Gospel Chapel Christian daily devotion

JOY IN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SPIRIT

 

ROM 8:4 tells us, "That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."

It is when that Spirit of Christ is in our hearts and we’re walking according to and after the Spirit of Christ that we are fulfilling the law of love.

Regeneration is a work whereby the law is fulfilled. That new nature loves the law of God and is perfectly reconciled to the will of God. The new nature has a desire with perfection after the will of God. We still, however, have within us that old man of sin; the spiritual warfare remains.

In ROM 7:25 the Apostle Paul said, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." That old man of sin remains; there is a continuous spiritual warfare. That new man of the Spirit strives against the flesh, and the flesh strives against the Spirit.

There remains that spiritual warfare as we see in ROM 7:20-22, "Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man." The inner man that delights in the law of God is the symbol of the work of regeneration.

But I want you to see the blessedness of the joy of that perfection of righteousness that we see in REV 19:7- 8, "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints."

That perfection of righteousness is the joy that was set before our blessed Redeemer that He should receive His bride, and that she should make herself ready; that He should receive her clean and white for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints conforming to that blessed image of Christ.

Amen.