SOME FACTS ABOUT THE BOOK OF ACTS The Beginning of Righteousness Among the many wonderful things that the New Creation gives us is Righteousness. Understand, Righteousness is a new thing that Jesus brought and gave to the New Creation. If fellowship is the climax of Redemption, then Righteousness is the means whereby fellowship can become a reality. It means the ability to stand in the Fathers presence without a sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority. You can stand in His presence like a son or daughter stands in the presence of a loving Father. You have been made Righteous with His own nature. You have become partakers of the divine nature. You have become Righteous on legal grounds. It is not sufferance or pity. It is a clear-cut, legal Righteousness. You are what He made you to be. You have become the Righteousness of God in Christ. It is not the result of any works that you have done. You have simply accepted Christ as your Saviour, confessed Him as your Lord, and God made you His Righteousness in His Son. What does that do to you? First, it gives you a standing with the Father. You can come boldly into the Throne Room at any time. It makes you a master of demons and of all their works. It makes you a conqueror over circumstances and a master of the laws of nature when it is necessary. It makes Satan fearful of you because he recognizes that you are the Righteousness of God in Christ, and that you know you are what God says you are, and you dare to take your place and act your part. This is a masterful thing. Everyone of you who reads this should go to the depths of it. Enjoy what belongs to you. You will honor the Father by daring to act as a son should act, in the Fathers presence or in any crisis that may arise. Righteousness takes away sin consciousness, the sense of unworthiness, that old feeling of weakness and lack of ability. You are a master under God. If I dared, I would tell you that you have become Gods superman. There is no limit to what you can do in Christ. You have become the fruit bearing part of Christ. That means that the work that Jesus began to do, you can accomplish. You are no longer slaves to men, circumstances, disease, or any kind of Satanic tyranny. The Revelation of a Love Slave For a long time I wondered what the Greek word Doulos really meant. Romans 1:1 is a good illustration, Paul a servant of Jesus Christ. I notice that nowhere in the Pauline Revelation is man called a servant of God but once. And that is an interpolation. It should be a servant of Jesus Christ. Let me give you a new translation that perfectly fits the thing. Paul, (or the little one) a love slave of Jesus Christ. You see, Jesus was the first love slave. His love drove Him to perform all the miracles that blessed humanity. Love drove Him to the cross. Love made Him a Substitute for sin. Love keeps Him now as a Mediator and Intercessor and Saviour at the Fathers right hand. He has not had a vacation in nearly two thousand years. He is a love slave. When I saw that I might become a love slave, it seemed as though my heart dreams were to be realized. A love slave of Jesus! It means living and walking under the impulses of love, not seeking my own, but His, not having my own way. Can you imagine what it means for one to say, I love my Master, I love my great Father God. I choose this love slave life. I become a slave of the Body of Christ. I live to perfect every believer. I live to awaken them to their rights and privileges, to unveil to them their riches in Christ, the hidden riches of grace and love. I am not seeking my own; I found it in Christ. Money has lost its value except to help others and glorify the Master. Sense knowledge is as trash for the excellency of the knowledge that will make me a better love slave. Now I can understand, Seeketh not its own. Has no dream but others happiness and their growth in grace. I used to wonder about Col. 1:28: That I may present every man perfect in Christ, whereunto I labor also, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. A love slave was speaking to me last night and she said : I could not understand why I found myself on my knees sobbing. It was the Spirits intercession in you. He was crying through you over someone. But she said, I did not understand it. I said, It was not necessary. He knew what He was after and you were His yielded instrument. I have been so overwhelmed at times that the Spirit was interceding through my Spirit. I was a love slave. I was taking Jesus place, weeping over the unsaved. I was speaking in Chicago about the love slave. A very brilliant young man came up at the close of the service and said, Mr. Kenyon, do you suppose He would enroll me as a love slave? I said, Suppose you apply. Just ask Him about it. He became one of Gods choice ones, one of His used ones. You, who are reading this, have been mightily moved over some of these messages in my books. But I wonder if you have been like an iceberg and melted while the sun was beating upon you and then froze up as soon as the sun went down. Stirred while you were reading or listening, but as soon as you touched the world again, other emotions were awakened and you forgot. The Love Slave When I would falter and stop on the way My heart lose courage and I fail to pray, Remind me, dear Lord, of that cross on the hill, Of the Man who hung there, Loves mission to fill. When I am tempted to forget my call, Abandon my mission, forsake it all, Remind me dear Lord, of that cross on the hill, Of the Man who hung there, Loves mission to fill. Stir in my being, a passion, dear Lord, To fulfill Thy mission, herald thy Word, Til every nation shall hear the glad song Of His redemption, Theyve waited so long. Jesus evidently walked in the light of His confession. He was what He confessed. It is strange we never knew until recently that faith follows in the footprints of our confession. Our confession builds the road over which faith hauls its mighty cargo. You are going to learn that you never rise above your confession. You will never enjoy the riches of grace until you confess them. You are going to find that your confession of what He is, what He has done for you, and what you are in Him, always preceeds His revelation of Himself. Salvation follows confession. For if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord. And the same is true in receiving the Holy Spirit. Our healing follows our confession. Some people have to hold fast to their confession in the face of apparent defeat. They refuse to give in to sense evidences. You are going to learn the danger of a dual confession : confessing one moment the absolute integrity of the Word, but the next moment confessing that He has not made it good in your case. Your confession is the thing that challenges the world. It is the thing that causes them to venture in the faith life. Christianity is the great Confession. It heads up in Jesus in His confession ; and next in us in our bold declaration of the utter truthfulness of the living Word. What Happened From The Cross To The Throne Kindly share this post
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