Sun of Righteousness

Now is time to come under the splendor of the Sun of Righteousness and be empowered.

I am writing about the Sun that has healing in His wings that shades the bright light of righteousness upon all that come under Him.

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. (Malachi 4:2)
It was a plan and a dream of the Father God to heal and release man from the stall since the day the first man and woman had sinned in the Garden of Eden.

Malachi had prophesied of the coming of the Sun of Righteousness four hundred years before Christ was born. He is the last prophet recorded in the Old Testament. After him came the ministry of John the Baptist who came as the immediate forerunner of the Sun of Righteousness to introduce the man of Malachi’s prophecy to Israel.

Without righteousness, a religion is vain. Without understanding thoroughly the way of justification and righteousness as plainly opened in the Holy Scriptures, one is still bound inside the stall. Still locked inside the manger of self-righteousness and clumsy morality.

In sweet deep-seated, unconscious confidence, the tender child climbs to the arm of the father. Like into a soft nest the father gathers the baby onto his bosom. The baby lays its head on the chest of the father and tenderly falls asleep as though the baby means to say, I am at home, and this is where I belong. No fears, no shame, no inferiority complex, no judgment, no condemnation. Love climbs on the arm of love. Mercy and truth kiss each other. Anxiety, frustration and distress are eliminated. Fear for the future, cares and insufficiency is abrogated. No sense of lack, no prejudice. You are my father, in you I find my life, and you are the reason for my existence. I know no need.

This Father – Child ode is the reason for the creation of Man.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:26 )
Made to reflect God and to the level of God’s likeness – to the intent that God can freely fellowship with him. Likeness speaks of affection. He was made to the level that God will honor and desire his companionship, association and intimate fellowship.

Made in the image of God and likeness and also to have dominion. Man was crowned from the very beginning. He was to be like an under-ruler. This was perfectly achieved in the creation of man.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27)
It is very important that we take to our hearts the truth that man was created in righteousness. Man was God’s righteous creation.

Righteousness is the nature of God. It is His dominant characteristic. Being created in the image of God after His likeness, man had this inherent inner culture of righteousness.

Righteousness was the culture of his being. He reflected righteousness; he behaved righteousness consciously and unconsciously. It was inherent in him. It was his nature. He couldn’t help living righteousness. That was the temperament of his being. He breathed out righteousness. Sweet fragrance seasoned his attitude. His thoughts were thoughts of purity and decency. Kindness, meekness and goodness seasoned his behavior. He did not need to build an altar before he could offer sacrifice of love to the Eternal God. He did not need to offer bulls and pigeons to draw God’s attention.

But in the cool of the day God freely comes unto him in the garden. Without any taint of sin consciousness or unworthiness he freely fellowships with God in an intimate way that there is no word to describe it.

And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. (Genesis 2:19)
Are you tender enough to sense this wonderful taste of love and association? Can you see that Adam was the first taxonomist?

He was created in righteousness, in the image and likeness of the righteous God. Then came the tragedy of all sorrow and pain - the rape of the golden lock.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Galatians 2:16-17 )
In these verses I can see a compassionate love-heart that passionately appealed to the beloved of the danger of an unmitigated thralldom if love and obedience was ignored.

Then came the evil that sows evil. The messenger of vanity. The offence and offender. This thing that is negative. The author of wickedness. The enemy of all righteousness. Turn to your Bible and read Genesis chapter three from verse one to verse five.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. (Genesis 3:6-7)
This was the inception of unrighteousness. Satan succeeded to lure the first man and his wife Eve into the sin of rebellion. And willfully they allied with Satan, received his sin-nature and rebelled against the righteous and Holy God.

It is important here that any sincere heart comprehends the fact that it was not just a matter of mistake or just a wrong act. It was an infusion of the satanic gene into man. Had it been just a careless external act, God could have rightly forgiven them and they could have gone ahead living in the Garden.

The fruit and the tree was brought into existence when Lucifer – Satan initiated evil within himself. It was the tree of Satan‘s life. Eating from that tree meant absolute identification with Satan. That brought the transfer of dominion from man to Satan. Man became legally a satanic offspring through the spirit. Man received the nature of Satan, i.e., spiritual death.

You notice in chapter 2, verse 17, God told the man and his wife that if you eat the fruit of this tree that you will just die. He was talking of immediate spiritual death here. Man immediately died in his spirit. His spirit received the nature of Satan, which is spiritual death. Without thoroughly deeply receiving this truth into the heart one cannot understand either the Bible or true Christianity.

Sin consciousness took over child consciousness. Insecurity took over security. The garment of righteousness was torn and fig leaves took over. Fear took the place of confidence and assurance. Needs, lack, insufficiency and loneliness invaded the human heart. Wretched, raped, vile and desolate – the misery of sin. Man was doomed.

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. (Genesis 3:8)
That cowardly – slave nature took over them. Guilty conscience seized them; they could no more withstand the presence of God. Ashamed and condemned, full of guilt, like an entrapped naked robber, their eyes could not behold the righteous and Holy God of Love. Fellowship was marred. They felt safer out of His presence.

Let us therefore know that by keeping laws, morality and religious rituals, no person can be justified before God. (Genesis 2:16)
Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Law of Moses, which the Jews could not truly keep because of the negative Law of Sin and Death that exists in the spirit of an unregenerate sinful man. Jesus fulfilled the Law, paid through His death the damages done by men against the Law of God – Hebrews 9:15

For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. (II. Corinthians 5:21)
This is the restoration of righteousness, when we accept Him as our Lord and Savior, truly repenting from every sin; the Spirit of God recreates us. And Jesus Himself – the Sun of Righteousness – comes and lives in us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Through the Holy Spirit He sheds the bright glorious rays of righteousness upon our hearts and as we let His light shine through us continuously, then we begin to advertise daily the indwelling righteousness through various spirit motivated good works.

Hallelujah, Amen.
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