Righteous

Are you always concern of how people look at you or speak of you? These were my concerns before I know grace… and before I know I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Well, this does not border me anymore for I have found my identity in Christ and I know how Daddy looks at me...

Our Daddy is a God of covenant. From His point of view, we are never being addressed as an individual but addressed under Adam or Christ. The same applied to the Jewish people back in the Old Testament. They were represented by their high priest. We, as a born again new covenant believer are in Christ, who is our High Priest seated at the right of our Heavenly Father.

We were sinners not because of our act but because of Adam’s nature but, Adam was a sinner because of his act. When we are born again in Christ, we are righteous not because of our righteous act but because of Christ’s righteous nature. At the cross, Jesus who knew no sins was made sin so that through this divine exchange, he took away the sin of Adam and at the same time He imparted His righteous nature onto those who put their faith in Him.

When we establish ourselves with this truth knowing that sin is not our act but is our nature, and the righteousness is also not from our act but from Christ's nature, we will understand that by His grace, we have been teleported from the realm of sinfulness to the realm of righteousness; from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Light. We are sinner because we are born sinner and naturally, sinner sins! Therefore, there is nothing good we can do to make ourselves righteous because we are sinner by nature. Now, after we are born again, we can do nothing good to make ourselves more righteous because righteousness is a gift from God and we are already righteous through Christ's nature!

When we can establish that righteousness is a gift from God by grace, not of our work through abiding in the commandments, rules and regulation or steps and formula, we have acquainted ourselves with the teaching about righteousness. This is what the Bible says in Hebrews 5:14 as solid food for the mature in the Lord. We have trained ourselves to distinguish good from evil (not knowledge of good and evil) by the constant use of the Lord’s righteousness.

Abraham believed God and was credited to him as righteous. The understanding of this divine righteousness and with constant use will position us with the covenant that God made with Abraham. God gave Abraham the power to get wealth, and he became rich in flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkey. God’s promise that Abraham and his seed would possess the earth or be heirs of the world was not based on obedience to the law, but on the righteousness of faith. Because we are in Christ and righteous by faith, we are Abraham’s seed and an heir of the world according to the promise. We too, are inheriting Abraham’s prosperity.

Those who have been established in His righteousness will distinguish that God wants to prosper them like how He prospered Abraham in every things, so that God can fulfill the covenant He made with Abraham.

Many believers do not establish themselves in the righteousness of God but by their own righteousness. They still need milk, not solid food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. Grow up, do not miss the promise that God made with Abraham. Get rid of your own effort in obeying the commandments, rules and regulations or steps and formula to be righteous because when we obey in all these, there is no faith involved; for the law is not of faith. Trust in Jesus’ righteousness and those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.

We are already the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and a righteous person is like a magnet that attracts all the divine blessing, wisdom and prosperity. Is this not His grace…?