Unlimited Righteousness

Unlimited Righteousness

I once craved to get God’s estimation of our Righteousness, of our standing before the Father, and of our rights and privileges in Christ; in the New Covenant. I found it in the Pauline Revelation. I saw what we were in the mind of the Father and in the mind of the Master. I saw our limitless possibilities in the New Covenant and in our relation to Him as sons and daughters. Jesus was the “sample” Son. He said, “Greater works than these shall ye do because I go unto the Father.”

Then He gave us a legal right to the use of His Name, and finally, in the Great Commission He defines the ability of that Name. He said, “In my name, ye shall cast out demons.” When He declared that, He let us into the secret that we were to be masters of Satan. For if we can cast out one demon, we can cast out all demons. If we have dominion over the Adversary, we have dominion over all His works.

Do you see the limitlessness of this Righteousness that permits us to stand in the Father’s presence without the sense of guilt or condemnation, and gives us the ability to stand in the presence of Satan without the sense of inferiority? When He said, “All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth,”-that was for the church, that was for this dispensation. That authority was not for Jesus but for us. His Name made us free from condemnation, free from Satanic dominion, by His redemption and by our New Creation.

On the basis of that He calls us to do the things that Jesus began to do-set men free, break the bonds of Satan over men and women, heal the sick, break the power of demons over communities and nations. When He said, “All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you,” you notice they were taken into the school of Christ and taught the possibilities of all our rights and privileges in Christ, our complete Redemption from Satan, and our dominion over him.

Then He said, “And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.” I began to understand the Commission. He said, “In my name shall they cast out demons.” And also, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.” We can see very clearly now that we are to take Jesus’ place and act within the authority that has been invested in His Name. That authority belongs to us. We can see another fact. When Adam was created, God gave him dominion over all the works of His hands, but Adam turned that dominion over into the hands of Satan and became the subject of Satan.

In Christ that Dominion is restored to the Church. It is restored in the Name of Jesus. That lost authority was invested in Christ. When He said, “All authority bath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore and use this authority. I will give you the legal right to the use of my Name. I will give you the Power of Attorney,” He bids us to come boldly to the throne room, to the throne of grace, and make our requests known. We are not to come there as slaves or as servants. We come as sons. We are the love slaves of that master love slave, Jesus.

We are acting in His stead. We are taking His place. We are doing the work that He came to do. We are acting with an unlimited Righteousness. We are taking our place and using to the full our rights in Christ. The church has had a wrong conception of its place in Christ and of its dominion. We have been filled with fear. We have heard so much preaching about sin and weakness and failure that it has become a part of our very consciousness.

We have not realized what He said, “Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome, them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.”
Who is it that is in us? God. We are masters. We are overcomers. In the next chapter, 1 John 5:4-5, He said, “Whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that bath overcome the world, even our faith. And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?”

We are masters in the mind of the Father. We are overcomers. The moment we get that mental attitude of victors, instead of being conquered, we are going to take our place.
He climaxes the Pauline’s Revelation in Rom. 8:37. “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” He makes us see in Rom. 5:17 that we reign as kings in the realm of life through Jesus Christ. Of His fullness have we received and grace upon grace to enjoy that measure of fullness. He has put all things in subjection under our feet. He gave Jesus, our Lord, to be Head over all the governments of the world.

We are to function as rulers that dominate spiritual forces and reign as kings on earth now in Jesus Christ. Understand that he who can rule spiritual forces can also rule political conditions. The church should absolutely dominate the political elements of the world for the benefit of the human race. We have unlimited Righteousness.
Let us take our limitless privileges and act the part of God’s own rulers in this world of darkness and hatred and selfishness.