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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Lord Our Righteousness, #5
For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you. (II Corinthians 4:11,12)
God Himself is the Righteousness who is in Christ. Jesus Himself is the Righteousness who is in each member of the Bride. God in Jesus is the Righteousness in the Bride, in Judah and Jerusalem.
As the believer enters the Life of Christ he feels the same compulsion of love. He has the desire to "die", to lose himself in the Life of Jesus. As the individual is willing to die in Jesus he is raised by the Life of God. The overflow of the Life of God gives eternal life to the people to whom the believer ministers. In this manner the believer becomes an eternal part of the Kingdom of God, of the Oneness that is the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, and the members of the Body of Christ.
The Life of God is love. It is a love that gives itself that others may be filled with eternal life and with the righteousness of God Himself. It is one Kingdom, one Divine entity, flowing from the Father through the Son through the Body of Christ.
The Lamb and His Wife are heirs of God, but also the testators, the benefactors, with respect to the nations of the saved of the world. We are to continue in the love that comes from the Father through the Son.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. (John 15:8,9)
We understand from the preceding paragraphs that God Himself is being enlarged, molded, and refined. It is the Divine Gold being hammered into shape as the knowledge of the Holy One, which is obedience to God and trust in God, increases in us. This is the increase of the only true righteousness.
The process of embracing sinful creatures and then purging them, will continue until God is All and in all.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. (II Corinthians 15:28)
The Fullness of God dwells in Christ. Christ learned obedience by the things He suffered. God Himself became more complete, in this sense.
The Wife of the Lamb is the very Body, the fullness of Christ. She eternally is part of Christ. She is Christ in another form, having been fashioned from His body and blood, just as Eve was Adam in another form.
We cannot possibly overemphasize the absolute oneness of the Bride and the Lamb. She is one with Him in the same manner and to the same extent that the Father and the Son are one.
Because she is an eternal part of God, the perfecting of the Bride of the Lamb is a perfecting of God Himself, in this special sense. An increase in her is an increase in the prevalence of God's righteousness in the creation. Through the members of the Bride, who compose the royal priesthood, the Righteousness that God is will pour forth to the nations of the earth. In this manner God Himself will keep increasing and being perfected in His Kingdom for eternity.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11:9) (from The Lord Our Righteousness)