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The Lighthouse Apostolic Centre

Watch Of The Lord April Edition - Day 2

30th April, 2020

Pathway To Everlasting Righteousness (Part 2)

Pastor Kunle Babalola

We Are In A Season Of Great Importance Where The Call Of The Lord Is So Eminent; So That The Coming Of The Lord Will Not Meet Us Unaware. Righteousness Is Key In This Season.

Revelation 19:8

And To Her Was Granted That She Should Be Arrayed In Fine Linen, Clean And White: For The Fine Linen Is The Righteousness Of Saints.

Revelation 19:7-8

Let Us Be Glad And Rejoice, And Give Honour To Him: For The Marriage Of The Lamb Is Come, And His Wife Hath Made Herself Ready.  And To Her Was Granted That She Should Be Arrayed In Fine Linen, Clean And White: For The Fine Linen Is The Righteousness Of Saints.

If We Hate Righteousness In This Season, We Are Ready To Make Ourselves Naked. If We Don’t Pay Attention To Righteousness, We Are Neglecting That Which Will Make Us Ready.

God Will Not Give Righteousness Just Like That, We Have To Be Qualified To Wear The Garment.

Romans 8:30

Moreover Whom He Did Predestinate, Them He Also Called: And Whom He Called, Them He Also Justified: And Whom He Justified, Them He Also Glorified.

We Won’t Be Qualified For Everlasting Righteousness If We Do Not Profit With The Righteousness We Have Now

Daniel 9:24

Seventy Weeks Are Determined Upon Thy People And Upon Thy Holy City, To Finish The Transgression, And To Make An End Of Sins, And To Make Reconciliation For Iniquity, And To Bring In Everlasting Righteousness, And To Seal Up The Vision And Prophecy, And To Anoint The Most Holy.

It Is Of Utmost Importance For Us To Know The Times And Seasons In Which We Are In; By Bringing In Everlasting Righteousness A People Must Prove That They Are Worthy Of It.

The Life That Comes From God Is Righteousness; His Attribute Is Righteousness.

Jeremiah 23:5-6

Behold, The Days Come, Saith The LORD, That I Will Raise Unto David A Righteous Branch, And A King Shall Reign And Prosper, And Shall Execute Judgment And Justice In The Earth.  In His Days Judah Shall Be Saved, And Israel Shall Dwell Safely: And This Is His Name Whereby He Shall Be Called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

The Entity Here Is Called Righteousness. Righteousness Is Not Only An Act, It Is An Entity; It Is A Life.

This Righteousness Is A Person; In Receiving This Person, God Has Designed It That We Are Going To Receive Him In Measures; If He Puts All Of Himself On Man At Once, Man Will Die, So He Measures Righteousness To Us Per Time. 

God In His Own Wisdom Has Designed That He Will Give Everlasting Righteousness But He Gives It In Measures.

You Can’t Walk With God Without Being Righteous; If You Don’t Have His Nature, You Can’t Relate With Him.

There Is The Righteousness Of The Law, There Is Self-righteousness But God Wants To Give Us His Very Own Righteousness.

The Righteousness Given To Abraham Was Because He Believed. 

Galatians 3:6

Even As Abraham Believed God, And It Was Accounted To Him For Righteousness.

The Kind Of Righteousness God Wants To Give Cannot Be Gotten From Anywhere, It Is Delivered By Faith. Abraham Longed For This Righteousness But Did Not Get It.

Hebrews 11:39

And These All, Having Obtained A Good Report Through Faith, Received Not The Promise:

2 Peter 3:13

Nevertheless We, According To His Promise, Look For New Heavens And A New Earth, Wherein Dwelleth Righteousness.

This Righteousness Is A Life That Governs God, It Is A Nature.

Romans 1:16-17

For I Am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel Of Christ: For It Is The Power Of God Unto Salvation To Every One That Believeth; To The Jew First, And Also To The Greek.  For Therein Is The Righteousness Of God Revealed From Faith To Faith: As It Is Written,The Just Shall Live By Faith.

The Righteousness Of God Is Measured By Faith. As We Increase In Faith, What We Are Actually Increasing In Is Righteousness.

Romans 9:31-32

But Israel, Which Followed After The Law Of Righteousness, Hath Not Attained To The Law Of Righteousness.  Wherefore? Because They Sought It Not By Faith, But As It Were By The Works Of The Law. For They Stumbled At That Stumblingstone;

Anytime God Wants To Dispense Righteousness To Man, He Gives Him A Law. God Gave Them A Prototype Of What Could Earn Them A Level Of Righteousness Because There Is A Righteousness That The Law Gives.

