The Law Made Honorable
“When
a sinner is convinced of sin by the work of God's law on his
conscience, he will generally be going about to establish a
righteousness of his own. But when the Spirit of God brings him into
bankruptcy, gives him to see his guilt, and causes him to feel its
workings in his heart, then he wants to see Jesus who has redeemed
him from it, and gone to the end of the law for righteousness to
everyone that believeth.
Faith
traces Jesus in His pure and perfect life from the manger to the
cross; but beholds nothing but fire and destruction in God's holy and
righteous law. Heaven is well-pleased for His righteousness' sake; He
has magnified the law, and made it honorable. The soul sees in the
Lord Jesus Christ a justifying righteousness. This righteousness is
imputed by God the Father to him; and the soul receives it by
precious faith, and glorifies in the perfect obedience of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
The
believer is complete and accepted in Jesus; and he stands before the
eyes of infinite Purity in Jesus all fair, without spot, blemish, or
any such thing; and though in himself he is as black as the tents of
Kedar, yet in the Lord Jesus Christ he is all comely and all fair. He
sees that in Jesus he has a law-fulfilling righteousness; and as he
beholds it, he sees such a glory in it, that he bursts out with the
church of old, "Surely shall
one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and strength."
Or again, "My soul shall be
joyful in the LORD; I will glory in the God of my salvation."
IT
IS HERE THAT YOU SEE JESUS IS MADE
YOUR LAW-FULFILLING RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
-Gospel report by preacher John Kershaw (1792–1870 A.D.)
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