Faith and Righteousness
Bishop James C. Hash, Sr.
Righteousness comes by Faith. It’s not gained by works.
Isaiah 54:14…KJV IN RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALT THOU BE ESTABLISHED: THOU SHALT BE FAR FROM OPPRESSION; FOR THOU SHALT NOT FEAR: AND FROM TERROR; FOR IT SHALL NOT COME NEAR THEE.
This new understanding of Righteousness, this new Truth of Righteousness, this new discovery of our being the Righteousness of God “In Christ” gives us a new understanding of who we are in Christ.
It utterly destroys the sin consciousness and the weakness consciousness and the want consciousness.
· In their place has come the all-absorbing Reality of Christ.
· He is our strength. He is upholding us with His Righteousness.
· Jesus conquered satan. Every satanic-ruled force is subject to His Name, His Word, and His Authority.
THE LORDSHIP OF THE WORD OF GOD
Isaiah 54:17…KJV NO WEAPON THAT IS FORMED AGAINST THEE SHALL PROSPER; AND EVERY TONGUE THAT SHALL RISE AGAINST THEE IN JUDGMENT THOU SHALT CONDEMN. THIS IS THE HERITAGE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD, AND THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS OF ME, SAITH THE LORD.
If one lacks the understanding of the Lordship of the Word, they will never be able to use it although they intellectually know they are the Righteousness of God.
· When the WORD is ignored, reasoning takes the Throne.
· Our minds must be renewed by acting on the WORD and by an intimate acquaintance with God through His WORD.
· When we recognize His Lordship over us, it is His Lordship through us.
· It is His Lordship in our words, so we can say “In Jesus Name, demons leave that body”; and they shall obey” God’s authority working through His WORD in your mouth.
· We are masters because He is our Master; and as our Master, He is working through us.
· He is lording over the forces of darkness through us.
Romans 10:6...KJV But THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS OF FAITH SPEAKETH ON THIS WISE, SAY NOT IN THINE HEART, WHO SHALL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN? (that is, TO BRING CHRIST DOWN FROM ABOVE:)
· We are to walk in the WORD of the New Covenant.
· We speak the Word.
John 1:16...KJV And OF HIS FULNESS HAVE ALL WE RECEIVED, and GRACE FOR GRACE.
· We know we have become “The fulness of Him that filleth all in all.”
Romans 5:17...KJV For IF BY ONE MAN’S OFFENCE DEATH REIGNED BY ONE; MUCH MORE THEY WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE and OF THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL REIGN IN LIFE BY ONE, JESUS CHRIST.)
· We know that we have received “the Abundance of Grace and the Gift of Righteousness.”
· We reign as kings in the spirit realm of life through Jesus Christ.
Colossians 1:13...KJV WHO HATH DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS, and HATH TRANSLATED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF HIS DEAR SON:
· Satan’s dominion has been broken over your life as a new Creation Christian.
· The Lordship of Jesus and the WORD of God have begun in your life.
· We are His lips. We are His hands!
· We are living with Him. He is living in us unseen, but real.
· We walk with Him.
Hebrews 10:38...KJV “NOW” THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: but IF ANY MAN DRAW BACK, MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM.
Hebrews 11:1,6…KJV “NOW” FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN.
6 BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM: for HE THAT COMETH TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS, and THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THEM THAT DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM.
II Corinthians 5:7...KJV (FOR WE WALK BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT:)
II Corinthians 4:13…KJV WE HAVING THE SAME SPIRIT OF FAITH, according as it is written, I BELIEVED, and THEREFORE HAVE I SPOKEN; WE ALSO BELIEVE, and THEREFORE SPEAK;
· Speak the WORD of God and lord over your situation through the spoken WORD.
FAITH and RIGHTEOUSNESS