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Jan 17, 2024 · God’s people have been saved from sin and death and are called to live for righteousness (1 Peter 2:24). In doing so, they look forward to an eternal reward that moths cannot destroy and thieves cannot steal (Matthew 6:19–20).
- Pursue
God’s standard is what defines true righteousness; His power...
- What is Righteousness
Dictionaries define righteousness as “behavior that is...
- Imputed
By God’s grace, “through faith in Jesus Christ,” that...
- Pursue
Mar 30, 2024 · Righteousness is not something we can achieve on our own. We are all sinners and fall short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23). However, through faith in Christ, we are made righteous in God’s eyes. The more we trust in Christ and follow His example, the more our actions and motives align with God’s standards of righteousness. Living for ...
Apr 1, 2022 · As we read through the New Testament, we encounter a unique connection between the Holy Spirit and joy. I’ll give you a few examples. Luke tells us how at one point Jesus “rejoiced in the Holy Spirit” (Luke 10:21) and Paul tells us how the Thessalonian Christians had “received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 1:6–7).
- Jesus Did Not Come to Destroy The Law – But to Fulfill It
- God Now Has His Basic Laws Written Into Man’S Hearts
- God Still Wants All of Us to Practice Righteousness
- Keeping The Commandments of The Lord
This first verse I will now list will completely set the stage as far as the law is concerned and what God is expecting from all of us. Though the Bible says that we are no longer under the law, but under grace – this does not mean that we are to fully do away with all of God’s moral laws, which are His direct commandments to us on how we are to li...
Not only did God the Father lay out the basic laws and commandments that He wants all of us to live by, but He has even gone one step further. He now has His basic laws actually written into the hearts of men, along with causing their conscience to actually bear witness to all of it. In other words, we all have God’s basic laws written into our hea...
As you will see in the first verse I will list below, God still wants all of us to continue to practice righteousness in this life, even though we now have the righteousness of His Son Jesus already imputed on us. And again, this verse is coming from the NT, showing once again that we still have to do the best we can in obeying all of God’s basic l...
Part of having a true righteous walk with the Lord is to make sure that we simply obey all of His basic laws and commandments as best we can. These next set of verses will really drive this point home. Many in the world today want to scoff and make fun of the ways, laws, and commandments of our Lord. They want to be able to live in their flesh, doi...
Aug 27, 2017 · Paul writes, “present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God” (Rom. 6:13; cf. 6:19), “Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart” (2 Tim. 2:22), and Peter states, “and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might ...
Galatians 5:16-26 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
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Nov 13, 2005 · Righteousness can mean the righteousness that God imputes to us when he declares us righteous through faith even when we are guilty sinners (Romans 4:5). And it can mean the righteousness that he then, on the basis of that right standing, begins to work in us (Romans 6:13, 16, 18, 19, 20).
