The Righteousness of God Brother Vayle preached on 12-4-1966 Now let us bow our head in prayer at this time. Gracious Father again we thank you for allowing us to come together to hear your Word. And we know Lord that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of Your mouth. Lord we are all so well aware in the human, that many people do not have the proper metabolism in their body, and they eat Lord, but they still tired. They eat but they do not grow in flesh and in stature, size because they, there is something wrong. So we know Lord this morning without the Spirit of God breaking down this Word to us and causing this Word to release it's energy and Life within us, it will just be another time of talking together. Now we don't want that Lord. Because already we are nervous and we got a lot of pressure on us, and we don't want any further. We want this morning a lifting up, let the Spirit, Lord begin to move within us and take over our spirits and our thoughts and our minds, that every spirit be brought into subjection to Your Spirit and every thought be brought into captivity to Christ, that every Word may be of God. And that same Spirit moving in each one of us, hand, eye, ear, or the foot or any part of that Body. Each one Lord motivated by that same Life. That same Revelation we'll begin to grow up together in Christ. That we might present to the world this Body again, the Fullness of God to the world. We say this Lord because this is what we really want. We may often think we want something else or things pull us Lord. But down deep oh, God, there is that cry. So hear our cry this morning We pray Lord, and we believe in spite of a lack of feeling or anything else. That You have heard us and we got the petition we desired because it is according to Your Will. InJesus Name we count the work done. Amen. 1 Just a couple verses now, in the Book of Romans, Paul speaking in Chapter One, verses sixteen, and seventeen. I often complain about my eye sight even with glasses, the trouble is I don't even wipe my glasses off. So no wonder I can't see anything. You got to clean them. Now that's better. I am like the old, they were in a prayer meeting one day down south and a brother was saying "Oh, Lord, remove the cobwebs, Oh, Lord remove the cobwebs" The little lady next door to him heard him, and said, "Oh, God kill the spider" And I'm know sometimes that's the way it is. The Lord kill the spider. Paul says here, in sixteen and seventeen, [16] For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ,for it (the Gospel) is the power of God unto Salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. [17] For therein (that's in the Gospel) is the Righteousness of God (is) revealedfrom Faith to Faith as it is written, "The Just shall live by Faith" Doctor H. G. Robinson translates it this way, "For there is in God the Kind of Righteousness revealed' and that of course is absolutely true. Now I do not think there is a more profound or important statement in the whole Bible. And certainly there isn't anyone that is more revealing than this because herein we find a tremendous discovery. For we know the word "Salvation" includes within it, the thoughts of deliverance and safety and preservation and healing and soundness. Now that's what the Gospel brings us. It brings us Salvation. This Good News of God. Now how good the News is, we can understand because this Salvation brings us the deliverance and the safety and the preservation and the healing and the soundness. But the power of the Gospel is not exhausted even then within this mighty thought. 2 For the Complete Plan of Salvation is also within it as declared to us in the Book of Romans the Eightieth Chapter, (verses) twenty-eight to thirty. [28] And we know that all things work togetherfor good to them that love God, to them who are (the) called according to His purpose. [29] For whom He did Foreknow, He also did predesti nate, to be conformed to the Image of His Son, that He might be the First-born among many brethren. [30] Moreover whom He did Predestinate, them He also Called, and whom He Called, them He also Justified, and whom He Justified, them He also Glorified. Now this is the Gospel, this is the Good News and the Bible tells us here according to our that. that the power behind the Gospel or the power that makes the Gospel effective is the Righteousness of God. The Gospel is the Good News of God and it is the Righteousness of God that makes the good news, for without the Righteousness of God there would be no good news. There would be no Gospel. There would be no Message of deliverance and safety and preservation and healing and soundness. There would be no ability for God to put into effect His Plan which was before the Foundation of the world. There would be no move of the Spirit of God upon man. There could be no Re-Birth. There could be no hope of a Resurrection unto Eternal Life, without the Righteousness of God. Because the Scripture (Roman 1:16) says here, [16] For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ,for it is thepower of God unto Salvation to everyone who believes" Because within the Gospel there is the Revelation of the Righteousness of God. The Righteousness of God is the mainstream or the dynamism of the Gospel as we have it today. Just to emphasis it a little bit more. Let me say it this way. The Gospel is not the revelation that men may safely escape hell and enter heaven. Though that is true. And I am afraid that many, many people just say that's it and leave it there. 3 The Gospel does not teach men how to live compatibly with each other and also to live acceptably in the eyes of God, though it is true that we can and must do it in a manner pleasing to Almighty God. The Gospel does not teach the Golden Rule, which is a social gospel and many people endorse it. It has no power. Now in short the Gospel does not reveal all the things that our modem and liberal theologians claim for, and their claims are exactly what has made the Gospel so powerless. The Gospel's greatest revelation and that, is that which gives us this power. Is the Revelation of the Righteousness of God and without it, that is without the Righteousness of God there would be no Gospel. Actually, no power. Even as it is said over here at Peter, and II Peter agrees with the Apostle Paul who wrote this beautiful, ah description in II Peter 1:1 [1] Simon Peter, a servant, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious Faith with us through the Righteousness of God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. The very Message I preached on the Faith of God being available to us. That Faith would not be available without the Righteousness of God. The Righteousness of God gives the Gospel it's power. See It's the mainstream. So therefore we must know all we can about the Righteousness of God, and then pray that the Spirit of God will make it as real as it ought to be in order to accomplish it's dynamic purpose within this Word structure. Which we see in the Word and have heard many, many preachers, preach, and even ourselves thought it out and studied it. Now to begin on this Subject, let us consider the Righteousness of God. And that's what I did. I have in my disposal some very, very fine books. Imported that is the ah, in German, they were brought to America by Quibble and then they were translated by Bromley, I believe and different great authorities. And I was so pleased to get my hands on these books. And it just so happens that I have the first three volumes, and one volume comes off each year. They are very expensive. They run any where from $18.50 to $22.50, but you know my nature. 