The Only Man That Was Able To Fulfill The Righteousness Of The Law Is Jesus Christ.

How God Dispenses His Righteousness Is By The Gospel. To Live By Faith Is To Live By Righteousness.

Romans 10:17

So Then Faith Cometh By Hearing, And Hearing By The Word Of God.

Man Cannot Start To Walk In This Righteousness On His Own, So Jesus Came And Authored A Faith And He Also Completed The Faith; So That We Can Look At Him And Follow His Steps (Hebrews 12:2).

Galatians 3:2

This Only Would I Learn Of You, Received Ye The Spirit By The Works Of The Law, Or By The Hearing Of Faith?

There Is Something That The Hearing Of Faith Delivers To Us; It Delivers Spirit.

Jesus Came And Established A Better Covenant; If We Have Faith In The Son, We Would Have Everlasting Life (John 3:16). The First Thing We Need To Do In Order To Have A Taste Of This Righteousness Is To Believe, When We Believe, What Is Delivered To Us Is Spirit.

There Are Promises In The Bible But There Is The Promise. The Promise Is Also Packaged In Dimensions.

The First Dimension Of This Promise Is The Holy Spirit. The Evidence That A Believer Has Been Counted In The Fold Is By The Baptism Of The Spirit.

Galatians 4:6-7

And Because Ye Are Sons, God Hath Sent Forth The Spirit Of His Son Into Your Hearts, Crying, Abba, Father.  Wherefore Thou Art No More A Servant, But A Son; And If A Son, Then An Heir Of God Through Christ.

To Start On This Journey, Something Has To Start You Off

Ephesians 1:13-14

In Whom Ye Also Trusted, After That Ye Heard The Word Of Truth, The Gospel Of Your Salvation: In Whom Also After That Ye Believed, Ye Were Sealed With That Holy Spirit Of Promise,  Which Is The Earnest Of Our Inheritance Until The Redemption Of The Purchased Possession, Unto The Praise Of His Glory.

God Gave A Measure Of The Inheritance When We Believed; The Person That God Gives First Is Part Of The Inheritance. The Holy Spirit Seals Our Journey So That We Can Receive A Full Reward.

What Was Discharged To Us Is Not The Fullness, It’s Just A Measure.

John 10:10

The Thief Cometh Not, But For To Steal, And To Kill, And To Destroy: I Am Come That They Might Have Life, And That They Might Have It More Abundantly.

We Won’t Know The Path To The Fullness If One Of The Godhead Did Not Come To Infill Us.

Isaiah 32:15-17

Until The Spirit Be Poured Upon Us From On High, And The Wilderness Be A Fruitful Field, And The Fruitful Field Be Counted For A Forest.  Then Judgment Shall Dwell In The Wilderness, And Righteousness Remain In The Fruitful Field.  And The Work Of Righteousness Shall Be Peace; And The Effect Of Righteousness Quietness And Assurance For Ever.

When The Spirit Is Poured, We Will Begin To Work (journey), Until The Measure Is Complete.

What We Have Received, We Should Not Joke With It. They Have Given Us A Part Of The Inheritance By Giving Us The Spirit. 

The Holy Spirit Is A Part Of Our Inheritance, There Are Two Other Portions. 

A Part Was Given To Us And It's A Gift; He Is To Help Us To Be Fruitful And Profiting.

They Gave Us A Dimension And We Are Expected To Work With It. 

The Reason Why A Person Is Called A Graduate (after School) Is Because He Has Graduated From One Level To Another. Examination Is What Graduates You From One Level To Another, If You Fail You Are Going Nowhere; That Is Why Faith Is Tried.

The First Dimension Of The Promise Is Given At The Beginning Of Faith By Believing The Gospel, But The Second Dimension Will Be Given At The End By Living The Gospel.

It Is Not That We Just Hear; We Must Do, We Must Obey. 

Hebrews 10:36

For Ye Have Need Of Patience, That, After Ye Have Done The Will Of God, Ye Might Receive The Promise.

There Is A Promise That Is Given To You By Believing, But There Is A Promise That Is Given To You By Doing The Will.

Righteousness Can Mean Different Things To Us, It Can Mean Just Doing The Right Thing But Righteousness Is Much More Than Just Doing The Right Thing.

The Righteousness That God Desires Is A Righteousness That Has To Do With His Will (Romans 1:17)

Hebrews 11:6

But Without Faith It Is Impossible To Please Him: For He That Cometh To God Must Believe That He Is, And That He Is A Rewarder Of Them That Diligently Seek Him.

