Recovering Righteousness (part 2)

Romans 1:16–17 (ESV) 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

But what exactly is it that we are being saved from? This is what so many people misunderstand.

Penalty of Sin - Justification

Power of Sin - Sanctification

Presence of Sin - Glorification

It is this righteousness that I want to get us to. How many of us want to be righteous? We all think that there is something better or good in not being completely righteous. We all got a little devious side that we don’t want to get rid of yet. Something that we are not willing to give up yet and we think we have a good excuse.

What if we really don’t understand what righteousness really is? What if it isn’t the “goody-two-shoes” idea that we have all come to believe it to to be. What if we have been lied to? What is Sin really is more damaging than we ever thought - in both this life and then next?

That is what Paul wants to show the Church in Rome, and every Christian Church.