TOPIC: Righteousness Exalted A Nation

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SYNOPSIS
Whether we believe in Christ or not, we need not have the notion that there
is no judgement for us because even the natural laws are written in nature by
Christ who is the word that was spoken at creation.

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Transcript
Praise the Lord. Give him all the glory. I don’t know what the Lord has for
you and me. So, I’m also excited to be there. And I thank God that we can
have a foretaste of it. I have nothing much to share today but as I was
praying, an old scripture came on my heart. The Bible says “Righteousness
exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. Particularly those who
profess that they are the children of God. There’s no pretense of ignorance.
No human being can say he doesn’t know God, and he is not obliged, or he
has no obligation to obey God. No human being. There are natural laws and
if you offend natural laws, there’s a just recompense. The Lord has created
man in such a way that if you want to drink water, you put the water in your
mouth, and it travels a particular journey. A cause that is written down in
your nature and when you put the water there, it travels that journey without
further instruction. It’s written into your body, and the water has been made
in such a way that it can travel that journey as long as you put it in the right
direction. So, you try to put the water not in your mouth, but in your nose
and see the consequences. So, there is judgment in nature. The word of God,
nature is also the word of God. The natural laws are written in nature by
God. He spoke them into existence and every violation of the natural law has
consequences. Righteousness, what? Exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to
any people. I want to suggest to you today that there is no escape from
judgment. You cannot tell me that God is love therefore, he cannot judge
me. You are making a very serious, I won’t say a sad mistake, serious
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mistake. I’m being compelled to come a bit closer. Brothers and sisters in
Christ, don’t you ever have the notion that because we are Christian, there’s
no judgment for you. If the natural laws demand obedience and there is
judgments written into them, how much more the laws of God. The one
spoken and written into nature is also God’s law. How about the one that he
gives you and directs you how you should go. Let me suggest to you, this
blessed day, there is no escape. The Bible says in Hebrew 2 such a great
salvation. And the Bible tells us therefore that righteousness exalts a nation.
Now, the nation need not say that it honors God. The fact is that there is
God. The fact is that there is God. Whether you acknowledge Him or not, He
is there and He will remain there and He is the King of kings and Lord of
lords and the King of glory, and the ultimate judgment is His and so He
doesn’t care. Oh, Hallelujah. He doesn’t care whether you decide not to obey
Him. You do it at your own peril. He will wait and wait and wait and see
you and you do all that you can. At the end of the day, you realize that you
are but a mortal being, a creature. I’m talking about you. You cannot escape.
Similarly, you cannot escape also the grace above. The refusal to honor
Christ and to honor Him as God is not Christ’s problem. It’s your problem
and therefore if England says, or America says and the Europeans say there
is no God and they will not honor Him, it is not God’s problem, it is
America’s problem and there will be judgment. You cannot escape. God
does not judge the way you think. Praise the Lord. I said God doesn’t work
the way you think, according to man’s understanding and thinking. So, tell
Tony Blair that he must make sure that what is happening is not judgment of
God. That’s what I’m saying. So, Christians also must pray with
understanding. I’m sorry I’m saying that. Righteousness exalts a nation but
what? Sin is a reproach to any people. Even Christians, even Popes, even
Brother Enoch. Praise the Lord. When I was coming, the Lord just put this
basic scripture to me and it’s only in Psalms 1. I thought I was going to read
it but I’ll like somebody to read just one verse by verse. There’s not much,
but let’s have a childish discussion this morning. Psalm 1. Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly…For the Lord knoweth the
way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Amen. Blessed
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is the one that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the
law of the Lord. Sitteth among whom? In the seat of the scornful. This
nation, what are they doing? Are they not insulting God? Are they not
making fun of God? The laws and the behavior and patterns of behavior in
this place, is it not an outright rejection of the injunctions of God? I’m asking
a simple question. The next verse says but his delight is the law. It’s in the
law of the Lord. If the whole nation is practicing mockery of God, if the
whole people are making fun of God and they have had the privilege of the
law of God and are refusing to honor that God, what do you want God to do?
God doesn’t have to say I’m punishing you. I said judgment is written in
nature and if it comes out to you as a law, commandment, direct unto you by
God, what do you expect? If you disobey, there is punishment. Consider
your ways, sayest the scripture. Consider your ways, says the Lord. I was not
coming to talk about Britain, but the thing is coming but it is for you also.
