🌹EEM TODAY DEVOTIONAL🌹

 🌹EEM TODAY DEVOTIONAL🌹

WEDNESDAY 23RD NOVEMBER, 2022

TOPIC: WHAT RIGHTEOUSNESS IS

KEY SCRIPTURE: ROMANS 5:17-21 NLT

"For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and his gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one man, Jesus Christ. Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone. Because one person disobeyed God, many became sinners. But because one other person obeyed God, many will be made righteous. God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant. So just as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death, now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

COMMENTARY:

Righteousness means the ability to stand in God's presence without the sense of guilt, condemnation, or inferiority. Man has been estranged from God for a very long time and needed to be restored. When man sinned, he separated himself from the fellowship of the Father. The whole drama of Redemption was to restore man to perfect fellowship with the Father and it must be done upon legal grounds.

Jesus was spiritually dead when he was made sin with our sin. Yet, God could make Him Righteous and restored Him to perfect fellowship with Himself. This shows that God, then on legal grounds God can recreate the vilest sinner and give him the same Righteousness and fellowship enjoyed by the Master.

Righteousness gives us our standing with the Father now, our right to the use of Jesus' Name now, our position as sons and daughters, and our victory over the Adversary. The believer should be continually witnessing and confessing his righteousness and his fellowship in Christ.

No man can stand right with God simply by having his sins pardoned. It would leave the old nature that produced those sins still master of the situation. But when a man becomes a child of God, he is a New Creation. "The old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. But all these things are of God, who reconciled us unto himself through Christ."

He is a master. He has as much a right before the throne of grace as Jesus has upon it. He has as much a right in the Father's presence as the Father has a right to sit upon His own throne. Why? Because the Father Himself planned the Redemption and wrought the Redemption through His Son, and sets His seal upon that Redemptive work by making the believer in Jesus Christ Righteous with His own Righteousness.

PRAYER POINT:

Father, I thank You for the gift of Righteousness. I receive the revelation of what it means to have Your Righteousness and how to manifest it in all areas of my life, Jesus' Name. AMEN!

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