Works of Righteousness

WORKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

EPH. 2:10, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus, for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.” These good works are all planned by the Father. There isn’t a thing demanded of us that we cannot accomplish. If He says we are “without spot or wrinkle”, He is able to make us without spot or wrinkle in our conduct. If He says that we are “holy, without blemish before Him”, He has ability to present us without blemish before the Father. The New Creation has no past. 2 Cor. 5:17, “Old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all these things are of God.”

It is the God Life imparted to us that is producing these things. John 6:47, “He that believeth bath eternal life.” 1 John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you, that ye may know that ye have eternal life, even unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God.” We possess this Eternal Life, the nature of God, now. If we have the nature of God, we will do the things that the nature of God would do. We are to give the nature of God right-of-way in us. This will cause us to grow marvelously. Men will not understand it. It will be beyond their reason.

Why? Because we have let God’s nature gain the ascendency in us. I John 4:4, “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.” These mighty Scriptures that demand a higher type of life than we have been living show that God gives us the ability to be what He demands us to be.

We who can walk into the presence of the Father at any time, who can stand in the presence of the Father without the sense of condemnation, are like a man that has vast sums of money deposited in the bank, while the country needs factories and stores opened to set the people at work. Yet he does not use his resources to help the people.

We have the resources of God at our disposal. We have no sense of condemnation. We are perfectly free to use the Name of Jesus. We can heal the sick. We can preach the Word with power. We can unfold the riches of the grace of God in the Scriptures so that men and women are built up in their faith.

We have the very riches of Christ at our disposal. We are in touch with the fullness of love and the ability of God. There is no limit to what we can do. We remember that Jesus said, “All things are possible with God”, and “All things are possible to him that believeth’. We link these two together and see what blessings come to the human race.
There is an Omnipotent God of love and faithfulness, and there is a vast body of people who need his ministration and blessing. We, who are the Righteousness of God, have the key to the situation.

God cannot bless without our asking for it. We cannot ask for it with any degree of confidence unless we are assured of our Righteousness. If one is free from the sense of guilt and condemnation, faith grows into miracle-working power. All this is to one end, that we might bring forth fruits of Righteousness. “The works that I do shall ye do also”, said Jesus. He blessed the world, so will we. He fed the multitudes, so will we. He healed the sick-so will we. He comforted the broken-hearted, so will we.

He gave encouragement. He gave strength. He gave Himself. We will bear the same kind of fruit. Heb. 10:1-4 “For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh. Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins. But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.”

They had a continual consciousness of sins. Jesus was the end of sacrifice. We, who have been recreated, have no more consciousness of sins. Why? Because we are the Righteousness of God in Him. Heb. 10:12-13, “But he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God; henceforth expecting till his enemies be made the footstool of his feet.” He sat down at the right hand of God.

The high priest who carried the blood of bulls and goats into the Holy of Holies could not sit down because he knew that the next year he would have to return again. Jesus made but one sacrifice. Heb. 10:14, “For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.” Our Righteousness, our recreation, our sonship, are all perfect.

Heb. 10:38, “But my righteous one shall live by faith.” How is he going to walk? By faith.
He has become the Righteousness of God in Christ. From now on his walk is a faith walk.
It means walking in the Word. He lives the Word, as Joshua lived the Word when he led the priests into the Jordan. He walked according to the word of the Angel of the Covenant. We are walking as Jesus walked. He is the Surety of the New Covenant.

We are walking according to the Word. When God said to Moses, “Lift up thy rod over the sea”, Moses did so and the waters receded. Moses walked in the word of the Angel.
We are to walk in the Word of this New Covenant.

As we walk in this New Covenant Word, we will walk in love, we will walk in fellowship with the Father, we will walk in God’s ability. We will take Jesus’ place and we will do Righteousness. We will destroy the works of the Adversary, just as Jesus destroyed the works of the Adversary. We go on unveiling the riches of Christ to others until their hearts break and they say, “We want Him too.” The moment they accept Christ, the work of the Adversary is broken over their lives.

Righteousness is going forth as a light. The ability of God is being unveiled to the weak. Jesus is becoming a living thing in the lives of men and women. Miracles are an everyday occurrence in their lives. They are unveiling to the world that Christianity is supernatural.