Righteousness is an attribute that belongs to God, the Lawgiver, and is manifested in His laws. No man can be justified by his own works apart from God’s ordinance. Therefore, righteousness is a wonderful gift from God to humanity through His love: it is the God-given quality imputed to man upon believing in the Son of God.
***** Obedience leads to righteousness. “The righteous will love by faith” *****
1. To be in right standing with God. The ability to stand in a position acceptable before God. It allows you to be fully accepted, approved, and loved by God the Father.
2. God’s word is power, it brings salvation. If anyone listens to it, will believe it, these words, this message, this gospel will save their life.
3. Righteousness is the only requirement that God has ever set for entering heaven.
4. Any area where the righteousness of God does not prevail, our faith will not be sufficient, because righteousness is the seat of faith.
5. Who is righteous? Those who remain aligned with God’s nature and character through Christ.
6. To be justified and made righteous is to be brought back to a state of complete innocence, where every sin is erased and there is no record left of our transgressions. To be forgiven and cleansed from all iniquity.
7. Due to the finish work of the cross God does not see us as sinners but as righteous.
8. Jesus always lived in righteousness and that is why the Father answered all his prayers and requests.
***When you believe in Christ = righteousness = right to eternal life***
Scripture Reference
1 Samuel 12:24 But be sure to fear the lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart, consider what great things he has done for you.
Isaiah 32:17 The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.
Isaiah 64:6 All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags
we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away.
Romans 1:16-17 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
Romans 3:10-12 “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Romans 3:20 Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.
Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 2:16-20 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So, we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker. “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.