. Righteousness has to go through. You have to have peace and you have to have joy. How can you have joy if you still lost all your money from 12 years of doctor's bills? How can you have joy if you still don't have a family and all this stuff? No, it starts with righteousness, but it's got to get you to peace and joy. So he's saying righteousness, you have a right to the healing. Your faith got you healed. Now choose peace. Choose peace. As you leave me today, stay out of the mental arena and stay in peace, because righteousness will help you be in peace. Now, if you're in peace and if you guard your mind, you're going to, over time, become whole. You're going to wax great. You're going to increase from all the effects of the scourge, all the money, all the emotions, all the social issues, everything you've lost is going to be restored to you and your joy will be made full, righteous daughter, your faith made you healed of this particular sickness. But peace now, peace. Choose it. If you choose it. If you choose it, you're going to, over time, recover everything this scourge has taken and you'll come into divine joy. Everywhere you see righteousness, you'll see a connection with joy and peace. Because the flow of heaven, the flow of heaven is that I know who I am and when I know who I am, there must be an outflow of peace. There must be an outflow of with joy. It's got to work because righteousness is connected to everything. You can't have joy and peace if you don't understand righteousness. You can't have these other four cups, these other four fingers if you don't understand righteousness. And you're not going to understand righteousness unless you meditate on it. Unless you realize what he did for you and you have come in him. Father, I thank you this morning, Lord. It's a little bit intimidating standing in this pulpit, in this great company of robust believers and mighty ministers of the gospel and to stand before my general, my five star general. I know she don't see herself maybe as that, but I see her as that. And, and, and the, and, and the, the Savior that she's been to us, the small s. Savior. And the feel, Father, it feels a little bit surreal to stand in this great company of believers. And sometimes you don't always know what to say. But when I said, lord, what do you want me to say? You said, tell him what you've learned. I thank you for this revelation of righteousness. I thank you for us being in you. It has changed everything for our futures and it is connected to everything in our future. And we can't have that joy and peace fully if we don't understand who we are. We can't have that healing, prosperity, protection and deliverance, all the blessings of Abraham if we don't drink fully the cup of righteousness. So I thank you, Lord. I thank you for that divine revelation. I thank you that they will start to confess what the blood has made them. Because that's how we overcome that rotten accuser and let them leave today, Father, in a higher measure of freedom, with a renewed mind realizing that they're never here and you're there. They're always in you and they're righteous. And we give you praise and glory in Jesus mighty name. Thank you. Thank you for your kind attention. We trust you've enjoyed this message. Visit us at dufresneministries.org to learn of our upcoming meetings, share your testimony, become a partner or visit our online store. This program has been made possible by the friends and partners of Dufresne Ministries.