Righteousness Is A Position Not A Work

Righteousness Is A Position Not A Work

We are seated at the right hand of the Father.  We are righteous in His eyes.  We are seated there because we are seated with Jesus Christ the Righteous.

Don’t believe it? Lets go to the scriptures.

Colossians 1:22-23-22 

yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— 23 if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

This is talking about our spirit. Remember we are a spirit who has a soul and live in a body. When we accepted Jesus our spirit was reconciled.

Righteousness is a position it is not a work that we do. We do not work to become righteous but once we are righteous we do the righteous works.  So do not get it twisted.  We do not work to get into heaven.  We do not work to be righteous.  If we worked to be righteous then why did Jesus die for us.

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Jesus became sin and that made us righteous. 

So many of us think about our past and all the things we have done.  Then we disqualify ourselves from being worthy of God.  We must stop using your own standard and judging our selves of past or present sin.  We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Confess it and look at 1 John.

1 John 2:1

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an [a] Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;

Jesus is our advocate. An advocate is a person who pleads on someone else's behalf.

Isaiah 43:25

25 “I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake, And I will not remember your sins.

Hebrews 8:12

12 “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

Hebrews 10:17

17 “And their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

Isaiah 41:10

‘Do not fear, for I am with you;

Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.

I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,

Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

God is our Judge and the Judge says “ I do not recall any sin”. That is our righteousness. We are standing in right standing with God. Righteous means: morally right or justifiable. You have been declared right, just, able to stand before God Holy, blameless, and without a single fault.  Stop looking at your past and beating your self up over it, and move on with what the Word of God says.  It is gone.  We were made new creations in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:17

17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

Ephesians 2:4-7

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ ( by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:18-21

18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.

Colossians 3:1

3 Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

WOW, what a thought we are seated with God and Jesus.  It may be hard to grasp at first.  We must remember this is speaking of our spirit.  We still have to renew our souls.  We see this in the New Testament epistles.

Romans 12:2

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

There are many more scriptures to prove this.  The soul is made up of our mind, will, and emotions.  Romans 12:2 tells us that we renew our minds and this then turns into us being able to know the will of God.

Jesus knows we are working on our own renewal process.  Jesus after all is man.  God sent Jesus down to earth to be a man.  Jesus was tested as a man, went through the same temptations, and was tried just like every one of us.  So our righteousness is not based on our soul it is first based on our spirits.  Our spirit is righteous and that in turn makes all of us justified before God.  So if you sin you have an advocate with the Father.

Mark 9:23

23 And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If You can?’ All things are possible to him who believes.”

Hebrews 10:1-2

1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?

Hebrews 19-22

19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, 20 by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

Psalm 34:15

The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are attentive to their cry;

Proverbs 15:29

The Lord is far from the wicked,
    but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Hebrews 4:16

Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Matthew 21:22

If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

Matthew 7:7-8

7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

John 14:12-13

12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

1 John 5:14

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

So, in closing we must meditate on God’s Word in this area.  We are righteous.  Not from our works but because of the gift of righteousness given from God, in which we enter through the blood of Jesus.  When you read Mark 9:23 and on (from these reading) we see how the father hears us.  This all comes from our believing.  All things are possible for him who believes.  When we believe He hears us then we know that what ever we ask, we will receive. So from now on look at your right standing with God.  Look at yourself from the true position you hold, seated at the right hand of the Father with Jesus Christ.

Confession:

I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.  I am Holy, blameless, and without a single fault.  I renew my mind to the word of God.  I believe the Word of God.  I obey the Word of God.  I do not let my emotions or my past control who I am.  I am the righteousness of God.