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"Righteousness vs Regrets" - Pastor Jennifer Field - May 19. 2024
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"Righteousness vs Regrets" - Pastor Jennifer Fiel…
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So I wanted to teach today on righteousness versus regrets. I've been listening a lot to Pastor Nancy. She is my. I am clinging to her. I mean that I am clinging to her. The revelation that flows out of her mouth, it's astonishing. And I just think. I think about a season that I went through, and it was about a three year long season. And it was like she was the beacon of light that I just followed her. I just followed her and she taught me truths of the spirit. And it got me through, but it got me into a peace that I didn't know existed. It got me into an answer far before I ever saw the manifestation of it. And that's what God wants for us. He doesn't want us troubled in any way. He wants us to live in that realm that he's given us before. The things show up that we need and they will show up. But in the meantime, you exit the struggle far before you see anything. So let's get into it. If you hear me quoting Pastor Nancy, then I've done my job because she's amazing. The Lord said to me one time, he said, you know, you don't have to recreate the wheel. I've given you teachers and I've given you the message in them to give that message to others. He said, it'll flow through you in different ways, sometimes some different stories maybe, but I've given you that message. So I want you to repeat things that they've said. I want you to tell their stories because they're such great stories. They really are. Turn with me in the word to Isaiah 53:4 5. Isaiah 53:4 5. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him. And with his stripes we are heals. How many times is the word our said there? I think it's like five different times. This was completely for us. Nothing to do with him in the sense of he hadn't done anything wrong. Everything that he paid was for us, that we would be free. And the word griefs. Pastor Nancy talks a lot about it. And a lot of people, when they think of griefs, they think of dramatic things. And it applies to that. Trust me. That is, it definitely applies to that. But griefs needs, that word needs to be understood in the sense that it's for things that are less than Dramatic. It's for disappointments, it's for blame that we place on ourselves. It's for regret. Regrets that we have that we carry like a chain and ball, you know, our ball and chain behind us. And griefs can be for the dramatic things, but it's also about. Well, it's things that others could have done to us, but it's also about things that we are unhappy, that we've done, like we actually did those. We can't look at someone else and say, because of them, this happened. And there's power to deal with that. But I wanted to focus more on the griefs that come because we have regrets, because we've made mistakes. And I also want to bring in today, obviously, righteousness, what Jesus did and how you're to handle things like that so that you don't get burdened. And I'm going to talk quite a bit about it because I think our natural mind kicks in and goes, yeah, but like, this happened, so I did this. So I have to deal with this or I have to live like this. And I'm here to tell you that there's an exit. There's an exit for those things. But it comes from thinking right, and it comes from taking your stand on the word of God. And it matters that you think right because you'll be able to handle it and you'll be able to exit things. And I'll tell you some personal examples of things that my husband and I, we got it wrong. We got it wrong. And God redeemed it. God redeemed it. People say things like, well, what about if someone dies? Well, Pastor Nancy, Dr. Dufresne went home and look at her life. It matters. The quality of our life matters. When our life is continuing and someone is exited, it matters that we are completely free from grief and sorrow. Completely free from grief and sorrow. Well, I don't believe that's possible. Well, then more revelation in the Word and what has been given you is required. Some people didn't know that healing was something they could have until they sat in the church that taught them about healing and what seems so far off now they can apply and then not only apply, but experience and then walk in boldly. And so there's growth to be had. Well, there's growth to be had in dealing with. With griefs and sorrows, regrets about. Some people regret their marriages or relationships that are difficult for them, things that they are involved in. And they think, that's it. You know, that's it, I'm done. You're not. God has not forsaken you at all. He has not forsaken you at all. He is your companion. He is the lover of your soul. He is there to walk you through and out. But before even the circumstances change, he wants to guard your mind so that a peace that you've never known can be there and that there is a shield there. And I'm going to say this. There's some of us, most of us that have, you know, that are a little bit older, we know we can kind of shake our heads and go, yeah, I regret this or I regret that, or. But when you're younger, you can almost. You can excuse it, like, well, you know, I don't think. That doesn't apply to me. Well, the skill applies to you. You're never too young to know that he redeemed you from griefs and sorrows and that you're not held in a cage because mistakes were made. You are not. Well, I have to live with it. No, that's not what the word says. The word says that he is. He will cause you to overcome. He will give you instruction. He will give you wisdom. He will redeem your mistakes. Now, we don't take it flippantly like, yeah, none of us want heartache. None of us want to wrestle that alligator to the floor, so to speak. But if you've made mistakes and we all make them, there is an exit. There's an exit door for you. There is. I was thinking about it. I remember some years I spent at least, what, 15, 20 years. Wow. It seems like yesterday, in some ways, my husband and I made a mistake with an investment. We were innocent and dumb, thought it looked great, spent thousands of dollars, poured thousands of dollars into it. Thousands upon thousands. And then when it tanked, we had to pay it back. And I felt so stupid. I felt like, how did I miss all that? And then I felt like when you're paying it back every year and you've got a normal income. You know what I mean by normal, right? You know, maybe you got an extra 15,000 that year or. And I don't. If people have less than that. I'm not saying that's not normal. