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. F.