Untitled article by Henry Veysey

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 8, 1883

Postal-Card Jottings.—No. 5.

By Henry Veysey

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU. Such will be the name of Judah and Jerusalem when the Lord Jesus Christ, the Branch of righteousness, shall be King of kings. As we are grafted into that living Branch, the True Vine (John 15 : 1; Rom. 11 : 17, 19, 26), we shall have this precious name, the Lord our righteousness (Jer. 33 : 16), given to us in the grand resurrection-glory, if accounted worthy. Luke 20 : 25. Christ Jesus is now made of God unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. 1 Cor. 1 : 30. Thus, his righteousness is not only imputed to us (Rom. 4 : 22–24), but, by the power of God and the inworking of the Holy Spirit, it is imparted to us, and that so thoroughly that Paul could say, "For me to live is Christ." Phil. 1 : 21. "I know nothing against myself." 1 Cor. 4 : 4 (R. V.). "Our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward." 2 Cor. 1 : 12 (R. V.). "Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves." 1 Thess. 2 : 10. How was this? Because the Lord was his practical righteousness. He was crucified, dead, and buried with Christ, and said, "the life which I live in the flesh I live in faith [the faith], which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." Gal. 2 : 20. That which is true to faith will be practically and experimentally true. Let us be clothed with righteousness, i. e., right-doing, which means separation from the world, its ways, and its fashions. 1 John 2 : 15. Let us put on the divine panoply; let us take it to us. Eph. 5 : 11, 13 (Greek). Let us live soberly, righteously, and godly (Titus 2 : 12), then white raiment and fine linen will be ours forever. Rev. 3 : 4, 5, 18; 19 : 8.

HENRY VEYSEY. Battle Creek College, Mich.