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying we've been places, right? So every year, instead of the vacation that we could have done or, you know, something nice or the better car or for some, it's education for their kids or something, we couldn't do that. And so we were paying it back. Paying it back. And I remember Just on my face before God saying, I'm so sorry. And you don't have any idea how many times I said that to the Lord. And I'll show you today how that's not necessary. It's necessary to repent, but then you don't stay there. Listen, I can tell you right now, yeah, it took some years. I think we could have exited a lot faster. But we were learning things. And when we bought the next house, he redeemed that amount two or three times over. And he spoke to me and he said, do you remember you made that mistake? See, I've made it up for you. And I was so odd. It took some time, but I was awed. I thought he really did. And people say, well, you know, you can't attribute that to that. I can. I can. Because of the supernatural way that he held the house for us. And they had to drop the house by 200,000. And in a year it went up 380,000. And I turned around and it was because he said, move and move. Now. If he didn't say that to me, I wouldn't have had that windfall. And the mortgage company that gave us our first mortgage gave us the mortgage for the house we've got now. But they've never done that in all the years they've existed. They didn't go north of a certain point in the city. And the only reason they did it was because we had kept a mortgage with them and been faithful to our payments for four years. And there were other miracles, but it was like my awful mistake. He laughed at it. He kicked it to the curb. And if you don't know, if you feel like, but I did this, I gotta pay for this because I did it, I'm guilty, or I did this to someone else. Sometimes it's us doing things to other people. We feel so bad or that other person won't forgive us. I'm leaving my notes behind. They're good notes, I'm telling you. So we do things we wish we hadn't. So I will include in there taking jobs. We didn't think we should have not gotten the education we thought we should have. Acts we've committed wrong relationships. It's not that those things don't matter or that I'm trying to make light of them. But what I am saying is, if you will trust God, if you will turn to him and give him that grief, he'll redeem it for you. He will. He will take care of you. He knows that you're not perfect. He knows and he's provided for those the same way he took your sicknesses, he nailed your unrighteousness, he nailed your mistakes, your griefs, the things you sorrow over, the things that hurt. He nailed them to his cross. And this is a fair question, but people will say, I know, but it didn't change anything really. Like, I made the mistake. Now I'm living with this. Well, here's the thing. Everything for the believer is faith. So refusing to let the enemy come in. And I'll talk about that in a bit, but by faith saying, I'm going to let you take that grief, I'm going to let you redeem that grief so that it doesn't tar and feather my life. That I'm going to believe you to come in because you are not holding that to me. If anything, you're saying, look at me, I took it. I took that grief, I took this. So you don't have to bear it. You don't have to stay in that flow of grief. And that's a big thing, the flow of grief, the flow of blame, the flow of regrets. Yeah. So you don't have to stay there. You can believe this word. No, he took it from me. And that just that alone can protect your mind so that that awful thing doesn't get in and tear your mind up. And then you agree with it. And then you're talking to yourself. Listen, there's voices out there that will accuse, but there's the voice that is the most effective, is the one that's in your own head. That voice that agrees with the slander that's brought. Because technically this was done wrong, or technically you stepped over a line. But Jesus came because we were sinners. But we're not sinners anymore. We're not sinners saved by grace. We've been made righteous. The grace saved us. But we're not sinners. A whole new nature, a brand new creation. There's not an ounce of the old in what he made for the new. A born again being. And a born again being has no business dragging regrets and mistakes through life. Oh, praise the Lord. You hold to the word so the devil can't come in and do further damage. And he can't take your faith from you that God's going to help you and bring you out of something. You hold to that word the same way you hold that he took your sicknesses. When you're believing, really believing for healing, when that sorrow comes, when that regret comes, you see it pinned to the cross. That way it stops the flow, the thoughts. I shouldn't have done this. I shouldn't have let them do that in that circumstance. Oh, I lost money because I didn't do the. I shouldn't have. I shouldn't have. You have to stop that with Isaiah 53, 4 and 5, because he took it. Now, in the protecting of the mind and being strong in the protecting of the mind, you stop that flow, okay? And then once you get out of that flow, you've got resources from the Heavenly Father. Oh, he knew you couldn't take those. He knew you couldn't handle those regrets. He knew you'd make mistakes. But he's telling you, I got you. You can trust me. I'm going to make something beautiful out of your life. And not only it's not reckoned to you anymore. It's gone. It's gone. Hallelujah. You have to anchor yourself in your thought life on His Word because His Word is literal, it's spiritual, it's powerful, and it's the path to freedom. Rehearsed regrets will tighten the noose of condemnation. It'll wax gray. It'll go around and around and around till that becomes your identity instead of the fact that you were made a new creation. And I'm going to talk a little bit about the reality of mistakes and how to deal with them, because I know our mind fights us on this. Okay? But I'll get there. The Word says, hope deferred makes the heart sick. That's Proverbs 13 and 12. Regrets will rob you of your faith and hinder your faith because of sin consciousness. And you can't have confidence when you go to the Father and everything is, I did this wrong because. Or it's like I'm so aware that I'm just not great, or I should have done this. I should have done that. And when your faith, see that's the ploy of the enemy, is to attack your faith so that you don't have any confidence of who you are in Christ. So that when you stand before the Father, all you can think about is such a tragedy. All you can think about is what you did wrong. I did this. I did that. I'm not enough. I should have prayed more this morning. I should have done this. Listen, we teach the way into the realm of the Spirit. But for every truth that is taught, there is an enemy to that truth. There is an enemy that wants to pervert and put a shadow on the Word to get you into legalism instead of faith. You have to know when he made you Righteous. And I'll list some verses. He made you so he didn't reckon righteousness to you. He didn't just, like, take his and, like, smear you with his righteousness. So now God can look at you. That's not what happened. The Bible says that he made you, made you righteous. You should never enter the Father's presence. I mean, if you've done something wrong, repent, let it go. Seriously. But you never, ever enter his presence with a sense of sin consciousness, whatever. This is so grand, what he did. He made you identical in your spirit to Jesus. You enter, you're his love child. So you never. If you are entering. If you are entering his presence with a thought of. And I'm going to tell you right now, until recently, God got ahold of me because I have taken on prayer assignments for the church. I was falling into this ditch. I know I could have prayed more. And I recognized that as I was entering into his presence, there was a shadow there. It took me a while. I thought, this doesn't feel right. And he started to have me really, really meditate on what it means to be righteous. If your child. Now, don't go to sleep on me. Because sometimes these can sound so cliche, these stories. But just listen to what I'm saying. If your child that you love comes to you and they've made a mistake, do you want your child coming into your presence, listing everything they did wrong? Do you want to constantly have to reassure them, I love you, I love you, I love you. It's okay. I love you. I forgive you. I love you. Like that is important. I love you, I forgive you. But that's not relationship. That's not fellowship. Your fellowship with the Father, Jesus