RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION

I am continuing my series on righteousness and this morning I have a message from heaven for you and it

states that righteousness exalts a nation. Tell somebody, righteousness

exalts a nation. Righteousness

exalts a nation. Lift up one hand. Let us pray. Holy Spirit of God, we pray and submit

ourselves into your power that you will use this sermon to prepare us for

whatever is ahead of us in life. You use this sermon to heal our nation, to

restructure our city, and to build righteous men and women in this land, to

bring men and women who fulfill your good plans and purposes for our nation

in Jesus name. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen.

So my sermon this morning is righteousness exalts a nation. Tell them righteousness exalts a nation.

What do we mean by the word nation? The word nation comes out of a Hebrew word called or etmos from Greek. It means

a body of people who are united by common descent. They come from one particular heritage. They have one

history. They have a culture or a language and they inhabit a particular

territory. Amen. This is the biblical definition of what

a nation is. Genesis 10:5, God mentions

a nation for the first time in history. Now, as Christians, we believe that the

God word of God predates all things in creation. Nations are not political

um constructs. They are not human constructs. Every time people come up

with ideas as if it was men who set up to decide to say, "Let us create nations." They forget that in the wisdom

and the plan of God, God had nations in his womb and in his plan. Amen.

Genesis 10:5 says, "By these were thes of the Gentiles divided." And he was

speaking of the sons of Noah after the flood. said, "By these ones did the lands that belong to the Gentiles were

created from these descendants. Everyone after his tongue and after their

families in their nations." Amen. So the definition of a nation sings with

scripture that these people come from a common descent. They have a common language and sometimes they are from a

common family and they fulfill a particular location

or they live in a particular location or a land. Amen. Genesis 22:18 and the

Bible said God blessed Abraham. He said to Abraham said and in thy seed in the

children of Abraham shall all the nations. When there was not yet 10ation, God

said, "In Abraham's seed shall all the nations." Tell somebody, "All the

nations." All the nations of the earth be blessed because thou has obeyed my

voice. So being a national of a country isn't a

construct of mistake, but is divine will. I I I came to accept and love my

heritage as a Ghanaian. Some people say you are not a Ghanaian. You should never say you're a Ghanaian. You don't look like a Ghanaian. I am a Ghanaian. And

please, for those of you who don't understand, not all Ghanaians are black. Do you know that?

Do you know there are Ghanaians who are half Egyptians and half Ghanaians? Do you know there are Ghanaians who are

half Arabians? What does it mean to be a Ghanaian? You must be born in Ghana. Huh? Any expert who gave birth to his

child here is a Ghanaian. So not every Ghanaian is black. Some of you look at

some people are a bit fair in those things and you start judging them and say go that that is bad that's bad

and so please understand that Ghanaians are not all black some are white some look like Europeans hallelujah some also

look like h very fair but yet they are very black hallelujah when you go to their flowers and do those you will see

women who are white they are white they are blacks amen so please the next time you see a a

colored person walking around. Stop. Are you an Indian? Ask them, are you a Ghanaian? Hallelujah. Because not all

Ghanaians look the same. Tell someone look the same. Hallelujah. Not all of us look the same.

The book of Psalm 1110 the verse 6 says, "He will execute judgment among the

nations, filling them with corpses. He will shatter chiefs over the wide

earth." Hallelujah. Let me try and say this again now.

Because God is the foundation and the one who created nations. Nations are

subject to the will of God. In Psalm 110 verse 6, the Bible said he promises that

he will execute judgment among the nations and he will fill the nations

with the results of their punishments. He said and their kings, those who rule these earths, he said he will shatter

their strength all over the earth. It sounds like God is angry. He will

come to why? Matthew 25:31-32 says, "When the sons of men shall come

in his glory, sorry, when the son of man shall come in his glory, and all holy

angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory, and he shall

separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides sheep from goats."

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I think for most people they think that um the end of the world

judgment is only people who are called Christians. If they are not Christians they exist in a different world. If they

are culturally oriented they believe that they will go to Asamando and start a whole nation in Asamando or rule in

Asamando. So many people have a different kind of imagination about what

the end picture is. Jesus is saying this to us that he is

coming back again and when he is here with all his angels and glory he will

judge all the nations. Said all the nations will be in front of him will

come and give account of these nations. They will give account to Jesus and he will separate them from the goats and he

will get rid of the nations that lived by the goat mentality and he would bless

and keep and take with him the nations that went about with a sheep mentality.

We'll come to all that later. Colossians the chapter 2 verse 10 reads and in him

you have been made complete and he is the head over all rule and authority.

These are very great foundations I must give you. Listen, the Bible says we all find completeness in Jesus Christ. And

he is the head of anything that rules upon this earth and anything that claims to have authority.

This is very important a sermon because if you are going to be a politician someday, you must hear this. If you're already a politician, you must hear me.

There are times when our politicians want Christians out of Christian out of politics. They don't want believers to

come there. They want people who have no fear of God, they are okay. Have you

ever heard anybody said if you are if you're a person who doesn't fear God, if a person who believes in wickedness,

don't come into politics. They always tell it's a dirty game. Have they ever said that to you? When you espouse godly

principles, they try to hate you and insult you, embarrass you so that you out of self-respect leave.

Hello. And I am telling you that governance isn't a thing for the world. is a thing

for God. It is God that establishes governments and authorities, rulerships

and leadership. Anytime you have somebody on top of you in this life, don't undermine, don't fight that

person. Don't oppose that person. Believe God establish them. Do your part to support them when their time is due.