What Pleases Him Is His Will; That Is Faith. God Wants Us To Do His Will. 

That A Person Is Not Stealing Or Fornicating Can Be A Righteousness, But It Cannot Be The Righteousness Of God; But You Cannot Have The Righteousness Of God And Fornicate.

Romans 10:17

So Then Faith Cometh By Hearing, And Hearing By The Word Of God.

When You Hear The Word Of God, Something Is Delivered.

There Is Something That Is Called The Will Of God Or Righteousness Of God, Even Before Sin.

 What Is The Righteousness Of God Without Sin? If We Take Sin Away And There Is No Sin, Will There Not Be God’s Righteousness? The Righteousness Of God Is His Nature; His Life.

When He Created Adam And Put Him In The Garden, He Wanted To Give Him His Own Righteousness; That Is Why He Gave Adam Law. God Wants Us To Walk In Obedience. 

When Adam Sinned, He Fell Short Of The Glory Of God; That Is Why God Raised The Israelites.

Then He Raised A Man (Jesus) Who Could Fulfill The Righteousness Of The Law. 

Adam Was Without Sin In The Beginning, But There Is Something God Uses To Measure; His Obedience To The Will Of God.  

Acts 13:20-22

And After That He Gave Unto Them Judges About The Space Of Four Hundred And Fifty Years, Until Samuel The Prophet.  And Afterward They Desired A King: And God Gave Unto Them Saul The Son Of Cis, A Man Of The Tribe Of Benjamin, By The Space Of Forty Years.  And When He Had Removed Him, He Raised Up Unto Them David To Be Their King; To Whom Also He Gave Testimony, And Said, I Have Found David The Son Of Jesse, A Man After Mine Own Heart, Which Shall Fulfil All My Will.

That Is The Secret Of Approval; Even Though David Could Not Receive Holy Ghost Inheritance, He Lived By Obedience And Fulfilled All The Will Of God. That Is Why Most Of Jesus’ Messages When He Was On Earth, He Was Always Talking About Doing The Will.

Acts 13:36

For David, After He Had Served His Own Generation By The Will Of God, Fell On Sleep, And Was Laid Unto His Fathers, And Saw Corruption:

The Reason Why Holy Ghost Is Given Is So That We Can Do The Will Of God. 

Jesus Had Not Died For The Remission Of Sin In Their Days, The Faith They Used Is Different From The Faith Jesus Handed To Us; That Faith Is Packaged To Deal With Two Things; To Give Power To Deal With Sin And Also To Give Ability To Receive Installation Of Life. The Holy Spirit Is Not Meant For Speaking In Tongues Alone, He Is Meant To Bring Us To The End Of The Faith. 

There Is An Operation Of Purging So That We Can Become White. When You Hear The Word Of God And You Obey, Something Is Added To You; As You Are Increasing In Life, Life Is Added To Life And A Life Is Also Being Killed; This Is The Design Of The New Testament Faith. 

As You Hear, You Begin To Build Faith. When These Words Are Spoken To You, They Are Meant To Build You Up And They Are Meant To Destroy Something.

In The Spirit, They Measure Us By Righteousness; That Righteousness Is Life. 

You Can't Say You Have Faith And You Don't Have Life; You Cannot Get That Backed Up By The Scripture. 

Apostle Paul Began To Say ‘we Did Nothing To Be Saved’; You Believed And It Was Given To You But If You Stay There, You Are Not Yet Complete. 

Abraham Had Works. There Is Law Of Faith, And There Is Works Of Faith. God Called Abraham One Day And Asked Him To Sacrifice His Only Begotten Son (Genesis 22:2); This Is The Man That Has Been Credited Righteousness, At First, He Believed And At Another Time He Obeyed. 

Matthew 21:28-31

But What Think Ye? A Certain Man Had Two Sons; And He Came To The First, And Said, Son, Go Work To Day In My Vineyard.  He Answered And Said, I Will Not: But Afterward He Repented, And Went.  And He Came To The Second, And Said Likewise. And He Answered And Said, I Go, Sir: And Went Not.  Whether Of Them Twain Did The Will Of His Father? They Say Unto Him, The First. Jesus Saith Unto Them, Verily I Say Unto You, That The Publicans And The Harlots Go Into The Kingdom Of God Before You.

Jesus Is Trying To Give Us An Order Of Doing. It Is Not Enough To Hear, It Is Good To Hear But We Have To Do. 