had to do that for you. He removed every stone spot, every blemish, so that when you walk in, you're in full confidence. Faith flows out of that naturally. It's a natural spigot of faith to have fellowship and intimacy with the Father. And I'm saying this. I see. I've had my own experiences, and I see how the devil comes in. And people come in and they feel like they talk to me about it from their heart. They don't feel like they pray enough. They're condemned because they feel like they can't hear from God. They took this career and it tanked. They didn't finish this degree, and now they're feeling sad. Listen, I'm going to tell you something right now. We have had people come into the church. This is for the dramatic and for the Non dramatic. We've had people come into the church, some people have committed murder, some people have been engaged in things that would be more put in a category of things that were more perverted sexually. We've had things come into the church and the first thing we have to teach them is Jesus cleansed it. If you repented, he cleansed it. That's the truth about it. That's the truth about it. Now people say things like, well, they say, well now there's penalties because of this, this and this. Well, let me give you some good examples. Yes, if you've broken trust, say, or you've done something more dramatic, then you're going to have to let God forgive you. You're going to have to let him take your shame. It's not a flippant thing. It's the weightiness of the cross, of what he provided. It's very weighty that only the Godhead could do it. But we're not flippant, but we are filled with faith. So then what happens is if you have to walk things out, you let God walk you through it, but you don't allow the devil to come and crush you. Look, how do you think Moses felt? He murdered someone, but look how God redeemed his life. My God. People say, well, I'm not Moses. Well yeah you are. They're examples for us. What about David? Murder. You don't look at the scriptures and just see a murderer because what? Because God pardoned him. You look at, oh, look at this Paul. Paul is raised in a Pharisaical home. He's the upper crust of Jewish society. He is learned, he is avid, he is zealous. He's earned all the stuff, the stars. And then he comes face to face with Jesus who knocks him off the horse. The glory knocked him off the horse. And then he's transformed. You know how complex being raised in the ceremonial laws of Judaism. Everything is a work clean or an unclean. Your whole life is about the ceremonies and rituals that show you salvation versus non salvation. But in a natural sense, now you're converted and it's just too easy. How can it be this easy? No circumcision, no washing of the hands. You can go anywhere you want. On the Sabbath you can. No cutting the throats of animals and taking their. And now I get to enter. And now I can eat things. That doesn't make me unclean. He straddled those two worlds of gentile and Jew and he's got to put up with all the unrenewed Minds of the new church and the old and the hatred of the Jews that say you're blasphemous. And he understands what it is to be both, to feel both. And he does not even have the smell of smoke on him. He cast it all aside. But you know he felt it. You know it never says that. He had a talk with mom and dad. His parents are not mentioned. You know it doesn't say they were converted. You know they hated what he did. In their eyes, he's a complete blasphemer. But he does reference it in pressing for the prize. But all of these things would have assaulted him. You're not worthy. Look what you did. You did this to the church. And then your parents don't understand you. You don't. Look, your life's a mess. And now you've got a church that half believes, half don't. And you've got this big revelation. You didn't confer with flesh and blood for three years like, do you understand? And yet he's saying, my eyes were open. My past is nothing. It hasn't even references it one time. And then he writes the epistles because that's what the blood does. It completely cleanses. It cleanses you of that voice, that accusing voice in your mind. Paul helped murder. Some people say he did murder. We don't know for sure, but he sure he liked it when they got killed. The Bible says if you look upon someone and lust after them, you've committed adultery. So if Paul is moving with bloodlust, guess what? I'm just saying, Jesus bore the grief of that sorrow so that we're not chained to accusing ourselves and we don't embrace that flow. Sometimes we're good at forgiving others and awful at forgiving ourselves. And it will hinder your faith. It will hinder you in a big way. You will have your head down. You will spend your life doing works because you got to earn it. Will you tell me I have to pray? Yeah, but from the right flow, not from earning. We want to get you as far away from that as we can so that your life, your prayer life, can be filled with joy. You're talking to the Almighty. You're not punching a time clock. See how the devil wants to turn your freedom into legalism. Yes. We want you to pray so that you may know him. Not because you're not worthy, because you didn't do your 40 minutes today or your four. You know what I mean? It's the wrong way. Here's what the renewed mind Does. It does not sit around and rehearse because you've been redeemed from that. Some people feel like I have to get it out. Pastor Nancy says this. They feel like I have to talk things out. And there's a place where you can discuss certain things. We're not robots, right? But rehearsing things, when you see a pattern of, I've talked about this over and over and over. All that's happening is that you're trying to engage the natural way of dealing with things, and it can't meet your need. You're actually letting things in. Have you ever been in the conversation? Maybe it's a family thing. Maybe it's there's a rift in the family or something like that, or somebody's a black sheep or do you know what I'm talking about? Or, you know, I remember a family that would get together and they would rehearse. They would rehearse what the mom and dad had done to this one child in their midst. And it brought them such sorrow for that. They mourned for him. I saw it. They mourned for that child who was innocent, who was hurt by the actions of the parent. And one day they came to the realization, this is not helping us. They did it for years. So they agreed not to speak of it. When you agree not to rehearse, you are protecting your mind. You will be amazed at what you can put a stop to just by going, nope, I'm not thinking of that. There was a picture sent to me recently, and I looked at the picture, and it was so, such a sweet picture. But when I saw it, I felt an arrow go into my heart because of the outcome of something that that picture reminded me of. And I'm not joking with you, it felt like a blow, like a ugh. And I started talking. Oh, no, you don't. No, you don't. I've been redeemed from grief and sorrow. And those words need to be in your mouth because they will become so real to you. And you will forever walk above the flow of grief and sorrow. But it's because you're focused on those words. Isaiah 53, 4, 5. Not only does it protect your mind, but God's got a set of actions to bring you out. But the protection of the mind means peace. Right away, you're protected. Then when you're in peace, you know, you're released then to speak life over that situation. What about kids that have gone and gone off and you're looking at their life and you wanted so Much for them. And you just get bound up with grief. And the devil says, well, fine, be peaceful. This is still happening. This didn't