Christ Our Righteousness

The law is an important part of the topic of Christ our righteousness, and there is a large controversy concerning it. Many of the advocates of Christ our righteousness are accused of diminishing the importance of the law, and even bypassing it. Those on the other side of the question are accused by many of the advocates of Christ our righteousness as being legalists and of attempting to keep the law in their own strength. Then there is another group of people who emphasize only the spirit of the law and are not so concerned with the letter of the law. They are often termed as permissive or liberal concerning Christian behavior. Each group believes it is right and they are convinced the other is wrong. We have strong differences of opinions, and too often we do not try to sit down and settle these issues in our own hearts. I have learned that when we have such strong differences of opinion, the Lord is trying to teach everyone something, that there is no single group that is totally right or totally wrong, and that somehow we are all missing something. Whenever good people argue, there is correctness on both sides, and we must make the effort to learn where we are wrong.

Seventh-day Adventists have been proud of their teaching of the law, but somehow we have not preached the law correctly or we would not find such statements as this one: “You will meet with those who will say, ‘You are too much excited over the matter. You are too much in earnest. You should not be reaching for the righteousness of Christ, and making so much of that. You should preach the law.’ As a people we have preached the law until we are as dry as the hills of Gilboa, that had neither dew nor rain. We must preach Christ in the law, and there will be sap and nourishment in the preaching that will be as food to the famishing flock of God.” COR 48.

According to the Spirit of Prophecy, we have not preached the law correctly. We sometimes do not like to admit how wrong we can be. If you leave Christ out of the law, as she suggested we have been doing (and I think we still do), you are preaching old covenant law; and supposedly we believe that was gone a long time ago. The law is an integral part of both the Old and the New Testament covenants, but the law is not the same in both places. The Bible finds something wrong with the old covenant of which the largest part was the Ten Commandment law.

Here is what the apostle Paul wrote about the old and new covenants: “For if that first covenant [the old one] had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second [the new one]. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in My covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.” Hebrews 8:7-9. He found fault with the old covenant, of which the Ten Commandments were the largest part.

Does God change His law in the new covenant? Some people say no. Paul provides the answer. “For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.” Hebrews 8:10. There is something different about this. Where is the law in the old covenant? It is on stone, and that is the only place it is. Where is the law in the new covenant? The heart. Is there a difference between our hearts and stone tablets? Our hearts are not to be like stone. They are to be soft. There is a difference in the place where you find the law and the two covenants. If you preach the law on stone only, that is entirely old covenant preaching, and we have done very much of that, haven’t we? Preaching only the law in stone helps no one. You must also put the law some other place. I find no fault with it being on stone; so do not misunderstand me. There are certain things symbolized by that. But the new covenant promises something better than that. It must be in another place. Therefore, the difference between the law in stone and the law in the heart is primarily a change in location.

Here is a text that we sometimes like to avoid in our discussion with those who disagree with us about the law. “Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.” 2 Corinthians 3:3. This is speaking specifically about the Ten Commandment law, for no other law was written on “tables of stone.” Do not try to evade the fact that this is speaking of the Ten Commandment law or you will make the Scriptures a deception. Under the new covenant, God said He would write the law on the fleshy tables of the heart. The law written on stone is critical and condemning, while that same law written in the heart is made powerful and effective in my life. One is transforming, and one is unchanging. The law does not change, but when it is in my heart it changes me.

There is a vast difference between the two. Suppose you have some medication the doctor prescribed for you, and you keep it in the bottle all the time. How much good does it do for you? But when you open the bottle and take the medication, providing it is the proper medication, and you ingest it, then something happens. Keeping the law outside the heart is like medication in a bottle—it does no one any good. It just looks like beautiful pills. When we take the law inside, then it can go to work on our hearts and change us.

Therefore, the new covenant provides something that the old covenant did not provide. We must be cautious about preaching only the law on stone. We must be certain we preach the law in the heart, also.

What was wrong or faulty about the old covenant? Paul talks about “a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.” Hebrews 8:6. There is something better than the old covenant. Ellen White made clear what the problem with the old covenant was. “‘For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh’—it could not justify man, because in his sinful nature he could not keep the law—‘God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.’” PP 373. The law could not change me because in my sinful nature I could not keep it. The law could only condemn me.

