Welcome to Hank’s Place –
Welcome HOME – to Righteousness – (1)
Tired of the news media distorting, twisting the truth? Spouting lies? Proclaiming endless “bombshells” that go nowhere? Me too.
Well, here is some pure truth. Jesus bore our sins in His body on the cross, then died for those sins according the Scriptures, and then was buried — and then rose again — according to the Scriptures. 1 Cor 15:3-4. That’s Gospel truth my friend! And in rising from the dead He declared OUR righteousness!
That means His sacrifice was accepted, putting us in right standing with God! We believers became totally acceptable to God – not because of our merits, or accomplishments; but all and ONLY because of Jesus, our glorious SAVIOR.
2 Cor 5:21 reveals what happened at Calvary: “He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us (that is both the sin bearer lamb of God and the sin offering lamb of God) so we would become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.”
We are in Christ — and in Him we have HIS righteousness. This is beyond awesome – beyond our ability to explain. It’s the surpassing greatness of His power and grace toward us who believe! What’s it mean though?
Once we were miserable sinners. Reprobates. Evil in mind and heart. Then this divine exchange took place. We became new creations. Righteous. Holy. Sanctified. In union with God. Desiring to do His will in thought and in heart.
ONCE we were sinners, true. Now we are SAINTS, forever. Don’t refer to yourself as a sinner or that your old sin nature is wrestling with your new nature. You have one nature: a son of God! Reckon that old sin nature DEAD. That’s Ro 6:11. The devil would have you believe that old nature is like a zombie, the living dead within you. It’s a lie.
We need to know what this ‘righteousness of God’ is about – and next time we will begin with Ro 1:16-17 “For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.””
Live by faith today my friend — and COME ALIVE!
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