REVELATION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

     WE understand that Righteousness means the ability to stand in the presence of the
Father God without the sense of guilt or inferiority. This has been the quest of the ages.
The desire to get rid of Sin Consciousness has given birth to all the major religions of
the world. Mrs. Eddy, copying Hagel, boldly declares that God is not a person, and that
Satan is not a person. So, there being no God and no Devil, there could be no sin.
If there were no sin, there could be no judgment because of sin. If there were no sin and
no fear of judgment, there would be no Sin Consciousness. Our declaration that the tide
does not rise, does not stop it from rising. The philosopher's declaration that God is not,
does not stop God from being. God is.


But God has dealt with the sin problem in His Son. He has put sin away by the sacrifice
of that Son. He has made it possible on legal grounds for man who is spiritually dead, in
union with Satan, to become a New Creation by receiving the very nature and life of
God. This life and nature of God is Righteousness. Consequently, the man who has
received the nature of God has automatically become the Righteousness of God in
Christ
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He may not know it, he may not take advantage of it, but it is true. The dominion of Sin
Consciousness over the Church has been fostered, developed, and made a reality by
the ministers who have preached sin instead of preaching Christ and the New Creation.
Sin Consciousness came with the Fall when man became a partaker of Spiritual Death.
Down through the ages universal man has been under the blighting curse of Spiritual
Death which gave birth to Sin Consciousness.
Spiritually dead man cannot stand in God's presence. We see how God illustrated that
fact in the Old Covenant. The High Priest went into the Holy of Holies once every year,
and then only when he was blood covered. The High Priest did not go into the Holy
place to worship, but to make a yearly atonement for spiritually dead Israel. God sent
His Son to the world to become Incarnate, to become eternally united with humanity.
That Son went on the Cross by the determinate counsel of God, became sin, took our
place as a Substitute. Then He conquered the Enemy and made Righteousness
available to man. A redemption that did not make man Righteous would be a fallacy.
Until man is Righteous and knows it, Satan reigns over him, sin and disease are his
masters. But the instant he knows that he is the Righteousness of God in Christ and
knows what that Righteousness means, Satan is defeated.
The Church has not taught even a limited Righteousness. It has a theological
justification that does not meet the issue. God's redemption in Christ is the solution. It
makes man a dominant spirit where he has served as a slave in weakness. How can we
obtain this Righteousness that will give us perfect Fellowship with the Father, that will
give us a consciousness of being masters over the forces of darkness? That
Righteousness comes to us by taking Jesus Christ as Saviour and confessing His
Lordship over our lives.
When we know that Jesus died for our sins according to Scripture, that the third day He
arose again from the dead after He had put our sin away and satisfied the claims of
justice as our substitute; when we know that and take Him as our Saviour and confess
Him as our Lord, that moment we receive God's nature and we become the
Righteousness of God in Christ.
2 Cor. 5:21 "Him who knew no sin God made to become sin on our behalf; that we
might become the righteousness of God in him." We have become the Righteousness
of God in Christ. This Righteousness is not an experience, although it gives birth to
many marvelous experiences. It is the nature of the Father imparted to us. It is that
nature gaining the ascendency in us until we know that we are what God says we are
masters, conquerors!