Just because you are faithful or deemed righteous by God does't mean you will be excused from trials. And just because everything in the life of person seems perfect in the eyes of man doesn't mean it is because such person is faithful or deemed righteous by God. 

Righteousness is imputed by God and none can attain righteousness by his or her own independent works. Evidence of righteousness or faithfulness towards God is not in how perfect things seems in the outward. Rather, the existence of God's righteousness in us is evidenced by our willingness to remain faithful and appreciative of His grace and divine love for us irrespective of what we end up going through in this life.

God's righteousness revealed in entirety is Jesus Christ. Christ as God's righteousness revealed is man's only chance of becoming holy in line with God's standard of holiness. Outside of God's own righteousness, which is Christ it is impossible for man to meet God's standard of holiness.  The world of flesh is a fallen world of sin and as a world of sin, stubbornly into all kinds of self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is basically to do with legitimisation of sin as a self right for man to commit. The self-righteous are of course inspired by non other but Satan who is the number one enemy of righteousness. 

The ultimate goal of Satan in the end times world is to legitimise every act of sin as a human right to commit and criminalise righteousness. To achieve this wicked aim, human satanic agents as motivated by Satan are daily constantly busy engineering people's mind to be pro sin and anti righteousness through for instance the media. All manner of subliminal antichrist messages are constantly splattered across the media information gateway to ensure people despise righteousness and passionately love sinfulness. Unrighteousness and ungodliness are regularly packaged and promoted through media platforms as fun-packed harmless activities. And many lost souls are as intended by Satan constantly busy engaging in all kinds of sinful activities to the detriment of their own souls. Several people in the world are like never before desperate to pursue sin as a right and offences against righteousness is at an all time high.  The preachers of righteousness are repeatedly dubbed as haters of humanity. The world of man is terribly polluted with legions of demons.  Multitudes of people are heavily  laden and extremely depressed in their souls due to demonic possessions. The world is increasingly pro sin and anti-Christ. And as offence against righteousness increases the afflictions of the righteous indeed increases!  The end times preachers of righteousness are faced with all manner of trials and at the very heart of it all is financial trials. Several of God's elect indeed appear poor even though they are full of God's kingdom riches and are daily making many rich (2 Corinthians 4:7-18). 

The trials of the elect by the world is in itself proof that the elect is not of the world but born of Spirit of God therefore no longer subject to the dominion of sin (John 15:17-21, Romans 6). The world loves the sinful spiritual human portals. But deeply hates the vessels of God who as living souls are His portals of operations for the manifestation of His kingdom glory. Christ as righteousness itself revealed had to endure trials in the world of sin in order for us to be saved from sinfulness and become transformed into His holy and righteousness image. And if indeed we are genuine followers of Christ and partakers of His righteousness, we should expect to be tried by the world and not loved by the world. Scripture in whole context indeed made it clear to us that the faithful and deemed righteous by God cannot avoid trials and tribulations. Job being an obvious example. But even though the righteous are bound to suffer many afflictions for the LORD's sake, Christ who is the LORD our Righteousness will always deliver the righteous from it all for His glory and honour sake. 

The reward of unrighteousness is eternal death. The reward of righteousness is eternal life of peace, rest and joy in the everlasting kingdom of God. The suffering we go through as elect of God in this temporary world of sin is nothing compared to the reward of righteousness that awaits us in eternity (Romans 8:18).  Therefore, in all things, let us continually keep our eyes focused on Christ, who as the LORD our RIGHTEOUSNESS is also author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:1-3). By the special grace and mercy of God, even though we are persecuted, we will not be destroyed. And even though we are in our trials perplexed, we will not despair (2 Corinthians 4:7-10). For greater is Christ the LORD our RIGHTEOUSNESS in us than all the antichrists spirits that are in this fallen world of sin (1 John 4:1-4). 

Wishing all the saints of Christ the LORD  our Righteousness a productive week in Jesus mighty name. Amen. 

As it is written: 

"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken". ~Psalm 34:19-20

Blessing is something that is only possible for us to have in righteousness and not in sinfulness. Although  many people desire to have the blessings of righteousness, they are unwilling to live a sin free righteous  life. This is like saying you want to eat your cake and still have it.  People get excited and shout a big 'Amen' when they hear those "you are blessed or will be blessed" prayers. But often times when the true message of repentance and righteousness is being preached, it is usually met with a stone cold reaction. 

The fact is we cannot allow people's fleshy reactions or actions of disapproval towards our righteousness message change our commitment to preaching the righteous message we are mandated by God to preach or discourage us from continually preaching the Word of God undiluted. Whether or not we get a big "Amen', a big frown, few likes or no likes at all, we must continue to show true love towards sinners by preaching repentance and righteousness in every channel of communication to the glory of the Almighty God who is the first and final Judge of all matters. 

