Lk 1:6
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Now how is this done ? Its done by the Gift of Faith, its walking by what has been revealed or made known to God given Faith; and that is that Christ the Messiah is our Righteousness and blamelessness before God, for that is what answers the Purpose of our Election in Him Eph 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame[blameless] before him in love:
Thats the Faith given to Abraham's Seed Gen 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
The ESV :
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Understand something, Abraham is not given here a choice, but its an causative command from the Almighty, for Abraham is going to walk before Him and be perfect and blameless because God said it !
Lk 1:6 Its the same keeping of the Commandments of God as described here Rev 14:12
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Our Keeping the Commandments of God is actually the Faitfulness of Christ having kept them for us and God imputing it to us, if indeed He died for us, for it is written Rom 5:19
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience[His Life and Death] of one shall many be made righteous.
We, that He died for, are by His obedience made Righteous, the word Righteous in the greek being dikaioi and does mean :
A.in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
In fact its the same word righteous used in Lk 1:6
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
They were part of the Many that was made Righteous by the Obedience of Christ Rom 5:19 !
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Now how is this done ? Its done by the Gift of Faith, its walking by what has been revealed or made known to God given Faith; and that is that Christ the Messiah is our Righteousness and blamelessness before God, for that is what answers the Purpose of our Election in Him Eph 1:4
4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame[blameless] before him in love:
Thats the Faith given to Abraham's Seed Gen 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
The ESV :
When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless,
Understand something, Abraham is not given here a choice, but its an causative command from the Almighty, for Abraham is going to walk before Him and be perfect and blameless because God said it !
Lk 1:6 Its the same keeping of the Commandments of God as described here Rev 14:12
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Our Keeping the Commandments of God is actually the Faitfulness of Christ having kept them for us and God imputing it to us, if indeed He died for us, for it is written Rom 5:19
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience[His Life and Death] of one shall many be made righteous.
We, that He died for, are by His obedience made Righteous, the word Righteous in the greek being dikaioi and does mean :
A.in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
In fact its the same word righteous used in Lk 1:6
6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
They were part of the Many that was made Righteous by the Obedience of Christ Rom 5:19 !