“The terms of the ‘old covenant’ were, Obey and live: ‘If a man do, he shall even live in them’ (Ezekiel 20:11; Leviticus 18:5); but ‘cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them.’ Deuteronomy 27:26.” PP 372. The terms of the old covenant were that we must obey the Ten Commandment law and live; but if you do not obey them, you will die. And if you do not keep all of them all of the time, you will die. It is not enough to believe that the law is right. Under the law in stone you must keep them all the time and never transgress. Some of us have attempted to live under the old covenant not realizing its requirements. No one has ever succeeded living the old covenant, have they? Therefore, if you teach only about the law in stone, you are condemning everyone to eternal death. The law cannot save and we are incapable of keeping it. “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.” Jeremiah 13:23.

You must accept the Bible teachings about man’s incapability in righteousness. When you arrive there, then you are ready for God to do something for you that you cannot do. This is the reason for the new covenant. Too many of us are preaching only the law on stone, and it only condemns and frustrates people; and we often act like a condemned people. We have so many guilt feelings, so many problems, we struggle and strive and agonize and do not seem to do any better than we did the day before. This is advertising that we are still trying to live under the old covenant. There the law is only on the stone and not in my heart. We need to change our view on this.

The Scriptures teach that the new covenant is based on better promises. Christ is the Mediator of a better covenant that was established upon better promises. What are the better promises? It is here that we begin to distinguish between the old and the new covenants.

“The ‘new covenant’ was established upon ‘better promises’—the promise of forgiveness of sins and of the grace of God to renew the heart and bring it into harmony with the principles of God’s law.” PP 372. There was no forgiveness in the old covenant at all. You had to perfectly obey all the time, and that was impossible; and you are never forgiven in the old covenant once you break the law, even once. We can see that one better promise the new covenant is established on is the forgiveness of sins.

Another better promise is the grace of God to renew the heart, which brings it into harmony with the principles of God’s law. “This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts. . . . I will forgive their iniquity, and will remember their sin no more.” Jeremiah 31:33, 34. God is going to forgive our sins by His grace, and by His grace He is going to renew our hearts and bring them into harmony with the principles of His law. That is different than just leaving it on stone.

Notice that it is not something that I do. I do not bring my life into harmony with His laws. I cannot! By His grace, my life is brought into harmony with His laws, and not by a life long struggle to conform to His laws. He brings me into harmony. It is His activity. It is His work, not my work. He performs a good work in me and in you. This is how it is accomplished. For a long time we have thought that sanctification is a life long struggle to bring our lives into harmony with God’s law; but that is not sanctification at all. That is what He accomplishes as He renews my heart by divine grace. By His grace He brings me into harmony with these principles. It is vastly different than we have often taught.

Notice the Bible says, “I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts.” Hebrews 8:10. It also teaches that the law is written “with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.” 2 Corinthians 3:3. Something is done by a divine agency on my heart, and the heart is the mind. It is not what I do to change the mind, but what He does. Often in Christian living we are trying to change our minds, but we are incapable. He must do this, and He promises to do it, and He wants to do it, and He is able to do it. Thousands have testified that He has done it. Therefore He will do it for you and for me.

The preaching of the law in stone alone will never make us righteous. We need better promises than to obey and live, because none of us have obeyed. We try to obey, but that is not obedience. We must have better promises that come only when God writes the law in our hearts, and only God can accomplish that. We must preach the law in our hearts in addition to the law on tables of stone.

The same is true of Christ our righteousness. You can preach a wonderful message about Christ our righteousness, but it will accomplish little unless Christ has written His law in your heart. We have much fine talk about this subject, but the crux of the whole problem concerns whether the law is written in my heart. Have I experienced this transformation wrought by God? There can be no righteousness in any of us without this transformation.

The law and Christ our righteousness correctly understood are so intertwined and interrelated that you cannot separate them. They are almost like being one and the same thing; but you can talk about them distinctly and separately as different messages and different experiences. But they are so closely related you must always keep them together. We often attempt to preach Christ our righteousness without the law, and we also have tried to preach the law without Christ our righteousness. Therefore, we talk about writing the law in our hearts without even understanding what the law is all about or what Christ our righteousness is all about. They go together.