Charity begins at home and if you can point your finger somewhere, mind
your own business first. Brethren, you know, one basic condition of human
beings, wherever they are, whoever they are, is that they should recognize
God and know that there is God. So, if the Bible says righteousness exalts a
nation, the fundamental requirement of that righteousness is that the people
must acknowledge that there is God. Period. If you refuse to recognize God
and acknowledge Him, you are already in sin, you are already rejected, and
there’s no hope for you. Your glory shall surely perish. Period. Now, if the
Lord doesn’t come by thunder and lightning and earthquake and so on, the
point of death is already settled so it is written in nature, the soul that sins
shall die and you can’t bribe your way out. My brethren, you cannot run
from it. There’s no escape. There’s no escape. It is written. The soul that sins
shall die. Therefore, the nation that sins too shall surely perish. Period. The
problem is if the movement of the spirit of God or God’s anger turns and you
begin to have problems; you begin to blame other people. You think
Muslims are doing it. You have caused it. It’s not a Muslim problem, it’s
your problem. It is not Satan’s problem; it is your problem. Are you getting
me? My suggestion this morning is that as long as the law of God has stated
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that it must be so, whoever refuses to honor it, shall surely suffer the
judgment of God, because it is written. It’s there, period. So beloved in Jesus
Christ, don’t blame Muslims. Blame yourself. It is only when you open your
gates that the snakes can come in, and if there are no proper hedges, then the
viper can pass through the hedge. I’m suggesting to you this day, let’s
consider what? Our ways. We Christians are used to everything “Satan. One
of the things I’ve seen a pastor do in the charismatic church and it has
become normal, as soon as we meet, “and we bind Satan”. It’s giving Satan
more glory. I know we bind him, praise the Lord, but it’s becoming a
formula. Are you following what I’m saying? It is not that the spirit is
leading him to take authority, but it’s just a formula and I sit down and
watch, all become formula, then everybody who comes start by that way,
“and we bind and he’s binding. Well, he’s given us power to bind and to
lose, but we act with what? Knowledge, not formula. You ritualize the thing,
and it becomes your what? System. Then you are controlling it. The Holy
Spirit is not leading you that way, but you are just doing it. It’s empty words,
words without power. Because it has no meaning. Mind what? Your ways.
Consider them. Please continue the verse for us. But his delight is in the law
of the Lord, and in his law does he meditates day and night, and he shall be
like a tree planted. Let’s get that. He meditates upon the law, day and night. I
know you are not like that. I know that every day you read your Bible, and
you have time to meditate. I know you do that. I know that when you are
driving, when I was coming, the gentleman was having some nice music. I
hope that it’s not the sound that he is enjoying, but he’s also travelling
beyond the sound to communicate with the Lord. You can create an
environment of good sound, so that you do something else. I like good
sound when I’m reading and studying but the sound is only covering other
noises, so that my concentration can be right and I can travel on a different
journey. You can be playing the good sound, but your mind will be
somewhere else. Meditate upon the word of God. I don’t know why I’m
travelling this journey. I’m travelling a journey, I don’t know. A journey is
opening before my eyes. Righteousness is what exalts a nation. And how do
we attain this righteousness? We don’t join the scornful, and the mockers,
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and what? And the sinners. If you live in this country where they are
scornful, making a mockery of God, And the lifestyle, the thinking.
Yesterday we were discussing political Correctness and as a pastor, you
have to make sure that you are right because now political correctness
demands that you pay attention to the environment of, I call it the
environment of hostility. If there’s hostility in the environment and if the
demons have opened their mouth, they want to swallow you up, you have to
avoid them and you tell them, God said I should wise, but maybe the devils
also want to hear the word of salvation and that’s why you are appointed to
preach to them. Because of what? Fear of the reaction of the lion, instead of
speaking, using the authority to stop his mouth, you back out and say, “it is
better to save my soul than be foolish and give it to the lion to devour. But
the lion that is there, you have a greater, and you are a greater lion than that
one. But if you are thinking of your safety, Jesus said, those who consider
about their safety, they will lose it. They will lose it, Praise the Lord. When I
say lose it, it doesn’t mean that you will die. Are you following what I’m
saying Christians? This is for pastors and you. It doesn’t mean that you will
die. You are protecting yourself so you will not talk about whom? God,
when you ought to because you are afraid. But you know why? You are
losing your salt, and your light is dimming and your enthusiasm and zeal for
the Lord is dimming. So, you are in a declining mood. Very soon, you will
join them because you’ve stopped being excited about Christ, because you
don’t want to offend. But it is only in the repetition. It is only in the
proclamation that you get greater zeal to do it. And so, you stop doing it.