God's righteousness revealed in the flesh is Christ Jesus (Jeremiah 23:5-6). And attaining righteousness through total surrendering of our life to Christ is what Christianity is all about. True Christianity is all about accepting Christ who is God's Righteousness revealed not just as Saviour only but as personal LORD. To say you have accepted Christ as LORD and Saviour is to say you are willing to totally submit all to His righteous Lordship, authority and dominion. Meaning ready to live a sin free life.  

Unfortunately, there are several people in the end times Christian arena of today who although profess Christ to be their Saviour but continue to live a sinful life and worse of all, unwilling to yield their total members to His LORDSHIP.  It is also not uncommon to hear such people justify their sinful lifestyle with a grace argument such as: God is gracious and He loves us regardless. The fact is, God indeed loves us and He indeed evidenced His love for us by sacrificing Christ His only begotten Son for us as propitiation for our sins. However, God's judgement for sin remains death (Romans 6:23). And God did not manifest His grace for us in form of Christ so we can make a mockery of His grace by continuing in sin.  Instead, God expects us to repent from sinning and yield our entire members to Christ for the total transformation of our sinful nature to that of Christ's sinless nature who is His righteousness revealed in the flesh (Romans 6:23). 

Christ is God in the flesh and as God in the flesh, complete evidence of God's love for us (John 1:1-14, 3:16). God as He manifested Himself through Christ is entirely holy and divine. And we cannot say we truly believe in Christ's divine nature of sinlessness and righteousness if we are unwilling to submit to His righteous Lordship and holy dominion. Justifying wilful continuation in sin by an argument of grace is in effect equivalent to saying: Although you are married to someone you profess loves you dearly, which you also claim to love dearly, it is perfectly okay for you to continue to have an adulterous relationship on the side with someone else you have vowed to never again have anything to do with. 

Sin is a curse in the soul and to live in sin is to have an open gateway for the enemy to dominate the soul. And the only way one can shut down such gateway is by dying to self and choosing to live a sin free life in Christ. 

Today we all need to examine ourselves and ask: Does my lifestyle evidence total submission to Christ's Lordship? Or am I just excited about the idea of Christ being a Saviour but completely unwilling in my heart to submit to His Lordship so I can be truly saved? We are all born sinners. And the only way we can avoid permanent consequence  of sin which, is eternal death is by ending our journey here as saints still in Jesus Christ our personal LORD and Saviour. 

We live in a world whereby those who are completely lost and spiritually dead and in need of salvation are daily busy trying to save one thing or the other. If it is not trees, it is some kind of animal. The fact however, is that the only one that can save man from wages of sin, which is eternal death damnation in hell is Christ Jesus (Acts 4:10-12). Christ as a Saviour is LORD and we cannot call Him Saviour yet refuse to submit to His Lordship. Christ is Saviour only to those who not only profess with their mouth that He is their personal Saviour but who also surrenders in their hearts to His Lordship dominion as the only true Saviour. And if we are truly in submission to His Lordship we will not make a mockery of grace by continuing in sinfulness. God is truly gracious but His judgement wrath for sinfulness remains death (Romans 6:23). Let us therefore truly seek to repent and stay repented for the kingdom of God is indeed at hand! 

So, help us all LORD. Amen. 

Romans 6:1-7

"​What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 

Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 

For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: 

Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin."

The journey path of a true preacher of righteousness in this fallen world of sin has always been a very rough one. And it has become even rougher this days with so much antichrists spirits in the world coupled with the increased desire by man to pursue sin as a human right instead of abiding in the righteousness of God. But the reward of eternal life makes all the roughness all worth it (Romans 8:18). 

Christ as God in the flesh is with His own elect as our good Shepherd. And no matter how rough the road might be, we remain smoothen always by His oil of anointing, covered by His glorious light and strengthened always to keep going by His dominion might and strength. Our journey with Christ is our only means of reaching our soul desired destination, which is the everlasting eternal life peaceful kingdom of God.  And as long as we remain the sheep of Christ and not branch off to the worldly wolves-gang camp, we will overcome all the rough patches, trample on every serpent, wolves and scorpion spirits that are likely to be in our way and make it all the way home to the everlasting kingdom of God.  

Keep marching forward oh ye dear saints of the Most High in the righteous path of the good Shepherd.  As long as we are in Christ, our feet cannot go weary, darkness cannot shackle our feet or restrict our movements because God's Word as a lamp unto our feet is dominion and authority over every power and evil ground of darkness. 

No matter how rough the road might seem, always remember that Christ who has already finished the work of your salvation on the cross of Calvary is with you in your daily walk to guide you with His Shepherd rod of authority. And by His authority and power, you are guaranteed to overcome every mountain of evil, oceans of afflictions, sea of storms, valleys of death, all realms of trials and make it all the way home to the everlasting eternal life kingdom of God to the glory of God our heavenly Father. 

I pray you will have a Holy Spirit filled week. Amen. 

Matthew 28:16-20

"Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 

And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, 

All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 

Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen."