Submission to His righteousness
Submission to His righteousness
(Jehova Tsidkenu)
David Wilkerson
Cleansing, purging came from the throne.
This brings me to the question,
“How do I get that kind of righteousness in me?
How do I get God to impute or put, give to my credit to me His righteousness?”
His righteousness is not dealt out to everyone who cries “Lord, Lord.” Not at all. You’ve got to come His way. He makes it very clear.
How you come?
The first requirement, (Listen very closely please.)
A total repudiation of all efforts to establish your own righteousness by your human abilities.
Abandonment of all hope becoming holy by good works, good thoughts, good deeds.
You have to once and all say,
“I can not. There is no hope in my flesh.
I have to repudiate every effort of my human ability until I am endued with the Holy Spirit. And He has done a work in me.”
By His Spirit we mortified the days of the flesh. That’s what the Bible says through the power of the Holy Spirit the deeds, the sinful flesh is brought under mortification and destroyed, the Scripture says (Romans 8:13).
Paul’s heart went out to His Jewish people. It broke his heart.
He watched in pain as they struggled so hard to please God and be righteous.
If they failed the one point of the law, nothing but despair and if they had a good day and they kept it they boast it “I’m something!”
That’s what the flesh does.
The Bible says, “It can’t be by the law.”
(Galatians 3:11)
Because you just boast it, It’s your righteousness. It’s not His. He’s not gonna let you do that.
Paul watched these people struggle.
Paul said, “They are ignorant of God’s righteousness.”
In other words, “They have no knowledge.”
Folks, that shouldn’t have been because they had the very same Scriptures I’m reading you. They had Pentateuch, Moses, the prophets, Jeremiah.
They had the revelation that we’re speaking of now.
“The Lord shall be our righteousness.
Jehovah Tsidkenu”
They had it.
Paul said this word went throughout the whole known world, this gospel we preach (Romans 10:18). But he said they were willingly ignorant (Romans 10:3).
“Therefore they go about to establish their own righteousness
having not submitted unto the righteousness of God.”
(Romans 10:3)
You show me a Christian who’s indulging in sin He or she doesn’t want to give it up. And I’ll show you someone who doesn’t want to submit to the righteousness of Christ because of the cost.
They know that the Holy Ghost is a consuming fire. They know that if they open themselves and submit to the righteousness of God which is in Christ Jesus, they know that this righteousness,
this holiness of God demands full surrender.
But you see they want to go that way. Christians bound by sin under its dominion who are addicted and refusing deliverance develop what I call a righteousness of illusion.
If you continue to sin and you live a double life and you hide your secret lust and sin and you just excuse it, you have no intention of seeking deliverance, you end up doing three things:
Number one, you will lower God’s standard to excuse your sin.
Secondly, you’d try to present to God a self righteousness that you have conceived and concocted of your own.
Third, you’re gonna pervert the message of grace. You’re gonna do injustice to what God says about mercy turn it into lasciviousness (Jude 1:4)
Jesus, the righteousness of the Lord
“Jehovah Tsidkenu” is imparted only to those who fully believe the promise. The Messiah, the Savior of the world who will deliver men or women from the sins
I want you to know that He is so anxious to do a work in your heart.
I want you to know the Lord’s more willing to give than you are to receive.
He’s anxious to forgive. He’s anxious to forgive you. God’s not mad at you. He’s very patient with us. He’s been very patient with you. I understand that.
I confess everything, Lord, that’s in my heart, that’s unlike You.
Now Holy Ghost, Come.
Give me power to resist the enemy.
Kill and destroy this thing that holds its power over me!