happen for them. They didn't finish this. They didn't get universal whatever. But he's a liar. He's a liar. And our eternal weight on things is not just limited to this earth. We got a whole life that we're living for. And our job is to stand there in peace and declare righteousness over that child until things can be turned, until righteousness is seen, until things can come to fruition. And the whole time we're doing it, our mind's in perfect peace, perfect joy, Joy unspeakable, full of glory. And that's what God offers us. I love it. I love it. I love it. Glory to God. So I'll say this. Don't treat it lightly when you've missed it and be flippant. I said this. It took heaven's intervention to help you walk free of that. It took the Godhead. It is a weighty thing, but by you accepting the forgiveness or that he took that grief, that's faith. That's what he wants. He wants your faith. He wants your faith. And you're to cleanse your mind with the Word. Cleanse your mind. That's what you're doing when you're saying, no, no, no, he took my griefs and sorrows. No, he's working on situations for me. No, he's changing things for me. No, he's got a plan. Be skillful in believing the Word so that by faith you can receive with ease. That's your level. That's your marker. Can you receive with ease the forgiveness, God, the comfort of God about a struggle and not struggle at all, that's your marker. By faith. I love it. You need to deal with how you are processing mistakes of the past. Do it through the Word and learn to lay it there. And don't allow it to be picked back up. Not in the natural. Pray in the Spirit, speak the Word and do not struggle. Don't try to carry. Will be very difficult to receive answers from God because it keeps you from believing. Living in the mess of mistakes when God has provided an exit will cost you. And the first exit is the mind. You grab that piece as fast as you can. It belongs to you. It was paid for. The chastisement of your peace was upon him. The punishment for your peace was upon him. Now I want to say this, and I'll explain it. You may have to walk through a mess that was created. Whether it's by you or by someone else. But you're dealing with it. But do it as one. Understanding that God has forgiven you and made you righteous. It's a totally different approach. Make things right where you can, but don't get under the crush of regret and sorrow. Look at brother Randy Greer. We get to see the man, the prophet, the holy life, the success. Let me tell you, there's so much success surrounding him. But if you had met him, I asked him one time, I said, brother Randy, like, when did you go to prison? Like, when did this start in your life? He said, I was 18. And I thought, I think of his past, I think of his incarceration, but I see a man. You know what I mean? In my mind, I see a man. And I said to him, oh, my gosh, you were a boy. You were held accountable, but you were a boy. You don't know anything when you're 18. Sorry, Chloe, sorry. You don't know everything. But see, he had done some things, he had crossed some lines where now the law was involved. Not everything we do is going to invoke the law of the land. But what did God do? You know that he went to prison. A man that was saved when God said to him, turn yourself in. Now, I want to say this. If you're here or if you're watching by livestream and you've done. You've done something that the law will persecute you or people will shrink back from you, or they'll judge you because whatever it was, it causes repulsion for them. Let me say this. You have a savior and he's not going to shrink back from you. He's going to forgive you and already has. If you've asked and you meant it and he's cleansed you and he's made you right now, people say, they link them together. They say, well, if I'm forgiven, but then I have to deal with all of this. Well, if you're dealing with things in the natural, because it's on a deep level where others are involved, you need to let God come in and walk you through through it. God walked Paul through it. He did. He gave him once he was born again, he began to train him. That was Paul's life. If it's your life and your set of circumstances are different, by clinging to him, by not allowing the enemy to crush you, by allowing the blood to cleanse you, God is going to come and stand with you. He's going to walk you out, he's going to train you as A born again creature. He's going to train you so that you are not crushed, so that there's redemption in your life, so that there's a deep work in you where you can be a trophy of God's grace. People could say I could never be considered a trophy of God's grace. I've committed murder. I've done this, I've done that. I've committed deep sexual sins. I have done this, I've done that. Listen, God commands you to come out of that box if other people won't let you. You may think because they won't let you come out of that box that you're doomed. But that is a lie of the enemy. And by accepting your righteousness, by accepting what the blood has done, by walking it through with him and staying in that righteous place, the effect of their words, the effect of their judgment, even if they've been wronged, the power of those words will fall off you. They fell off, Paul. They fall. The word will make them fall. Listen, I know a story that I deeply appreciate, and it's about David Berkowitz. I don't know if anyone knows who that is, but he's considered in the crime files as Son of Sam, serial killer. Well, he tells the story about how his parents. I think he was adopted and his parents were good people. I think they were churchgoing people. And he just got so filled with the devil. He calls himself possessed. He said I was possessed. And he went to prison. But when he was in prison, someone came and cast the devils out of him. Oh, and his salvation was so glorious that now he's like Brother Randy was. He's a chaplain and he is running his race. And I saw him once give an interview and he said, people think that I'm incarcerated, but if I had the choice, I would not leave my place. He said, I did something to society and I'm paying that debt. He said, but I'm a free man. He said, I am so free. And I heard him say these words himself. He said, I am getting people born again in here, left, right and center. And all I can think about is the grace and mercy of God. And joy bubbled up out of him. Now, you understand that there are people that will scorn him, whatever, another religious nut or whatever, trying to get parole or whatever. But you understand, in his everyday life, he's a free man. He's free from those judgments. He is free because he is living under a new reality of being a new creation. He feels the spirit on the inside of Him. And so those things that accuse lose their power. They really do lose their power. So don't let the enemy keep you bound, keep you in chains, because you've got a past. That's not great. Because the second you ask Jesus to forgive you, or the second you became born again, he recreated your human spirit and he forgave. You are forgiven. You are cleansed. Listen, this is so cool. Jesus descended into hell and the Bible says he was made to be sin. He suffered two deaths when Jesus had the sin of man put on him. He died spiritually. He died physically, later on the cross. So when he went to hell, and it says that when he was, he paid the penance. And when he was justified, God made him alive again and he justified all humanity, all who would come to him. Now he was the firstborn again because it says he was the first begotten from the dead. He was dead. Spiritually, he paid the penalty. And when he was raised. Now listen to this. Him who was made to be sin. You