4 I always look around for someone to get it for me wholesale, which I did, and I got this great big thick volume, and I said, ''Now this will give me an answer" I was so pleased, I waded through about 32 pages. You know what I found out. I found out that they were talking about the word "righteousness " as taken from the Classics in the Greek and from Mythology. And I said, "Hold it they need a revelation worse than I do" Because how in the world can you find out about the Righteousness of God from Mythology and from Classics, and from a study which is simply based upon past history or the minds of a philosopher or of an author. See? They just done the same thing that as the Neely translation. They brought in the poets and the authors and said, "Doctor this up for the Pope and get it" Well when I realized that, I did the thing I should have done in the first place. I went right to the Bible. Because the Bible teaches us according to I Samuel 3:21 "That the Lord appeared to Samuel in Shiloh" And the Word, the Scripture says, ''for the God revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the Word of the Lord" And do you know that there are at least about fifty direct, fifty least, more actually direct allusion to the Righteousness of God in the Old Testament and literally hundreds or more through out the Scriptures. Listen to Psalms 7:17 and as we listen get this point. David said, [17] I will praise the Lord according to His Righteousness " Lets stop right here and ask the question. "Has anybody ever really in his life ever praised God according to His Righteousness?" Do you know how we praise God? We say, "Oh God I thank you that this day, I have been able to live a little better, hallelujah" "Lord, I thank you that I have had some wonderful blessing, bless God" Now that is good. That's fine. But who has ever praised God according to His Righteousness? 5 Now if we got the same Spirit David had, there is got to be something wrong with us, that we're not praising God according to His Righteousness . And I hope after this Message we begin to do just that very thing. Because It says, David realized that if he was going to have something to be happy about. If he was going to have something to be secure in. If he was going to have something to give deliverance and healing and soundness. Itwould be, it hast to be something that was of God. And he said, "/ will praise the Lord according to His Righteousness " You know something folks, the majority of us has never learned to praise God and worship Him according to Spirit and Truth. The majority of us worship God like the heathen, we appease Him. Well, let's see, says, he said me, "Well, bless God I don't feel to bad" Now this is physiologically, but it is a real teaching. I am not against this teaching. You understand, But remember, what a man does is searched by God, Who searches the reins of our heart. Though he says, "I read the Bible thirty minutes ago, hallelujah. I figured out a way to pray too. I pray 30 minutes. It sure made me feel good, and I went out and witnessed, bless God" You know something, you can be nothing better than a heathen doing that very thing. As Brother Branham preached on "Doing God a Service Outside of the Will of God" We can be just as heathenistic in our worship outside the Spirit. (St. John 4:24) "For they that worship God, worship Him in Spirit and Truth " And we don't appease God. But most of our worship is, and most everything we do is trying to appease a God, Who doesn't need appeasing. I will show you that in a few minutes. If anybody, would have needed to appease God, David would have needed to be that man. But he said, "/ will worship the Lord according to His Righteousness" 6 Again he said in Psalms 24:5 [5] He shall receive the blessingfrom the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation" It says right here the same Spirit in David was the Spirit in Paul because Paul said, "The Righteousness of God is the basis of our salvation" And Salvation is what David was talking about. He said, "Heshall receive the blessingfrom the Lord, and righteousnessfrom the God of his salvation" Righteousness and Salvation go hand in hand. I will show you that in a few minutes. Again in Psalms 31:1 [1] In Thee, 0 Lord, do I put my trust, let me never be ashamed, deliver me in Thy Righteousness And Salvation comes from the Righteousness of God. He (God) gives us deliverance and David knew it! And he said, "Deliver me in Thy Righteousness " We are all the time, saying, "Haven't I been a pretty good fellow, Lord?" You can look down with a certain amount of pleasure now, and say do something for me. Exactly right and exactly wrong. Again in Psalms 71:2 [2] Deliver me in Thy Righteousness, and cause me to escape Isn't that was salvation is? Deliverance! Huh, it says right here "deliver me" How? "In Thy Righteousness. " Now Lord see me, look at me, God, see I am a pretty good specimen, do something, and God stands back and won't do one thing. Because we are trying to match our righteousness against His. I told you the other night, when God said, in His Word, "Have the Faith of God" and when you have it, you can stand back and say, "Mountain be removed and not doubt inyour hearf' 7 And will say not one thing contrary. Now, you can't do that on your own, that is man trying to approximate the face of God. Only the face of God can stand back and say, "Mountain be movecf ' and know with a 100% assurance it is going to be done. Only God's face can do that but we think we will approximate it. We think we will work ours up. We think, it takes ourselves and say, "Oh, Lord, look at the job, I have done" And God says, "Stand back" Don't you dare say something. Now we are guilty my brother, my sister, of trying to present our own righteousness before God, and say, "Now Lord see, me" You can't even say, "Lord see what I have done with yours" See, remember the time, as I keep telling you about that, time Izhar, and Korah rose up against the prophet of God (Moses). Remember they took the golden censors and God destroyed the men but saved the censors. You don't even do with what God has given you, my brother, my sister, to serve God, except God's Word is in you, and you abide by it. You follow the point? You don't present our righteousness. David understood this and in Psalms 7:15, 16 [15] My mouth shall showforth Thy Righteousness all day long' How did he do it? By talking about it, because it is not in man to show forth the Righteousness of God by simply talking. He said, "Hecannot do if' Again he said, "Jmake mention o/ Thy Righteousness, even Thine only" Huh, no use looking at each other and criticizing each other. Commending, "Isn't he is a fine fella" Oh, listen, my brother, my sister, "Abraham had where of to glory" He might have before God. 8 David understood that, "ThyRighteousness only, shall I talk about" See and again in Isaiah 41:10 [10] "Iwill uphold Thee with the Right hand (Power) of My Righteousness " And in Isaiah 46:13 [13] "I bring near My Righteousness. It shall not befar off, and My Salvation shall not tarry" See, Salvation is based upon Righteousness. Isaiah 51:8 [8] For the moth shall not eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But My Righteousness shall beforever and My Salvation Notice, Salvation follows Righteousness, just exactly what Paul said, (Romans 1:1) ''from generation to generation" And with that, I got a verse, I haven't written down but here in Isaiah 56:I [1] Thus Saith the Lord, Keep ye Judgment and do Justice for My Salvation is near to come and My Righteousness to be revealed See, the Revelation of the Righteousness of God brings salvation, and brother, sister, I believe that. I am just waiting for the Perfect Revelation. Now from these verses you can see, it is absolutely incorrect to say that the Word of God indicates a righteousness. You will see what I mean by that. It indicates a righteousness. There is "Something" out there in the distance. "Yes, Brother Vayle, there is something in there, hallelujah." See, now it doesn't indicate the Righteousness of God. No sir, it reveals the Righteousness of God. Not only does it reveal this Righteousness of God, but it positively associates that Righteousness of God with man, not all men. But some men for the Scripture says, "The Secret belongs unto our God" But those things that are revealed unto us, belong unto us and to our children, that we may do all the works of the Law. 9 What men are associated with the Righteousness of God? Isaiah 54:17 says, [17] This is the heritage of the saints of the Lord, and their Righteousness, shall be of Me, The saints of the Most High God, His servants. We are, we have the Righteousness of God. Now this Gospel has absolutely no power to deliver a single commitment without the Righteousness of God. Because the Righteousness of God, is the bases of our Salvation. The Gospel is dead without it. There is absolutely no hope in this Life, nor any hope in the Life to come without the Righteousness of God. God does not actually have one