That Which Is Given To Us Is For Us To Do (this Is Obedience).

Romans 10:16-17

But They Have Not All Obeyed The Gospel. For Esaias Saith, Lord, Who Hath Believed Our Report?So Then Faith Cometh By Hearing, And Hearing By The Word Of God.

The Reason Why The Gospel Is Given Is For You To Obey.

Romans 1:17

For Therein Is The Righteousness Of God Revealed From Faith To Faith: As It Is Written, The Just Shall Live By Faith.

The Gospel That Is Given To Us Is The Power That Will Lead Us To Salvation; In That Gospel, The Righteousness Of God Is Revealed From Faith To Faith.

Faith Is Gotten In The Gospel; So The Power Of Faith Is In The Gospel.

What Gospel Delivers To You Is Faith; When It Is Delivered, It Is Power; The Power Is Righteousness; That Is What Faith Carries.

Apostle Paul Talks About Righteousness By Faith. There Is Power In Believing (John 1:12) But That Power Is Locked Up In The (hearing Of The) Gospel. Our Life Is In The Faith.

When You Have That Faith You Will Live By It, Until You Come To The End Of The Faith. When Gospel Is Coming To You, You Have To Believe And Keep On Believing, This Is What God Wants Us To Have Understanding Of.

Ephesians 4:11-12

And He Gave Some, Apostles; And Some, Prophets; And Some, Evangelists; And Some, Pastors And Teachers;  For The Perfecting Of The Saints, For The Work Of The Ministry, For The Edifying Of The Body Of Christ:

When You Believe In The Lord Jesus Christ, You Receive The Holy Ghost, Then You Begin To Receive Ministrations Of The Gospel Which Begins To Build You. 

They Are Depositing Life; It Is Life Upon Life. This Life Is Locked Up In The Gospel.

We Will Do Ourselves A Lot Of Good When We Are Faithful To That Which We Have Heard. To Be Faithful To That Which You Have Heard Is To Obey  That Which You Have Heard. Your Obedience Is Counting In The Spirit. 

The Word Is Dealing With Sin And Adding Life To Us. We Are Fabricating Our Garment In The Spirit; That Garment Is Righteousness. 

You Have To Make Use Of The Resources Made Available To You. Every Grace That Is Ministered To You Is Discharging Life By The Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:18

But We All, With Open Face Beholding As In A Glass The Glory Of The Lord, Are Changed Into The Same Image From Glory To Glory, Even As By The Spirit Of The Lord.

When You Behold The Perfect Law Of Liberty, You Are Being Changed. 

There Is A Place God Is Taking You To. Every Time You Obey The Word Of God, A Transformation Has Occurred In You And Every Time You Disobey The Word Of God, Something Dies In You. 

When You Willfully Sin Thinking You'll Ask For Forgiveness, God Will Still Forgive You, But You Are Discharging Your Glory, When You Do Such Things, You Discharge Virtue. Virtue Is Righteousness That They Use To Measure You In The Spirit. 

Hebrews 13:21

Make You Perfect In Every Good Work To Do His Will, Working In You That Which Is Wellpleasing In His Sight, Through Jesus Christ; To Whom Be Glory For Ever And Ever. Amen.

He Is Working In You; The Working In You Is That Which He Has Given To You, So That You Can Do What Is Well Pleasing. 

Ephesians 6:6

Not With Eyeservice, As Menpleasers; But As The Servants Of Christ, Doing The Will Of God From The Heart;

(Apostle Paul Addressing Master-servant Relationship); Doing The Will Of God Must Reflect In The Way You Live Your Natural Life, In Your Natural And Secular Activities, It Must Reflect; It Must Reflect In Your Conduct. 

1 John 2:17

And The World Passeth Away, And The Lust Thereof: But He That Doeth The Will Of God Abideth For Ever.

The Will Of God (spoken Of) Is Righteousness; That Is What Qualifies You Forever (everlasting); Doing The Will. 

Whatever It Takes To Do The Will, Let Us Go All Out For It. Doing The Will Is Not Without The Holy Spirit And That Is Why Apostle Paul Says Do Not Grieve The Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30); He's Meant To Do A Work In You; Not Just To Heal The Sick Or Raise The Dead, But A Work In Righteousness. 

Each Time He Gives You An Instruction, It Is A Law Of The Spirit That Must Be Obeyed. Don't Grieve That Spirit, He Is Part Of The Inheritance, He Is To Lead You. 

If You Are Not Faithful With Spiritual Righteousness, Everlasting Righteousness Will Not Be Given To You. 

