I don’t know many in the church today that have accepted God’s righteousness, which is Jesus. If you have accepted Jesus as Lord, “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” If you believe that He rose from the dead, then you would want to be baptized into Him. “Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” We walk in newness of life because we have awaken to righteousness. From the heart we believe this, and live this, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Now, if you live by faith through Jesus, you have been saved from this corrupt world. “For by grace you have been saved THROUGH Faith, and that not of yourselves; IT IS THE GIFT OF GOD, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”
I want to now discuss this gift which God has given us, the gift of righteousness. “And THE GIFT is not like that which came THROUGH the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation, but THE FREE GIFT which came from many offenses resulted in justification. For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive ABUNDANCE OF GRACE and of THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL REIGN IN LIFE THROUGH THE ONE, JESUS CHRIST. Therefore, as THROUGH one man’s offense judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even so THROUGH one Man’s righteous act THE FREE GIFT came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by ONE MAN’S DISOBEDIENCE many were made sinners, so also by ONE MAN’S OBEDIENCE MANY WILL BE MADE RIGHTEOUS. Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, GRACE ABOUNDED MUCH MORE, so that as SIN REIGNED IN DEATH, even so GRACE MIGHT REIGN THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS TO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD.” We were never created to live in sin calling ourselves sinners saved by grace. By confessing sinner saved by grace, sin still reigns in our mortal bodies, and our relationship with Jesus is tampered with. Living by the free gift of righteousness, we will reign in this life through faith. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it (the gospel) THE RIGHTEOUSNESSOF GOD IS REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH; as it is written, “THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.“
I hope you awaken to righteousness. “AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.” “He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.” “As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness.” “The righteous will never be removed, But the wicked will not inhabit the earth.” “As righteousness leads to life, So he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death.” “The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, And he who wins souls is wise.” “(for the fruit of the Light is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth),” Be blessed, my friends.
