Acquiesce to Righteousness

In the Garden, Adam had perfect fellowship with God. No work that God could do for
man would be perfect unless it gave back to man his lost Righteousness, his lost
privilege of fellowshipping and his lost dominion. His lost Righteousness and his lost
fellowship are restored in the New Creation. The moment his Righteousness is restored,
his lost dominion is also restored in the use of the Name of Jesus. "If ye shall ask
anything of the Father, he will give it you in my name".
The Righteous Man
"The Prayer of the Righteous Man" Jas. 5:16 You are the righteous man and your
prayer avails much in its working. Elijah had reckoned righteousness, a servant's
righteousness. You have been made righteous by receiving the nature of the Father.
There is no limit to your prayer life. You have within you now all the elements that are
necessary to make you all that the Father dreamed that you would be in Christ.
Dare to pray; dare to use the name of Jesus. dare to take your place. Be as fearless as
the Master was in His dealing with Satan and disease because you have His Name; you
have His ability; He is now your wisdom and the strength of your life. The secret of
victory is acting fearlessly ; confessing boldly for Satan fears you. You are the righteous
man.
GOD HIMSELF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
HERE must be more in this subject of Righteousness than most of us have realized. We
know it is the key of the Revelation given to Paul. He said that he was not ashamed of
the "Good News" for it not only gave to men salvation, but "therein is revealed a
righteousness of God from faith unto faith." Rom. 1:7. Then in Rom. 3:21-22, "But now
apart from the law a righteousness of God hath come to light, being witnessed by the
law and the prophets; even the righteousness of God on the ground of faith in Jesus
Christ."
After stating the fact of our Redemption in Christ in this chapter, he makes a statement
in the 26th verse, "For the showing, I say, of his righteousness at this present season
that he might himself be righteous and the righteousness of him that hath faith in
Jesus." (Mar. Am. R.) This is almost beyond our apprehension when God declares that
He Himself has become our Righteousness.
Righteousness means the ability to stand in God's presence without the sense of guilt,
condemnation, or inferiority. A Redemption that would be worthy of God must
accomplish this. Man has been estranged from God. He must be restored. Lying behind
this is the heart tragedy that man is the reason for Creation. When man sinned he
separated himself from the fellowship of the Father. The whole drama of Redemption is
consummated in this man must be restored to perfect fellowship with the Father and it
must be done upon legal grounds.
Any Redemption that does not restore to man a perfect fellowship and a perfect
relationship on legal grounds will not be worthy of the Father and will not lift man into