Gradually, there’s a, I won’t say decline, but what is it? For some of us, it
will be a steep fall. The other day, I went and bought a shoe and these new
shoes that have come, pointed out like this. They call it “Ali baba”. And my
children came to see me yesterday and they saw the shoe and my daughter
was like, “Daddy, what has come over you? I bought a suit. And they said,
“You, buy this suit? I said, “oh, I saw Benny Hinn, in that kind of thing so
for the first time, let me see how somebody also dresses. Then she said,
“Abba, is he your fan? I said, “I have no fan, but Jesus. But it was a shock to
my daughter and John. John took the shoe and looked at it and said “but
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Daddy, when did you become this? I was going to wear that shoe, but I said,
no, maybe I’ll cause confusion here. Praise the Lord. You know, you have a
pattern of life. I’m talking about righteousness. That’s what I’m talking about.
So, when you go away a bit, even the environment takes notice that there’s a
departure and if you don’t take care, this pointed “Ali Baba shoes will make
me one of a trending old man and the next time I’ll come here, I have an
earring. And when I have an earring, you’ll say the man has corrupted. God
have mercy on us. God have mercy on us. A little concession,
philosophically speaking, is an abandonment of the kingdom. If you do a
little compromise in your philosophy, you have abandoned it altogether.
That’s what it means. So, the fear of rejection, amen. The fear of rejection
can make you denounce your Lord. Yesterday, I was praying for somebody
and what came was, even the unspoken thought is clear before the Lord. the
thought. You see, Jesus told them that it is not by sleeping with a woman or
the man that makes you an adulterer, but the mere thinking of it. That’s
where Peter said, then who can be saved? Because he is speaking as what? A
human being. So, who can be saved? Then Jesus said, with man it is what?
Difficult. But with God what? All things are possible. When you recognize
that you are at fault, and you confess your sins, or you go to the Lord, “help
me to overcome, then, by your faith, you shall overcome the fear of
rejection, the fear of the assault, or violence. And that is what England has
done, isn’t it? The Muslims have come here, and they are making England,
or Europe, shifts gradually away from righteousness, away from the
knowledge of God, away from the law of God and for political correctness,
for economic reasons, rationalization, they’ve given in and now they are
afraid that the people are taking it, and Tony Blair is shouting that “you
cannot change our values. Which values? You have already conceded and
granted them. You’ve yielded out and now they want to take over. The Arab
and the Khmer, you know the story. You keep on the common concept, now
they begin to take over. Your churches are being taken over by whom? The
Muslims. They are not even mosques. They use them for some other
purposes, and you don’t feel ashamed. Today you say they can’t change your
values. What values? There’s no value left. If you ask Tony Blair, where is
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the value you are talking about? You have lost it. You are no more
meditating about what? Your governance and systems are no more being
controlled by the knowledge of God. So, you have lost them and now you
are asking God to help you. God is a merciful God. I was wondering
whether it was the Lord who deliberately made sure that the second round of
these things do not work so that He gives them a signal. But the statement
has been made. You know, it is not that the thing explodes. They have made
a statement. Yes. You can imagine. The people dying is not the problem.
They have made a statement. A statement. You see, it’s a statement, period. I
f the whole thing explodes, yes. But God can say that, maybe your prayer
has stopped that because you are scared. Oh, God, your children will die.
And people cannot go. So, God has said it but the statement has been made.
There’s no escape. And how about you? If you look at your own personal
life, you begin to give concessions and you begin to compromise in your
faith and understanding of Scripture and the requirements of Scripture and
you begin to shift the post, goalposts. You begin to shift it because of
present conditions, “because of this, I cannot do this and start shifting the
goalposts. Have you been doing that since you came to the Lord? Since you
got to London here? Is your zeal for the Lord the same or have you shifted
posts? Since you came here, the same zeal, understanding with which you
were worshipping God in Ghana or wherever you were in the beginning.
Have you shifted posts now? A new idea has come. You rationalize your
idea and God is merciful; he’s waiting for you. The Holy Spirit is grieved,
you don’t even know. This morning, I was hearing them quote the scripture,
the Holy Spirit prays and makes intercession for us with groanings which
cannot be uttered according to the will of God. So, when you are doing your
shifting of goals and the Holy Spirit is groaning and shouting, you don’t even
know. You think you are speaking in tongues. Yes, you are doing but the
Holy Spirit is complaining that my son is running away, bring him back.