and I might have sin sometimes, but not made to be sin, spiritually dead. That transaction took him from the vilest place of hell and he went straight into the holy of holies, straight to the throne room. Do you understand? If Jesus, who was one moment considered sin, vile, cut off, was taken from that place and raised up on high and made righteous. Not only righteous, given the ultimate name, the ultimate throne, and declared righteous, and then turns around and says, I made you, that you're made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, and that is the truth about it. That's what you are. And everything in you should enter into that place where with God never first apologizing. I'm talking about daily fellowship. If you do something wrong, thank God, first John 1:9, you know, confess your sins, he's faithful and just to forgive you, but that your sins were taken away. They're not a sinful nature. So as soon as you sin, you've got the best friend you ever had that's waiting to go. I got you. It's cleansed. It is faith to get up from that place and not wallow in it. It is faith to stand. You were made something special because of what God did. We cannot not understand this great and mighty righteousness. You were made cleansed. Everything now is about what he made you. Do you think God is up there with his tally sheet going, you didn't pray enough. You didn't do this enough? He's just longing for fellowship. It was God's dream to restore that fellowship. And you don't have to wait till you get to heaven. You know, when God created Adam and Eve, he walked with them in the cool of the day. And some people still have this perception, like, we're going to get to heaven and God's going to sit in blinding light on the throne, and we'll be able to kind of gather around it. No, he's going to walk with you. He's going to walk with. That is the new tabernacle is his presence. It's all about not having stolen from him what he created in the first place. But he does not want you to act like an unworthy person that does not have his blood cleansing them. But if you don't have enough knowledge, the devil will constantly tell you, you're not enough. You don't do enough. You know? And people say, well, I don't. Okay, so what would you say to a child that's trying to grow? These matters are serious. Yes, but it's like, put the basement in right. Put the foundation in right. You will enjoy God if he's not a list of do's and don'ts. Talk to him like I'm talking to you. There are times to groan in the spirit. There are times praising and it's holy and it's. There's a hush, and then there's a time to laugh with him. I mean it. Enjoy his company, Enjoy him. And then when the enemy says something, block him out because you've been made something. It's amazing what he made us. So do you understand what I mean about if there's a mess around a situation that, yes, you might have to deal with some things because we live in a natural realm, but you'll deal with it differently if you know he's on your side, if you know that he cleansed you the moment you said you were sorry and that now you're going to walk through something, but he's got you. He's got you in his hand, and you're not walking around like you're the scum of the earth that'll kill you. Faith will enable you to live as though you never missed it. Do you think Brother Randy gets up in our pulpit as a convicted conviction? Right? Make decisions as though you've never missed it? My God. Whoo. No fear that righteousness restored us to boldness in his presence. Faith that just flows out of us because we're like our Father. Peace. The blood did so much for us. 2nd Corinthians 5:21 says, him who knew no sin, God made To be sin on our behalf. Why? That we might become the righteousness of God in him. Is this reckoned to us? Do we actually become righteous in him? Can Jude 24 be depended upon now to him that is able to keep you from stumbling and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish. That is not when we get to heaven. That's here. And exceeding joy. Hallelujah. One branch of the church. There are brothers and sisters, but there's further to go. But they teach that after we're born again, we still have the fallen nature in us. You don't. Well, why do I do wrong? You got to renew your mind, but your innards is as clean as the driven snow. They acknowledge that God has provided a new birth, but that his new birth is failure. It's like. Yeah, yeah, I know that. But let's get back to real life, right? The only thing he can do is give us eternal life and forgive us. So they're thinking on celestial shores, right? He cannot take the old nature out of us. But that is not what the Word says. Paul was given the revelation of Christ in us, the hope of glory to those that dare to believe that he has annihilated our sins. We can treat our sins as though we've never missed it. My God. That's how heaven treats us. And that's how God treats us. So much time is wasted. Wallowing. Wallowing. There are so many marriages that could be saved. Now, listen, just because you're together doesn't mean things are great. By saved, I mean made, right? Adjusted. So the connections are working. So there's peace, so there's joy. But instead, people will focus on their point of pain. When you have a prayer closet, you can go in boldly and get the help of heaven and intercede till it breaks. But until you're taught that even I must say, it is just so easy to just wallow. We have these problems. We have this, we have that. We've talked ourselves to death. There's another realm that you need to access. There's freedom. Sometimes your spouse, sometimes you might need freedom, but you access it from another realm. Take a hold of yourself. You can change it. Don't wallow in it. Oh, it takes so long. I'm addressing things the devil says to you, okay? And you think it's just you. He does not want things changed. You can change so many things. You can just access heaven. He's given it. Access it. Glory to God. Any redemption that does not restore to man a perfect fellowship and A perfect relationship. A perfect relationship. That's amazing. On legal grounds, our Christianity is very legal. It's covenant rights based. If it's not, then we will not be worthy of the Father. And it cannot lift man into the place that God has planned for him. Jesus stayed under judgment until he made us righteous. He stayed there until it was completely done. We have to choose that righteousness. We have to know it. We have to enforce that word over our lives so that any slander, any blame, any weakness, any sense of foreboding, failure, it got pinned to the cross. Righteousness is legally yours. Being made right is legally yours. Hallelujah. How am I doing on time? Not too bad. Sin consciousness is the reason for pretty much every spiritual failure because it destroys faith and it brings on a serious inferiority complex. If you pray all the time and you start every prayer or a lot of your prayers by asking for forgiveness, you're sin conscious. You are afraid of God, you are afraid of yourself. You are always looking for someone else to pray the prayer of faith for you. Because you don't believe in the relationship that has been given. You may have to grow in that relationship, but let me tell you, he has already given it. You don't have to earn it at all. That relationship that way was made for you before you were ever born. Glory to God. Listen, I know a person. I'm going to be honest with you, and I don't have a problem saying this, but if someone had said to me a couple years ago, we're going to go into a series of meetings on righteousness, I probably would have thought, that sounds a little boring. I'd rather hear about