How Faith is Built – A Study in Faith by EW Kenyon

How Faith is Built

…Continued from last week. Reality of Righteousness

The ministry has kept the Church in bondage of sin-consciousness ever since the Reformation. None of us have ever been able to get away from it. Most of our hymns are about sin. Most every sermon is about sin. The Church has never known of her absolute freedom from sin-consciousness.

Hebrews 10:1-14 should be studied very carefully. We haven’t space to quote it all. First it tells how the blood of bulls and goats couldn’t take away sin, for if it could the worshippers having been once cleansed would have no more consciousness of sins. “But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year.”

That makes us think of the alter service where we ask the believer to keep coming every Sunday after Sunday to be cleansed from sin. The blood of Jesus Christ hasn’t meant more to some of us than the blood of bulls and goats meant to the Jew. For it was impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin. The eleventh verse: “And every priest standeth day by day ministering and offering the same sacrifices which can never take away sin. But he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of god; for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified.”

He dealt with the sin problem for us perfectly when we were recreated and received the nature of life of God. At that time He not only put our sin away, but he remitted all that we had ever committed; and at the same time he imparted His own Nature, Righteousness to us.

2 Cor 5:21 “Him who knew no sin, God made to become sin that we might become the righteousness of God in Him,” and by that New Creation we have become the Righteousness of God. So Rom 3:26 has become a reality “That he, (God,) might himself be righteous and the righteousness of him who hath faith in Jesus.” (Marg.) Here God declares that He becomes the righteousness of the man who accepts His Son as a Savior. 1 Cor 1:30 declares that Jesus has been made to be our righteousness.

God is our righteousness, Jesus is our righteousness, and by the New Creation we have become the righteousness of God in Him.

But you ask, “What is the righteousness of God?” It is the ability to stand there as the very sons and daughters of God Almighty so that you can go boldly unto the throne of grace and make you petitions just as Jesus would if He were here.

Continued next week…Some Faith Facts

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