ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS

¹⁴ In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee. {Isaiah 54:14} 

God in His word promised long ago that He Himself shall establish us in righteousness. His own righteousness. Not our self-short lasting righteousness that we struggle to get by keeping laws and lose when we fault the laws. God Himself would lay the foundation and make it solid so that we can be established in righteousness. A deep rooted kind of righteousness planted by God himself. A well-fortified kind of righteousness. One that wavers not. I love the way the message bible described it.

You’ll be built solid, grounded in righteousness,
    far from any trouble—nothing to fear!
    far from terror—it won’t even come close!{Isaiah 54:14}

Listen church, we have been grounded in righteousness. This is the building of God Himself and it is solid. The foundation of this righteousness building is Christ Himself. He is the centre and He holds the whole building together. We are God’s building of righteousness established upon the foundation of Christ.

 ⁹ For we are partners working together for God, and you are God's field.

You are also God's building. ¹⁰ Using the gift that God gave me, I did the work of an expert builder and laid the foundation, and someone else is building on it. But each of you must be careful how you build. ¹¹ For God has already placed Jesus Christ as the one and only foundation, and no other foundation can be laid. {1 Corinthians 3:9-11 GNT}

There is no other foundation that we can lay except Christ who is already laid for us. We must not try to lay our own foundation of righteousness by depending on the law. No one can lay any other foundation no matter how hard they try. Every building of righteousness collapses once Christ is taken from its foundation.

^15-18 We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. {Colossians 1:15-18 MSG}

You see, everything got started in Him and finds its purpose in Him. He holds everything together. We must allow Him hold us together as our foundation of righteousness. He is the one who holds the church together as God’s building of righteousness. We would always fall short if we remove Him as the foundation and begin to depend on our works of righteousness. Now we are God’s building established in righteousness and it is for ever. This is God’s handiwork and it is eternal.

²⁰ What a foundation you stand on now: the apostles and the prophets; and the cornerstone of the building is Jesus Christ himself! ²¹ We who believe are carefully joined together with Christ as parts of a beautiful, constantly growing temple for God. ²² And you also are joined with him and with each other by the Spirit and are part of this dwelling place of God. {Ephesians 2:20-22 TLB}

¹⁴ I know that everything God does will last forever. You can't add anything to it or take anything away from it. And one thing God does is to make us stand in awe of him. {Ecclesiastes 3:14 GNT}

We can’t add to or subtract from what God has done. He has established us in righteousness and that is final. Anyone who goes about trying to be righteous by himself is only wasting time and energy in ignorance. We must note that we can’t even subtract from this righteousness by our short falls, neither can our rule keeping add to it. It is an everlasting righteousness. It is the very righteousness of God Himself hence it can’t be diminished by us. It is an everlasting righteousness.

¹⁴² Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. {Psalms 119:142}

Some of you may want to ask questions like “do you mean my righteousness doesn’t reduce when I sin” Well, if you mean your self-righteousness, then Yes it diminishes when you sin. But if you mean God’s righteousness in you then No it doesn’t diminish. It is everlasting. Again, I must state that no Christian intentionally commits sin. We can fall into sin out of the weakness of the flesh but God’s righteousness in us is stable and unwavering because we are built upon a solid foundation Christ Jesus. I will like to render the message bible translation of Ecclesiastes 3:14

 ¹⁴ I’ve also concluded that whatever God does, that’s the way it’s going to be, always. No addition, no subtraction. God’s done it and that’s it. That’s so we’ll quit asking questions and simply worship in holy fear.

Someone may still be wondering why we are established in righteousness and it is final. You must understand that this righteousness is Christ’s righteousness and not ours. Christ cannot become unrighteous and so are we. We live, move and have our being in Him. We are the righteousness of God IN Christ. We are in Him and He is in us. In fact He is our life. His righteousness is our righteousness. If He is 100% righteous, then we also are 100% righteous. God has made Him righteousness for us.

³⁰ But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

³¹ That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.{1Corinthians 1:30-31}

You see, Christ is our righteousness and if Christ is eternal then we also have an eternal righteousness. He also is our wisdom, sanctification and redemption. When we fall, He sanctifies us, purifies us so that we will be spotless without wrinkles or blemish. Our righteousness in Christ is sure and steadfast. No wonder the bible said the righteous falls seven times and rises again. Even at the seventh fall, we are still called “the righteous”. Men will condemn you at your first fall but the bible says there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. This means that our righteousness in Christ doesn’t waver. No matter how many times you fall, you will rise again with your righteousness intact. That is the reason why we can’t be condemned. To condemn us will be to condemn Christ and that is impossible.

²¹ For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. {2Corinthians 5:21} 

He made us God’s righteousness, we didn’t make ourselves. He established us not we ourselves. What most Christians are doing today is trying to make themselves righteous. No! It won’t work. We don’t try to become righteous, we are already God’s righteousness. How come many people are trying to become what they already are? Ignorance I will say.

with a view to demonstrating, at the present time, His righteousness, that He may be shown to be righteous Himself, and the giver of righteousness to those who believe in Jesus.{Romans 3:26 Weymouth New Testament}

He has given us righteousness and now we are righteousness. Not just that we are

 righteous, we are God’s righteousness. Just the way the sin of the first Adam made all

 men sinners even if they didn’t commit sin, so the obedience of the last Adam made us righteous even if we fall into sin.

¹⁷ For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

¹⁸ Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

¹⁹ For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. {Romans 5:17-19}

We have been made righteous by Christ’s obedience. It is not by our obedience that we will be made righteous. We are already made righteous because Christ already obeyed long ago. It is not something that is going to happen but something and has already happened and will last forever. We therefore must walk around with this righteousness consciousness making our boast in Christ. This righteousness consciousness must now replace the sin consciousness we inherited from Adam. Confess it daily with your mouth, speak it repeatedly until it sinks in. I have been established in righteousness and it is forever!

NOTE:Just incase you read this article and you are not born again,I encourage you to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour today.It takes just a simple prayer of faith to be established in righteousness.
Pray this with me:LORD JESUS,I SURRENDER MY LIFE TO YOU TODAY,FORGIVE ME ALL MY SINS AND ESTABLISH ME IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.AMEN! AMEN!

Congratulations to you if you just prayed that prayer. I will be delighted to speak with you personally.You can call me on +380639373433
GOD BLESS YOU!