Hello? Because the Bible said that Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, he is the head of

all rule on the face of this earth and all authority. Why am I saying this? If the nations

belong to God and was the construct of God's will, then the plan of God

concerning nations did not begin from men, not from the appetite and the

conquest of men, but it was a designed principle of eternity that God had

planned before the world came into being. In the book of first Peter the chapter 5 11 said, "To him be glory and

dominion forever." The authority of Jesus Christ did not start when he came on the face of this earth. It is

forever. Tell us about forever. God has planned that every form of authority

outside himself on the face of this earth and in heaven is rendered to the

judgment and the will of his only begotten son Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:20-23 says, "Which he wrought in

Christ when he raised him from the dead and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places far above prince all not

some above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name

that is named not only in this world but also which is to come."

And he hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his

body, and the fullness of him that fillth all in all. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Amen. Many of times even Christian believers, teachers and and pastors want

to make sure that politics is outside the church because they believe that politics or the way of politics, let me

try and define politics. We are not talking about partisanism. When we talk about politics, we are actually talking about the ability to be able to come

together over ideas that will help run your nation better. That is all. If a

political party comes and they are seeking your vote, they are telling you things they can do to make the nation better. Is it not? Did you ever vote for

them to go and steal your money? Did you vote for them to live large and make you suffer? Whoever voted for anybody in

this world because they deserve to eat all your money, let you suffer. That's not the idea, is it? So the whole idea

of politics is that you submit your idea. It's like when you were in school and people were looking for prefactorial

authority, huh? You remember? They come and tell you the plans and things they can do and based on that if you are

convinced you vote for them are you following me

or your SRC presidents those days you remember they'll promise heaven and earth ah but when they go don't deliver

you have no power to do to them that is not how life and governance should work.

Amen. Philippians 2:91 says, "Therefore, God has exalted Christ Jesus. Give him a

name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus, every knee, look, I I

don't know who you are. Maybe you were born royalty from day one. Maybe you own nations of the world, but so long as

you're a human being, you have a knee." He's referring to you. Uh unless you unless you're not a human, but you have

legs that can walk and you have a knee. He's referring to you that let every knee bow of things in heaven and things

in the earth and things under the earth and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory

of God the Father. All nations and all leaders are subject

to God's will and must pursue righteousness. And I'll prove this to you. Please offer me a few more minutes

as I cement my my sermon. In the book of Daniel the chapter 2 the verses

31 35 44 the scripture said that um Nebuchadnezzar had a dream and forgot

the dream. You remember and when he forgot the dream he asked all the magicians to come and tell him the dream

or they be killed. Daniel and the four Hebrew brothers went to see God's face. Shadrach when they saw God's face God

gave Daniel the vision and the interpretation of that vision and he said oh king you had a dream and the

dream upon your bed you saw a huge image that stood from heaven his head was in

the heavens and his feet hit the ground number one so he spoke about what is

permitted to what be fulfilled in the expanse of the earth as far as the earth is concerned what is meant to happen

within this time And Daniel revealed accuracy even things that will happen

tens of thousands of years to come. So he starts and says that yes there'll be

nations and nations and nations but the true understanding of governments and leaderships is beginning with you. The

book of Mesa said you are the head you are the head of God. You are the most perfect example

of a kingdom and how it must be ruled.

So he says it he says as far as men are concerned type of governance is the perfect not the politics we have today.

Hello good and one day we'll look into why

Daniel said that and what were the laws there and what were the applicabilities of it. We'll one day look into that when

we have real time not church time. Hallelujah. Amen. And so the Bible Bible

said Daniel explained he said then will follow another kingdom, another nation that will come on the face of this

earth, another nation that will become great like you. And he said you are the head. And he said the chest and the arms

which is the next nation was a nation of silver. He said this shall be two nations, two empires that shall come one

after the other, the Medidians and the Persians. He spoke of the empires of the king Cyrus the great in scripture who

was known as the bear. They said shall follow also the Greek Macedonia

empire the allesa the great time which the stomach shall be bronze and the

thighs stomach and the thighs shall be bronze please don't go I have very some very very interesting things to let you

see amen number three he said and the final shall be the iron age which is the

Roman Empire today many many types of governments try to model themselves around the Roman emperor

belief thinking that they were the strongest. The Roman Empire was not the strongest. At least history never told us the Roman

Empire was the strongest. Amen. It was the most ineffective. The Bible said it

was mixed of clay and what? And what? Clay and what?

Well, you remember the legs of iron. The feet of iron and part of clay. Iron and clay. Huh? It's a

mixture of two things. Amen. Iron being one of the strongest metal and clay being one of the weakest and malleable

substance. We'll come into spirituality of those things another day because I don't want to confuse what I'm trying to

teach. I don't want to. Are you ready with me? We we are now on the same page. Huh? And he comes to say that there will

come another kingdom. That kingdom shall come out of

the hand of God heing a rock that will come and strike the feet and destroy the

entire image. But this is what he spoke the 44 which is very important. He said and in

the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom. There shall come a nation from God

which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people. Listen to this. Another person

shall not inherit the kingdom. They will not come one after the other. Unlike our kingdoms where one person die, another

person takes over. He said this is not how it will be. Daniel was very clear. Said this kingdom shall have only one

leader for life eternal. And it shall not be left to another but it shall

break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms and it will stand forever. Tell

it will stand forever. Stand forever. Tell us it will stand forever.

And so the Bible said the last kingdom being the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ when it comes on the face of this

earth is meant to be forever within this earth and even after Jesus comes a

second time and the judgment and heaven and hell. Are you with me?

Because God has a plan and in his plan he's going to give birth to the church at the coming of his son Jesus Christ.

And he would teach what is required of all men who wants to live in his kingdom. He will have citizenship

classes in churches. I'm coming coming to something. Don't worry. Citizenship classes in churches teaching the

concepts of righteousness and our identity in Jesus Christ as believers.

So this is shall be the kingdom that lasts forever. When we spoke of the second coming, the

rapture, the Bible says he will come and rapture the righteous. come back to torment the earth, conquer the earth,

and then he would reign on the earth for an another thousand years. Then after that, there shall be heaven and hell.