Eternal thing for us, apart from His Righteousness transmitted to us. It is the Righteousness of God or perish. Now let us go a little bit further. See, how, one obtains this Righteousness. In the Book of Romans 3:22 says, [22] Even the Righteousness of God which is by the Faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all, who believe,for there is no difference Every single Elect child of God has the Righteousness of God imparted to them. Why do I know that, because the Bible says (Acts 13:48) "That as many as where ordained to Eternal Life believed " You cannot have the Faith of Jesus Christ Christ unless you are ordained to Eternal Life. See, and so therefore those who are Elected. I don't care care whether butcher, baker, or candlestick maker. I don't care what you are, race, color, nationality. I don't care because the Scripture says, "There is no difference " The Righteousness of God revealed is committed to the positive end and enclosing in, every single, ordained, elect child of God. See, "There is no difference" "Whosoever let him come" Who will come only those who God has called, see. 10 Now since this Righteousness of God is freely given to all. We might say, "Why are some men not receiving it?" Because there is no "Revelation" of the Spirit of God, which shows them that they are sinners. God has a "Way" of escape which is by His Own Sacrifice which brings the Righteousness of Almighty God. Now if, here's the thing when people do not have the revelation. What do people then begin to do? Now this is, I am bringing this in because I want you to see the danger of the Elect children of God, who do not have a revelation concerning the Righteousness of God. What do they begin to do? They do exactly what the Jews did and tum to the Book of Romans 10:1, and we will read, now let's read verse one togther. [l] Brethren my heart's desire and prayer to Godfor Israel is that, they might be saved But they can't be saved except through the power of the Gospel, and What is the power of the Gospel? The Righteousness of God. Now, listen (Romans 10:2, 3) [2] For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to Knowledge Revelation. [3] For they being ignorant of God's Righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the Righteousness of God The Elect can be in danger right here, my brother, my sister, absolutely be in danger. Just like the Jews. Now what happens when we do not submit ourselves to the Righteousness of God? But hold up to God, what we feel is the proper thing to hold up in the light of holiness. What do you think about these folks say, "I don't wear a tie, that makes me righteousness" My God, I don't chew gum and it makes me very holy" I didn't even say goodness, my.... 11 What happened? Isaiah 64:6 [6] But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are asfilthy rags, and we do allfade as a leaf and our integrity, like the wind, has taken us away In spite of everything we might think to do, our own iniquities will still carry us away. I will not have one thing to present before God. David, Daniel understood this for in the Book of Daniel, Daniel 9:7 He in repentance, lifted up his voice, and said, "0Lord, Righteousness belongeth unto Thee" Yeah, now yours don't every one of us is guilty. Born is sin, shaped in iniquity. As Brother Branham said, "Comes to the world speaking lies" See. All our, Lord's Righteousness, (Daniel 9:7) "O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto Thee, but unto us confusion offaces to this day, the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that arefar off, through all the countries whether Thou hast driven them, because of their trespasses that they have trespassed against Thee" Man cannot produce one righteousness thing. Now that is going to be a shock but it's the Truth. You say, "Now, Brother Vayle, "I am as good as......" Yeah, you ought to be. He is good to you. The fact that you are born is sin, doesn't mean you should go out on a rampage. See? You can't produce any Righteousness. The Bible said, "They are as filthy rags" Infact the Bible said, "All men are condemned to death" because they cannot produce the Righteousness that is satisfactory to God. The Bible said, in Romans 3:11, 12 [11] As it is written (Psalms 14:1-3) There is none, Righteous, no not one" N-0-N-E not even a half of one. "There is none that understandeth" No, Revelation. "There is none that seeketh after God'' [12] They are All, A-L-L, gone out of the Way" The word "gone" means "to abandoned" They have abandoned the Word. They are together become rotten fruit. 12 Rotten Fruit, that word unprofitable (useless) is rotten fruit. Now what can you make out of rotten fruit? D Nothing. Doesn't even make good fertilizer. All it is good for is to draw fruit flies and who needs fruit flies? That's All we are this morning. "There is none that doeth good " We are rotten fruit. All it attracts is flies, I am speaking naturally. "There is none that doeth good " We are rotten fruit. "There is none" N-0-N-E, not even a half of one, "None that doeth good, no not one " And in (Romans 3:23) it says, [23] "Allhave sinned andfallen short of the Glory of Gocf ' Now tum, to Acts 17:31, read here, in Acts 17:31 [17] Because He hath, God has appointed a day, in the which He will Judge the world in Righteousness, by that "Man" Whom He ordained whereof, He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Himfrom the dead Every single man is going to have to come up in the resurrection and stand in Judgment. What Judgment? You say, "Well, Brother Branham, taught us we wouldn't be judged" Youjust hold on. We will bring that out. He is going to have to stand and fight to be standing here, and every man will stand before Him to see if He fits in that Image of Righteous. Now what are you going to offer God? That Standard on that day, is the Righteousness of God, Jesus Christ, see He is going to Judge All. I want you to think about it. "Brother Vayle you are going to shake me lose.......amem. You are going to make me abandon all hope, I have in myself. I say, "Amen, that's what I want, to be without hope. You can do nothing" "You are going to break every strong precept that I have got" Amen! "Without Me, (Christ) we can do nothing" It is the hardest Revelation there is. Old Ralph Palmer said, "A young preacher came in and said, "Ralph you are......." Ralph said, "You didn't understand" He said, "Amen. I am glad to do it".....How can you be so happy? I feel terrible. 13 Now the Righteousness of God according to Romans 3:25, 26, [25] Whom God hath setforth to be thepropitiation through Faith in His Blood, to declare the Righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through theforbearance of God. To declare at this time, His Righteousness" Yet how many times, have you even heard that? Now we hear about, "I am going to get saved" Yeah, that's fine. "How you become a better man" That's good. "How you are going to escape hell" That's wonderful. "How you can go to heaven" That's marvelous. But who has been talking about the Righteousness of God? Because Paul said, [26] To declare the Righteousness of God, that God might be Just and the Justifier of him that believes in Jesus Christ"............. I submit to you, we cannot possibly preach the Whole Gospel without preaching the Righteousness of God in the most positive manner. You will notice here that the Righteousness of God is declared, that is the First Step. The Righteousness of God is declared but not only is it declared but it is manifested. Romans 3:21 "Butnow the Righteousness of God without the Law" Any Law. Now the FDA, won't like this, and a lot of folks, like the Armenians (Legalists) But this Law is not the Ten Commandments, or the Ordinances, neither the Moral law, or the Ceremonial law. It says, "TheRighteousness of God without any Law" Period! "IsManifested being witnessed by the Law and Prophets" Being said in the Bible it is going to happen that away. See, it is declared! It is manifested. What is the third thing? It has got to be imparted. Philippians 3:9 "And beingfound in Him (Christ) not having my own righteousness, which is of the Law, but that which is through by the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of by the Faith God'' Notice this, "And befound in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is by the Law" 14 "But