What does it mean to be righteous? Is it conduct or is it a way of living? Is it a fact or something as Christians, that we attain when we are old and have been saved for 50 years?
Well, I think we all need to have a fresh revelation of the GIFT of righteousness. I like to define righteousness this way..."Righteousness is the ability to stand before a holy God, without a sense of guilt or wrongdoing." It literally means to be in "right standing" with God.
Here is what is awesome about Righteousness. The bible calls it the gift of God in Romans 5 and 6! Wow! We are right because of what Jesus did, not by what we do. That is powerful!
Let me give you a few points that we talked about yesterday:
1. Righteousness is a positional truth!
In the bible there are positional truths and there are also conditional truths. Conditional truths are promises that we receive because we meet the condition called for in the promise. Positional truth is who we are "in Christ", and there is nothing that we can do to earn it or deserve it. We can only believe it and receive it. Righteousness is one of these positional truths.
2. Sin loses power when we understand our righteousness.
The bible is very clear that we are to, "Awake unto righteousness, and sin not."
(1 Corinthians 15:34) It doesn't say to stop sinning and you will awake to righteousness. Sadly, so many people don't understand that the way to be right, is to get a revelation that you ARE right, and then you will act right.
In what ways are you going to allow God's righteousness to invade your life?
Something to think about,
pastorj
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