Righteousness

Wow! I’ve come back to feeding on milk in this season that is essential to coming into maturity in Christ. The milk is so good, and it has never looked like this before. Here it is, essential Christianity

Through our faith in Jesus Christ we have been made righteous in the eyes of God. Christian religion makes us believe that we have to climb the latter of good works in order to obtain God, but in fact that is a lie that the enemy has implanted in our heads because it is devastating to the truth! Legalism in Christianity is no better than any other false religion out there!!

Through Christ’s sacrifice for us, we have been justified back to God through faith in him. We have been made righteous in the eyes of God, through Jesus' blood, and our sins no longer hold us back from intimate relationship with our living God. Whenever we feel like we are lacking in our lives, or that our sins and brokenness keeps God frustrated and angry with us, that is when we are buying into the lie of our enemy. By looking at our dead man, we can’t see who we are in the eyes of God. We are righteous, and even if we have made our bed in hell, God is with us and sees us as righteous. He said he would never forsake us, and he absolutely will not. How many know that even in an extreme season of sin in your life, God was still there chasing you down? God is not mad at us, but instead is madly in love with us. When we are focused on ourselves and who we were before Christ, and when we are focused on our sins and areas where we lack, we are being tossed about by waves and are unstable, because we are consumed with all the areas where we are broken and don't measure up to perfection. When we focus on who we are in Christ, that we look like Jesus in the eyes of God, we are stable, mature, and cannot be swayed. We need to be focused and consumed with the truth of the reality of who we are in our new creation, because only then does our old nature completely fall away.

Here are some basic facts that I got from listening to John Sheasby:
Statements on the word of righteousness = being justified through faith, being reestablished back to the Father in right position with him, we have peace with God through Jesus, we are righteous in His sight, standing in the right place with God, trusting in the blood of Jesus only, we no longer have to get there… This is the GOOD NEWS of the gospel!!

"People with character flaws are still righteous, thank God, or we would all be in serious trouble, so have mercy on one another, because God has been so merciful to us."

"Jesus perfectly obeyed the law on our behalf, so we are no longer held to the law but are instead established in the righteousness of Christ. He did all the work for us!"

"The glory of God shows up best in the worst of circumstances; the light shines best in the dark."

So here we are, co-heirs with Christ, he was the first born of many brothers, and we are in the same standing with God as Jesus so that we can boldly approach His throne. The Lord is our helper, so in every circumstance our needs are provided for. The enemy loves to come and make circumstance in our lives that makes us doubt the presence of God in our lives, and makes us doubt the truth that He will always fulfill our needs. That was the original sin in the garden that resulted in the fall of mankind; the enemy spoke words of doubt to Eve about the character and nature of God, that He fills us and takes care of our every need and that he knows what is best for us. He attacked the very identity and truth of who they were in God, and instead made them believe that they were lacking. Doubt led to disbelief in who God said he was, and who we are in him, and we are still believing that lie to this day. We are righteous in the eyes of God and he will fill our every need and bless us beyond measure, but we have to rebuke the work of Satan in our lives and we have every right and ability to do so, because Jesus did so, and he is living in us. So let’s rebuke the work of the enemy in every area of our lives! Let’s break his power over our minds by proclaiming the truth that we are righteous in the eyes of God and God is our provider and the Lord is our helper and that he no longer has any power over us! He is under our feet and God is in control of our lives, so let’s rebuke him in every area that he has ever cast doubt in the character and nature of God. He has no dominion over us by the Spirit of Christ living in us, and we are fully reconciled to God, and God will meet our every need! Don’t we know that with Christ dwelling within us that we will never go hungry? That we never have to worry about provision because He will always take care of us as sons just as he took care of Jesus? When we have doubt in our hearts, it crowds out any room for faith, and if we had the full faith to know who we are in Christ, then we would never have doubt again.
So let’s stop looking at the areas where we lack, where we don’t measure up, where we feel incomplete, and let the truth sink in that our Father see’s us as his son Jesus Christ. He has come to meet us right where we are at, and we have that special anointing to be just like our favorite rabbi Jesus, and through that faith we have the ability to stomp on our enemy and do the work of Christ, and have the same exact relationship with God that Jesus had.