But his kingdom shall not change. His principles, his motives shall never

change. Righteousness, that's a righteousness. Permit me. The pursuit of righteousness

as a nation means to situate all actions and intent within the will of God and to

guide all we do under the values espoused by our supreme ruler and judge

Jesus Christ. So when we talk about righteousness being pursued by a nation means that

everything that the nation does, everything the nation, every law the nation passes has an intent has an

intent to rather foster the will of God and to guide all things we do through

the values that Jesus Christ has taught while he was on this earth. Every law,

every development agenda must be done to foster the values of Jesus Christ.

Permit me ladies and gentlemen to share with you my sermon

uh scripture for the day. Proverbs 14:34 said righteousness will exalt a nation.

Tell righteousness but sin is a reproach to any people

said. So what he's trying to say is that righteousness will exalt a nation but sin will destroy every nation.

Okay. So what is sin? Unrighteousness. The Bible says every unrighteousness is sin. Are you there? Are you with me? Now

the word exalt means to rise to a higher rank or position.

To be dignified, to be praised worthy. Some of you if they ask you to leave

Ghana and be a slave of foreign country, you jump and go. You

in fact you not consider it. Some years ago, I we heard a story on TV where a

man wrote a letter and told his son who was traveling on a scholar. I said, "Never come back. Never set your feet

back ever on this country, I do not ever want future to be destroyed." And it hurt. When when when I was watching that

on on Ghana News, I I was worried. It's come to a time where we have no

exaltation of our nation because we as a people are not practicing righteousness as a people. And and today we'll know

how it can be done. Deuteronomy 28:1 says, "And it shall come to pass, if thou will harken diligently unto the

voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandment which I command thee this day, that the Lord my thy God

will set thee on high above all nations of the earth." So what is righteousness?

If we choose to walk according to the word of God and do situate everything we do within the context of the value that

Jesus Christ values that Jesus Christ taught us then God is going to place us above every other nation and make us

extremely important to him than anything. This concept didn't exist in the New

Testament. It predates the New Testament. Long even the Old Testament,

God had wanted nations to walk after his will for the earth.

Deuteronomy 26:19 says, "And to make thee high above all nations, which he

had made in praise and in name, in honor, that thou mayest be an holy

people unto the Lord thy God, as he has spoken."

Righteousness will cause God to lift you as a nation, lift a nation above all

nations. This is not prophetic speech. This is literal speech. Hallelujah.

If a group of people decides to walk in righteousness with God, he is going to lift them and their nation.

And exalt that nation above all other nations on the face of this earth.

Let me say ladies and gentlemen respectfully that all authority on the face of this earth is established by

God. Do not deceive yourself. All authority. As I've said earlier,

Colossians 2:10 says, "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of

all principality and power. Every authority you find on the face of this earth that has been established by God,

came from God." Matthew 28:18:20. And Jesus came and spoke unto them, saying, "All power,"

tell them, "All power, all power is given unto me in heaven and in the

earth. Go ye therefore and teach all the What did he say? Is it teach people?"

He say, "Teach churches." What was the apostles business? To teach all

all. Oh, please speak that that word. to teach all,

baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things

whichever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end

of this world. Amen. Ladies and gentlemen, God sent preachers, God sent the apostles to

raise the nations after the culture of righteousness.

God never sent any apostle to go anywhere and teach holiness and teach that we are going to do this going to do

that teach that a rock is coming from heaven that our sins will destroy us is to embrace his righteousness in every

practice and when we embrace our righteousness we will live holy without struggle are you with me are you with me

churches 1:20 23 says which he wrought in Christ Jesus when he raised him from the dead

and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places. Says there is no doubt if you want to

see that all power has been given to Jesus to rule. This is the evidence we have in that he raised his only begotten

son Jesus Christ from the dead and then placed him in the right on his right hand of righteousness in heaven to be

far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that

is named not only in this world but also in the world to come. And he has put all things under his feet and gave him to be

head over all things to the church which is the body and the fullness of him that

fillth all in all. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and

sisters, Christ and his values are what should shape every action of

every leader and every nation and of every cause on the face of this earth.

Romans 13:1-4 says, "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers, for

there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God. Whoever

therefore resists the power, resist the ordinance of God, and they and they that

resist shall receive to themselves domination. For rulers are not a terror

to good works, but to the evil. Will thou then not be afraid of that power?

Do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the saint. For he is the

minister of God to them for good. But if thou do thou if thou do that which is

evil, be afraid, for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is the minister of

God, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Today I'm opening your eyes to things in scripture some of you have never paid attention to. The Bible says, "Let every

soul on the face of this earth respect leadership and submit themselves to God also."

He says whosoever resist any form of leadership God has given to him especially for example if we voted a

president and because you didn't vote for him you don't like him or because a new government has come to pass and you

are not comfortable with that government Bible says when you resist such governance you do that at the damnation

of your own soul then he comes to give the reason why God set up rulership

your president your politicians your kings the nation's leaders have not been

created to foster evil. What? Let's say this in tree.

wickedness.

Evil

If you say they are not carrying the sword in

what I say, your president can tell you all to sleep today. You may insult him in your room, but you can't go insult

him at the at the at the presidential staff house. You'll be arrested and jailed by the law. Are you understanding

what I'm trying to say? Somebody insulted presidents on on radio, they see them arrested the next day. You

don't plead for them. Righteousness says keep quiet. Let them face their trouble. Next time tell them it is wise that you

support and respect leadership. You may don't like them. You may not like them

but insult them in private not in the presence of others. Hello.

God hasn't forced you to like them but he has forced you to submit to them. Are you understanding what I'm trying to say? Amen. So that's what leadership is.

