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July 24, 2008
DISPOSITION AND DEEDS
Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter
into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:20
http://www.SearchGodsWord.org/desk/?query=mt+5:20&sr=1
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but
that he is good in motive because he has been made good by the
super-natural grace of God. The only thing that exceeds right-doing
is right-being. Jesus Christ came to put into any man who would let
Him a new heredity which would exceed the righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees. Jesus says - If you are My disciple you must
be right not only in your living, but in your motives, in your
dreams, in the recesses of your mind. You must be so pure in your
motives that God Almighty can see nothing to censure. Who can stand
in the Eternal Light of God and have nothing for God to censure? Only
the Son of God, and Jesus Christ claims that by His Redemption He can
put into any man His own disposition, and make him as unsullied and
as simple as a child. The purity which God demands is impossible
unless I can be remade within, and that is what Jesus has undertaken
to do by His Redemption.
No man can make himself pure by obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not
give us rules and regulations; His teachings are truths that can only
be interpreted by the disposition He puts in. The great marvel of
Jesus Christ's salvation is that He alters heredity. He does not
alter human nature; He alters its mainspring.
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