Meditation on Kenneth Copeland Ministries' February 2019 'Epistle' ("Partner Letter")

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Firstly, I notice that 'this specific one' got some things right (not to say it's "the first partner-letter to do so," but more that 'my meditation revealed some things about ALL THE PARTNER LETTERS (including this one)'): the 'headline' of the letter reads, "Awake to Righteousness!" ... an instruction he takes from 1 Corinthians 15:34, which tells us to hear a truth that we're reminded of in 2 Corinthians 5:21---'that we (are) made the righteousness of God in (him who knew no sin, who was MADE to be sin for us).' That is 'become aware that we are Righteousness,' not that we're "right" or even "holiness." 'Rightness' is something like 'the manifestation of "the potential energy" of Righteousness' (which I suppose gives one "Holiness," the common-knowledge that they are 'Right'). Sort of like Jesus came "to fulfill the Law," we came as a fruit of that fulfillment. Before that sends me off on a wild tangent, I'll get back to the letter (which isn't at-the-moment available in their online archive) ... http://www.kcm.org/believers-academy/partner-letter-archive Brother Kenneth notes that Paul doesn't say 'we should become righteous,' but Righteous is how we were when God MADE us! (Well, Ken didn't 'spell it out' that way--he said "we were MADE righteous ... Did we do anything to become righteous? NO!"--but Paul DID say that Christ was "made to be sin" ...) I'm reminded of the famous wood- and stone-sculptor who said that 'he doesn't form the sculpture (as with clay); he just "sees the sculpture fully-formed in the stone or wood, and chips off all the extra that surrounds it."' Our righteousness is OUR inner sculpture, and we spend our lives 'chipping off' OUR extra I notice something about ALL the Partner Letters (including 'why I call them "epistles"'), but I'll save that for a post I'll do later.