Grace - For the Present

Grace to you,

Enjoy the short excerpt from "Two Kinds of Righteousness" by E.W. Kenyon

Grace=Peace,

Jeremy

"The church has been very strong in teaching man his need of righteousness, his weakness and inability to please God.  She has been very strong in her denunciation of sins in the believer. She has preached against unbelief, world conformity, and lack of faith, but she has been sadly lacking in bringing forward the truth of what we are in Christ, or how righteousness and faith are available.

Most of our hymns put our redemption off till after death.  We are going to have rest when we get to heaven.  We are going to have victory when we get to heaven.  We are going to be overcomers when we get to heaven.  We are going to have peace with God when we get to heaven.  There will be no more failings when we get to heaven.  We have nothing on this side except failure, misery, disappointment and weakness...

What does He mean when He says "Ye are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power"?  When are we to be complete?  Is it in this life or in the next?  What does he mean in Rom. 8:37, "Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us"?  When are we to be more than conquerors?  Is it after death when we leave this vale of tears?

The ministers do not preach peace in the present.  It is always in the future.  When are we to find this glorious thing call Peace?...

If it requires death to cleanse us from sin, we are left in an unhappy dilemma.  Death is of the Devil.  It would indicate that God in His Redemption was unable to give us victory, that He needed the Devil to complete His redemptive work.  I believe what the Scripture says about us is absolutely true, that God Himself is now our very Righteousness, and that we are the Righteousness of God in Him.  I am convinced that we are partakers of the Divine Nature.  There is no condemnation to us who "walk in the light as He is in the light."

by E.W. Kenyon