Topic: YOU ARE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD [Church of God Mission International] Above Only Daily Devotional 15 January 2022
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ABOVE ONLY DEVOTIONAL
BY: ARCHBISHOP M. E. BENSON IDAHOSA
*SATURDAY JANUARY, 15, 2022
YOU ARE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
2Corinthians 5:21 (NIV, TPT, NLT), Romans 5:17 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. *For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we who did not know righteousness might become the righteousness of God through our union with him. *For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. *…much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
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How conscious are you that you are righteous? How conscious are you that God Himself has made you righteous? The type of righteousness we are talking about here is God’s own type of righteousness, not human righteousness (or trying in our human efforts to be good) which the Bible says is like filthy rags before God, (Isa.54:6). We are talking about being righteous in God’s sight. The only way to be righteous in God’s sight is for God to make you righteous in His sight. God makes you righteous in His sight when you put your faith in Jesus. God makes you holy, perfect and justified in His sight, because you put your faith in Jesus. On the Cross, Jesus took all your sin and He gave you all of His righteousness. Right now, you are as righteous as Jesus is. All your sins are forgiven and you have God’s holy and perfect nature in you right now.
In Christ, you are not trying to be righteous, so stop trying to be righteous. God has made you righteous. You are not going to be righteous one day and you are not going to be a saint someday. God has made you righteous and you are a saint now. It is a gift. Ephesians 1:1 says, “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus.” Start calling yourself a saint, because that is what God’s calls you. Get used to calling other believers saints, because that is what God calls us.
Believe that you are righteous, see yourself as righteous and accept yourself as righteous. As a child of God, you became righteous by putting your faith in Jesus, (Rom.3:22) and the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as you receive the gospel and revelation of Christ, (Rom.1:16-17).
Faith Declaration:
I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. By my faith in Jesus, God has made me right in His sight. God has given me His holy nature.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR READING PLAN
Genesis 22-24
God bless you.