Ok..for the at least 7th time..this is what I believe about righteousness ..
how we live out the righteousness in us....which would show in good works in many different ways..
Here is how righteousness manifests to a believer....throug the knowledge of what Christ has done...we need to be righteousness conscious...not sin-conscious...we have a new creation in Christ now!
Awake to who you are in Christ!..Awake to righteousness..
when you see who you are in Him in your new man..you become like Him outwardly.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (NASB)
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17 [/SUP] Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is,
there is liberty.
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18 [/SUP] But we all, with unveiled face,
beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just a
s from the Lord, the Spirit.
Hebrews 5:13 (NASB)
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13 [/SUP] For everyone who partakes
only of milk is not accustomed to
the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.
Romans 5:17 (NASB)
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17 [/SUP] For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those
who receive the abundance of grace and of
the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Isaiah 54:14 (NASB)
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14 [/SUP] "I
n righteousness you will be established; You will be far from oppression, for you will not fear; And from terror, for it will not come near you.
2 Corinthians 5:21 (NASB)
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21 [/SUP] He made Him who knew no sin
to be sin on our behalf, so that we might
become the righteousness of God in Him.
When you see who you are in Christ because of His finished work...you become outwardly in behavior what you are truly like in your new inner man where Christ dwells..
So you walk in righteousness, I mean you love your neighbour as yourself, you love your enemy, you love God with all your heart strength and might.
Or do you still fail to do these things? Or do you not know?