2 Corinthians 5:21
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Hope you all had a lovely and peace filled Sunday. Today I would be sharing a Word on righteousness. This whole passage of the Word is interesting as it goes into discussing how we have come to be in Christ and why.
I have decided to focus on the message of righteousness. We are righteous because we are in Christ. As it says in the Word above, God made Christ who had no sin to be sin for us meaning He carried the burden of our sins because before God He was blameless and therefore was a candidate to carry our blame. He was without sin and hence is righteousness.
When we are reconciled to Christ, meaning when we have allowed ourselves to take up the walk of faith, by believing the Word of Christ, we come into righteousness. We are not righteousness ourselves but come into righteousness in Christ who is Himself righteous.
So that is why it is not a walk of sight, rather it is a walk of faith because it is a walk of the Spirit not of the flesh and we have taken up the walk of faith by being born again and putting off our earthly selves to be reconciled in Spirit to Christ.
Hence we become the righteousness of God and co-heirs of the kingdom through Christ. Which is why He is the Way, the Truth and the life because He leads us to the Father by providing us with the way of a walk without sin in walking in line with His footsteps, He shows us the Truth of salvation that saves us from sin, and He gives us life by breathing us into eternal life:
John 14:6:
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
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This is why Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness because He believed the Word he received from God:
Genesis 15:5-6:
5 He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
6 Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
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And when we receive the message from God, which is salvation through Christ, it is credited to us as righteousness because we have believed the message.
My Word for you today is that do not think you are righteous by yourself; in other words, do not think that it is by your own works and your own effort you are strong enough to walk apart from sin.
It is by the presence of the LORD; which is how we walk by faith and not by sight:
2 Corinthians 5:7:
7 For we live by faith, not by sight.
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And this is why His power is made perfect in our weakness. So in your weakness, He is your strength:
2 Corinthians 12:9:
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
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By following the leading of the Holy Spirit who works in us and moves through us to reconcile us even more into the Truth of righteousness which is Jesus Christ, we are able to walk apart from sin because we have become a part of righteousness:
Romans 8:14:
14 For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
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Have a blessed week!
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