The Relation of Righteousness to Faith

Faith grows out of continual fellowship with the Father.
Righteousness is the ability to stand in the Father’s presence without the sense of guilt or inferiority.
It is the product of the finished work of Christ that culminates in the New Creation.
When we know that the Father recreated us, with His own nature, taking out everything that was unlovely; putting His own life and nature in its place, and when we realize that He is so satisfied with the New Creation that He can make it His home, that He comes and dwells in us, we can realize how precious, how utterly priceless we are to Him.
If He had sons and daughters with whom He could not fellowship on terms of equality, there would be no satisfaction in it; the work He wrought in Christ would be an utter failure.
We are certain that man, at the beginning, had perfect fellowship with the Father, and when he fell that fellowship was broken.

A perfect Redemption must restore that lost fellowship. It must be restored on legal grounds.
Man must know that he has a perfect right in his Father’s presence.
He must lay the foundation to build a perfect love life; out of this perfect love life will grow a faith life.
Faith works by love. Faith and love are kindreds.
Love gives birth to faith, and faith strengthens love.
When one knows that God has recreated him, made him a new Creation, and that New Creation is the nature of the Father imparted to him, then he knows that his normal place is in the Father’s presence.

Jesus said, “I am the vine; ye are the branches.” That figure compels one to know that there is perfect fellowship since the branch and the vine are one.
The branch is as Righteous as the vine, for the vine has imparted its life and Righteousness to the branch.
This builds faith into the believer. We continually affirm that we are the Righteousness of God in Christ.
We say it over and over again, until the reality of it becomes a part of our consciousness.
We are as conscious of it as we are that four and four are eight, or that a fire gives off heat. or that the sun gives light.
We know that we are what God says we are.
We do not try to be what He has made us.
We enjoy the wealth and riches of what we are in Christ.
When He says He becomes the Righteousness of him that has faith in Jesus, we know God has become our Righteousness, for we have faith in Jesus as a Savior and Lord.
We know we are Righteous.

We don’t try to be Righteous, anymore than a man has to try to be a man. He may try to be a good man, but he is what nature has made him.
We are what God has made us to be, His own Righteousness.
The Spirit says through Paul that God made Jesus to be wisdom unto us.
We know Jesus is our wisdom.
When He says Jesus was made unto us sanctification, we know we are sanctified by His sanctification.
When He declares He was made unto us Redemption, we know we are Redeemed, that He is our Redemption.
Consequently, our Redemption is a reality.
By the same token, He declares that He has become our Righteousness.
If He has become our Righteousness, then our standing with the Father is identical with 11 is. This is ground for a real faith in the Son of God.
Mark 12:22 (Authorized Version) “Have the faith of God.” (Revised Version) “Have faith in God.” We have both.

We have God’s faith reproduced in us by His living Word, by His nature that is imparted to us
We have faith in God, because it is a normal, natural thing for a child to have faith in its parent.
We have more faith in the ability of God to put us over, to heal, give ability and strength, to meet life’s problems, than we have in the adversary to thwart the purpose of God in us.
In other words, we have more faith in God’s ability than we have in the ability of the adversary.
We have more faith in the Father’s Word than we have in the circumstances that surround us or the environment that would attempt to hold us in bondage.
God is bigger to us than any other thing in the world.
We know that greater is He that is in us than the environment or the influences that surround us.
We know that we are more than conquerors, that we have passed out of the realm of failure into the realm of success and victory.