0647. Jehovah-Tsidkenu

Jehovah-Tsidkenu

"In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; * * In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, Jehovah-tsidkenu, the Lord our righteousness" (Jer_33:16).

In Jer_23:6 the name of Jesus Christ is called "Jehovah-tsidkenu," the Lord our righteousness. In Jer_33:16, the city and the people take the same name.

In this title "Jehovah-tsidkenu," lies our only hope of Heaven. The Word of God plainly declares that "without holiness no man shall see the Lord." The same Word also declares that "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Wherein, then, has the sinner the possibility of approach into the presence chamber of the Holy God?

The only possible answer is that we must enter by a righteousness which is not our own. This righteousness is supplied unto us by Jesus Christ. Three things are said of Him: "He did no sin," "He knew no sin," and, "In Him was no sin." So the sinless One, clothes us in the robe of His righteousness.

The Apostle Paul desired to be found in Him, not having on the robe of righteousness which is of the flesh, but the righteousness which is by faith in Christ.

"He became sin for us, Who knew no sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

Jesus Christ took upon Himself our iniquity, "For the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." He bore our sins "in His own body on the tree."

Having settled the sin question by His substitutionary work, and atoning sacrifice, He makes possible our entrance into Heaven, into the presence of God, by imputing unto us His righteousness.

We are saved by nothing that we do, but by what Christ did. Our salvation is not spelt with "d-o," do, but with "d-o-n-e," done.

When the prodigal son came home, the father put upon him a new robe. He put shoes upon his feet, and a ring upon his hand.

When John saw a multitude saved from the great tribulation, he was told that they had "washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb."

The one thing that is as white as snow, is a poor, befouled sinner washed in the Blood of the Lamb. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow."

Illustration: A preacher calling upon one of his people, said, as he glanced toward the morning wash, as it hung on the clothesline–"Sister, your clothes look very clean and white." As he left later in the day, and after a heavy snow had covered the ground, once more he glanced at the clothes, but this time he said: "Sister, your clothes do not look as white as they did when I entered." "Oh," said she, "nothing is white over against God’s almighty white."

Thank God, that we who know Jehovah-tsidkenu, know how a sinner can be made white, even unto the whiteness of "God’s almighty white."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR