Preserving Righteousness from Generation to Generation

Sunday 31st May 2026 (Children’s Day Service)

Topic: Preserving Righteousness from Generation to Generation

There is a counsel that God seeks to establish in every generation; there is also mileage in life that should be covered in every generation. As Satan is racing the world towards destruction, God is also racing the world towards light. Romans Chapter 6 says it very clearly that Sin and Grace are in a race, but they’re moving in different directions. Sin’s race is to bring men into perdition, while Grace is advancing to bring men unto Salvation. Sin and Grace are contrary winds that are running against each other. (Romans 5:10) “Moreover, the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound…”

Grace is a teacher of righteousness, godliness and sobriety, which gives us a sense to deny ungodliness and worldly lust. Sin multiplies ungodliness, worldly lust, iniquity and seeks to see the emergence of the son of perdition. If Grace abounds more, then the teaching of righteousness, sobriety and godliness would abound more. (Titus 2:12) “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ…”

Sin in every generation and society has morphed and advanced. And even now, we have not seen the full expression of the manifestation of sin. (Matt 24:10) The abundance of iniquity numbs our senses and makes us used to a level of wickedness.

The issues of insurgency going on in Nigeria, for instance, are being propagated by a spirit of violence and wickedness that wants to multiply. That spirit wants to spread something in the air; it wants to awaken an acceptance of violence and make people comfortable with wickedness and sin. It makes people without natural affection, because they have begun to see it as normal (Romans 1:31). That spirit also moves to fill men’s hearts with vengeance. There is a grander agenda that, by the multiplication of these things, the reign of satan would be enforced. The Lord must show us Mercy by expelling this spirit from our coasts. The nature of the same spirits that possessed the madman of Gadara. This spirit seeks to make violence a sport, causing human harm for pleasure.

In a generation where Satan is designing a craft for the advancement of sin, Grace and the teaching of righteousness must abound much more with greater authority and greater life. Our children and the nations can become technologically savvy, but have not moved into the light of grace to escape the advancement and onslaught of sin. (2nd Timothy 3:13) “But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived”

There is a counsel the Lord is seeking to accomplish in this generation, it is much more than good welfare, good roads which we need, what God is seeking to accomplish is making God’s kingdom come to the earth, making the light of truth to dawn, wants the son of God to be declared in church and that the gospel of Everlasting life be proclaimed in all the earth.

There is a time of visitation upon the church, but the church and the nation at large have resisted, limiting the advancement of grace for our salvation. The response God is expecting from the church has not been wholesome. There are certain zones of righteousness and obedience that, if we do not race to enter, Satan may steal our seeds before our very eyes. There are certain walks, obediences, and commandments that if we do not attain unto, we would not have enough force of righteousness to stay the advancement of sin over a generation.

In the book of Judges, there was an onslaught of Satan upon different generations that it was difficult to pass down the reign of righteousness from one generation to the very next one. We often saw that after the death of a judge, the children of Israel would fall into sin until the Lord was able to raise another judge for them, and this cycle continued for a long time. There is a need to sustain the laws of life we have in God so that our children would also embody the life that is in God. There’s counsel raised for every generation. Our children must be able to live by Christ’s Life and Everlasting light even from a young age. We have a responsibility to not just know the truth, but to walk it, and by grace, make every other person connected to us walk in it.

(3rd John 1: 3 – 4) “3 For I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth. 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth”

(2nd John 1: 4) “I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father”

Truth will convict you of that which is wrong and make you turn from it. Parents should know that it is a commandment from the Father for their children, both biological and spiritual, to walk in Truth. For our children to walk in truth, it means we, as parents, must be exercised in truth. We must bear the standard of truth that God is revealing to our generation.

(Acts 13: 32-33) 32 And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.

Jesus became the begotten Son at the resurrection, but at Jordan and at the transfiguration, he was the beloved Son. There was a manner of son he was in the flesh, then he became another manner of son at the resurrection. He also did not become a high priest until after the resurrection

(Hebrews 5:5-10) “5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; 10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.

