This title make you wonder what this blog post may be about, but I am using it to illustrate that you can be distracted from looking at something that you were intended not to focus on. Let me explain my point. Let’s say that there is a valuable ring. It doesn’t look very significant, so you don’t pay much attention to it. Now someone says to you, look at this ring. The ring looks valuable. In your eyes, you would rather have the one that looks more valuable than the other, Would you choose the one which looks more valuable than the other? Most people would choose the ring that looks more valuable. What if I were to tell you that the ring that doesn’t look as good as the one that looks valuable is in fact actually a thousand times more valuable. This is the same when it comes to sin and righteousness.

Let me show you where “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” is in the scriptures related to righteousness. The subheading for it’s location is God’s Righteousness Through Faith. Romans 3:²¹ But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, ²² even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, ²⁵ whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, ²⁶ to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

So the squirrel in those scriptures is for you to look at that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, rather than looking at what Jesus did by His blood to demonstrate His righteousness. Jesus has “passed over your sins that were previously committed to justify those who have faith in Jesus.” Have you heard this good news?

Let me show you another squirrel. Some don’t believe that they are the righteousness of God. The scripture they use is Romans 3:¹⁰ As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one;¹¹ There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. There is none who are righteous is one they go to. Notice where I have underlined in those scriptures. All three say there is none. Interesting that this squirrel takes you away from what Jesus tells us to seek. Matthew 6:³³ But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. If there is no one righteous, why would you be seeking Jesus’ righteousness? This squirrel ties in with the first squirrel. Jesus wants to demonstrate His righteousness, but He first has to get rid of sin to do that. Righteousness can’t work through sin. Jeremiah prophesied about our days when he said,

Jeremiah 23:⁵ “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“That I will raise to David a Branch of righteousness;
A King shall reign and prosper,
And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.
⁶ In His days Judah will be saved,
And Israel will dwell safely;
Now this is His name by which He will be called:

THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

I am writing this blog to bring light to what my Lord, my King has done for all of mankind. It is sad to say that many will reject Jesus’ righteousness, many won’t live by it either. The door is always open for anyone to except this free gift of righteousness that my King has to offer. Your the one that has to accept it freely of your own free will. Romans 5:¹⁵ But the free gift is not like the offense. For if by the one man’s offense many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. ¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ 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.

Did you know that in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed? How is it revealed, by faith. Romans 1:¹⁶ 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. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”