THE ETHICS OF JESUS
 
        By A. W. Tozer       .

        . .  And ye shall be witnesses unto me  . . .    Acts 1:8

                The teachings of Jesus   belong to the Church, not to
        society, for in society is sin, and sin is hostility to God!
 
                  Christ did not teach that He would impose His
        teachings upon the fallen world. He called His disciples to
        Him and taught them, and everywhere throughout His
        teachings there is the overt or implied idea that His
        followers will constitute an unpopular minority group in
        an actively hostile world.
 
                The divine procedure is to go into the world of fallen
        men, preach to them the necessity to repent and become
        disciples of Christ and, after making disciples, to teach
        them "the ethics of Jesus," which Christ called "all things
        which I have commanded you."

         The ethics of Jesus cannot be obeyed or even
        understood until the life of God has come to the heart of
        a man or woman in the miracle of the new birth.
 
                The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those who
        walk in the Spirit. Christ lives again in His redeemed
        followers the life He lived in Judea, for righteousness can
        never be divorced from its source, which is Jesus Christ
        himself!

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        Yours in Christ,
        Paul N.