that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God, by Faith" Or, The Faith of Jesus Christ. It is imparted. God now, declares, manifests, and gives His Own Righteousness. Now upon what grounds do we receive it? We have already talked about, "It is by the Faith of the Lord Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 2:8, 9) "By Grace are we saved through Faith, that not of yourselves, it is the Gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast" And reading once more in the Book of Romans 3:21-22, [21] But the Righteousness of God without the Law, is manifested being witnessed by the Law andprophets, even the Righteousness of God What does the Gospel declare? The Righteousness of God. How does it come? "(Which is) "Bythe Faith of Jesus Christ" "UponAll and unto to All and upon all of them that believe" Who believes? The Elect, Ordained of God. See, the Faith of God and the Righteousness of God has both been given to us by Revelation. Now exactly, What is this Righteousness of God? Exactly, What is it? I Corinthians 1:30 [30] "Butof Him (God) are you in Christ Jesus" The word "IN" always means "in union with" Now I want you to pay attention, and get this carefully. For years I use to be puzzled and wonder. What does it mean to be in Christ? I couldn't figure. One man said, "What is more important? "For you to be in Christ or Christ to be in you" The fact of the matter is, we don't ....words about a thing like that. But, what does it mean to be in Christ? I found out by a word study. It means to be "in union with" Christ. "In union with Christ" is Communion. A man takes two tumblers of water and pours them both into one cistern. "Inunion with Christ" See, I read it again. "But of Him, are you" in union with Christ Jesus, Who of God is made to us, Wisdom and Righteousness and Sanctification and Redemption " [31] That according as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord" 15 It doesn't say one thing bout the things, that you and I have done. It is God doing it in us. It says, "Letthem glory in the Lord....." See. Now we are going a step further, in Jeremiah 23:6, this is what it says, and [6] "This is His Name, the Name of Jesus, whereby He shall be called, The Lord, not His Righteousness, but the Lord "Our"Righteousness " God is our Righteousness. See, now in Psalms 98:2 you find the very same thing. David said, [2] "The Lord has made known His Salvation, His Righteousness hath He (God) openly shewed in the sight of thepeople" the heathen. His is our Salvation, when we see, that we are the Righteousness, we see Christ, the Righteous One of God showed the heathen and this Righteous One became their Righteousness, see. Imparted. Now, what are the results of this in impartation? What are the results? Of this impartation, we turn to II Corinthians 5:21, and here is what it says, [21] For God has made Jesus, Who knew no sin, to become sinfor us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God with by our union with Him Now listen, it didn't say Jesus become sinful. It says He (Jesus) became sin. You know what the word "Sin" is also called "Sin Offering" because the Sin and the Sin Offering is the same thing. Christ became our Sin Offering. He (Christ) became sin for us. See. That we might be dressed up and look pretty? That we might be given power to do good works? No sir. That we might be given something to look a little better and pleasing to God? And a foundation, whereby we can boast. No sir, It says that, "He became sin, that we might become the Righteousness of God" It doesn't say that we become Righteous. Now, watch your language. It doesn't say we become Righteous. It says we become "The Righteousness of God" Now if we were willing to accept this morning that, Jesus become sin for us, and will not humble our hearts and our minds to graciously receive the fact that, 16 Without arguing, without fussing, without intimidating yourself or anybody else. But graciously accept that, we are the Righteousness of God, there is something wrong with.......Because the human mind doesn't want, it wants to, brag and say.....Iwish it was true, but I wonder. Do you recall what I read in Jeremiah 23:6 and, [6] This is His Name whereby He shall be called, the Righteousness of God He (God) has made Him (Christ) to be sin for us, that He (Christ) by being made sin, we could be made His Righteousness. Inother words, as it was He (Christ) took our place, we not we, I am just trying to get a picture now........We take His place. He (Christ) took our sins, we took His Righteousness. He (Christ) became us, upon Calvary, sin. We by accepting, became His Righteousness, the Righteousness of God. Now that Righteousness of God, must be right where? Right within the individual. God places that Righteousness. See? Now, what shall we expect from this Righteousness of God, imputed? What shall be the outworking, since we have been became the Righteousness of God, and this was done by Jesus Christ to Himself as our righteousness. God, is our Righteousness. See, What should we expect? Turn to Romans 5:1 [1] "Now therefore being Justified, by Faith" The word "Justified" is exactly the same word in the realm of righteousness. Because "Justified" means to be "declared righteousness" Remember there is a declaration of righteousness. God declared it. You can't be declared righteous until you got Christ, and when you got Him (Christ) you are declared as Righteous as God Himself. So the Scripture says, "Therefore having being declared righteous, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ " Right a way, the human mind says, "Oh, I got peace with God" No sir, it is not that way in the Bible. This is not the peace of God in your heart. This is God being at peace with you. 17 See? Why? Because you did not ask Jesus to die. You didn't say, "Oh, hey, God is angry with us. Oh let us just get together now, and we will present somebody to die, and He (God) won't be mad anymore" No, no, God said, "Look the world is in sin and I cannot look upon sin, and I love them. Those are my children out there. They were always not before My Mind. They were in My Mind. Because you were in His Mind, you were that "Thought" unexpressed, way back there before the foundation of the world. He (God) said, "I have got to do something, now, because I cannot look upon sin" So, What does He (God) do? He (God) becomes the Sacrifice. He becomes our Righteousness. Now that He (God) has become our Righteousness. He cannot be angry with us, see. Because this is the story of the King, whose subjects were in rebellion to him, and now the rebellion is over, and He (God) says, "I AM not mad anymore" You know something, God can never be angry with His children ever again. (You say) "God is mad at me" Well, that is your idea, not God's. The preachers says, "God's got authority, that is the preacher's idea, not the Bible. Because the Bible says, "Oncewe have been declared Righteous" Once we have the Righteousness of God which is Jesus Christ, God is no longer angry and I'll prove it. Last night in the Hebrews 12:9, have you forgotten. Let's go back to Hebrews 12, and I will show it to you. The Scripture says, here concerning you and I in training our children. It says here that in verses 9, 10. [9] Furthermore, we have hadfathers of ourflesh which correct us and we gave them reverence, shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits and live? [10] For they verilyfor afew days chastened us after their ownpleasure Inother words, they got mad, they whacked us. But God doesn't do that. He (God) always does it for our profit. How many times have you corrected you children for their profit? Most of the time, we whack them because we are mad. 18 Human reaction is not God's reaction. God can never lift an angry finger against any one of His children. The most that, He will do, to the disobedient, if you persist and persist in is finally bring sickness, upon you, and if that don't cure, where you don't repent. Then call the elders and make everything right. Then God in His Love and Mercy, to save you further trouble will take you in death. That's exactly what the Scripture says. It is not God punishing you. It is not God beating you. It is God molding a saint, and you can never mold anybody under anger, because anger destroys. God is not mad at us. (You say,) "Brother