Awake To Righteousness

"For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."  ~ This was spoken by Jesus and what He meant is that, no one can be made righteous through law abiding and no one can be more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees except the law Giver Himself - our Lord Jesus Christ.

We were a dead man, because we were sinful and were not God's people. But God let Christ make us alive, when He forgave all our sins. God wiped out the charges that were against us for disobeying the Law of Moses. He took them away and nailed them to the cross. Through His finished work at the cross, Christ defeated all powers and forces. He let the whole world see them being led away as prisoners when He celebrated His victory. Christ is our wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. This is grace, the unearned, unmerited, undeserved and unconditional favor from God.

Therefore I say, awake to righteousness..., awake to Christ's righteousness not our own righteousness. Christ’s righteousness is revealed through His finished work at the cross while our own righteousness is seen at what we do in accordance to the Law's requirement.

Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:34: "Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God!" To God, the lack of this knowledge about Jesus Christ is our righteousness is a sin; and the meaning of the knowledge of God is to know that Christ is our wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.

Paul, the Apostle of grace, spoke of this to the shame of his own people in Romans 10. He desired and prayed to God for Israel was that they may be saved. For he bore them witness that they had a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge - the knowledge of Christ as their  righteousness. For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness through law abiding, had not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness! We are righteous in God’s eye through believing not through our performance. We have the right standing with God the moment we put our trust in Christ. 

That is the reason why, we are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because the Gospel of Christ is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, the just shall live by faith.

Therefore, believers having being established in the righteousness of Christ; we are far from oppression and we are not afraid of terror, for it shall not come near us. No weapon formed against us shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against us in judgment, Christ had already condemned at the cross! This is the heritage of the children of God because our righteousness is from Christ, says the Lord of Hosts!

Yo.. Awake to righteousness... Awake to the righteousness of Christ, not our own righteousness!