healing or this or that. Not that all righteousness sounds boring to me, but it was almost like it's just one of those words. I can't explain it. When you break down what righteousness is, it's so exciting. Our right standing, our dominion, our authority. But for whatever reason, that word didn't draw me in that much. And I know of a person. This is such a fantastic testimony. I had the. Well, it was hard to see it, but I knew someone years ago that they had a serious struggle with a demon spirit that told them they had committed the unpardonable sin. And actually, Dr. Michael Jacobs, there's at least 25% of the people in the insane asylums. It's so common, it attacks people. You've committed the unpardonable sin, whether they're saved or not. You've done something. God can't love you. So this person would Talk to me through the years about their struggle. They were born again, they were spirit filled and they knew a fair bit about the word. They were not a baby. But I would talk to them and they would tell me about this struggle, this. And you know, in the natural, you try to reassure somebody, right? Well, you haven't. And they go, I know that I haven't. That's not the struggle. The struggle is that the pressure against my mind is so strong that it feels like I have, but I don't believe that I have. But that lie, see, if you've never experienced that, you don't understand that to the average person they're like, but you didn't. So just move on. That's because you're thinking mentally. But when a demon spirit comes, it brings pressure, it brings torment. And then it, what is it? It comes to make you grab a hold of it. And then you're, you're doing your works, you're trying to do anything to get past what that lie is. And so this went on for 25 years. And then one day they were privileged to go to an out of town meeting, was a conference that Pastor Nancy was holding and they heard about it and they went and they sat there and she preached on righteousness. They knew about righteousness. They had heard it before, it made sense to them. They didn't feel like they had sin consciousness. But that one, one sermon about righteousness, about when the enemy comes to accuse you and you hold up, you hold it, you hold up, oh no, I've been made righteous. Oh, I can't stop overeating. I've been made righteous. People say, well, I don't, I can't connect that. You're in right standing, you've been made right. You don't identify anymore as that. Do you understand? The knowledge of that righteousness at the forefront means the enemy can't come in and just do whatever he wants because you have a legal right, you've been made something. And so in that service, hearing about how far the righteousness of God went, that they were made new. Then that lie of you've done something wrong, you've done something wrong, you've done something wrong. The power of it was completely broken. They were completely delivered from that spirit. They didn't have to have any hands laid on. And it was, I mean, it was glorious to watch total freedom. One service from an harassing devil that was trying to stop them from going forward. Those some people, the enemy will come in and he will, he will try to build this smokescreen so you can't get to God. Do you understand? And the truth will set you free. The truth that you're made perfect by his blood. I love it. It's amazing. People don't understand how much the devil convinces them that they're not worthy. You've been made worthy, so you don't come into your prayer life. You don't come into any part of your life not feeling worthy. And if you do, you need to get rid of it. You need to get rid of it. Okay, What happens if we hold on to the areas where we've missed it? So essentially, we're putting more credibility and belief in where we've missed it than in God's ability to wash us clean with the blood that cleanses it from us. Don't judge. His blood is not enough. His blood's enough. That's why he was so thorough. There was not a part of him left unmarked, unwounded, unhurt, if that's a word. He went as far as you could go. When people say that they've repented, but they don't feel like God has forgiven them, well, that's valid. Or they don't feel that just saying that could cleanse me of that. They're waiting for feelings, right? But you can't wait for feelings to move forward. You have to take God at His word, right? His word is going to make you move forward. His word is going to break things off. His word is going to bring the feelings of change. It'll be his word and you acting on that rather than trying to feel it. And I'm telling you, that is a great gift to you, that you don't have to feel it. You just move ahead on that word. That word will keep you firm. And then let God do. He'll produce what the word is going to produce. Do you understand? He is the Word, but he'll do it in all kinds of ways. He'll surprise you. Sometimes he's wonderful. I love it when the Lord surprises, surprises us. He really does have that element to him where he loves to surprise and bless you in ways that you couldn't have determined. The mental arena gathers facts from mistakes and feelings and regrets. The spirit arena is based completely on God's word. And you can access the freedom there by faith. I'm telling you, he gave us the easy part. He really did give us the easy part. So you need to say, I refuse to live under guilt, condemnation, or shame because you have a savior. Pastor Nancy. Oh, I love this. Pastor Nancy said this she said, I never heard her put it this way. So I really paid attention. I thought, oh, I'm going to say that in the pulpit if I get a chance. She said when God had her practicing peace for two years before doctor Went home, she said that meant that every word, every irritation, every little thing that would stir her bring stress. You know what I'm talking about. Things that they bother us. She said, I started everything was practicing peace. She said I'd sit back and say no, and I removed that. And she said it went from small to great. And now listen to this, she said, I entered into a peace. She said that I had no idea ever existed that was waiting for me. And every believer, she said, it was so total, it was so strong that when I entered into it, she said, I acknowledge that I do not believe that many people have ever entered here. Oh, glory to God. Well, she showed it to us when doctor Went home. She said, I was so anchored because of that practice. No, I refuse to fear. No, I'm not getting out of peace. She said, when I entered into it, I knew with great joy that I never had to leave it again. And she said, and I looked around, she said, I'm not special. Well, I think she's special. But anyway, she said, I'm not special. She said, but I knew because he had had me do this and I was benefiting and I was learning. And now I knew about this place. We talk about rooms in the spirit. They're real places. Because she had obeyed him and entered into that place of peace, she was able to acknowledge few people that she knew had found that place. Now what is she doing? She's spreading it all over the earth, that peace, that it's real, that you can, and not only can you, you should enter in. And of course, my gosh, people pay years of their life getting these wonderful truths of the word. And dad Hagin put it in her, she's putting it in us. Amen. And they help us get there faster. They help us realize that there's answers that we can enter in. But when she said that, I just felt like right off the top of my head, I thought, that kind of preaching, that's why you get on a plane, you drive the car, pay for the hotel. I just sit there and go, I'm after that, that place. I'm going to live there. And this comes, that