Romans 1:17
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. (KJV)
Righteousness means non guilty, ability to stand before God without sense of guilt.
Our works can not always be perfect and based on the fact we can't credit our right standing with God by our works to be perfect before God.
The works of men can not measure up to keep them righteous before God, no one can be righteous by trying to keep to his righteous works to earn favour from God.
That is why God sent Jesus to become righteousness to us by faith. That whosoever believes in him should cease from his own works to be righteous before God (Romans 5:1-9). but rather, being credited with the gift of righteousness because of Jesus Christ sake.
Righteousness is a gift that comes through the undeserved grace of God.
The very moment we received the gospel of Christ( incarnation, his walk and works on earth - his death, his resurrection and his ascension) we became righteous not based on anything and that is why we are referred to as a saint!
We can not be perfect before God with the good things we do. Jesus is our perfection, he was rich, he became poor for us, so that through his poverty for us, his sufferings, we should be rich, made righteous and perfect before God. 2Corinthians 5:21."For our sake God made Christ, who was innocent of sin, one with our sinfulness, so that in him we might be made one with the righteousness of God."
Paul spoke of his perfection.
He boasted about God righteousness.
He held tightly to what could make him without any sense of inferiority before God. (Jesus Christ)
He believed in the divine righteousness revealed in Christ.
He only had faith in God to be made blameless and non guilty!
Philippians 3:9
"and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness – a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness."
If you have received Christ as your atonement, as your mediator between you and God, as your righteousness, you are made righteous base on what Jesus did. God righteousness is without works!
Romans 5:17-21.
17 For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
18 Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act, came righteousness leading to life for all people. 19 For just as through the disobedience of one man, many were made sinners. So also through the obedience of one man, many will be made righteous.
20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more,
21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Righteousness is a gift, we just need to receive it by faith- then you become righteous plus nothing! You become a saint plus nothing!
You can only be blameless before God by believing in Jesus. no other way! We need to rest in the finished work of Christ.
The gift of righteousness is of no repentance when you received it. (Romans 11:29)
(Romans 5 )
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrPLS.. 10, For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
11 Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
God righteousness came and was established while we were still sinners, Christ died for us! Verse 9 explains that we can only be declared righteous by his blood, through this we are saved from the wrath of God which is coming in the judgment day.
I am righteous and declared non guilty by the blood of Christ, do you believe? Through the gospel of Christ you have received reconciliation with God. That's you're blameless , you are justified and at peace with God- (it is a continuous tense by faith of Christ). Romans 5:1-2.
Christ had become righteousness to us! So we should stop looking to our works of righteousness rather rely on the faithfulness of God in Christ to be righteous before him. Jesus have become righteousness to us and everything to us. He is the wisdom in saving us to God.
(1 Corinthians 1:30-31)
"He is the reason you have a relationship with Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption," "so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”"
I boast in God, I boast in God righteousness, I boast in God wisdom, I boast in God sanctification, I boast in God redemption.
Confession : I boast not in my good works to be righteous before God or blameless before God or to be justified freely before God... I boast in God righteousness which surface through Christ and keeps me right before him in whatsoever conditions I find myself. Through this I am called the blessed child of the Lord and my eternity is assured in his force of righteousness. Christ is my righteousness -so therefore, I am righteous freely!
Hope you are blessed? Only by faith you will always be righteous. FEED BACK PLS.
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