This quote puts them together: “The same law that was engraved upon the tables of stone is written by the Holy Spirit upon the tables of the heart. Instead of going about to establish our own righteousness we accept the righteousness of Christ [the same context as writing it in our hearts]. His blood atones for our sins. His obedience is accepted for us. Then the heart renewed by the Holy Spirit will bring forth ‘the fruits of the Spirit.’ Through the grace of Christ we shall live in obedience to the law of God written upon our hearts. Having the Spirit of Christ, we shall walk even as He walked.” PP 372. She talks about writing the law in my heart and Christ our righteousness, just back and forth in the very same paragraph. Why? It is all the same, and it is a perversion of Christ our righteousness to teach it without teaching the law in the heart. And it is a perversion of the law to teach it without teaching Christ our righteousness. You are leaving out big portions of either one if you preach one without the other. We have preached the law without Christ our righteousness, and we have succeeded in preaching Christ our righteousness without the law. But this is not the way the Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy presents it. We must put the two together.

“The law requires righteousness,—a righteous life, a perfect character; and this man has not to give. He cannot meet the claims of God’s holy law. But Christ, coming to the earth as man, lived a holy life, and developed a perfect character. These He offers as a free gift to all who will receive them. His life stands for the life of men. Thus they have remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. More than this, Christ imbues men with the attributes of God.” DA 762. This is that writing in our hearts where He imbues men with the attributes of God. This is something He takes from outside and puts into us. The quote continues: “He builds up the human character after the similitude of the divine character, a goodly fabric of spiritual strength and beauty. Thus the very righteousness of the law is fulfilled in the believer in Christ.”

Notice that He imbues men with the attributes of God. He builds up the human character after the similitude of the divine character. I do not build it up. He is the builder. We are the clay, and He is the potter. We are the good ground, and He is the farmer, the husbandman. In Christ our righteousness, He comes and imbues me with the attributes of God, and all this co-mingles back and forth, writing the law in my heart and also Christ as my righteousness in my heart. They are all the same.

You might have difficulty with this, so you need to understand how the law in the heart and Christ our righteousness are the same. How can that be? And secondly, how do you write the law in someone’s heart? How do you get it inside? These two things must be made very simple or we will have difficulty in Christianity.

Let us review how Jesus taught the law. “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Matthew 22:36-39. Jesus taught us that the law is supreme love for God and to love our neighbors as ourselves. The Bible teaches that “God is love.” 1 John 4:16. And since the law is a transcript of God’s character and God is love, the law has to be love. When God writes His law in our hearts, He writes His divine love in our hearts. He does not put the law in stone in the heart (not even for rock hounds). It has to be that way or I am misrepresenting God. I am not sure our law preaching has always accurately represented God.

It appears to me we can make the law very condemning and extremely critical, and I wonder what kind of a God people see when I finish preaching like that? Have I then correctly presented the law that is a transcript of His character? Have I rightly presented the God who sent not His son to condemn the world but through Him the world might be saved? God is love, and the law is love because it is a transcript of His character.

Again, to get the law written in my heart, the love of God must be written there. It is impossible to get the law in stone in the heart; but you can get love into your heart, can you not? People can entice you and woo you until you love them. Love is an activity of the heart in which we are capable; so God can woo us that we might love Him. He wins our love through His goodness. And when His love is in my heart, His law is there, because the law is love and God is love.

We have used this quote several times: “Righteousness is holiness, likeness to God, and ‘God is love.’ It is conformity to the law of God, for ‘all Thy commandments are righteousness,’ and ‘love is the fulfilling of the law.’ Righteousness is love, and love is the light and the life of God. The righteousness of God is embodied in Christ. We receive righteousness by receiving Him.” MB 18. So whether it is the law written in my heart, whether it be His righteousness imputed and imparted to me—put into my life—or whether it be His love, it is all the same thing. For the law is love, God is love, righteousness is obedience to the law, and obedience to the law is love. The whole thing is love. The Lord specifically taught that. When I receive Him for righteousness, the law is in Him, and love is in Him. When I receive Him I receive righteousness, I receive the law, and I receive the love of God for me. Therefore, the whole secret of getting the law in the heart is when I love God with all my heart, when I reach out and embrace Jesus and make Him the King of my life, until all my affections and my whole world revolve around Him. Then His love is there, and then His law is there.