means you pay attention to what comes in your mind. If you're willing to do that, listen, that little bit, you can live in perfect peace. You can exit, you can live above condemnation. You can live free from your past completely. You can live free. You can enter into fellowship like a little child skipping in to talk to their daddy. And that's a real thing. That's not just silly language in the pulpit. And then you've got to go out and face the grind of every day. No, that's real. That's what he wants. That's why it's being preached here and taught here. Because so that you can hear, you know, we grow as we go. But if your heart is open, you can hear a sermon preached one time and forever have that lockdown. You can walk out of here today going, no, I don't take any grief and sorrow. To live above grief and sorrow. Not just the big stuff like when someone goes home to live free from regrets, to take that blood because that's what he offered it to us for. And it cleanses you. And to believe that and to deal with your enemy so that he has no space in you, no room, no place in you to grieve and sorrow and grief. And sorrow will cause you to be angry. It will cause you to be vulnerable. It will cause you to lash out at people because of the hurt. It will cause a false personality for you because you're so busy trying to protect. But how much better to know that the blood has made you righteous and then any thought that comes to put you down that says that you're not enough, that you answer and then you turn aside, I call it slander because that's what the devil, he's an accuser of the brethren. To live in a place where you don't take self condemnation. We all take correction. But listen, we're taking our correction from the gentlest, most loving, most just, sweet God, the only God. Yeah, and we're his children. We're not his servants. We love to serve Him. But that's the overflow, right? We're enough. You're enough just as you are. You're good. Work on yourself, but don't work on yourself from you're not enough. One day soon we're going to step over and life will be full. Life will be full. We've been lied about about heaven. God is nothing but he implements, worth, value, adventure, work. Those things don't end, they just get better. You're still going to have your papers about what you've got to do today. That's heaven, glory, real life. No shadows. So this is this much. You don't have to have a perfect life here. Everything didn't have to Go right, you were made right in him. You're walking around with God on the inside every single day. There's things for us to do here, and they're important, but they're not everything. What's everything is, he's one with me and I'm one with him. That's everything. He loves me, he sees me, he understands me. That's everything. And that's for every person. Every person, every believer. It's for everyone. But the believer gets to enter, the believer gets to access joy, unspeakable, full of glory. And see. So if that foundation is laid in righteousness, then everything else gets built properly. The correction goes in. You don't have to be angry because you don't feel like a nothing. So if somebody corrects you now, they're fighting words. No, you can take the correction, right? Because people get so beat down that even just a little bit of correction is so magnified. The hurt of that is so magnified. And if God can get you solid, then you just go, well, I was talking to someone recently and they're a worship leader and they said, you know, they had an experience where. And I mean, they're phenomenal, they really are, but they had an experience with someone where that person just didn't like their style of worship, just didn't really think they were that talented, whereas other people think they're incredibly talented. And this person said to me, you know, I just told myself, I'm going to get up there and have fun today. Why? Why didn't that crush them? Why didn't that crumple them on the inside? Because your value is more than one person's opinion or a few people's opinion. It doesn't matter. His opinion matters. And then he will add to your life. He will add and add and add. He only gives. He never takes. He only gives. But the foundation has to go in strong, strong. Be sensitive to flows of conversation and their end result. You get embroiled in a conversation, you start to feel it going south. You start feeling yourself, get agitated, memories this, that something you didn't appreciate, maybe about someone else or their view of you or what they said. And it just rankles a little bit. And listen, listen, we're all good at the Christianese. Well, you know, I'm not really bothered about that. Bless God. But no, no, no, leave it behind. Don't touch it. You don't have to like someone's behavior, but you also don't have to participate in the dredging. Back up. You leave it. Your mind if you will protect. If you will do the word and protect your mind. What a great mind you'll have. What a great mind. Not obligated to weigh in on certain things. Get really good at saying, you know what? That's behind us, that's under the blood. We don't need to go there. Let's not talk about that. Let's talk about this. Let's talk about something else. And that shift. If you're watching conversation, you'll protect your life to the point where you'll never want to go and do the other because you've learned I don't need to do that. And you won't miss it. You won't miss out on those conversations, the way that they make you feel, the rehearsing of things. So now what? I'll end with this. 10 more minutes. I guess so. Now what? So I'm just going to say it like a command. Refuse to sorrow over your past or mistakes or regrets. No matter how small or how big, no matter how colorful, confusing, dark it has been. God does not want you to remain in that. He wants you to honor the price he paid. That's what he wants. He bore it because we couldn't. And I said that before, but I love the way it sounds. Only the Godhead could do that. So from this day forward, you are to receive your righteousness by works, by faith. Believe the word, say it, and believe it because it's true. The more you say it, the more it will be a reality to you. All those regrets just keep us mindful of the natural man and the flesh and shortcomings. But God has given us a life where we are mindful that we are loved deeply. Deeply valued. Deeply valued. It's very important. All of the hindrances of the natural life are to be conquered by the life of the spirit. Let me say that again. All of the hindrances of the natural life are to be conquered by the life of the spirit. Now, the apostle Paul showed us how to do that. Get in the Spirit and leave the past behind. Leave it. Don't reference it. Don't look back at it. It'll be like Lot's wife, right? Killed her. It killed her. It'll kill you. It'll kill your faith life. It'll kill your sense of who you are made righteous. Don't look at it. It's gone. I remember when I came back to the Lord after two days running around doing my university thing. Some people would have thought. What? It's no big deal. You know, I'm just saying I felt so. I was God's girl. And then I went my own way for a couple years. And when I came back, I felt so soiled, you know, drinking in the clubs on the weekend. And like, I smoked a joint once and yeah, just one time, Craig would be like, you did it. I did it. You know, But I'm telling you. But it was so empty, you guys. It was so empty. And when I came back, I came back with slumped shoulders like I was. I feel so bad. Like, I came. My brother called me and I was in St. John's and I was out on the weekends with my friends. Came home drunk one weekend and my dad had to sit me