ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED (for ever)!

If you and I are among the righteous, it is because we are made so IN CHRIST. The Apostle says, (and it is such a comfort to our souls, because it admits of no contradiction, neither sin nor Satan can overthrow it), He was, "made sin for us, Who knew no sin;" that, it almost makes me afraid to utter the words, they are full of such grandeur and immortal glory, and shine like a diamond set with all manner of beauty, "we might be made the righteousness of God IN HIM," (II Corinthians 5:21). 

Come, poor child of God, who are cast down by looking at your wanderings of heart, carnality, and daily failings, and who perhaps have come here full of confusion, feeling yourself a helpless and wretched creature, with your head hanging down like a bulrush, look up to Jesus, He is the blessed head for the righteous, the perfect center of all glory and beauty! Look at the perfect work of Christ, He is, "the LORD our Righteousness!" "Ye are complete in Him!" Nowhere else you see; the church is, "accepted in the Beloved" and here it is she stands righteous in the sight of God! 

Now do you want to know when this took place? I cannot tell you: there is no date but what God Himself has put to it, AND THAT IS FROM ETERNITY. Past, present and to come are all present with Him; He knew from everlasting all that should ever come to pass. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who hath blessed us with ALL spiritual blessings in heavenly places IN CHRIST; according as He hath chosen us IN HIM before the foundation of the world," (Ephesians 1:3,4).Again, those that are righteous before God are "justified freely by His grace through the redemption that IS IN CHRIST JESUS," (Romans 3:24). They are justified, and completely acquitted IN HIM, so that no just charge can be brought against them. "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, Who is even at the right hand of God, Who also maketh intercession for us," (Rom. 8:33,34). 

So that those who are righteous before God are made so IN CHRIST. They are a part of His mystical body, in union with the Head; and all that Jesus is and has as the Head is imputed to and put upon them, the body, and here it is they stand everlastingly righteous before God. I KNOW AND AM SURE THAT WHEN THE SOUL IS BROUGHT TO KNOW THAT HE IS RIGHTEOUS HERE, HE DOES NOT WANT TO BE JUSTIFIED IN ANY OTHER WAY.

-preacher John Warburton (1776-1857 A.D.)

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