A Righteous Man
ROMANS 3:20-28
20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (the law taught us what the manifestation of sin was)
21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; (Righteousness is your right standing with God, it is the condition of being in a right relationship with the Lord - of being acceptable to God.)
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. (Faith is a revelation of the will of God for your day)
28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
(Our right standing before God comes by a revelation – a clear understanding of the word)
ROMANS 4:3-8
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
ROMANS 4:20-21
20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
A Righteous Man
There is a lingering concept in man to hold on to the thinking that it is somehow his own good conduct and good deeds that determines his level of righteousness with God, but that is not true.
Certainly there is a relationship between our actions and our right standing with God, but it is first our right relationship with God that produces the right actions, not the other way around (you show your faith by your works – works come out of faith).
***So we are not made righteous by our good living, but we are brought into a right relationship with God by the revelation of our faith in the word of God – in other words, we are brought into a right relationship with God by how we relate to the message and the word of God for our day - that is what brings us into a right relationship with God, it is to receive him in the way that he is revealing himself and in the season that he is revealing himself in.
HEBREWS 11:4-6
4 ¶ By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. (Abel is a type of the Alpha church and Enoch is a type of the Omega church. And notice that there is nobody mentioned between Abel and Enoch (Paul jumps straight from Abel to Enoch), because between Abel and Enoch they lacked the complete revelation in that they had portions of darkness like in the seven church ages.
And God often deals with us as individuals in the same pattern as he has with the seven church ages, because first we get a revelation of the blood of Christ that reconciles us back to God, but then God leads us through our dark stages of doubts and fears and then on into rapturing faith, but all that is mentioned in the end is not the dark parts but the faith part – our revelation.
**Abraham had fears and doubts and troubles, but in the end it was “Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness”)
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him (You cannot please God by living a good life, you cannot please him by giving your life for a good cause, you can only please God by having the word revealed to you for your day): for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
True faith is when the promise of God that has been given for your hour becomes clear to you and becomes anchored in your soul. God himself reveals it to you and it becomes so clear in your heart that it becomes an anchored assurance, there is no doubt left anywhere, you just know it will be so.
Opening scripture:
ROMANS 4:3
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
What did Abraham believe?
People believe all sorts of things, but just believing something doesn’t put you in a right relationship with God – your thinking must come into alignment with his thinking, it is only then that you can rightly relate to God.
We know that Abraham was promised by God to be the father of many nations (that was the message of God for that hour to him). So notice that Abraham had to believe the message of the hour that was given to him, but that message incorporated many things that would have to take place in order for that promise to be fully realised.
So with Abraham, as the years went on and the promise lingered, he came to the realization that he needed a body change, and that Sarah needed a body change, they needed to be changed back young again in order to bring this promise of God to pass and to meet the promised son Isaac, so his revelation had to grow to meet that challenge – so God had to open a greater portion of the word for his faith to grow to that higher level because they couldn’t meet the promised son without first having a body change (just like in this hour we cannot meet the promised son (Christ) without first having a body change), so Abraham didn’t start out with that level of faith at the beginning, but his faith grew as God revealed these things to him along the journey.
So because we are Abraham’s royal faith seed children, then God deals with us in the same manner, and we also follow this same pattern and the same revelation that he had because he was also living in an age of a sodomite condition as we are living in in this age.
ROMANS 4:13
13 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. (The right relationship with God by the revelation for your day)
A right relationship requires two parties to be in agreement together.
If nations don’t agree they won’t get on, if a husband and wife don’t agree they can’t walk together in sweet fellowship.
AMOS 3:3
3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
“Agreed” = Hebrew word ya'ad {yaw-ad'} - to gather, assemble by appointment
“Can two walk together, except they be gathered and assemble by appointment.” We are gathered together by this message, by election and the appointment of the Holy Spirit to come into fellowship and agreement with God by receiving the revelation of this hour.
LUKE 17:37
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
We know that the shout of 1st Thessalonians 4:16 was the message of the hour that gathers a people together outside of the denominational system.
So the message that Abraham received from God separated him and gathered him to an appointed place, and it began to bring him into a right relationship with God – a right standing with God. That is what this message is doing for us in this hour – it is bringing us into full fellowship with God again just like Adam had before the fall.
MATTHEW 10:41
41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
Righteousness is to do with receiving a prophet’s message – a message from God for your day and hour – “Abraham believed God, and it (His belief in the message of the hour) was counted unto him for righteousness”.
***Abel was also declared righteous in the sight of God (he came into agreement with God by his revelation) because something was revealed to him that it was not about eating apples that brings you back into a right standing with God, but that is was blood that caused the fall of man and so it would also take the shedding of blood to bring man back into fellowship with God again.
Who revealed that to Abel? Who told him about that?
**Abel was a farmer, a shepherd, and over the years of being connected with and seeing God in nature he began to see a pattern of how that something had to die so that something else could live, and so God began to speak to him in his heart by this inspiration as he would watch the little innocent lambs being born, and he realised that one day there would have to be another lamb born (the lamb of God), it would take something that was innocent to die in order for something guilty to be able to live, and so he was catching a revelation of Jesus Christ the true Lamb of God – and it was that revelation that brought him into fellowship with God .
