Your whole life you have been trained by sin. Most churches today keep you in this training by making sin acceptable calling themselves “sinners saved by grace.” “There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.” Those who follow Jesus are not to be trained in sin but trained in righteousness. Paul wrote to the Romans telling them, “Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” He went further and said, “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness.”
Being trained in righteousness is not easy. “Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.” “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” Our training in righteousness begins when we are born again. Jesus was born again to fulfill all righteousness, and we are to do the same. “Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?” But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.” He was immediately led into the wilderness to be trained in righteousness. He was tempted 3 times, and each time He responded in righteousness. Because righteousness is a fruit of light, Jesus grew in the light as He continued to walk in righteousness. “For the fruit of the Light is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth.” This is why Jesus gave us His righteousness as a gift, so we can walk in the light as He is in the light. “For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, MUCH MORE THOSE WHO RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE AND OF THE FREE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL REIGN IN LIFE THROUGH THE ONE JESUS CHRIST.” “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
I pray that you will continue your walk with the Lord in righteousness. The more you walk in what is good and what is right, the more you grow in the spirit. Be blessed, my friends