down and say, your mother is not. It's not happening. We love you, but you can't do this. And he smiled at me while he said it. He was so loving. But I felt so, like, cut to the heart that my father had to sit me down and say, you can't come home drunk. And I was not a good drinker because I didn't drink a lot. But when I drank, it was like slosh city, right? So. Yeah. And so. Not that you can be a good drinker. You know what I mean? Right. Some people can hold it, some people can't. But anyway, I remember being hurt in my own heart. And he couldn't see that because I just went, okay, whatever, no problem. But inside, it made me feel bad. Like, really bad, because they raised me right. And I remember Joey called me and I said to my mom, tell him I'm not here. She said, I'm not telling him you're not here. That's a lie. And he wanted to talk to me. But every time I would talk to him, I would get under conviction because he was here and he was going to Evangel Temple and they were experiencing kind of revival of some sort. And he would always. He was trying to get to me. And I was embalmed with my friends and drinking and rebellion. Rebellion. I remember the stupid conversations we would have with this one guy. Remember, we'd talk about. We thought we were so avant garde. You know? Like, you know, what do you hate about. And I just hate conf. Conformity. I'm serious. Like, right? Yeah. Like, nobody conforms in life, right? So anyway, I was so dumb. We thought we were all that and we were not. And I remember he would call and so this. I took the phone to get him off the phone and he began to talk to me. And the spirit of God came. And see, that was a suddenly because my mom was praying for me and my dad, too. But it was that sense of all bleak black she ain't coming back to. In one phone call, the spirit of God got ahold of me over the line. And he said, what are you afraid of? I said, I can't. I don't think I can change. I don't think I felt guilty. And he said. And he started to laugh and he ministered to me and I gave my heart to the Lord on the phone. I came back, I put the phone down, I walked out to my parents and I said, going to Toronto. And mom looked at me and I said, because God said to me right away, you're going to separate. You're going to sever this life. See, he did that as a mercy to me, that I didn't have to face the friends and this and that I didn't slink away in shame. But it was that sense of he knew I was weak. And so I went to her and went to mom and dad, said, I'm leaving. I think this was Friday night. I was in Toronto by Monday. I think that's how it was. I mean, it was instant. And I severed that life. But I remember for six months, if someone tried to encourage me or I had to pay penance because I had just spent two years not being a very good girl. So I didn't want anybody to kind of come near me because I felt bad, so I needed to pay for it in my mind. That was right. So I did. I felt really bad for about six months. And then after going to church and going to church, I just came up out of it and got my feet under me again. But, you know, if I'd known this, I could have in one moment stepped over by faith and realized that the weightiness of what he paid for me would be enough. And then I didn't have to spend six months paying the penalty at all. Yeah, all of the hindrances, I'll say it again, of the natural life are to be conquered by the life of the Spirit. So if you're fearful, you can become filled with peace. You can just take it, just take it. Inferior. That's a big one. Develop who you are in Christ. It answers all of that. It answers operating out of a spirit of fear. It answers timidity. It answers, this one's better than I am. It answers all of that. All those things are secondary. It's okay to want things in life. But he plugs the hole. Then you can just go and enjoy. Remember, I had referenced the bucket list. Right. It's great to have a bucket list. But when the hole is filled, that's all it is, it's a bucket list. But you don't want to live for that bucket list. That's very empty, very empty. That will never satisfy. What? The love of the Father, Acceptance. The being made right. Dominion, authority. That's where it's at. If you feel condemned, you're made righteous. You don't. I'll end with this. You don't get past hindrances by talking them out. You get past them by believing. Isaiah 53, 4, 5. Believe the word. Anchor yourself on the Word. Cleanse your mind with the Word. Take his words because they're higher. Take them. He offers them to you. Take them. They're yours. He expects us to live as he lived, without shame, without condemnation in this life. He did everything right, and then he brought us into that rightness. Wow. Jesus doesn't go back and put his fingers through your sins and talk them all out. He just gets rid of them, cleanses them, gets rid of them in one swipe. They don't matter anymore. That past that is bothering you is worth one thing. Forgetting. Forget it. He bore it. Understanding the word of God helps us to receive what has been given. That's why it's important that you're under the word that you're hearing, so that you can grasp it, that you can receive it. You don't have to accept a measure of defeat or pay for it. He bore it. So you don't have to bear it at all. And I'll end with this question. This is the homework. How bold would you be in the presence of God if you never missed it? And that's how you're supposed to go in, as one who never missed it. Hallelujah. Glory to God, Father. Wow. 12:00 on the button, everybody. Pretty good. I don't even know when I started, but I know I enjoyed it. Father, I thank you for this congregation. By the power of the Holy Ghost, Lord, go into this congregation and deliver them from sin consciousness, from living below, what you have called them, what you have made them as a new creature in Christ. Remove the inferiority, the lies, the carrying, the boulder of the past. Lord, help them to believe the truth and not a lie. They have been made righteous because you made us righteous in you. And Lord, I thank you today that just things that are holding people would fall off and that they would catch how valuable they are to you, how much you love them. People can stop hearing that after a While, oh, I know God loves me. Know that they would know that love the breadth, the length, the depth, the height of that love that rescued them. That they would take authority over griefs and sorrows. That when a thought was would come, whether big or small, that they would see the cross and they would see it pinned to that cross just like you were pinned to that cross, Lord, they would see it there with you. They would see you bearing it away, taking it away from them. And Father, for those, Lord, that need your help, Lord, walking them through some things that are messy, some things that are difficult, Lord, let them walk through knowing that they are free, that you love them, that you've forgiven them, you've cleansed them. And Lord, help them never again to allow the enemy to crush them. They would take every thought captive. They would take the word and wash their minds with it and speak that live there. Take that that holy place, Lord, and that you would help them to turn situations in, Lord, around where there's been difficulty or things that came to destroy. Lord, you can, oh, master, there's so much help for those things. And you can breathe life into things that look dead. So I thank you for that. I thank you for that, Lord. I thank you. You're doing what you do best in the hearts of your people. Thank you for revelation, knowledge, Lord, about how we were made righteous. In the mighty name of Jesus, everyone said, amen. Amen.