That’s why it’s good to speak in tongues, you know. Because even the sin
that has been committed, you don’t know that it is sin. Your thoughts are
unholy, you don’t know but the Holy Ghost will make intercessions for you
according to the will of the Father. That’s why the Holy Spirit is so
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important. Because it’s not everything we are aware of, and we don’t
understand everything. And in the environment of hostility, you don’t even
know who is against you or who are against you. And I know that the people
who are more against you and can-do greater harm to you are the people
who are very close to you, but you are walking with them with trust. Only
trust. Sometimes the Lord will reveal it to you, this is the man, that’s what he
does. When you are mature enough and you cannot react foolishly, then you
will know the truth but if you are not matured, He will never reveal to you.
You can go on but God is able to protect you against your enemies, Praise
the Lord. Yes, He’s able. There might be a time that He will just allow them
to do it. When He begins to allow them, He will tell you that, this is not of
me, but you allow it. You see, you will see the end of the wicked. What is
the end of the wicked? The ungodly shall surely perish. My brother, please
give us the next verse. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water
that bringeth forth his fruit in its season. Brethren, this doesn’t need any
explanation. If you are able to stand, you recognize God and you obey His
commandments and you fall within and meditate, you shall be like a tree
planted by the river and you shall bear fruit in season and out of season.
There’s nothing that you cannot do, as long as you are one with God.
Because with God, all things are what are possible. You see, a man or a
woman with God. (These days, you have to qualify it because the women are
challenging us with apologies to Mrs. Moses, because in the church, the
gender is not a problem because we are one. Amen. Spiritually, there’s no
difference. We are both male and female, one.) When God created them, he
created them male and female, one. So, the female is part of the male.
Therefore, the separation, the physical manifestation of the male in a female
form is only another version of the male. Therefore, we are one. And the
women want to accept that one because they are one with us. Amen.
Welcome to the club.) I’m not talking about roles and function. The woman
and the man in the house, they have roles to play. Those are roles, but
spiritually they are the same, one. All is one before God and if the two really
agree, they can be truly one. It’s only a role and if a role is not played
properly, then there is confusion in the house.) Anyway, you shall be a tree
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planted by the river. And what is the water that shall make you flourish? The
Word of God. Because as you read the scripture and you meditate upon it,
your spirit is being fed, and you are growing in the likeness of Christ. You
are growing in the stature and the fullness of Christ. You shall bear fruit in
all seasons. Nothing shall shake you. A thousand shall fall on the right and a
thousand on the left but nothing. Not that they will not come. They will try. I
know that they will try. Amen? But you shall stand. When you were singing
the song, I was like, mountains shall fall but I will stand. Is it true? Is it an
empty confession? I believe it’s true. The one who composed that song had a
vision. The vision is that there are problems in the world and as we move
along this world, there are all kinds of mountains and hills and valleys, but
will you stand? Will you stand? You sing and dance it, but is it true? Have
you been able to stand and stand and stand and having stood what? Stand?
There are challenges in life, and the Bible says put on the fullness of the
armor of God and then stand because there are mountains and not mountains
alone, but hills and valleys. So, you can slide at a point, you can get to a
point that you are very low in spirit. It may even be that depression, or
something has to come but will you bear fruit in that moment? When
everything has failed, when all your brothers have rejected you, when your
husband says, “I don’t love you anymore, will you stand? Or you’ll say, I
can’t worship God again. God gave me the wife. And God, didn’t you see
that she will run away. This man you gave me; he doesn’t come home on
time. When you were giving me this husband, didn’t you see that I’ll be
facing such a thing? I won’t go to church again. I find it difficult even to
pray. Will you stand? Put on the helmet of Salvation and the breastplate of
righteousness. And what else? Shield of Faith and your foot of the Gospel of
Peace. So, your faith, all the darts, all the mountains. But we all fall. Is this
not correct? I think it is true. But the Lord raises the righteous. So, you’ll
bear fruit. Even when they have given up hope on you, that’s when they will
see the beauty of God. When they decide and they do everything against
you, and they think now we have sealed it, the guy or the women, how do
you call them? I don’t know your language. When they have agreed and
signed everything, sealed, signed and delivered. No, signed, sealed, and
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delivered and they give it to you. They know that we have finished him.
Praise the Lord. That’s what I like most. When they have finished it, then
you raise your head. When they say you are dead, then you open your eyes.