And anybody who teaches you to rebel against leadership is from the devil.

If you're a president, if you're a ruler, if you're a king, if you a president of a nation, and please for some chance you get to hear what I'm

saying. Please understand, you are not there to make some people rich and some

people poor. You are not there for your party. You are not there for your race

or your kind. You are not there for your tribes men. You are there to make sure that no evil goes unpunished. No evil

prospers in the land that God has made you leader. Because on the day of judgment, God will ask from your hands,

did you fulfill this? Maybe no other teacher taught you this, but I'm teaching you this. And I read it again.

He said, "For rulers are not a terror to good works. For rulers do not stand

against good works, but to evil works. So be not afraid of the powers of this

world. For if you do what is good, they cannot have anything against you. For he

the ruler is the minister of God to thee for good for good. But if thou do that

which is evil, be afraid, for he bears not the sword in vain. For he's the

minister for God. He was an avenger, the president, the leader, the king of your land. He exists to come against anything

evil, to avenge any evil on the earth that has been established.

Proverbs 16:12-13. It is an abomination to kings

to commit wickedness. For the throne is established by

righteousness. Therefore, for a king, a righteous lip

should be the delight of kings, and they love him that speaks right. If you a

king, surround yourself with people who speak righteousness. People give you good advice, not bad

advice. Not teach you how to destroy others. People who teach you how to do evil, but people teach you what to do

right in the land, not to offend God.

Hello. I want to disabuse this mentality that

because you need power to rule, you must go to shrines and deities and authorities in darkness for power. It is

God that gives you that power. If God has not accepted you to be president, no power, no authority on this earth that

you go, no amount of blood you share can give you that power. Unless you take it wrongfully.

Unless you take it wrongfully by stealing or rigging an election. But outside all that power and sacrifice you

are making, it cannot make you great because you only come and execute more

evil on the face of this earth instead of good. And God has a reason why he choose

kings. When he chooses them, he has a purpose for them to abolish wickedness and evil on the face of this earth. Now

you see that God is not sitting there idle. God didn't create this world for you to suffer. It is our refusal to

embrace the wisdom and the will of God in every situation that has caused us to suffer

on the face of this earth. When we tend to respect worldly knowledge and and canalism above God,

then we don't understand why it is important that we ought to think of our brother more than ourselves and do only

good to our brother and never evil. as a people in a nation.

Again, let me say this. It is an abomination to a king, to a

ruler, to a president, to a head of state to commit wickedness. For the throne you sit on, its authority and

power is based on righteousness. Surround yourself with righteous lips.

Find friends who speak righteous things and love him that speaks right in your

land. Let me try and and read this in the easy

English standard version of the Bible says it is an abomination to kings to do evil to do evil.

For the throne is established by righteousness, and righteous lips are a delight of a

king, and he loves him who speaks what is right.

I said the book of Nazar exalted Daniel above every other wise man. And the

Bible said for years later, the book of Nazar always sought the wisdom of Daniel. He made Daniel closer to him. If

Daniel said something was final, it doesn't matter how powerful a magician you were. If Daniel said something, he trusted Daniel's word.

Great kingdoms put together the wisest of their land. Great kingdoms put together teachers of truth. Great

teachers, great kings and mighty men bring together to themselves, not people

alone that see, but people they know God's hand is on them.

Are you with me? Now please note this very well. The

reason why the Bible speaks of antichrist is because it is a concept against righteousness on the face of

this earth. Yes. You haven't noticed that. So the Bible says the antichrist in John

1:28 said they are already in this world. Even now as we speak there are many antichrist. What is their purpose?

To stop the principles of Christ on this earth from taking root. to prevent righteousness on the face of this earth.

So the antichrist is defined most times in theology as a government or a person

who takes authority in governments to oppose he's going to oppose the principles of

righteousness of Jesus Christ on the face of this earth. He will tell you, he

will tell you things like,

they will teach you things that scripture doesn't agree with. Hello. They'll tell you, so what if some people

should die, it is a necessary death. They will tell you this is called um

preemptive strike, counter intelligence that it is possible you can be a future great person. I must sabotage you before

you get there. That is antichrist. That is against Christ. Are you there?

When you attempt to control all things with outside the will of God, you are

antirist.

The Greek word is anti is primarily a Christian term used in the Bible.

He stands for everything outside righteousness, every principle of the world that contradicts righteousness, which is the

way of truth as delivered unto us by our Lord Jesus Christ. Any knowledge of the

world that is trying to treat itself as a superior scientific knowledge and

trying to look at the Bible and the word of God as something aric and manipulative is a work of the antichrist

to make sure that you will not follow the principles of righteousness that creates safety, peace, love and

prosperity for all on the face of this earth.

He will judge the nations on the standard of righteousness. This is why this is why when Jesus comes the second

coming he's coming to judge the world on the preempts of what? Righteousness.

So Psalm 98:9 says before the Lord for he cometh to judge the earth with

righteousness shall he judge the world and the people with equity with equity.

We already know what righteousness is. So that's what equity is. Equity means an evenhandedness

with fairness, impartiality and justice. When God comes, he will not give judgment. Oh, but you know I knew that

this nation is going to become big. If I don't stop them, they will destroy my economic or something. God is not going

to say that you are you were right because it's going to be fair to every situation and to every purpose. Are you

with me? The fact that you were afraid of somebody's future and so you were

willing to destroy them before they get there is not justice. Are you with me church?

And so God will exhibit equity in his judgment.

You were given more. You should have done more. But for every good you did, you were sabotaging others that they can

never rise. That is not good. You know there are a lot of people who believe that to do good you must do more

evil to get more money to do that good. That isn't righteousness. That isn't

righteousness. Our people say it in a very simple palance.

