How to Obtain Perfect Righteousness

Colin Melbourne

© 01-08 Born-Again-Christian.info

There is a place in Christ Jesus where we no longer live under condemnation, but where Heaven is always open to us. A place of limitless power, untold resources, and Divine Life. Everything we need, to give us total victory over all the power of the Devil. Nothing can stop the child of God, filled with desire to press on into this life of true holiness, desiring only to glorify God.

Christianity : Christ in us. God living in human flesh. Our Father has designed that this works through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. The Lord Himself told us,

I am in the Father, and the Father is in me. Holy Bible Jn. 14:10-11 NIV

And He prayed for all believers in Him, that they should be one with Father, just as Christ is one with Him.

I pray this also for those who will believe in me... that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me, and I am in you. May they also be in us... that they may be one as we are one. I in them, and you in me. Jn. 17:20-23

People who read this, and talk about unity in the Body of Christ are missing the point by a wide margin. Here is Christ's High Priestly prayer for each individual believer to be one with God, just as Christ is. You can't get more profound than that.

Did Our Father answer Christ's prayer? Of course He did, and He makes it good the moment a sinner comes to saving faith in Christ. Without this revelation you will always be falling short of your God given status in Christ Jesus. But once you've caught on to the wonder of being a child of God, you'll drive back the powers of darkness by your very presence, as you look to the Greater One within you. Oh what an inheritance is ours, when the very nature, the presence of the Father, Son and Spirit are made real in us.

Righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. Ro. 3:22

That's always been God's purpose since the fall of humankind. As we lay hold of God's plan, fulfilled in us by faith, we will be invincible. Ever conscious of the blessed fact that greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world. Scripture is not fulfilled until, by faith in Christ, your constant experience is the manifestation of God's life, power and love, through you.

Abraham believed God, and God counted him as righteous. Right standing with God was given to him on no other ground than that of believing God's promise. He was designated a friend on this basis alone. That is wonderful. But under the New Covenant, God has fulfilled His promise to Abraham (and more.)

All nations will be blessed through you. Gen. 18:18 and 12:2-3

The One and Only Saviour, came through Abraham's line.

And by simple faith in Christ, anyone is made more than a friend of God. They become children of God. more than 'counted righteous', they are made righteous.

Before God's Blood was shed; under the Old Covenant, nobody was righteous, in nature.

They could do righteous acts, but not be righteous in nature.

When God referred to some people in the Old Testament as righteous, He was speaking of what they did, not what they were by nature. That's why God says;

There's no-one righteous, not even one. Ro. 3:10

But after the Perfect Sacrifice was placed on the altar of Heaven, The new Covenant began.

Now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known... righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe (that Jesus died for them, and lives in them) God presented him as a Sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. Ro. 3:22 and 25

Adam and Eve blew it, and brought death and shame on us all.

Jesus fixed it, and brings life and righteousness to all who receive Him.

For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One Man (Jesus Christ) the many will be made righteous. Ro. 5:19

When will believers be made righteous?

Now a righteousness from God has been made known (it) comes through faith in Jesus Christ to All who believe. Ro. 3:22

God would have it no other way. Jesus died to make you righteous. Perfect righteousness is attained only one way. By receiving Jesus Christ as Saviour.

Are you righteous? I am. And I didn't do a thing to get it, except trust in Jesus Christ.

You can't earn it, or buy it, and you will never deserve it. It is God's Gift offered to everyone. Do you need God's righteousness now? You'll get nowhere without it. Receive Jesus Christ, and it is yours by grace, as long as you trust in Him. And remember, you can't improve it, so don't even try. Jesus did enough by dying for you to make you right with God forever, so repent and believe in Him.

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