FRUITS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ROM Cor. 9:10, And increase the fruits of your righteousness. This Scripture has been challenging my spirit for some time. I often wondered what the fruits of Righteousness were. Then I remembered the fruits of Righteousness in Jesus life. The fruits of Righteousness were not right actions only but they were carrying out the will of His Father, speaking the words of His Father. That meant healing the sick, feeding the multitudes, and all the other manifestations of His love toward man. They were the fruits of Righteousness. If we are to bear the fruits of Righteousness, they will be similar to these. Jesus said, I am the vine, ye are the branches. The branch bears the same kind of fruit as the vine. It is like the vine. It is a part of the vine. Then the fruits of Righteousness in our lives will be blessing and helping folks, healing their diseases, opening the Word to them, breaking the power of the Adversary over their lives, teaching them how to live in the will of the Father, teaching them how to enjoy all the fullness of His grace, and by showing forth in our daily walk a fearless fellowship with the Father, a fearless attitude toward the Adversary and all his works, a fearless mastery over circumstances. That would be bearing fruit. That would be bearing righteousness fruit. This is something utterly new to most of us. We know about the fruits of love and the fruits of faith. We know the fruits of knowledge, but we know little of the fruits of Righteousness. Righteousness here means the ability to stand in the Fathers presence without the sense of guilt or inferiority. Fearless Faith What mighty things could be wrought if men were conscious of their Righteousness ! How fearless they would be in the presence of disease and sickness! Jesus entire public ministry was the fruit of His Righteousness. He was not afraid of the Father, of Satan, of malignant diseases, or even of death. He had no fear in the presence of storms that filled other mens hearts with terror. He was not only fearless, but He was Master. A man said to me, If I knew that I was what the Word says I am, I could shake the world. But- he had never learned to believe the Word. He would believe the Word if it said that he was unworthy or if it said that lie was of no value, poor, weak and faithless. He would believe that, for it had become a part of his consciousness. He could not grasp the fact that God could recreate him and make him Righteous. One said, If I did not have a Sin Consciousness, I would have faith. If I had faith, I would get up from this bed perfectly healed. Sin Consciousness had gained the mastery. He was a Christian. He would tell you that he believed his sins had been pardoned and that he was justified. Some would even go farther and say, I have received the Holy Spirit and have spoken in tongues. Yet they too are dominated by Sin Consciousness. Why? Because the Word has never become a reality to them. Here and there a part of the Word is real, but the great body of truth in regard to themselves is still unexplored territory. Gods Problem The problem is this: Was God able to produce a Redemption that would redeem man from the hand of the Adversary, recreate him, make him a New Creation, and remit all that he had ever done ? Could God take the sin nature out of man and in its place give him His own nature so that he could stand before Him without any Sin Consciousness, without the sense of guilt or inferiority? Yes, He could and did provide a Redemption like that. The Pauline Revelation is the unveiling of that Redemption. We do not find that unveiling in the four Gospels, or the book of Acts. It is only in Pauls Revelation. In that Revelation he tells us he is going to prove to the world that Righteousness has at last become available through faith in Jesus Christ as Saviour and Redeemer. He climaxes it by declaring, That God might be righteous, and the righteousness of him that hath faith in Jesus. When God becomes our Righteousness, we become so Righteous that there is therefore now no condemnation to us. No one can bring a charge against us for it is God who has declared us Righteous. The amazing fact of the New Creation is that the instant we become a New Creation, the thing that kept us in weakness and bondage, unable to stand in Gods presence, has been wiped out. In the place of our sin and our union with Satan has come union with God. Eternal Life, a new nature, and a new standing before God has come to the man who has faith in Jesus. If that is true, we can get our prayers answered, we can use the Name of Jesus and Satan will obey us. God has made us Righteous with His Righteousness. 2 Cor. 5:21, Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. He has cleansed us with the blood of His own Son. We can stand in the Fathers presence now as though sin had never touched us. It will be interesting to note some of the special fruits of Righteousness. We will have faith in His words in our lips, just as Jesus had faith in the words of the Father in His lips. When Jesus spoke to the sick and said, Arise, take up thy bed and walk, the Father had given Him those words. We have the Fathers words in the Pauline Revelation and in the four Gospels. Those words are for us to use. We can say to the sick, In the Name of Jesus Christ, come out of him, and the demon will obey because they are the Fathers words spoken in our lips. Did not Christ say, Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto the Father. We can say, By His stripes we are healed, and know that the Father will make it good. We will have faith in the Fathers words in our lips. We will have faith in the name of Jesus in our lips. Two Kinds of Righteousness Kindly share this post
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