Vayle, listen to David" Was God mad at David? He (God) sent him (David) a little parable, and said, "There was a man and that man did a terrible thing. He went down, and he had a great big bunch of sheep. Oh he was rich, and he saw one little ewe lamb, that another man had and he said, "I want it" And David said, "I'll kill the man. I'll chase him with the army. I'll bring him down myself. I'll take care of him. Now what did David do in his anger? He, all he could do was to bring out his own rottenness and couldn't be full of Love. It didn't accomplish anything. Nathan said, "Thou art that man" Was God mad at David? If He (God) was mad at David, He would have done terrible things as it was. He (God) chasten David, He said, "The day will come, that you'll have to pay for what you have chose" But God was not an angry God. God is not an angry God, except with the wicked. The reprobates, which is an anger position, ours is an angry.......and Election, God is not angry because the Scripture says here, "That He (God) does itfor our profit, that we may be made partakers of His Holiness" Not even my brother, my sister, we just remind God as it should we're kids to be slapped around and say, "I am going to be a good boy because I got such a beating the last time. He will not beat me again this time" 19 For could use that term of carnality, I have done it many times. But God is never angry. Why? Because the Wrath was poured out on Christ. Now we have become the Righteousness of God. How can God ever be angry when we have been declared His Righteousness? The very thing that would separate us. The very thing that would destroy us is not only breeched, because we have gone from innocence right into Righteousness. Because Adam was not righteous, he was innocent. Righteousness belongs unto God, and no one else. Now, let us look at the Book of Isaiah, and bring you out, it brings out a little bit clearer now, in Isaiah 32:17, Isaiah 32:17 (17] And the work of Righteousness shall be Peace, and the effect of Righteousness quietness and assurance for ever What is the work of Righteousness, that God did? Peace! God's at peace with His Elect. And what is it going to work in us? It is going to work, quietness and assurance. You know that's time. Why is the people so upset all the time? Because they are so dissatisfied with their own standard that they are living under. They are dissatisfied because they know that, they are not living up to the Graces and Possibility in God. And when they get that attitude. Then they get their eyes off what Jesus Christ is to them. The Righteousness of God, which they themselves have become by union with Him. Now you know that's the Truth. Now look, you can't have both things working at the same time. Because either you are going to believe God, and receive the Revelation, or, we are going to go our own way and we are going to pay the price for it. It either has got to be His (God's) Righteousness and have it, and see it, or we are going to keep on living without peace. And there is little peace in the world today, because men are always trying to say, "Oh let me work it out" "Let me perform" 20 When God said, "This is something you can't produce. I produced It" See. I told you we worship God, by appeasing. See, "Oh, God...... But that is not it. "Well, I just know He's not that way. I am going to do something" Well, that is nice, but that is not the answer. See. Because you cannot produce it. Righteousness is already produced . See. And as God was the reciprocal of His Own Righteousness, now man has become the reciprocal of God's Righteousness, see. Now let us look at the outworking of this a little more. Turn to Romans 8:33, 34, now this sermon is particularly good for us today, because you will recall that when Brother Branham by the Spirit of God, opened the Seals. What did he preach on almost incessantly, concerning the Bride? The Bleach of the Blood of Christ, has made her what? Perfect. Huh, now we were talking about that this morning. Now in Romans 8:33, 34, [33] Whoshall lay anything to the charge of God's Elect? Now, that's a good question. Who is going to do it? The Scripture says, "Who art thou, oh man, tojudge another man's servant? Unto his own master he standeth orfalleth " Now we reserve the right to ourselves, not only to judge others, we judge ourselves. The Bible said, "Whoare you, oh man?" Notice, "Who are you, oh man?" Who are you, to lay a charge to God's Elect? Now if you don't understand this. It means this. You caught somebody doing something wrong. I am a store keeper. I see a fellow taking a chocolate bar off my shelve. Better yet, I see him take a $20.00 dollar bill out of my till, and I say, "I caught you stealing" I call the police and I arrest you, and I have you arrested and taken to court. And I say, "Judge this man, this man stole my $20.00, I had laid aside. 21 And the Bible said, (Romans 8:33) "Who can lay the charge against God's Elect? It is God, Who Justifies" See. How in the world can God, lay a charge against His Own Righteousness? See, oh, let it sink in. You got ajob getting it? Just think about me. I study it out and still don't get it. But I believe it, the best I can until it gets down here. Let's take our time we got all day. Dinner, who cares, I had a good breakfast. If you didn't, I am sorry for you. Sit awhile and think awhile, didn't Brother Branham say he would like to come to your home and pull off his shoes and sort of put his feet on the......., there, and maybe look in the refrigerator. We will open the refrigerator this morning. "Whoshall lay a charge to God's Elect?" God has already declared him Righteousness, the Righteousness of God, that it be God. Then it would be God charging Himself. See. Now, (Romans 8:34) Who is He, that condemneth? It is Christ that died. Yeah, rather that is rzsen. Who even is at the Right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us Now listen, remember what Brother Branham said, about the man who got in trouble. He said, "You know what I would do if my life depend on it. I get the best lawyer and make sure he knew the Judge" Right, so would I. Now let's watch this, I am a lawyer. Now, I am coming to court. I said, "Judge, I caught that man doing that" And the man gets a lawyer, and the lawyer goes before the Judge. Now this fellows lawyer, now that is being accused. He gets up, and he says, "Judge, I want to change it. When this man came in, I agreed to take his case. But in the mean time, Judge, I have had a change of heart. Judge, I have defended a lot of criminals in my time, but this fellow is the biggest rascal, I have ever seen. And Judge, do you and me and him a favor and the world a favor if you would go and put him in prison. 22 The Judge would say, "Hold it. You were hired to defend this fellow. I'll take to the Law association, you will lose your papers. We will see that you get put out and we will get another man, who does the job. Now, listen, Jesus Christ is our intercessor, how can He be our accuser? Huh "Who is He that condemneth? It is God, that Justifieth" This Christ that died, and Paul said, "Look it is not just the work, He (Jesus) accomplished upon Calvary, when He became sin for us, that we become the Righteousness of God" But listen, He is already our intercessor. You can't change God, Who doesn't change, into a Condemner. Now can you? You know you can't do it. Now turn to Psalms 35, you really don't need to get into all these, but I said, "It would be good for us" Psalms 35:24, This is what the prophet knew by experience and by a revelation. I am trying to hammer this thing out by both. But God has got to do it for me. "Judge, me 0Lord, My God according to Thy Righteousness" See. Psalms 35:24 David said, [24] Judge me, Oh Lord, My God according to Thy Righteousness, and let him not rejoice over me See, David understood, the Righteousness of God, he said, "Lord, if you judge me on mine, I am lost" Because he knew that he would have to stand on Judgment day, when Christ came down and liberated them. Only those who could stand in His Image, He brought forth out of the grave. But it was because of the Righteousness of God. You have nothing to do with it. See Now tum to Romans 4. This is the Book, I love. You can see why. Let us read verses 1 through 8, [1] What shall we say then, that Abraham aspertaining to theflesh