What exactly does it mean to be righteous
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In my earlier articles, Why are you Worrying and Righteous Living, I spoke about the Kingdom of God and seeking his righteousness. So let's take a look at what it means to be righteous.
In every country there are laws and when you break those laws you usually pay a penalty of some sort. It is the same with the Kingdom of God. When you break the laws of the Kingdom you become unrighteous. So what do we do to become righteous?
Let us first understand that knowledge is the key to everything in life. So the key to righteousness is knowledge of the law. And since the Bible is the written code of law for the Kingdom of God, we are obligated, if we are to become citizens of the Kingdom, to read, study and know the Bible.
2 Timothy 3:16 states "All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right." (New Living Translation).
To live righteously does not come naturally. We have to train our minds and bodies to do the right thing.
It says in Romans 8:3-4: "For what the law is powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the spirit."
The problem therefore is spiritual. The main reason for having laws, whether national or spiritual, is to ensure that we treat others with the same degree of respect that we would like to receive from them. So the primary opponent of the law is our selfish nature (Romans 8:5-8).
The Bible tells us that none of us are righteous in and of ourselves (Psalm 14:1-3). There is nothing we can do to make ourselves righteous, but God Himself has provided us with the righteousness we need.
Romans 1:17 states: "the good news tells us that how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scripture say ‘it is through faith that a righteous person has life'". (NLT).
Faith in Christ removes our sin and activates the righteousness of God and applies it to our lives. It is not our righteousness but His.
For everyone who believes and have faith, Jesus becomes their righteousness, that is why we need him in our lives.
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God bless you that is absolutely beautiful
Thanks sandra
I enjoyed this tremendously! You have a solid understanding of the WORD of GOD and a sweet style of writing. Very Good.
Good Luck and God Bless
Thank you Force of Faith. That inspires me a lot.
Amen!! Thank you for this!! "Without Faith, we cannot please God." As to believe that He is, takes Faith. And to believe that He is the giver of all that is good, takes faith. And as it states in Heb. 11:1 "Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen." We are all but filthy rags in the sight of God, but once we accept Jesus Christ into our hearts and put on His blood stained garment, (robe); His righteousness begins to shine through in our hearts as our eyes have been opened and our stoney hearts turned to flesh. Amen!! Many Blessings~K
Hi Lisa, great hub! I love hubs with scriptures and insight. Thanks
You're most welcome Sky321
hay yeah i know i am eleven years old but i haven't been appreciating god and all the stuff he done for me but i have only prayed to him when i needed his help and that's not really good i bealieve that every body shouldn't pray just for help not saying that its bad to pray for help and forgiveness and i believe people should pray just to pray because if you keep all your fillings to yoeur self you will not fill good about year self and i havent rely liking my self in tell know cause a have
been praying just taking to the heavenly father of praying to god and telling him ever sin i have done that i could remember since i was born and now i fill like the (anger) and stress!! is gone and now i fill like those people that tryed to help me where sent from god and i finally i know that the people weren't try to git me in trouble they where trying to tell me not to go down misery road but i did and look where it go-ten me in trouble and every buddy our a random Pearson i will tell them if you fill like you don't like your sell our if your mad and you know you are going to do something bad our if you got some thing on your mind that is hearting you ore if you need to talk to some about any body that you know that needs god in their life tell them all you remember all the things god has sacrificed. and has forgiven you all your life and has always and will be there for you and don't let people talk you in to not believe in god
and all you got to do instead of paying about 15,000 dollers for a sociologist all you have to do is pray and really mean it to and god will help you when you ask for his help so hew ever needs help all you have to say is these words dear heavenly father please forgive me of all my sines and if you are praying for some tell him why you are praying for that person or a job or anything that you fell you fill the need to pray about go a head and one -hundred percent it going to happen if you relly meen it
All this is true. Everyone has sinned and nobody is perfect. But once you seek forgiveness and strive to live a good life, things would be so much easier for you.
Many God continue to bless you Dalton
Thank you so much. This hub is Great and inspiring.
Thank you so much. This hub is Great and inspiring!
The Law make us realise we need grace and mercy and to accept the LORD BY FAITH SO WE CAN ENJOY LIFE AND NOT WORRIED TO MUCH BY OUR IMPERFECTIONS
seamist Level 2 Commenter 3 years ago
Great post, Lisa!
Jen