Is it clear how you get the law into the heart? You fall in love with Jesus. But how do you fall in love with Jesus? Everything is wrapped up in that question. You can teach doctrine, you can teach truth, you can teach salvation, you can teach Christ our righteousness, you can teach the law, you can teach repentance and confession and conversion and everything else, but you come right down to the most basic essential which is: How do I love Jesus? The greatest thing in Christianity is to love God with all my heart. Then I will love you as myself. All this writing of the law in the heart is encompassed when God puts His love inside of you. It is an activity of God. But in love there is no force. There are pressures but they are different kinds of pressures. The love of God constrains us. It is a gentle, drawing type of pressure, a wooing, an enticing, an alluring thing, not sticking you with a pin and condemning or accusing. It is something that wins us rather than pushes us. The Bible says, “We love Him, because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19. If I find a lack of love in my heart for Him or for you, I somehow have not seen His love for me or for you.

The sequence involved in falling in love with Jesus is described in the Spirit of Prophecy. “The light shining from the cross reveals the love of God. His love is drawing us to Himself. If we do not resist this drawing, we shall be led to the foot of the cross in repentance for the sins that have crucified the Saviour.” DA 176. There is only one way you can avoid coming to the cross, and that is to dig your heels in and put on the brakes and say, “I will not come.” When you resist it long enough, you hardly sense you are putting on the brakes. When you live like that so long it becomes automatic. How do you like riding opposite the driver when they come so close to a big truck up in front or they take the corners very rapidly. Why do you straighten up with your feet hard against the floor? Some people live like that incessantly. The cross is drawing them but they are always putting on the brakes. You can come to church all the time with the brakes on. You can almost see the smoke and smell it in church. They say, “I will not be drawn no matter what He says.” We are not fighting with human beings. As the Lord said to Saul, “It is hard for you to kick against the pricks.” And Paul asked, “Who are you?” “I am the Lord Jesus. You are not fighting with anybody else, you are fighting with Me.”

All the time you keep the brakes on you are fighting the love of Christ that constrains us. We look at our watches because we do not want to hear. We look at the hymnbook trying not to hear. We do all sorts of things trying not to hear; and we become well established in the habit of smoking brakes. The idea of being drawn to the cross causes some kind of fear inside. Do you have to be afraid with Jesus? If you have to fear anyone, fear other people for they are all sinners who might do wrong things to you; but do not be afraid of Him. We need to learn to discern that Jesus is wooing us, enticing us, and speaking kind words to draw us to Him.

He draws us by the love of the cross, and if we do not resist, He will lead us to the foot of the cross in repentance. “Then the Spirit of God through faith produces a new life in the soul. The thoughts and desires are brought into obedience to the will of Christ. The heart, the mind, are created anew in the image of Him who works in us to subdue all things to Himself. Then the law of God is written in the mind and heart, and we can say with Christ, ‘I delight to do Thy will, O my God.’ Ps. 40:8.” DA 176.

There is something very joyful and pleasant about having the law in my heart. It is exciting, good, and peaceful. I delight to do the law when it is in my heart. But it is a different kind of delight, a different kind of joy than just having fun. The law in the heart does something wonderful for us for it brings that peace that we all need.

Nicodemus, who was a scholarly and spiritual man, asked Jesus, “How can these things be?” John 3:9. He was an educated man and thought he understood everything; yet he had to ask Jesus to explain how a person can be born again. It seems that the Lord did not answer him. Try to find the specific answer to Nicodemus’ question. It’s as if the Lord was being a little evasive. Christ finally explained to him what He was trying to say about the new life, and He referred to the experience of the brazen serpent where the children of Israel were bitten by poisonous serpents and were dying. A serpent made of brass was put up on a pole, and all who looked at it would live.