Praise the Lord. There was darkness on earth. Darkness had covered
Jerusalem. All the people had a dance. “We have finished a guy, oh man.
Now we can have liberty, Satan, call the people around. We are going to
control. That guy was disturbing us too much. Casting out demons, doing
everything. Now we can rule. They were so happy. The Bible said, if they
had known, if they had known, they would not have killed the King of
Glory. Hallelujah, one day the guy just got up and when he got up, he stood
up and he put off the dirty clothes, all the sin of men that he had taken into
the grave. He put them down and stood up. The earth gave way. Death
couldn’t hold him. The stones were not told by somebody “remove” because
all things consist in him, and he has come. So, a step was enough to tell the
stone, your master cometh, give way and he came out. I said that where they
have put you, if they even put you in a box, and they nail it, or they are about
to nail it, then you’ll raise the lid of the coffin a bit, and you look at it. Then
you’ll know your true enemies at that moment, Praise the Lord. They will
run away. They can’t seal the coffin again. Then you can come out. But you
know the beauty of it? Even at that moment, even at that moment, vengeance
does not belong to you. You bear fruit even at that moment. It is difficult for
man but it’s possible with God. You have the gospel of Peace and that will
be a moment of celebrating Christ and the joy of the Lord, which is our
strength. But you’ll pass through it, except you pass through it, you cannot
reach the next grade. You have to pass that test. Then you go higher. It’s part
of it.
Next verse of my brother. his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he
doeth shall prosper.” Amen. His leaves shall not wither since he’s getting
nourishment from the water. And the Bible says, out of your mouth shall
flow rivers of living water. So, your leaves will not wither. My father is
called ancient of days so I’m still young, Praise the Lord. (Do you know that
I’m young? I’m two years old now. Yes. Two years ago, I celebrated my 70th
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birthday. So, I’ve finished the first 70, and I’ve tackled a second 70. I’m two
years young. Are you following what I’m saying? I’m only how many years
old? Two years. Then the Lord told me the other day, I will give you the
brain and mind of a 10 -year -old child. That’s the bargain. He shall nourish
you. You are standing by the river, and the water is coming as you study the
scripture and have fellowship with God. They that wait upon the Lord shall
renew their strength. Continue. I want to encourage you to continue the
study of the scripture, continue to meditate, continue to delight in the Lord
and the things of God, continue to devote your time in spite of every
circumstance. Amen? In spite of every circumstance in Europe or wherever
consider your ways and remember that the nourishment is in being close to
the river. He shall feed you from inside and everything you do shall prosper.
Prosperity doesn’t mean material possessions. That’s the wrong version we
have. But you are prospering as a spirit and everything you set to do as a
spirit being shall prosper because you are a spirit now. You begin to grow in
the very likeness of Christ, and you grow spiritually. When you are growing
spiritually, very soon you too become a kind of God because you are a
Christ. You’re also a Christ and what you say will happen and what comes
out of man is a law. Because he created things by law and by your faith,
your mouth. It says salvation is written in your mouth if you believe with
your heart and speak it out. So, if you have grown to that state, what you
speak will happen. You are growing and you will not fall. I can assure you;
you will not fall. You will never fall. No, no, no, no, no. Amen. Getting to a
point, there’s no fall no more. Are you following what I’m saying? You and
Christ shall be one. There’s eternal security written in Scripture. The other
day the Lord told me, I think I told you, the Word of God is truth, and truth
is constant and consistent. There’s no variation. When you enter there, you
are secured. You are secure. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He
that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High, shall abide under the
shadow of the Almighty. You shall abide under the shadow. He will cover
you. He will never forsake you so you will never fail. There will be trials
and temptation, but failure is out. What men may think is the failure is rather
progress and prosperity and in all the things that you do, you shall prosper.
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(Pastor, shall we continue.) The ungodly are not so but are like the chaff
which the wind drives away. Therefore, the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord
knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. I
want you to stand that you have fought for them, that you can rise up.
Today, you can rise up. We can pick you up again, and the Lord can use you
again. You can rise up. The sinner cannot sit with the righteous. You love to
be among the righteous so, verse 1 says, in that case, know that you are a
righteous person so, the scornful activities, those other things that
compromise your faith, the things that you are being compelled to do, which
you think because of the exegesis of life, or the problems of this place, I
have to compromise a bit, consider your ways and I can assure you, the
Lord, whom you have faith in, and for whose sake you stand against all
vials, shall protect you and prosper you. AMEN
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