Fruit of Righteousness is sown in peace
Sunday Nov. 16, 2003
Sermon
Fruit of Righteousness is sown in peace
(James 3:18)
2 Samuel 12:1-23
Many of us need to learn about God’s true love for us and the word Grace Need’s to be fully explained in our hearts. Our minds understand almost all the spoken truth, but unless it goes through the veil of our hearts and are revealed there it would not be producing the kind of fruit that would bring lasting results. This requires several things amongst, which is words spoken in love, even in times when our intellect dictates otherwise. Even in the Old Testament era God’s genuine prophet’s used grace and extreme love in bringing God’s truth to the Old Testament saints. I believe all major and Minor Prophets of the Old and New Testament learn through their own trials by the Holy Spirit to season their words with words of love and grace, even speaking for the coming redemptive judgment of God in the seasons of backsliding and rebellion. To Name a few Prophet Samuel, Nathan, Hosea, and Agabus and all of us today the New Testament saints have been anointed to prophesy in His name today. The book of revelation chapter 19:10 says “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesy.”
Our words have power to kill or to bring alive.
So Help Us God, heal our tongue
James 3:1-18
The Bible tells us that there are different kinds of righteousness.
Our own which is like a filthy rag before God, because it is produced from our human reasoning’s and which is called from human wisdom and James the half brother of Jesus our Lord states that this kind of wisdom is earthy, sensual, and demonic.
There is also another kind of righteousness that comes from obeying the Law by our own strength. Paul in his letter to the Philippians chapter 3 verses 7-11 confess that this kind of righteousness is nothing but rubbish in the sight of God, since no one is able to achieve it in this generation on their own and if they do, it is nothing, but legalism and personal pride, which leads to demean the true righteousness, which is not achievable by human efforts, or our best kept law’s, but His own work of death and resurrection for us.
Now the third kind of righteousness is Christ’s own, which is by trusting Jesus to accomplish His will in us by faith alone. This means to walk in someone else’s achievement, which is God and not in our own. This is imputed on us by faith alone.
Now how do I know for certain that I have attained His righteousness, that is when I see myself in any particular situation it is when I walk in perfect peace in any given hardship or impossibility that I face in the different seasons of my life, then I see the fruit of His righteousness in me, which is His perfect peace that surpasses all understanding.

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