The following quotation discusses the thinking of those people and of Nicodemus, and I think it applies to us as the Lord tries to draw us to the cross and to His love: “Whether for the healing of their wounds or the pardon of their sins, they could do nothing for themselves but show their faith in the Gift of God. They were to look and live. Those who had been bitten by the serpents might have delayed to look. They might have questioned how there could be efficacy in that brazen symbol. They might have demanded a scientific explanation. But no explanation was given. They must accept the word of God to them through Moses. To refuse to look was to perish.” DA 175.

How does that settle into your heart? Imagine yourself in that situation, bitten by serpents and with only a short time to live. A doctor comes along and says he has no medicine for you. Moses is busy praying only for those people who had not been bitten. Then you hear the Lord tell Moses to make an inanimate object of brass and raise it up before the people, and the word goes out that everybody who looks at it will live. Moses, who had a university education in Egypt, forgot all that his teachers had taught him, because there was no science in this that he could see. He told the people to look at the brass serpent and live. Would you like to explain that to a science class somewhere? They would laugh at you. And we laugh at it, or at least are skeptics, and we ask, “How can these things be?” The Lord says that just how His remedy worked is not important, but only that you do what is required. If you do not look you die. If you look you live. Some people don’t like that, and God knows it. It requires faith, and some do not like faith. We are to walk by faith, not by sight. So He says, “Look and live.”

“There are thousands today who need to learn the same truth that was taught to Nicodemus by the uplifted serpent. They depend on their obedience to the law of God to commend them to His favor. When they are bidden to look to Jesus, and believe that He saves them solely through His grace, they exclaim, ‘How can these things be?’” DA 175. This is our big problem today. We are so scientific, so well educated, and so logical. We have figured out every little detail of our doctrine a thousand times to prove we are right. But how can you prove what happened there in the wilderness? Only by testimonies, only by witnesses, and there is no other way. The only evidence came from those who tried it and did not die.

Those who in faith look unto Jesus are new creatures in Christ; and those who are not looking are dying. We have the word of God and we have the testimony of those who have experienced it. That leaves some of us uncomfortable, and we ask for proof. Those who have experienced it say, “Look and live.” But many do not listen and go away dissatisfied.

The quote continues on to talk about what Nicodemus learned from this. “Not through controversy and discussion is the soul enlightened. We must look and live. Nicodemus received the lesson, and carried it with him. He searched the Scriptures in a new way, not for the discussion of a theory, but in order to receive life for the soul. He began to see the kingdom of heaven as he submitted himself to the leading of the Holy Spirit.”

There are some things we will never understand well, but if the right Person is leading me, and I know He loves me, and I follow Him, He will lead me rightly even though I do not understand why. My God has given me thousands of reasons to prove that He is a God of love, and that He does not mislead, and that He will not hurt or harm me. His question to me is: Can you trust Me? He does not ask if we understand, just whether we trust Him. If we trust Him, look and you will live. If you have never been in a place where you had to trust your life to another person, you probably do not understand all this, and you may be fearful. When you have been in that position a few times, you begin to find out that there are many things in life to which you have to entrust everything to one person. Is there anyone as trustworthy as Jesus? Yet how often we mistrust Him and trust ourselves.

The Bible talks about sin being blindness and darkness, and it truly is. It isn’t a matter of not having the capacity to understand how, but an incapability of believing and an unwillingness to look without answers to every question, until there is no faith. The Bible says we walk by faith and not by sight. Believe that He is a God of love, believe that He wants to bless you, believe that He can do this for you, and look because He commands it, and you will live. What a terrible time we have these days just simply believing.

The matter of believing and looking and acting on the commands of Jesus is described in an experience of a man who had been crippled for thirty-eight years, and who came every day to the pool of Bethesda hoping to be healed. “The poor sufferer was helpless; he had not used his limbs for thirty-eight years. Yet Jesus bade him, ‘Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.’ The sick man might have said, ‘Lord, if Thou wilt make me whole, I will obey Thy word.’ But, no, he believed Christ’s word, believed that he was made whole, and he made the effort at once; he willed to walk, and he did walk. He acted on the word of Christ, and God gave the power. He was made whole.” SC 50. He believed the impossible, and he was healed.

