Why we have Failed

WHY WE HAVE FAILED

THE church has been very strong in teaching man his need of Righteousness, his weakness and inability to please God. She has been very strong in her denunciation of sins in the believer. She has preached against unbelief, world conformity, and lack of faith, but she has been sadly lacking in bringing forward the truth of what we are in Christ, or how Righteousness and faith are available.

Most of our hymns put our redemption off till after death. We are going to have rest when we get to heaven. We are going to have victory when we get to heaven. We are going to be overcomers when we get to heaven. We are going to have peace with God when we get to heaven. There will be no more failings when we get to heaven. We have nothing on this side except failure, misery, disappointment and weakness.

What does He mean when He says, “Ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power”? When are we to be complete? Is it in this life or in the next?
What does he mean in Rom. 8:37, “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us”? When are we to be more than conquerors? Is it after death when we leave this vale of tears? And Phil. 4.13, “I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.”

When is it that we are going to be able to do all things? Is it after we finish the course and stand with Him in the New Heaven and the New Earth? He declares, Rom. 8:1 “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.” When does this become ours? We hear nothing but condemnation preached. The ministry make no distinction between saint and sinner. When does Rom. 5:1 become a reality? “Being therefore declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The ministers do not preach peace in the present. It is always in the future. When are we to find this glorious thing called Peace? When is Jesus “made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption”? Is that to come to us at death, or is it a fact for us now? “Him who knew no sin God made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.”

We know the first part is true. But is the last part true? Are we to become Righteous in the present life, or are we to become Righteous after death? Is this Righteousness simply “reckoned” to us, or do we become Righteous in Him? Is this Redemption metaphysical or is it a reality? Is Jude 24 to be depended upon? “Now unto him that is able to guard you from stumbling, and to set you before the presence of his glory without blemish in exceeding joy.”

Is that presence, of which He speaks here, before which we are to be set with exceeding joy-is that after death or is it now? It seems very clear to me that we live in His presence now, that we walk in His presence now. If He cannot present us “now” before His presence with exceeding joy, He certainly cannot present us before the presence of the Father after death with exceeding joy.

If it requires death to cleanse us from sin, we are left in an unhappy dilemma.
Death is of the Devil. It would indicate that God in His Redemption was unable to give us victory, that He needed the Devil to complete His redemptive work. I believe that what the Scripture says about us is absolutely true, that God Himself is now our very Righteousness, and that we are the Righteousness of God in Him. I am convinced that we are partakers of the Divine Nature. There is no condemnation to us who “walk in the light as He is in the light.”

The whole teaching of the modern church in regard to separation from the world is vague and illusive. One branch of the church has taught that after we are Born
Again we still have the “fallen nature” in us. That is the sin nature that came into Adam at the Fall. What does this mean? This Scripture will explain it. John 8:44, “Ye are of your father the devil.” It is Satan’s nature. Satan has imparted to man his own nature. They acknowledge the fact that God has provided a New Birth but that His New Birth is a flat failure. The only thing He can do is to give us Eternal Life and forgive us. He cannot take the old nature out of us. The whole thing is absurd. It is not true. It is not the Word. 2 Cor. 5:17, “Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all these things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ.”

A man cannot be in Christ and have the Devil’s nature in him. He is either in the family of God or in the family of Satan. I John 3:10, “In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.” There can be no real development of faith, no strong, victorious Christian life with this mixed conception. We are either New Creations or we are not. We have either passed out of death into life, or we have not. When he says, “Sin shall not lord it over you”, he means exactly what he says. If you live a life of weakness and defeat, it is because you do not know what you are in Christ.

The supreme need of the church at this hour is to know what we are in Christ, how the Father looks upon us, and what He considers us to be. Read with great care Eph. 1:3, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ.” Col. 1:21-22, “Being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works, yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreprovable before him.”

This has already been done in Christ. You stand before Him complete in Christ.
Eph. 5:27, “That he might present the church to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”
In the mind of most people, this is after death. But that is not true. We are presented without spot or without wrinkle now.

Do you think that any believer filled with sin (as that term is used) could be in Christ and stand before Him without spot or wrinkle? If He cannot take the sin nature out of us when we are Born Again, if the merits of the blood do not reach this and wipe it out, then when can we ever be made right? Not when we die, for Satan is the author of death. I declare before the angels in heaven, before the demons and all the hosts of hell, that the Redemptive work of God needs no help from Satan to make us complete in God’s presence.

Two Kinds of Righteousness – EW Kenyon
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