The Gift of
Righteousness..
Understanding the gift of righteousness is
Vital if you are to play an effective part in the
Kingdom of Heaven. He spoke and said:
“To be righteous means to be able to
stand boldly in the presence of Almighty God without fear or
shame and with humility in your heart for what Jesus has done for
you”
I was gazing up into a beautiful blue sky one day
when the Lord spoke to me. He said
"You are looking up into the Face of God
in the righteousness of Jesus Christ”
Have you noticed in the Scriptures how many times
Jesus looked up (towards Heaven) when He gave thanks? Yet for
some strange reason, most of the church looks down (towards
hell!) when they give thanks.. I believe most of this comes from
the parable Jesus taught about the priest and the sinner. The
priest looked up and said “God, I thankyou I’m not
like other men, I do this and I do that” (my paraphrase)
The sinner wouldn’t look up but smote his breast and said
“God have mercy on me a sinner” Jesus said the sinner
was justified in the sight of God. We have tried to relate
ourselves here. We thought, God forbid I should be like the first
man, so I must be like the sinner..
Truth is, we are neither. The Scripture states:
“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation..”
11Cor 5:17 Jesus made us righteous by what He did for us at
Calvary. “He Who knew no sin was made sin for us so that we
might be made the righteousness of God in Him” -
“They that have received the abundance of grace and the
gift of righteousness shall reign as kings in life by one Jesus
Christ”
How did you become male or female? What great act
did you do? Well, you say, I was born that way... and
that’s exactly how you got righteous! The Lord made
you that way when you received Jesus into your life. It’s a
gift. “they that receive the abundance of grace and
the gift of righteousness..” Romans 5v17
Do this: Next time you are outside on a beautiful
day, look up with humility in your heart for what Jesus did for
us and rejoice and rejoice.. and watch what happens!
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