The Daily Word of Righteousness

The Ruler, #37

Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 20:21)

Any person in the days to come who does not turn away from dishonest conduct, unclean practices, and disobedience to God, will perish whether or not he or she names the name of Christ.

Salvation in the Kingdom of God requires repentance.

The testimony that overcomes the accuser is the testimony of repentance through the name and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A church that does not practice continual repentance and does not preach repentance is not part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Divine Testimony to the earth consists of works of supernatural power and also of the call to repentance. The life and ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ and of His Apostles was distinguished by the message of repentance from sins and also by works of supernatural power.

It is evident from the eleventh chapter of Revelation that the testimony of the end-time Church will include works of tremendous power. Nature will cooperate with the saints as the Divinely ordained miracles suspend natural law. The elements will bow in obedience before the Word of almighty God in the members of the Body of Christ.

God's purpose in such a demonstration of Divine power is to command the attention of every person on the earth. God desires that each human see the majesty of God and hear the word of righteousness, the word of holiness, the word of repentance.

God has prepared a covering for each individual. It is the blood of His Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. Each human being is to repent of all unrighteous behavior and to put on the garment of righteousness the Lord God of Heaven has prepared for him or her.

Woe to the person who will not repent of unrighteousness, uncleanness, and disobedience to God! Woe to the individual who rejects the Lord Jesus Christ or who gives only a token allegiance to Christ but does not repent of unrighteousness! He or she will reap corruption when the Kingdom of God enters the earth in the near future.

All the lies of those who have taught us that God is so loving He will not perform His Word of Judgment will be swept away in the torrent of fire in that Day.

The righteousness and the power of the word of the testimony of the saints will overcome the accuser in the hour that even now is upon us. It is not just the works, the symptoms, the fruit of the accuser that will be injured. It is the accuser himself who will be torn down from his place of influence in the spirit realm. The devil and all his works have come to their termination. Woe to any human being who attempts to carry on the works of Satan!

The purpose of the gifts and ministries of the Body of Christ is to build the Body itself, the Lampstand—the Divine Testimony of the Lord God of Heaven.

First, the gifts and ministries will build Christ in the character of the saint. Then the double portion of the Holy Spirit will come upon the saint, and through the wisdom and power of the Spirit he or she will bear witness of Christ to the whole earth.

To be continued.