Righteousness of God
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Introduction
Introduction
Righteousness is a word that is not strange or should not be strange to people who have heard about holiness and the nature of God. The word means "to cause someone to be in a proper or right relation with someone else—‘to put right with, to cause to be in a right relationship with.
Johannes P. Louw and Eugene Albert Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains (New York: United Bible Societies, 1996), 451."
The greek word dikaiosune means right action, a gracious gift of God whereby all who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ are brought into right relationship with God.
It is not something attainable by obedience to any law or by any merit of man's own or any other condition that that of faith in Christ.
It is a noun word whose verb is *dikaioo* which is justify. In the english righteousness and justification don't look close but they are in the greek
In the OT, the sense of the word righteousness was to be just and right, to have justice. In the NT, the same ideas come out, that all that comes from God is righteous, His judgements are righteous. In Christ is the righteousness of God revealed.
In the OT, the sense of the word righteousness was to be just and right, to have justice. In the NT, the same ideas come out, that all that comes from God is righteous, His judgements are righteous. In Christ is the righteousness of God revealed.
The righteousness of Man
The righteousness of Man
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Your righteousness is like filthy rags -
Man is not naturally righteous -
God alone credits man with righteousness
Man cannot be righteous enough in his own ways to enter the kingdom of heaven
Practicing it in front of people has no eternal benefit
Obedience to Sin is slavery to sin
Man's righteousness is lawlessness
The righteousness of God
The righteousness of God
It is grounded in the character of God ,
The righteousness of Christ
The righteousness of Christ
In Christ do we receive the righteousness of God.
In him we put on the new self
, Christ speaks about righteousness as something to thirst for and has the kingdom of heaven as the reward of for persecution.
The Holy Spirit came for these reasons
Protection in Christ
It is a life pursuit - ;
Conclusion
Conclusion
- We are to strive for a righteous life and righteous living because we have been saved in Christ.