What is Righteousness ?
The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of Righteousness
Occurrences: 442 times in the bible.
The Seed of Righteousness
At the end of this sermon, you will desire and appreciate God even more and love Him with your whole heart and don’t joke with Him. God is extremely serious with you all.
Intro
God operates with the concept of seed. One sinned all has sinned and death reigned, One is Righteous all has the potential to become righteous (Romans 5:17).
God’s seed is Incorruptible, perfect and holy (1 Peter 1:23)
Seed suffers the most. Think of any seed: it is buried under the soil, stepped upon, placed with smelly fertiliser and hindered with layers of soil.
Your life is a seed unto others: parents are sowing seed into their children, just as Jesus Christ is the seed that is sewn into our lives.
What you should always look for or desire is the seed not the fruits, because when you have the seed you have the fruits and can keep producing the fruits. I am saying I desire Jesus to take His place in your life.
Message Scriptures
2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3: 16 - 25 (NKJV, NLT)
Christ is the Seed of our righteousness (Gal 3: 16; Romans 5: 17).
Key statement
Christ fulfilled the requirement of the law so that the blessing of the Lord is CERTAIN or CONFIRMED upon our lives by BELIEVING not by a law system (Galatians 3:13; 16-17, 29; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 10:3-5).
This means we don’t have to DO to be blessed, we all have to BELIEVE to be blessed.
The promise was before the law and the law did not nullify it (Galatians 3:17), but the people tried to DO to be blessed in the old testament because the law was given.
The Seed-Cost of righteousness - it was not cheap!
He left His glory and throne (Hebrews 10:5-7; Rev 5:1-6).
Jesus Christ put on the falling man’s body (Philippians 2:6-9).
He took our sins and crucified (2 Corinthians 5:21).
The Father abandoned Him (Matthew 27:46).
Died and stayed in hell for 3 days (Ephesians 4:9; Acts 2: 23-27)
Relevance
Therefore the seed (price or cost of His righteousness), has now blessed us because of Him. We receive the Grace of the Father, because of Him. We are now RIGHT because of Him and can now appear before God because of Him
Key instrument to all these
Faith in Him - this is our main work and fight - Paul said fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim 6:12).
Believing is work and requires revealed knowledge and skill to apply (John 6:28-29).
In conclusion
Simplify things, go for the Seed - believe in Him, He is the Seed that provides the totality of all you need!
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