OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE NEW CREATION!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

WEDNESDAY JUNE 30, 2021.

SUBJECT : OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE NEW CREATION!

Memory verse: "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (Second Corinthians 5 vs 21.) 

READ: Second Corinthians 5 vs 17; Ephesians 4 vs 24: 

Second Corinthians 5:17: Therefore, if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new.

Ephesians 4:24; and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

INTIMATION: 

Christianity is the life of God imparted to man, plus the wealth of the riches of God's nature also imparted to us, and the Spirit's unveiling of the wealth of God that was revealed in Christ. This truth was a faith-provoking, and a love-stimulating thing; realizing what Christ has done for us in His Redemptive work. Honestly, for a genuine believer, It revolutionizes the intellect, and thrills the spirit. It lifts a man out of the natural to the supernatural.

When the mind is renewed on the strength of the sonship rights, he can take his place as a son. He can enjoy a son's rights and privileges. He can assume a son's responsibility and step into the riches of the grace of God. That comes when a man loses his sin consciousness, his sense of inferiority, noting that when you confess Christ and believe in your heart His redemptive work for you, you are a new creation, old things (including all the sins you ever committed) are forgiven and passed away, and all things have become new. Your old self has been crucified with Christ, and your new self has risen up with Him in the new creation.

The sin consciousness is never lost in you until you know about righteousness, and this has not been properly preached in our churches. Righteousness does not only mean doing right deeds, righteousness means the ability to stand in the Father's presence without a sense of guilt, inferiority, or sin, just as free in the Father's presence as was Jesus. And this is ours now in this present world full of evil.

In the new creation we have righteousness reckoned for us; for our sake He made His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, virtually to be in sin who never knew any sin, so that in, and through Him we might become endued with the righteousness of God. In the redemptive work of Christ, all sins; past, present, and future, have been forgiven you provided you have fellowship in Christ. Why is it so? When we trust in Christ, and accept the redemption He wrought for us, we make an exchange—our sin for His righteousness. Our sin was poured into Christ at His crucifixion. His righteousness is poured into us at our conversion. In Christianity that is what is meant by Christ's atonement for sin. 

In the world, bartering works only when two people exchange goods of relatively equal value. But God offers to trade His righteousness for our sin—something of immeasurable worth for something completely worthless. How grateful we should be for His kindness to us.

We not only have righteousness reckoned to us, but also imputed and imparted to us in the new creation. The new man is created according to God, in righteousness and holiness (Ephesians 4 vs 24). That thrills the heart. The very fact of a new creation and of sonship demands a perfect righteousness which is given in Christ.

Could you think of a son who could not stand in his father's presence? In such situation, sonship would have no meaning, and no significance whatsoever. In the new creation, we have now a perfect relationship—God is our very Father, we are His sons and daughters, able to stand in His presence without any sense of guilt or sin consciousness because of His righteousness imputed and imparted to us. Hallelujah!

Prayer: Abba Father, what a great and loving Father we have in You; ever merciful, and with unfailing compassion. When I meditate on Your loving kindness toward me, and remember what You wrought for me in redemption, I feel great chill run through my spines. O Lord, endue me with the spirit of complete obedience, gratefulness, and faithfulness to You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!