The Righteousness of God

The heavenly high standing and position of those in Christ, His Church, His Body, His Bride, are those He has washed from their sins, in His own blood, and made us a kingdom, priests to His God and His Father: “To Him [be] the glory and the might to the ages of ages Amen.” Rev. 1:5-6.

This is the very thing that satan, with his crafty imitations and evil intentions, coupled with man's natural or carnal wisdom, has tended to obscure and darken. This is the end that this scheming enemy seeks to keep out of everyone's view, non-believers and believers alike, the manifestation and illustration of God's grace through the truth that Christ is (Eph. chapters 1, 2, and 3).

Ephesians 2:7, to obscure this reality, "That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus."

Man can discover nothing in himself that corresponds, that is equal to such a high calling, and therefore necessarily, naturally, and carnally relapses into a spirit of bondage, serving God from a low principle and for a low end. When it is not everything to do with the Person of Christ alone, with His work that He has finished alone, the result is always the same--bondage to the flesh under the influence of the enemy.

The Holy Spirit, through the apostle Paul declared an unchanging reality that, "they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, HAVE NOT SUBMITTED THEMSELVES UNTO THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD” (Rom. 10:3).

Thankful this morning that the gift of Christ, from God our Father, in 1 Cor. 1:24 is “THE power of God and THE wisdom of God.” Verse 29, "That no flesh should glory in His presence." Verse 30, "But of Him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:” Verse 31, “That, according as it is written, He that glories, let him glory in the Lord.” (Jer. 9:23; Gal. 6:14).

Beware of the teaching of covenant theology and lordship salvation.