You see our elders were wise. They also understood righteousness and applied. And I'll show you in a little bit. I'm

trying to compound my sermon within the stipulated time given me. Amen. So I I may not be able to touch all but

I'll do my best. Amen. And and so fairness is an important attribute in

the judgment of God. Impartiality.

No. When you are wrong, you are wrong. When you are right, you are right. Irrespect of time, place or purpose. I

taught my children one thing. If I overreacted as a father and I overstretched my discipline to either

talk too harshly or to insult them, I later come to them and beg them. Am I lying Sean?

I come to my son and said I'm sorry I overreacted. I'm sorry I I insult. I even sometimes tell when I get angry and

I because you see you are not above anybody. Everybody in their role to you, you deal

with you must deal with them in righteousness. The same way you must do in marriage. The wife is not an animal

you purchase from somebody's home. He's somebody's precious daughter. You must

respect value. The same way you must treat your husband. Your husband is not beneath you because you have money, you

have you have education or something. You must learn to understand that in respect of what everything, he

is the head of God for you. And God will be fair. You see, God will be evenhanded. God will be impartial to

every purpose. Let let me show you another wisdom of God. Every law, every

law you know in this world is designed after the righteousness of God. Thou

shall not kill. Thou shall not steal. Freedom of speech,

freedom of travel, uh right of expression, what? Go ahead. They are all

attributes of righteousness. You never paid attention to it before. You thought is is human human abilities. But this is

scripture because we've not become the salt and the light of this. The world doesn't respect what we carry as a

church because we gather and do hey baba and go to bed and go to bed and come again and prophesy and go to bed. What?

Listen, I don't know about you, but I'm going to find it very hard to belong to certain churches. I don't know about

you. After you know what I've taught you here and you can go back to these things. It's up to you.

You go back to a cycle that will never end. No. Have you noticed that those who are in those churches, their problems

never end? Same problem every year. Have you noticed

that problem? Why is the devil keeping us in that cycle? So that when we are in that

cycle, we are not busy practicing the real purpose God gave us on the face of this earth. When we are not practicing

the real purpose God gave us on this earth, we are failing as a kingdom of God.

Tell them there's more. Tell there's more to our spirituality.

Don't limit your Christianity to to a spiritual pursuit of more prayer and fasting alone. But let you let you must

understand that the essence of God is that his kingdom shall thrive on earth. And that isn't just prayer.

Does that's not just prayer. Every principle of law is intended to be

what? On the basis of righteousness, fairness

with equity. And so if you come to the law and you claim that somebody has

stolen from you, uh you must prove ownership of that thing before you can have the equity to

seek judgment. Are you understanding me? So let's imagine I went to steal this microphone. H then I come to court and

say somebody has stolen my microphone. There how do we know this is your microphone?

Okay, I also stole it from somebody else. Do you think the law will fight for me? Only in Ghana that when somebody

cannot explain their wealth and somebody steals from them, the law will charge the person who has stolen from them. That isn't law.

Are you with me? That's not law. There must be equity. They said he who comes

to the law must have clean hands. H the late Bob say if you live in a

glass stone don't throw glass house don't throw what ra man throw one stone and the whole

glass house will come down. Are you with me?

It's true a thief cannot take his fellow thief to a court. Do you know that?

because he has now explained where he got the money from. You must not. But in

a government and in a national party's righteousness, no thief will do that. They'll keep quiet about it. They will

find other ways to get their money. Are you with me?

In a national part's righteousness, equity will be applicable to every man,

fairness to every man.

Are you with me? Psalm 9:8 says, "And he shall judge the world in

these are not words. I I'm not making these things up. These are there in scripture. He shall judge the world in

righteousness. He shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness."

Isaiah 11:4 he says, "But with righteousness shall Jesus judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the

meek of the earth, and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips, he shall

slay the wicked." So what is wickedness?

The Bible says, "As far as the heavens are from the earth, so is my ways from

the ways of wickedness." Anything that God stands for, wickedness

is the opposite of it. The opposite of faith is fear.

Fear makes you afraid of everybody and tends to see everybody as an enemy unnecessarily.

Fear refuses you to harness potentials of other competitors for your own progress and development.

Acts 17:31 because he has appointed a day in which he would judge the world in

ah we must be we must be sleeping same language from the beginning till now we are not seeing it.

The apostle Paul was speaking and under the anointing of those he said because God has appointed the day this Jesus Christ will come and he would judge the

world in righteousness by that man whom he had ordained before he had given

assurance. He said by this man Jesus Christ the the reason why we know he's the one going to judge this world in

righteous is because God gave him resurrection. God res resurrected him and gave us an assurance that he is the

judge of this world.

Listen listen before you move any further let's try and situate righteousness in the context of the

wisdom of God from creation to today God creates the world he gives simple

commandments to man obey if you obey I want you to rule this earth man fails he

sends Jesus Christ to come Christ comes on the face of this earth cleanse our sins

receives the power which is the Holy Spirit who work in us both to will and to do of of God's good pleasure and

gives it into our hearts that we may still be able to rule on this earth by the intentional plan of God from

creation which involved righteousness which is obedience to his word.

I don't know whether you guys get it but I know I don't know Holy Spirit help us Holy Spirit help me.

In fact, if if you are in this ministry, I'm not bragging on your level of

understanding is different. For those who cannot be here, for those who cannot stay in this church, they can't get me.

It's not they don't like the church. They like the church, like everything God is doing, but they can't just get me because God hasn't given them the chance

to understand me. Their understanding is hindered. When I say yes, they they hear

it as no. When I say good, they hear it as bad. They fail to see what my purpose is in

their lives. Now enough talking about that. Let us try and find out what righteous values

does God expect nations to follow. You see you cannot talk about something

without constructively providing the evidence to the same that you think that

God has called us to follow. And number one, every nation ought to

have the rule of law. Tell the rule of law.