There's A Righteousness The Spirit Delivers And He Uses The Gospel To Deposit This Life. 

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, Who Is One Of You, A Servant Of Christ, Saluteth You, Always Labouring Fervently For You In Prayers, That Ye May Stand Perfect And Complete In All The Will Of God.

Prayer: That We May Stand Perfect And Complete In All The Will Of God.

Proverbs 12:28

In The Way Of Righteousness Is Life; And In The Pathway Thereof There Is No Death.

If You Yield Yourself A Servant Of Iniquity, You Are Walking On The Path Of Death.

Prayer:  Father, Give Me Grace To Always Yield; To Always Submit Myself To The Path Of Righteousness So That I Will Enter Life

Pastor Tosin Continues

I Want Us To Take Cognizance Of The Instructions That Came With The Teaching. The Season That We Are In Is The Season Of Instructions.

These Are The Prerequisites To Receiving Everlasting Righteousness. If You Are Not Faithful With Spiritual Righteousness, You Cannot Receive Everlasting Righteousness. 

Righteousness Is In Grades; There's A Righteousness We Have Received, There's A Righteousness That Is Being Worked In Us And There's A Righteousness That We Will Receive.

Galatians 5:5

For We Through The Spirit Wait For The Hope Of Righteousness By Faith.

The Day A Man Drops Faith, His Hope Is Gone. We Are Hoping For Righteousness; This Righteousness Is Not The One Imputed At New Birth.

Galatians 5:5

For We Through The Spirit Wait For The Hope Of Righteousness By Faith.

This Is Paul Talking, He Said 'we'; This Righteousness Is Everlasting Righteousness. He Didn't Just Believe And Hope For It Alone; He Fought For It. When You're Living By Faith, You Fight A Good Fight So That A Crown Of Righteousness Will Be Laid Up For You. 

2 Timothy 4:7-8

I Have Fought A Good Fight, I Have Finished My Course, I Have Kept The Faith:  Henceforth There Is Laid Up For Me A Crown Of Righteousness, Which The Lord, The Righteous Judge, Shall Give Me At That Day: And Not To Me Only, But Unto All Them Also That Love His Appearing.

A Man Fought, Walked And Obeyed, And They Assured Him.

We Are In The Season Of His Appearing, Where They'll Begin To Give Us Things Of God. 

Spiritual Righteousness Is Christ, Everlasting Righteousness Is Of God. They Are Weighing Us, Our Measurement In The Spirit Is Righteousness. 

Righteousness Is A Person, That Is To Say Righteousness Is A Nature. So Nature Should Be Our Pursuit.

The Person Who Is The Earnest Is The Holy Ghost, His Person Is The Earnest, Not His Gifts. 

This Faith Is High; If The Holy Ghost Is The Deposit, He Can't Be A Deposit For Anything Inferior. 

The Place Of The Holy Ghost In Our Daily Walk Can Never Be Underestimated. To Grieve The Holy Ghost In This Season Means You're Saying Bye Bye To Inheritance. 

We Have To Elevate And Appreciate Him, Be In Constant Touch With Him. Let Him Do What He Was Given To You To Do. 

The Operation Of The Holy Spirit In Us Is To Open Christ For Us. 

Any Minister That Is Not Teaching Christ Is Not In The Spirit; To Use Gift Is Not The Same Thing As Being In The Spirit. 

Christ Is The Righteousness Of God Revealed. Every Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor And Teacher Should Be Preachers Of Righteousness. 

Righteousness Is A Word That Captures Something; Righteousness Is The Opening Of God's Nature. 

There Is A Righteousness That Is Righteousness In The Eyes Of Man But They Are Missing The Righteousness Of God. 

When You Begin To Receive Revelation Of God’s Righteousness, It Will Tamper With Your Nature. Religion Has Its Own Righteousness But When It Comes To The Righteousness Of God, He Will Hack Down Your Human Nature.

The Holy Spirit In Us Is So Meek, Sometimes, He Instructs Us, We Know He Is The One And Yet We Still Disobey.

He Wants A People Who Will Be Sensitive To Him And Be Meek Towards Him. 

The Will Of God For Us Is Righteousness. You Must Be A Man Of Will To Know Strata Of Will. You Must Have Obeyed Good Will Before You Can Enter Acceptable Will And There Is Still The Perfect Will. 

A Man That Cannot Do Righteousness Cannot Do Salvation.

They Want To Change Us From Inside; We Must Take Heed To The Instructions Given To Us.