Notice the sequence. First was the command, then the belief, and then acting on the belief and the command. We usually say we will act first. I will do good and then He will love me and accept me. Then I can follow Him. Jesus did not put it that way. He bids us first to rise up, to walk. We believe Him because He is so good and so trustworthy, and then we act on the command. And that is the obedience of righteousness. It comes in that order.

“In like manner you are a sinner [just like the helpless paralytic]. You cannot atone for your past sins; you cannot change your heart and make yourself holy. But God promises to do all this for you through Christ. You believe that promise. You confess your sins and give yourself to God. You will to serve Him. Just as surely as you do this, God will fulfill His word to you. If you believe the promise—believe that you are forgiven and cleansed—God supplies the fact; you are made whole, just as Christ gave the paralytic power to walk when the man believed that he was healed. It is so if you believe it. Do not wait to feel that you are made whole, but say, ‘I believe it; it is so, not because I feel it, but because God has promised.’” SC 51.

It all depends on the trustworthiness of Jesus, the centrality of Christ my Savior and Christ my righteousness. Jesus is all the world to me. When you look to Him in faith, you live. Our problem is our unwillingness to look in faith and to realize that looking to Jesus makes us whole. Everything is accomplished by looking unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith. Everything! He is righteousness, He is love, He is law, He is obedience, He is salvation. We put so many things in His place or in the way. Allow the beauty of Christ to attract you with the magnetism of the cross. “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” John 12:32.

The cross has a kind of magnetism, and if you do not resist, if you allow yourself to submit to be drawn to Him, He will bring you right to the foot of the cross. And there your heart will be melted. Being at the foot of the cross is a humbling experience, but it is miserable to be away from Him. But the humility lasts only for a short time. There my heart is broken by love, not by ridicule or condemnation or criticism. As He breaks my heart, as I recognize what I have been doing to Him, then by His Spirit He writes His law in my heart. My sins are taken away at the cross. He imputes His righteousness to me, and we can live together because sins no longer separate. And we walk together, my Lord and I. I delight to do His will for His law is in my heart. It is a thrilling, joyful, ecstatic experience. There is nothing like it.

I beg you to look into your heart for this experience. He has not stopped drawing people. The cross still allures and appeals. He still draws everyone who looks as He is lifted up. If you find emptiness in your heart, and hardness like the stone tablets of the law instead of tenderness and a love for souls, let the cross draw you. Take off the brakes and He will draw you faster and faster as you approach the cross. Then linger there. Just stay there. Don’t run away so quickly. Let your heart bask in His love and sacrifice and the manifestation of it. Realize that the cross is for you, and that Jesus would have died for only one soul. It was all for me that He did that. Let your heart be filled with that scene until you cannot take your eyes off of Him. You will ask, “How can this be?” You will begin to realize it is not because we are good, but because of His marvelous grace. Look full into His wonderful face until His radiance of love fills your own heart. Fight against the doubt, not against the drawing, until Christ becomes the hub of everything in your life.

I believe we have been pretending to be Christians for years, ministers and lay members going through the motions without the law in our heart. Trying and striving and frustrated and condemned and guilty until church can become miserable. We feel criticized when the Lord really wants to say, “You are forgiven, and you are Mine.” He wants to make it possible and probable for people to be law keepers. By His marvelous presence in our lives we are able to do things we never thought possible.

The Lord wants the world to see Jesus in you and me. All the impossible things of the work will be accomplished when that greatest miracle of all, the law in my heart and in your heart, is accomplished. The work will become easy in the Middle East and in China and Russia. How can they resist such love? They would all have to be rocks, just unfeeling and hard. People are not like that. The Lord is waiting for His love to melt the hard hearts of people all around the earth, but He wants to start in your heart today.

Before you close this book, open your heart. Believe Him when He says He will write His law, His love, in your heart. There is nothing like that. It is so unbelievable. All that you hope for in Christianity is found in those few words, “I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people.” May God so fill your heart with His love and His law and His righteousness that you will shout for joy and praise His holy name.