Genealogy, the works of the flesh, and so on hath done? [2] So ifAbraham was Justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God. 23 See, what I said a little while ago, "Works" "Lord, you have given me some power. I am going to do some good things. I am going to win the world for you. I am going turn the world upside down. I am going to give a million dollars. I do a lot, to do a lot of things" And God said, "Well Abraham, you been so good around down there, and you got a lot to glory off. But so do I, but don't try to hand it to Me" Now there is a lot of us doing a lot of good. See, we go to Church, go to visit the poor, and the sick and that's good, and mind you we must do it. But don't try to hand it to God. Just thank God, that you are able to do by the Grace, He (God) gave you. Abraham had whereof to glory. Certainly, certainly, but he had something whereof not to glory. God said, "Abraham, you need to leave your kinfolk and everybody" Abraham said, "Well, that's a good idea, my nephew, Lot out here, poor little boy, he is an orphan boy. Of course Lot got into hot water, and he (Abraham) went and got him out of hot water. Now Abraham did a lot of good things and now, nobody denies it, but don't dare glory before God. See, so what saith the Scriptures? What does the Bible say? (Romans 4:3-5) [3] Abraham believed God and it was countedfor himfor Righteousness. [4] Now to him that worketh, is the reward is not reckoned of Grace, freely given, but of debt. [5] But to him that worketh not, doesn't do one single solitary thing, either by himself or with God, but believeth on Him (God) that Justifieth the ungodly, his Faith is counted for Righteousness. [6] Even as David also describeth the Blessedness of the man, unto whom the Lord imputeth Righteousness without works. [7] Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities areforgiven, and whose sins are covered. [8] Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. It doesn't say, he didn't sin. It says, That God doesn't impute as sin. Is that right? Exactly right, the Scripture. 24 That is what the Bible said, "It didn't say David did not sin" David did sin, but David said, "Thank you God, because you won't impute it" You know what is wrong with us? I told you the other night. God in His Divine Sovereignty had to let Wesley become the Church Age Messenger and bring to us the Armenian or "Falling away doctrine"which itself, is what blossomed into this Age, which is "the works of man" "Oh, we are rich and increased with goods" Don't mean a thing. Got this, got that, not looking for anything more. Got this, got that. The Bible said, (Revelation 3:17) "In spite of all these things, you are naked, miserable, wretched, and blind, and haven't got the Holy Ghost though you talk about it" And you got nothing, though you boast about it. And if it weren't for that Age (Wesley's Age) coming into this Age of man's rights. Laodicea means "man's rights" Man saying, "Look at me. I want my rights. I want to come to God" Don't you dare preacher, up there "Tell me a man's got to be called. All you got to do, is say, "I'll come and He will come" Yeah, is that so? There was a man did the same thing once didn't he? He got in the way, and a man come, he didn't have a Wedding Garment. How did he get in? Well, I will just come in through the front, he said. Certainly, don't stand up against God. It is the Word that counts, and David said that, "Man is blessed to whom the Lord will not impute sin" Because He (God) cannot. Why? Because God cannot lie. God cannot change, thank God, He can't. I know we would like to change Him at times, but thank God, He cannot change. Watch now, according to see what David had in mind in the Book of Psalms the 51st Chapter and I think it is in verse 14. Psalms 51:14, we could read the whole Book but it is not necessary. [14] Deliver mefrom blood gu,iltiness, 0 God, Thou God, of my salvation, and my tongu,e shall sing aloud of Thy Righteousness. See. 25 You know what? I like that, because one day, you and I will be standing in the same boat, as David. We are going to stand. The Bible said, "Hethat is Righteousness, be righteous still. He that isfilthy, befilthy still " One day, we are going to have to be ready for that Judgment call. Then it is His Righteousness ........... and we will be glad and say, "Lord impute unto me, Thy Righteousness, thank you Lord for not imputing sin" Let us thank God, Salvation is of the Lord. In the mean time, sometimes, you would only be happy to think, we are being a big part of it. See. NO, we can't. How? Romans 5:15-21, this is in the outworking of this Righteousness. [15] For not as the offence,so also is the Free Gift How big was the first o:ffence? Every murder, every lie, every war, every robbery, every sin, you name it, come out of that one major sin. Right? It says, [15] But not as the offence, so also is the Free Gift. See. If sin abound, Grace does much more abound. See. Never think in the terms of the grossness or darkness of sin. Think in the terms of the Free Gift of Righteousness by Jesus Christ. See. [15] If though the offence of one, we many be dead, Didn't we all die? The many of all died certainly, "Asin Adam all died" "So in Christ" that same bunch "camealive" Hallelujah, because no son of Adam will perish. Why? Because he was the First Adam, and now we have had the Second (Adam) He (Adam) was the First, now, Jesus is the Second. They died in Adam, but they all come alive in Him (Christ) but not one serpent seed. Never have, never will. See, [15] Now for yet through the offence of one, many be dead, much more the Grace of God, the Gift of Grace which is by One Man, Jesus Christ hath abounded unto the many. Not to All, the world, so that serpent can come in. No, sir, there is no restoration for Satan. There is no restoration for the Beast crowd. No, sir, the Lake of fire, what it is and don't ever believe otherwise. That is exactly where God cast the old Antichrist. Who's heart was the heart of a beast. 26 Who goes right back to the animalistic, he was in, the state he was in the garden of Eden. That's right. You know that's the Truth. The Bible said so (Romans 5:16-21) [16] And not as it was, by one that sinned, so is the Gift. For Judgment was by one to condemnation Notice what Adam did condemned us. But the Free Gift, is of many offences the declaration of Righteousness. "Our many o,r.re, nces........" In Righteousness, that's right. Adam did this. Now listen, [17] For if by one man's offence death reigns It is reigning? Well come on is it reigning. Well, then if death is reigning. Let us look on the other side of the ledger. [17] Jf by one man's offence death reigns by one, much more Notice "Much more" "Much more" God's not just going to get you out of the grave. NO, this is a "Much more" Gospel. Much more they which receive abundance of Grace and of Life and Grace and of the Gift of Righteousness, shall reign in Life by One Christ Jesus. Notice this, as people once lived violently in sin, now much more, they live inthe Freedom of Righteousness of Christ. [18] Now, therefore as by the offence of one, Judgment, came upon all men through condemnation. That's right. [18] Even so, by the Righteousness of One, the Free Gift, came upon all men, unto Justification of Life. [19] Now, for if by One, as by one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners, So, by the obedience of One shall the many be made Righteous. As they were sinners and therefore were a source of sin, these same people are made Righteous and therefore a source of Righteous. See. [20] Moreover the Law entered that the offence might abound, for where sin abound, Grace did much more abound [21] That as sin has reigned unto death, even so might Grace reign through Righteousness unto Eternal Life by Jesus Christ our Lord 27 What is he (Paul) trying to tell us? He is trying to tell us, here that the Revelation of the Righteousness of God, that gives us power in this Life, over sin and puts us in obedience unto Christ. What we needed to know, reading in (Romans) the Sixth Chapter verses Fourteen through Twenty-three. [14] For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the Law, but under Grace Notice what it says, "Sinshall not have dominion over you" Why? Because you are not under the Law, but under Grace. "The Power of sin is death" The minute