The Righteousness

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The Righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 517-21
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The Righteousness of God

• It has always been the will of God for you to
  know who you are in Christ and then go share that
  with others.
• Robert Moffat

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The Righteousness of God

• 2 Corinthians 517-19Therefore, if anyone is in
  Christ, he is a new creation the old has gone,
  the new has come! All this is from God, who
  reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave
  us the ministry of reconciliation that God was
  reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not
  counting men's sins against them. And he has
  committed to us the message of reconciliation.
  (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• 2 Corinthians 520-21We are therefore Christ's
  ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal
  through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf Be
  reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to
  be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
  righteousness of God. (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• Righteousmorally upright without guilt or sin
  to be in right-standing possessing the ability
  to live in accordance with being right

Righteousnessadhering to moral principles a
place or standing of justification you have
achieved the highest level of standards possible
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The Righteousness of God
Righteousness of God The state of being
righteous Achievement of perfection Being
at the highest level possible Being made right
in the eyes of God Having righteousness equal
to Gods
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How Do We Become TheRighteousness of God?

• Romans 321-24 But now a righteousness from God,
  apart from law, has been made known, to which the
  Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness
  from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to
  all who believe. There is no difference, for all
  have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
  and are justified freely by his grace through the
  redemption that came by Christ Jesus (NIV).

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How Do We Become TheRighteousness of God?

• Romans 41-3 What then shall we say that
  Abraham, our forefather, discovered in this
  matter? If, in fact, Abraham was justified by
  works, he had something to boast about but not
  before God. What does the Scripture say? "Abraham
  believed God, and it was credited to him as
  righteousness. (NIV).

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The Righteousness of God

• If you truly are a Christian,than you are
  already therighteousness of God andyou have
  been justified!

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How Do We Become TheRighteousness of God?

• Philippians 37-9 But whatever was to my profit
  I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What
  is more, I consider everything a loss compared to
  the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus
  my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I
  consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and
  be found in him, not having a righteousness of my
  own that comes from the law, but that which is
  through faith in Christ the righteousness that
  comes from God and is by faith. (NIV)

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How Do We Become TheRighteousness of God?

• Romans 324
• We are justified freely by his grace through
  the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• We have been
• justified by faith!

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The Righteousness of God

• Galatians 216,21 Know that a man is not
  justified by observing the law, but by faith in
  Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in
  Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in
  Christ and not by observing the law, because by
  observing the law no one will be justified. I do
  not set aside the grace of God, for if
  righteousness could be gained through the law,
  Christ died for nothing! (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• Galatians 220-21I live my life with complete
  trust in Gods son, the one who died for me. I
  dont just throw away knowing the grace of my God
  because I know if being made right could be
  achieved by following the law then the death of
  Christ would be a total waste! (NCV)

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The Righteousness of God

• Galatians 36-9 Consider Abraham He believed
  God, and it was credited to him as
  righteousness. Understand, then, that those who
  believe are children of Abraham. The Scripture
  foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by
  faith, and announced the gospel in advance to
  Abraham All nations will be blessed through
  you. So those who have faith are blessed along
  with Abraham, the man of faith. (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• Galatians 326,29 You are all sons of God
  through faith in Christ Jesus. If you belong to
  Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs
  according to the promise. (NIV)

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When do you becomeRighteousness of God?

• The very instant Jesuscame on board!

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How does this affect our everyday lives?

• Proverb 2121 He who pursues righteousness and
  love finds life, prosperity and honor. (NIV)

Hebrews 416 Let us then approach the throne of
grace with confidence, so that we may receive
mercy and find grace to help us in our time of
need. (NIV)
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How does this affect our everyday lives?

• Romans 81, 14-17Therefore, there is now no
  condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
  For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a
  slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit
  of sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Father.
  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that
  we are God's children. Now if we are children,
  then we are heirs heirs of God and co-heirs with
  Christ. (NIV)

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Is this a license to sin?

• Romans 61What shall we say, then? Shall we go
  on sinning so that grace may increase? By no
  means! We died to sin how can we live in it any
  longer? (NIV)

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Is this a license to sin?

• If you have been converted and truly born
  again,then you will not want to go on in sin.

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Is this a license to sin?
True Converts of Christ Have surrendered
control to Holy Spirit Follow Gods
commands Hate SIN and SIN makes them sick
Love other people Hate the things of this world
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Is this a license to sin?

• 1 John 24,6The man who says, I know him, but
  does not do what he commands is a liar, and the
  truth is not in him. Whoever claims to live in
  him must walk as Jesus did. (NIV)

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Is this a license to sin?

• 1 John 29-10Anyone who claims to be in the
  light but hates his brother is still in the
  darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the
  light. (NIV)

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Is this a license to sin?

• 1 John 215Do not love the world or anything in
  the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of
  the Father is not in him. (NIV)

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How then shall we respond?

• Acts 319So repent, change your mind and
  purpose turn around and return to God, that your
  sins may be erased, blotted out, wiped clean.
  (AMP)

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How then shall we live?

• Philippians 315Only let us live up to what we
  have already attained. (NIV)

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How then shall we live?

• Ephesians 317-18, 320And I pray that
  yougrasp how wide and long and high and deep is
  the love of Christ. Now to him who is able to do
  immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
  according to his power at work within us. (NIV)

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How then shall we live?

• Ephesians 41-3As a prisoner for the Lord, then
  I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling
  you have received. Be completely humble and
  gentle be patient, bearing with one another in
  love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the
  Spirit through the bond of peace. (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• Romans 835-37Who shall separate us from the
  love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
  persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or
  sword? No, in all these things we are more than
  conquerors through him who loved us. For I am
  convinced that neither death nor life, neither
  angels nor demons, neither the present nor the
  future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
  nor anything else in all creation, will be able
  to separate us from the love of God that is in
  Christ Jesus our Lord. (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• 1 John 31How great is the love the Father has
  lavished on us, that we should be called children
  of God! And that is what we are! (NIV)

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The Righteousness of God

• 2 Corinthians 521He who knew no sin became
  sin, so that we might become the righteousness of
  God in Christ. (NKJV)

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The Righteousness of God
2 Corinthians 517-21
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