What does this mean? There must never be any in the nation deemed influential, mighty, rich, anointed or royal enough

to be above the law.

We must all be subject to one law. Numbers 15 verse 16. one law, one man of

doing things shall be for you and for the stranger that lives in you. So if

you're a government and you pass laws to make your citizens more comfortable, but strangers suffer, you are not practicing

righteousness. Let me give you a classic example. When

you travel to the west, and I'll mention no names, they have a law and their law

makes citizens more comfortable, but foreigners suffer. Huh? But it's the

foreigners who keep their economy running. It's the immigrants that will do all the bad jobs and take the

smallest money and let them retain the highest taxes they can retain to keep their economy running.

They are not willing to change it. For them, so far as you a citizen, you deserve more. In the same way, Ghana

also have laws like that. But that is not a righteous law.

That is not a righteous equity. If I labor to put it in, I deserve to

enjoy from it also. Is it wrong? Uh people say in our local palace,

do you understand what that means? Leviticus 24:22,

you shall have one manner of law as well for stranger as for one of your own

country, for I am the Lord your God. The same stranger coming from Ghana, black

man like me coming from Ghana to the west. I am a child of God just as like you, the white man or Caucasian,

whatever you are in the west are a child of God. Why should I be an enemy to you when we

come from the same offspring of God and live under the same presence of the Almighty?

Why should God justify you killing my people at the border in the deserts? Why should God justify the abuse of hatred

just because my skin is different? Just because my passport is different.

It is righteous to have the rule of law and to create no gray areas in that law

for the benefit of equity

and to create no gray areas for the benefits of wickedness and evil.

Number two, when you are a leader,

you are called to have a servant leader approach to all things.

I don't want to cause any trouble. Look at me. I've been your leader for 17 years. Huh?

I'm here to collect daily weekly petrol from you. Huh? I'm here to collect

dressing allowance. You're not supposed to give me dressing allowance.

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I think in African nations we become a leader. We need 4x4 by fours. Huh? If

you've dropped dreams before, we need four by four by our comfort as a leader comes before the people we serve.

A servant leader approach means you have a sense of accountability and respect for all the human beings

living in the land. We must frown from all forms of classifications because it weakens the

power of the law and creates a coven for evil and wickedness.

Are you with me? If you don't have a servant leader approach, you create the room for abuse.

Classic example, there is Pharaoh, there is his leaders, there are tax masters and there are slaves. And so we abuse

the slaves. Those who are not part of the classification, they are not worth

it. Are you with me church?

Do you follow? Are you with me?

Luke 22:26 27 Jesus leaves an example for all of us to copy. But you shall not

be so. But he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he

that is chief king as the one who serves.

No wonder they can't follow it. You mean of all the glory of me like the king, glory of a of a president, I

should look accountable to the people. I should behave myself around the people. I should serve the best interest of the

people, not me alone and my family. This is hard. Jesus for weather is great. Is he he that sits

and meet or he that serves? Is not he that sits and meet greater but I Jesus

are among you as one who serves. Jesus speaks to all the leaders he sent

into the world. He said you must go out as ones who have been sent serve the people.

So you didn't see Paul busy organizing financial services, financial

arrangements to buy a house for himself. Go a time Paul will work for money. I'm

not saying taking care of your pastor is bad. That's not what I'm saying. Please don't get me wrongly please. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that our

culture is such that we are more comfortable as we lead. Uh

and because we are too comfortable, we don't look at the problems at hand. Let me give you a class example.

If you are a minister for roads in let's say you are in a country called Umbu

and in Umbu you are responsible to make sure the road networks work. But there's a law

that because you're a minister you don't follow road traffic. Uh wherever would you ever sit up and be

dis becomforted by the road traffic to solve the problem. Are you understand

what I'm trying to say? Let me rephrase it. Let me rephrase it.

Are you with me? If the minister for road and transport

spends 45 minutes in traffic going nowhere, he's going to wake up the next

morning and go straight to the police and find out what is causing our roads to be choked.

And he's going to do everything possible to stop that because he has no other way to get to his office except that.

But when he pass a law serene blow where everybody stands he goes he never sees

the problem he has to solve because he has lived outside the problem.

Seven leadership means that we don't execute a sense of greatness and

grandeur in our duty but a sense of servantthood to the people we lead.

Mark 10:44:45 says that he that is greatest among you must

become the one who acts as the least.

The most powerful prophets in the world, powerful men of God are not those ones coming bodyguards and claiming they are

anointed and being all over television and radio. They are those who act normal

like you and I. They are the people who have the full backing of heaven in every circumstance

of their life.

What righteous principle should nations practice? Do no harm economically, morally or

fiscally to your fellow citizens. Whatsoever you do, do to your fellow

human being knowing you have done it to God. No amount of money should make you pass

laws that foster the opposite of what God wants for your land. Last week I said

something. I said it makes no economic sense to pass a law in favor of

homosexuality in any way. I'm not against any homosexualist. I'm

not insulting any homosexualist. But it doesn't make economic sense because listen

you and I in this nation whenever our nation borrows money to develop do you know we are liable for payment.

You never knew the government the government announced $20 billion for road construction.

The government may never pay because sometimes they have tax exemption they may never pay. But you and I, the

ordinary man here, we will pay it through how we trade, how we buy things, through taxation and other things,

through opportunities that denied us and our children will pay for it. Are you with me?

So if you pass a law that allows you to have something today,

then we are in debt. That law you pass to have that money is debt. It's not free money, it's debt. Then as comes to live and enjoy in that

time with me but does not have children because he's homosexual. He likes not to

have procreation. Then he dies and leave the debts upon me and my children's children to pay. Is that equity? Is that

fairness? Does it make any economic sense?