the Righteousness of God comes in through Jesus Christ, That's why Paul said, "What such as we? What are you talking about? They say, "Well, if that is the case let's go out and sin some more" He said, "What, don't you get the point? "AsSin once reigned unto death " That is over. Now with Christ, our Righteousness, we reign over sin. See. Like the guy said, awhile ago, "Cats bring forth kittens, dogs bring forth puppies, horses bring forth colts" And What does a Word believer bring forth? He brings forth the Word, and the Word has no Lie, in it. It's the Truth. There is no sin in it. It's Perfection. See. Now this Righteousness of God is what gives us the power over sin. We will never become what we want to be in the sense of liberation of our hearts and minds, or arise to the pinnacle of the Glory of God, until by the Revelation we see we have become the Righteousness of God. For it is the Tree that produces the Fruit. Who says, "Oh, Pear tree bring forth pears, and please don't bring forth apples because I had so many apples this year. I can't stand any more" The Pear Tree says, "You must be nuts. What can I bring forth but Pears? I am a Pear Tree" 28 And this is the whole thing behind the Power of walking in Christ, to receive the Revelation, that we are the Righteousness of God, is to causes us to walk above the sin and reign with Christ. It is not discipline brother, sister, don't let anybody sell you on that. The Hindu out discipline you any day and produce more fruit as it were, and you never think of it. That's why India, the graveyard of the missionary. It is not discipline because that is appeasing God, you don't appease God. You worship God. See. Worship God, that's Love and Adore, that's just common decency. Assurance, you see that's what Righteousness does. But we have been robbed by the Armenian spirit (Legalism Falling away doctrine) It is time to get rid of it, through the Revelation of the Spirit of God that we are the Righteousness of God. We are not becoming Righteous. We are (Righteous) there is the power, that's what Paul said, "Assin has reigned unto death" Now what is going on again? What it says in verse fifteen (Romans 6:15) we can become. [15] We are not under Law, but under Grace? Godforbid. How canyou sin? [16] Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves to obey, his servant you are, whether it to sin, unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Now, listen, what's the heritage of the servants of God? Righteousness of God which is Christ in them. Who are you under? You are under (that) You are his servant. See. It's that Revelation, that makes it. [17] But God be thanked that you were the servants of sin, butyou have obeyedfrom the heart, thatform of teaching. What form of teaching? The Gospel that was delivered to you. 29 [18] Being then made Freefrom sin, lock, You are free from sin lock, stock and barrel. Now do you see why, the Major theme in Brother Branham's dissertation of was the Bride is washed in the Bleach of the Blood of Jesus Christ, Who spilled it (the Blood) Not a sin in her, and God will not impute sin, because the Blood of Jesus Christ was perfect not a sin in it, and God will not impute sin because of that. You got to get this Revelation because that is what he (Brother Branham) had and when he had it. I saw it all over his face. But I didn't know what he had. See. "Now being madefree from sin " See, He become the servant of Righteousness. He said, [19] I speak after the manner of men, to try to teachyou what you are not getting by the Holy Ghost. Because I am trying to take every little example I can said, Paul, to show you. Now get it! Don't even wait for God's Spirit, to give you a great big revelation . Just take it now, and say, "I am the Righteousness of God" and by it, wait on God and accept it on your heart and mind, and don't shut your mind because that is resisting the Holy Ghost. Because either we are the Righteousness of God or we perish. Now all that I set forth is just a simple part of the Word. We could say many, many, many, more things about it. But as I say, the Gospel is the Power of God because the Righteousness of God is revealed in it, and our powerless today is absolutely based upon the Fact that we do not understand and have not even accepted mentally the Fact that we are as righteous as God. See. Now let us just look at this and see what Paul had to say about this in Galatians 2:21 [21] I do notfrustrate the Grace of Godfor if Righteousness comes by the Law, then Christ is dead in vain. 30 Now, you are locked up in one. "I believe that Christ died" Do you really believe He died for us? Now, come on, if you really believe He died, then the sin question is answered once and for all. We have become the Righteousness of God. If that doesn't satisfy you, turn to Galatians 5:4 [4] Christ is become of no effect untoyou, whosoever ofyou that are Justified by the Law. You havefallen from Grace. Certainly you have. If you will accept any other premise from the Fact that Christ is your Righteousness and you by "Union" with Him are as Righteous as God. You are fallen from Grace because Grace is a Free Gift, and you are trying to do something about it. It is not Christ in you building the House honey. It is Christ building the House, for you can do nothing without Him. The premise is not you doing something with Him, the premise is He, then something good will come forth. You have fallen from Grace. God hasn't got a thing for you. Christ isn't effective. Make up your mind. Now I am going to ask you one question. Is it not true, that the Bible says, "He that isjoined to the Lord is One Spirit" Is that right? Is that right? "He that isjoined to the Lord, is One Spirit" That's right. All right here is the question. "Did you make God's Spirit dirty?" Or, "Does He (God) make yours His?" Now if you dirtied up God, then you haven't got God anymore. You see these questions cannot be academic any longer. We have got to face reality brother, sister. Because this is really certain, He had reality. See, the Jews came to Peter (Acts 3:1-12) and said, "How do you do this? " Peter caught it, he said, "Not by any righteousness that we have" He said, But if you want to know how it was done, it was done by two things, God gave us. His Faith and His Name" He said, "That's how it was done. Don't look on us as though we are holy, wonderful people" 31 NO, that's not it. It is that, He (Christ) has become our Holiness, and our Righteousness and He (Christ) by our union with Him, we have become the very Righteousness of Almighty God. Two men has brought this more clearly than any man I knew. One was a man I knew personally, and one man, I knew by a book, and Doctor Kenyon said, "That when he realized by Revelation of the Scripture, that he had become the Righteousness of God, nothing could stand before him" Until that time, he was defeated in his life, to fulfill the will of God, to cast out devils, to lay hands upon the sick, to see the purposes of God fulfilled. But the moment that he received the Truth, that he was the Righteousness of God. Satan could no longer accuse him and no man could accuse him, and He couldn't accuse himself. God tried to show me this thing, 30 years ago (1936) I was 22 years of age. I remember, the exact spot. I was out there laying on a blanket reading the Word and thinking about God, mediating. And I thought about Him and I said, "Oh God, I wish that I was clean. I wish that I was this and that" And the Voice of Christ said, within my conscience hearing, "Call that not common or unclean that which God called clean" God had cleansed me, but my own Armenian spirit, "Oh, but Lord, you don't understand. You see Lord, I am so brilliant, I know myself. Oh, God how can you say........." I know you and You know me. Go ahead big mouth. Everybody has got a fat mouth that is in here, nobody wants to hear it, the want to talk. That's the Laodiceans Age, you say, you say. Nobody heard the knocking at the door. Nobody heard the prophet except one or two. Because they wanted a miracle. I am not against miracles. But if you want to constantly produce it. You want to produce a constant miracle is to receive Revelation. You know Christ, within you brother, sister. So I said, "Well, Lord you don't understand" Ever since that time, I have been struggling. 