Spirit Breakfast 🍞☕ 22/7/2019

Theme: Guarding your progress (part 13)

Anchor Text: Nehemiah 4:11-23

Subtext: Ephesians 6:13-18

Continued from the last post on this series

Ephesians 6:14 Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness.

The Body armour (breastplate) of God's Righteousness.

Let's begin with what righteousness is. Without going into long theological discussion, righteousness simply means 'right standing'.

Righteousness is based on a standard. This standard is from and of God who is Righteous.

Righteousness is being right according to God's standard. 

Hence, man's attempt at righteousness ends up in futility. So the prophet Isaiah said '...we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;...' (Isaiah 64:6)

Therefore no matter how good a man might be, he is not righteous. For this reason he must seek to obtain righteousness from a standard that God deems righteous.

Jesus is the personification of righteousness made flesh. 1 John 1:2 calls Him 'The Righteous'. Hence God looks at Jesus as the perfect example of righteousness a man can attain.

This is why our righteousness is in Jesus. Our righteousness is not ours or what we generate. Rather our righteousness is imputed.

Imputed means it wasn't originally ours, but it was accounted and ascribed to us.

For he has made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21 King James 2000 Bible)

Therefore we can boldly attest and affirm that we are righteous. Our righteousness not by our ability but the imputed righteousness of Jesus.

We continue tomorrow by God's Grace.

Stay Graced...


P.S: Apologies for the missed days.


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