I said this way back in 2018.

on Facebook got to a time you feel the system is fighting you for a reason because the

things you are saying doesn't sync with worldly systems

in place. So if you're a president and you take

bad loans just to affect your nation you are practicing on righteousness.

If you're a member of parliament, a group of people in parliament, you pass laws, you know, it will just only make

us more deeper, deeper in poverty and suffering, you are not helping us.

If you lacks the law of accountability and property

so that all manner of wrong can be done in the name of trying to help us econ

economically, you harm your fellow citizens. Matthew 25:46 says, "And the king shall

answer and say unto verily I say unto you, as you have done unto one of the least

of these brethren, you have done it unto me."

Anything you do, if your labor as a leader, as a nation, as a fellow citizen

leads to the betterment of your economy, to your nation, you are helping us all.

If you pay your tax, you are helping us all. If you do what is right, you are helping

us all.

Zechariah 8:16 17 says, "These are the things that you shall do. Speak every

man the truth to his neighbor. Execute the judgment of truth and peace

in your gates. Let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against your neighbor.

Love no false oath for all these things that I hate, says the Lord.

Do no harm. Don't be a journalist who lies. You write stories just to because you

have been paid by someone just to brand somebody evil, just to shape the opinions. You know in our world we call

it influencers. Uh people are paid to force us to think certain way. said they are global

influences. They are political influencers. They are what? Bloggers.

They don't care. The trouble to buy shoe, coat, car, house is all they

working for. Each one for himself. God for us. They

forget that every action of ours contributes to a pool of greatness for all of us. Every in action of ours and

every evil action of ours contributes to a life of hell on the face of this earth

for all of us. Number four, love your nation. Tell love

your nation. Don't love your political party. Love your nation.

I know this is this is not going to sit with several people, but it's good. Tell love your nation.

and don't don't be proud of your tribe. Don't be proud of your group of people.

Be proud of your nation. Are you understand what I'm trying to say?

We got to a time and it's still sometimes in in this in this Africa that people who are loyal to parties, they

succeed faster and they rise faster at the expense of everybody

because we want to reward unfaithfulness and unpatriotic acts.

Jeremiah, there was a few years ago there was a man who saw a child hanging on a building in France. He was he was

an immigrant. He didn't have papers. He was illegally there. Yes. So if he does

anything and the police catch him, he will go back to his country. He saw a child in trouble. He scaled the wall

like a Spider-Man and went to save the child. He was arrested. But the president executed a pardon and said

because he has done this to risk his life to save a member of France. He's a

French. That day he received full pardon in his papers.

When you do that you encourage good in the land. Are you understanding me? But you only make people who insult others

on television who lie on television through their nose who lie on radio stations political appointments and to

make them rich. You encourage wrong and evil in your land. You encourage a sense of no love for your nation.

Daniel 6:4 to5 then the presidents and

princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom but they

could find none occasion of fault for as much as he was faithful. Take your time.

I like to speak of Daniel. Some of you believe there's a cause to change these beliefs at certain times. Daniel's

country had suffered defeat being captured by by the Babylonians.

Their children, their fathers, their mothers, their brothers were killed by these Babylonians. But when Daniel

served in the kingdom, he never sabotaged Babylon.

He worked hard for the cause of that country.

small independent struggle in Ghana. We are so divided. Still we are families divided under one nation.

Jeremiah 29:7 says, "Seek the peace of the city of the city." This is God

speaking. He said, "It doesn't matter if that city fought you and took you by force." He said, "Once you are in that

city, seek the peace of that nation and pray for it. For in its peace shall you

prosper.

The other day somebody was angry angry about their shock absorbance because of one bad road the government has not

fulfilled and they were complaining and crying. So I asked him years before, wasn't that road still bad? Said still,

still still this government. I said, please stop it. Please stop it there. Which one do you want? You don't like

government? You don't do you want the government to fail so that your party will come? Or you want the government to succeed? So that they will do the road

and people vote for him again. Then he's stuck. He's angry because you have not learned to put nation above party. You

cannot recognize the need to seek your nation's best interest in respect of whose party is in government.

I know some of the things I teach are hard, but someone must start to lay the

foundation and others must come to do the work. Are you understand what I'm trying to say? Number five,

there are only six points I want to teach you today. But number five, let true be truth be the pillar on which the

nation stands. Tell somebody truth. So what is truth? Truth means what

agrees with facts and reality. Truth is not a perception or a narrative. Some

people believe that. Listen, some people believe that. Watch. You see this

modern philosophy. I see this as black. You also can say it

is green. So long as it's green to you, you are telling the truth. So long as it's black to me, that's not true.

We both can't see the same thing but we can perceive different. We both can see the same but we can perceive different

things. Do you understand? What do I mean by this? We can both see this red picture but can

interpret it differently. The interpretation of that picture is perception

but truth is factual and agrees. Are you following what I'm saying? with

reality. Truth is not a perception or a narrative. It is not a belief.

But believe that all your subjects, all your nation people deserve the truth.

Listen, when we were younger, we don't know about Kuma like what we know today.

Do you know that? cuz somebody decided that we should not teach that truth.

Then the last few years we began knowing about am I lying. They're telling you

where his house was. They were telling

people made sure certain information didn't come out

but truth must never be buried. The truth of who we are must never be the truth of our mistakes must never be

buried. John 8:31:32.

So Jesus said to the

Don't don't don't don't lie to yourselves. Know when this is not right

for us and know when this is right for us. Matthew 5:37 enforces what I say. He

said let them know let them let what you let what you say be simply yes or no.

Anything more than this comes from the devil. Anything more, any any perception that

is an altered reality, any obsession that is also a possible narrative is a

deception of darkness to fight truth. Finally, ladies and gentlemen, as I

bring my sermon to an end, kill corruption. That one is hard for everybody.