32 It is a Revelation my brother, my sister. You know the story, is on tape were Brother Branham said, in Topeaka, Kansas. The Church fell on that little boy, his spline was ruptured, and liver" And they came to say, Brother Branham, the man is just about dead will you go and pray for him? Isn't something like the Lord, they came to him of course he could go. But the Lord said, "Go ahead and pray.........." But he (Brother Branham) thought, "Well, maybe I could go lay hands on him. But my hands are not the clean hands like Christ had. Oh, I hope, I get a vision. If I get a vision and He says, "Do it, then it's done......." The Lord said, "Just a minute now son, aren't those hands the same hands before and after the vision?" See It was in Colorado, where God took away all his (Brother Branham's) guilt. Gave him the perfect understanding of the Righteousness of God. You know that as well as I do, and before he died, he could say..... He said in September is almost an anniversary from the Sunday I was with him. He (Brother Branham) said, "Lee, since a little boy, I have been with fear. For the first time, now since a little boy, For the first time, now since a little boy, I am without fear. My right to the top. What is it? It is a Revelation. This is not something you and work and talk about. It is something God did. It is Grace, but we have missed it. We did, we have always been searching fro the wrong thing. We have tried to use the Spirit in the wrong direction. It is time to come back. The "Eye Age" is over. It is the "Mind Age" Now, It is Revelation that we might work in this perfection . See. The Rock of this profession. When we begin to see, we are the Righteousness of God. 33 By Revelation, we will become what our heart has been crying for. Let me prove it to you. As it says over here again in Romans 8:33 [33] Who dares condemn me? Who dares? It is Christ that died. Who dares lay a charge? Well, He says, "I am Righteous" And God turned to Abram, and said, "Thou name shall no longer be called Abram, for I have made thee, afather of nations" And I say to you, today, on the same authority, "Thou shall no longer call yourself a sinner. Thou shall thyself a Saint, because God has made you righteous" Don't you ever call yourself unclean again. It is going to be a trial. I am battling it, brother, sister, but if you'll hear my voice as the Voice of God, this morning, through a servant, not because that I am God or have much to do with God in that sense. But take God's Word, this morning as though God spoke, because what Paul said, "Let it be established in the mouth or two or three witnesses" He said, "You heard me preach, not that I was God, but you took it from my mouth, that It was God speaking it to you, through the Word" Don't call yourself unclean or a sinner again. But you say, "Brother Vayle, what if I get in trouble?" Don't you dare, call yourself a sinner. "What if I slip?" "ARighteous man willfall Seven times and the Lord will raise him up" And He which has begun a good work in you. He will present you spotless before Himself, Presence, in exceeding great glory. Why? Because you already are. "Blessed is the man whom the Lord will not impute sin" God I sinned. I won't impute it, son, just repent. All I want is you to stand fast. See. Oh sure, "Allwe like sheep have gone astray. We turned every one of us to our own way. The Lord laid, upon Him the iniquity of us all" 34 He took our sin that we might become His Righteousness. There is where the power is my brother, my sister, to walk holy in His Name. There is where it lays, that we receive the Revelation of what we are in Him. But as just long as we are obsessed in our mind by the fact that the carnal nature will never walk in the new nature. That's true, but we begin to see, what and who we who are in Christ. The gates of hell cannot prevail against us. See, what I mean? The Revelation of God, we are the Righteousness of Christ. You say, "I don't look like it Brother Vayle" Neither do I honey, but He said, so. The Bride maybe doesn't look to pretty but she is beautiful. I don't see a spot or wrinkle, I am looking through the Blood. Hallelujah. The Righteousness of God revealed, there is the power of the Gospel. Because once we know this by Revelation, know with all our hearts, brother, sister. do you think anything will stand before you? No, sir. You will say like Paul, when the devil tempted..... You say, "What really? Devil, who you talking to?" I am a Pear Tree, you can't tell me to produce briers. I am a Fig Tree, don't try to tell me to produce bramble. What are you talking about?" Have you ever seen a cow, have horses? Well, don't look at me to produce sin. You got to see by the Spirit, what we are in Christ. Like a Tree, will produce a fruit from it's Seed. Amen. You got to get rid of this talk about the "Old" nature. Hogwash. Christ is our inheritance. You that, what that does? It looks to the work of Him (Christ) does it. See, why it doesn't work right? When you are trying to appease Him. You say, "Jesus did it all, All to Him I owe, crimson, He washed us white as snow. That's praising God, because, that's Spirit. That's Truth because that's the Word. 35 You come along and say, "God wasn't I a good fellow?" I went to Africa. Oh, they been to Jamaica, so many times you know what? All these people have converted more souls, than there are souls to convert. They have out done God. That's what we will present, and we don't want to present that. It is Jesus......... That day is coming that He will Judge the world by Jesus Christ. Huh Oh what a day, that's going to be. I tell you, if I got only foggy ideas about reality, I will have them at that minute He comes. I'll say, "Oh God, forgive me. I do claim Your Righteousness" It will be too late. I might be too late. That's right. God Bless you. I kept you for a while. I hope it has been good for us. I like to preach it, I need it. Shall we rise. "Again, Oh Father, we beseech You having been gathered together according to Your Word, and Lord we are here according to the Word because You said, "Forsake not the assembling ofyourselves together" And You said, Lord, they was to give the things, we have the authority over and by the Word of God and you told us to take the Word of God, and have nothing but the Word of God, and Lord that's the way it has been this morning. I haven't tried to say, one thing Lord of my own heart or mind. And Lord God, You know what a battle, it is to get Your Word out under conditions like this where we are so use to things just the opposite. But believing just the opposite to what (we think the) Word is. It seems so fantastic. Oh, God, that to call things white when you got an idea we should call them gray. Oh, God, this morning forgive us is our prayer. Oh, Christ take a curry comb as it were and scourge our hearts and our minds take them down, Oh God. 36 That every thought is brought in subjection to this Holy Word by the Spirit of God. Because Christ in our hearts has out of ourselves and out of our own words. Now let God's Word come in, and take over these hearts and minds. You said, "We are Righteous" Hallelujah, we are Righteous. Bless God, just like you said to Abraham, you are a father of nations, and he said, "That's It" Then we are servants, takes care of it. That's the whole thing and we are going to walk on it, Lord. This morning if we are no more Abram, no more sinner. Your Spirit was given for this very purpose. Now, Lord, we know we are just a little impatient. We just kind of frantic, Lord that the work should be done in a hurry. But Lord this morning, we got to be honest there too. If you are not in a rush to make this Revelation all the way to the source. Then going and our own mouth shall testify and either condemn us or justify us. You do what You want to do because You are God. But Lord, we know that You want to bring us to the place of realization that we talked about, but we want You to do it in Your own time. So Lord, we open our hearts, and our minds. So we are panting Lord, and will not be distressed, because You said, "It is as good as done" We take that Lord, for an answer. God bless each one this morning. Let every one have comfort Lord, and sweetness, and joy in the Holy Ghost. And......in Thy Presence. Hallelujah. Just that is all we want. Nothing more, in the Name of Jesus, Amen. God bless you. 37 11