The Key to Success and Prosperity

Okay. So, we have been delivered from the law because it brought forth all sorts of fleshly activity within us. And Paul says, a little further on in Romans,

“Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”

No matter how hard you try, you can't do it. Why try?

Let's look in Romans 10:4.

“For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one who believes.”

To how many? Everyone. It's a very carefully stated verse. I marvel at the accuracy of Paul, because again, he was just writing a letter.

It says,

“Christ is the end of the law for righteousness.”

As a means of achieving righteousness with God, the death of Christ set the law aside. It's not the end of the law as a part of God's word, that endures forever. It's not the end of the law as a part of the history and culture of Israel, and you really can't understand the Jewish people unless you understand something about the law.

It's not the end of the law as a subject for meditation. It's a subject for endless meditation.

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”

The key to that is right meditation.

And the subject for meditation is the law. And let me tell you, when you have met Jesus and you know the Holy Spirit, there is no limit to the richness of the meditation that's available through the law. It's an endless series of blessings. The key to prosperity, I mean, I'm making no extra charge for this, so why shouldn't I say it? The key to success, in God's terms, is meditation. What you think on is going to determine the way you act. You cannot think right and live wrong. And you cannot think wrong and live right.

So, when God was telling Joshua to lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land, He said,

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”

What are they? Keys. Confession, meditation, action. Think the law, speak the law, act the law. Okay? That's the key to success in the spiritual life.

That's why, one reason why Ruth and I devote so much importance to right confession. Because your tongue is the rudder. It determines where you're going to go in life. You cannot maintain the right confession and go to the wrong destination. Something's going to have to change. Either you'll give up the right confession, or you'll give up the wrong course. One or the other is going to change.

All right. I think that's enough about the law. I've got a lot more scriptures here, but I think I've got you convinced, most of you, which is a miracle if it's happened. All right. Now, what are the results of being delivered from the law? And this will be the last in this series tonight. Tomorrow night, for those of you who can come, if God wills and we live, I'll deal with the remaining three deliverances. But let's look now at the result of deliverance from the law.

First of all, freedom from condemnation. Romans 8:1,

“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.”

“For what the law could not do,”

verse 3,

“God did, sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.”