Kill corruption. Kill corruption. Do not treat corruption with kid gloves in your country.

I want to ask you a question. How many have noticed that what I'm describing most of these countries outside are practicing some because they are

practicing these things you love their country their country looks better than

your country. When you compare them to Ghana you prefer that

you find presidents of certain country going to the office riding a bicycle.

You find them walking among the people and going to eat. They also need bodyguards. They also they also have

national security.

Honey, you was in Holland who saw the the Dutch person walking on the streets or it's not you. You were there.

It was Ghana and any president who has come and go was passing through here.

Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. cars, whom? Who? She, sh, who? Police,

commandos. Why is Africa's story different? Why does righteousness become hard for

our people to adopt? They have no enemies. They have nobody wanting to kill them. It's because they

don't care. Whatever crime you commit, nobody will cover up in the name of tribalism or political vendata.

And when a little child comes to tell the truth at the police station, the police will do everything to protect the child, they will not make sure the child

is destroyed or killed by accident before God did. When a nation seeks after righteousness,

they become a great nation and function better.

So instead of insulting Christians, teachers and righteous people and trying

to stay them away from the discourse of politics, allow them to come to teach you the truth. Because whoever you are,

whenever you lead, you have a responsibility from God

to fight against anything that is not righteous in the land.

So you will not represent the antichrist but rather represent the righteousness of Jesus Christ on the face of this

earth. People talk as if when I become president and I go me nobody nobody can

judge me. Yes the law may free you but you have not been freed from God. In the day of judgment you shall give account.

You will stand before the throne of judgment for every decision you took that made few rich and impoverished your

people and made people suffer.

2 Peter the chapter 2 verse 1920 while they promised them liberty they themselves are servants of corruption

for of whom a man is overcome of the same he's brought in bondage for if

after they have escaped the pollution of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ they they

again entangle themselves there in corruption and overcome the latter end

is worse with them than the So what is corruption ladies and

gentlemen simply put simp you want to understand corruption

for your secret benefit you turn a blind eye to truth that's all

that is all whenever you support anything because of

what you will gain out of it not what everybody will gain out but what you personally is getting out of it. You

have entangled yourself with corruption. So you refuse to see right from wrong, white from black. You see it in the

perspective of fighting for the cause of that thing for your singular benefit

or the benefit of crew crony and family member.

Bow down your head and let us pray.

the nations of the world that practice righteousness, some of them don't even Jesus yet.

You go to China uh and they enforce the law to the extent that even if you're a

government member and you do something wrong, they will arrest you and kill you.

You are standing here asking Christianity is bad. I know people who sit on that TV say

Christianity is bad. because of Christianity. That's why Ghana is not developing. Look at China. Don't they're not even Christians, but they are

practicing righteousness. It's not about being Christianity has not nothing to do with church. It's got to do with practice that Jesus Christ said we

should practice. But we are Christians and yet still we entangle ourselves with the antichrist

mentality of things. How do we build a nation that is exalted above every other nation?

How

you go to Singapore and you can't drug peddlers don't bring their drugs to Singapore because when they catch you in

fact they don't care which nation you come from you will die from it

they will make sure you are dead they don't care which political nation is supporting you they will enforce the law

to the latter if it includes them losing everything. Great nations don't become great by just

chance or color of their skin. It's by the principles of right and wrong they stand for.

And until our nation comes to that place of finally divining this place as a

place of a land for righteousness, we have no place in the scheme of

nations for the world.

Electricity is not a luxury. Water is not a luxury. You see before you became a government

and took authority over the water to charge people for the water. Men could go to the stream for their water.

The minute you engage them in a business say I will charge you this amount of liters per month for water. You have no

business messing with their liability for that water. It is unrighteousness.

If you constitute a business agreement, you must fulfill it.

You must make sure that you do what is right in every circumstance you find yourself.

That is righteousness. That's what make nations great and mighty.

Whether you believe me or not, a day is coming that the judgment day shall come and every nation and every leader and

every king and every mighty man on the face of this earth shall be judged by the king of kings of

righteousness.

Put your hand on your chest. Let's share a small prayer. Say, Lord Jesus,

you are my source of righteousness. You made sure that I will not miss

heaven because of your Holy Spirit. You gave him to be comforter,

friend, partner, to work in me, both to know your will

and to have the power to do that which is righteous.

Let me walk in righteousness all my days. Let me frown against the wrong

and pursue good that I may find my place in you.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit,

we pray this prayer. Amen.

Give a clap offering unto Jesus.

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So join us and let us grow together and God will richly bless you. Take out your

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wallets, bags, and speak the word of faith you have over your seed.

Commanded to go and come back, measures pressed down, shaken together,

and running over in Jesus mighty name.

If you are sick in any part of your body, as you give this seed to God, even if you don't have money to give, may the

power of God heal you. Every pain you have in the waist down was to your right

feet that stands on the floor. Every suffering you are experiencing in your body, Christ took it upon himself by the

little lashes that he received on our behalf. The Bible said he was chastised

for our peace and by his stripes we are made every with whole. I speak healing.

I speak healing. I speak strength. I speak recovery for your body. In the

name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

I will invite Auntie Lydia to take the offering for us.

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Christ, the love of God, and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us

now and forever more. Amen. Let's receive the benediction and the blessing

of God upon our lives as gold. The Lord bless you

and keep you, make his face shine upon you and be

gracious to you. The Lord turn his

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May the Almighty cause his face to shine upon you.

May the Lord be a pillar of cloud by day over us and a pillar of fire over us by

night. May the Lord and his angels encamp around our dwelling places. May

they keep every evil, shame, disgrace, depth, struggles away from us. May the

Lord be our help and our strong to power. May the Lord cause

madness upon the diviners that their hands may not be able to perform their

enterprise. May the Lord lift and bless us. May he

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