God was revealing to Abel through the bible of nature his great plan of redemption to redeem man back into fellowship with him again, and that one day, God (the only worthy one there was) would become that innocent lamb Himself in the form of Jesus Christ and shed his blood and die for all humanity – what a great revelation that was to Abel, and so Abel’s sacrifice was according to the pattern that was shown to him by that revelation, and God received that because it wasn’t his works but it was his revelation that brought him into agreement with the plan of God – his works just revealed what his revelation already was.
We know that Samson (because of Delilah), he eventually began to doubt in the revelation of that the seven locks of his hair was connected to his power and his right standing with God.
JUDGES 16:6-20
6 And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee. (In other words – “what is giving you power over your enemies”?)
7 And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withs that were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them. (Notice that the scripture is spending time in detailing this – there is something that God is wanting us to see)
9 Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber (notice – a type of the church and the state military power united together against the elect of God). And she said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withs, as a thread of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.
10 And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound. (There was a key secret to Samson’s strength just like there is a key secret to the power of the third pull in this hour)
11 And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
12 Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.
13 And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web. (he is getting closer to where the secret of that power is, he is beginning to doubt what it is that is really giving him his strength because he getting closer and closer to giving away the secret because unbelief is beginning to take him over – this woman is causing him to lose faith in the source of his power which is connected to his head, his revelation. He is beginning to think to himself “is it really these seven locks of my hair that is giving me this great strength, or maybe I have just thought that and it really isn’t that, maybe it’s just me because I am so strong” – he is beginning to doubt the original message that he knew to be from God)
14 And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.
15 And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.
16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death; (this went on for days – what he needed to do was to get out of her presence completely – “come out of her my people”)
17 That he told her all his heart (because in your heart is where your secret is – that’s where God hides the revelation), and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man. (He has been so deceived and overcome by this woman (false church) that he is letting out what was once hidden in his heart.
**What has happened is that he has lost the value of what that secret once meant to him – the power of this woman (church) has caused him to place more importance on pleasing her and her hail Mary’s than keeping this revelation that was once a dear secret in his heart)
18 ¶ And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought money in their hand.
19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. (Notice – he knew that his hair had been shaven off, but by the oppression of this false woman he had become so confused about God’s original message and covenant to him that he had lost his faith in the original promise, and yet he still thought that the Lord was with him – he still thought that he was in the right standing with God.
Notice how that his power was directly connected to the revelation that God had given to him for that hour, his power and right standing with God was not dependent on his good or bad conduct – he would pay later for his bad conduct just like you will pay for your mistakes too, but his power and right standing with God was dependent on keeping the revelation of God in his heart and not letting it out because of some false harlot woman church.
MATTHEW 23:34-35
34 ¶ Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify (these men came with thus saith the Lord, the revelation of God for their day); and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
**It was Abel’s revelation that gave him a right standing before God – his revelation was the key that unlocked that door to access the presence of God and the fellowship of God.
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47 And now Samson thinks of the great victories that he had won. No doubt it come to his mind of how, that when he was a little boy, that God had vindicated him, told his mother that how that she must do; not drink strong drinks, or--or watch her diet, that she was bringing forth a Nazarite. How she combed his hair, and told him, "Son, through these locks, it's a covenant with God, that your strength will lay in there. Don't, never give it away. Don't, never give away your secret. Don't, never surrender it. Whatever you do, stay with it."
JUDGES 16:19-22
19 And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.
20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
22 ¶ Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.
This is a type of this day when this great 7 thunder revelation is coming back into the body again after the eyes (Prophet) left the body (church) in 1965, this is what has been happening since the prophet of Malachi 4 has gone off the scene – the revelation and the power that accompanied that revelation is to come back into the bride body again in the demonstration of the third pull.
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E-64 And when God seen His promise, He seen Samson's hair growed again, that was God's promise to Samson. That's right. And when God seen Samson with His promise, God was obligated to Samson. He put his arms around them big old pillars, like that, and pulled her right in. His strength had come to him again.
ROMANS 4:5
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
If we can understand that our right standing with God is on the basis of our revelation in his promised word for this hour and not by our good living of what we can or can’t do, then Satan’s power to condemn us is gone.
If we are living with a feeling of unworthiness, then we need a greater revelation of God’s finished work at Calvary because we are still somehow looking partly to our own good living to obtain a right standing with God and that will never work or be accepted by God.
The level of our righteousness (right standing) with God is directly connected to our revelation of his word and will and our agreement for what he has sent for this hour, because that is what he is looking for in the believer – that is what pleases him.
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The importance of revelation by the Spirit to a true believer can never be over emphasized. Revelation means more to you than perhaps you realize. Now I am not talking about this Book of Revelation and you. I am talking about ALL revelation. It is tremendously important to the church.
Why is it so important? - Because without the revelation of God for your day, it is impossible to please him. But by the grace of God he has revealed himself to us in this hour.
A Righteous Man