(Acts 13:33-36) “33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. 35 Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 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…”

When Jesus came into this class of Sonship, He defeated corruption forever. Jesus did not fully access incorruptibility until he became the begotten Son of God. Jesus is a son. Jesus is a beloved Son, Jesus is a begotten Son, Jesus is the only begotten Son. These are different and not the same.

This resurrection in Acts 13: 34 is not the physical one because some people will rise and go back to corruption because they’ve not fulfilled the obedience that will make them immune to corruption (1st Peter 1:4). Angels are corruptible even though they don’t have mortal flesh like men, meaning that corruption can take hold of them.

In Acts 13:34, the sure mercies of David are everlasting life and an escape from corruption. Isaiah 55:3 “Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David”. Sure mercies of David is the total escape of a soul from corruption.

A person who partakes of Christ can still return to corruption. 2nd Peter 2:18-20 “18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning”. These people escaped from pollution but not from corruption. The knowledge of the Lord cleanses from pollution. The power of the everlasting gospel is to yank a soul from the delusion of corruption and bring him to life that is free from the bondage of corruption.

Romans 8:20-23 “20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, 21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

There is what the new man is crying to be free from. He’s a new man, but he wants to be free to come into the glorious liberty of the Children of God. Your inner man is the new creature, and it longs for Everlasting life, where corruption has no sway over it again. The order of sons we are yearning for is to be born of God – to be begotten into a life. This is the giving of the full load of everlasting life. You don’t have to die and resurrect to complete obedience. Jesus’ obedience had to be completed by the cross Philippians.2:6-8 “6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross” The curriculum of obedience was culminated at the death of the cross of which he had been dying before.

Psalm 16:9-11 “9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. 10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore”

There are two classes of corruption: the breaking down of the natural body and the overcoming of the soul by the power of corruption. Jesus fulfilled the two, but David fulfilled only one. David’s flesh naturally saw corruption, but he overcame corruption in his soul, by which he became heir, and God swore the throne to David. David slept, and his flesh knew corruption, but he rested in hope because he knew that as Jesus rose, He would not leave his soul in hell. Jesus led captivity captive when he resurrected. Answering the question, was David in Hell? We know that the pathway to life was not open until Jesus resurrected; what they had before Jesus resurrected was Abraham’s bosom. Hell is not just a location but a being that lays legitimate claim over souls because of the fall of Adam, and there was nothing anyone could do by his righteousness to be free from that claim. Many righteous people in the Old Testament could not enter into rest. Only the blood of a sinless offering could pay the price of freedom from hell. Jesus closed the gate to Abraham’s bosom so that those who believe in him will not go there at all.

God arranges dispensation, and he sees the attitude of souls in each dispensation to what is given to them in that dispensation. God will judge every man according to their respective dispensation and the light that was given. David and all the other patriarchs had walked the walk that would have qualified them, but allocation/dispensation restrained them from entering it. God has set everything on earth in its time. He knows the administration of grace that every soul can work with for salvation. May the Lord help us to fulfil our own times; may we maximize the privileges of grace given to us according to our time. Dispensation restrained many from coming into the fullness, even though they did all the will of God in their generation. Serving the will of God and escaping corruption in your generation is doing God’s will.

Abraham lived a life of faith that made faith be named after him, calling him the father of faith. In the same way, David fulfilled a walk in the heart of God that made the throne be named after him – The throne of David, even though the throne had been before him. A person can serve God fully in his generation and sleep, but other people don’t know or discern what their walk brought them into. Serving God fully is to do all the will of God that has been revealed to him in the dispensation given to him.

(Romans 14:7-8) “7 For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s”

(John 21:18-19) “18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdest thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not. 19 This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.”

God knows what will glorify him, the kind of life or the kind of death. In our life or in our dying, the will of God is chief.

Philippians 1: 21 – 23 “21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better…”

Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. A death to glorify God. We should have the heart to do the will of God to the letter, no matter what it costs.