Christ JESUS: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
"This is the name wherewith she shall be called, The L ORD our righteousness ." —Jeremiah 33:16 [KJV] Before days began or years were numbered, in the book of God's election were all the members of Jesus written, "which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them." —Psalm 139:16. God's electing love would have remained an eternal secret to us had not the Spirit of truth made it known. But as it is revealed in the word, it is an object of our faith; and it ever will be the subject of glorying and triumph to those who possess the faith of God's elect; for faith is a blessed evidence, that "God hath chosen them in Christ before the foundation of the world." —Ephesians 1:4. Was the man Jesus, God the Father's "elect, in Whom His soul delighteth?" —Isaiah 42:1 . So are all His members loved with the same love as the Head. God gave not the Spirit by measure unto Jesus, the glorified Head of the church;