The Righteousness in God!

“Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.” – Romans 3:20 NIV

First of all, we have to know that we became sinners because of the world (Romans 5:12) and its law that brings death. This is why God came down from heaven into the earth as Jesus Christ (John 14:6) to crucify Himself on the cross as atonement of our sins; to break the power of the devil that was used to be in our minds (Colossians 2:13-15; Hebrews 2:14-15). The main reason why God did this is to give us eternal life due to the fact that all of us are part of His Creation (Genesis 1:27); He has created us in His own image at the Garden of Eden. Thus, for this reason, the word of God states, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)

Thus, God has poured His Spirit  into us to make us to do the will of God (John 14:15-17,26-27; Ezekiel 36:26-27). This is because Jesus Christ declares, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21) The will of God is combination of the faith in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:8-9) and the works of God (Ephesians 2:10). This means that if one of these is lacking, then we are not doing the will of God in the righteous way; as faith without works is dead (James 2:14-26). Therefore, it is best to be doers of God after we ensure that faith of Christ Jesus is inside of us, for the word of God announces, “… without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. (Hebrews 11:6)

Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith. (Galatians 6:7-10)

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever. (1 John 2:15-17)

Overall, God, our heavenly Father (Ephesians 4:6) desperately wants to bring us back into His eternal kingdom by letting us to obey the Spirit until the end of the age. This is why the word of God proclaims that Jesus Christ is the way of the truth and the life (John 14:6-7).

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. (John 3:16-18)

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you. (Romans 8:1-11)