Your Nature Of Righteousness

RHAPSODY OF REALITIES 

DAILY DEVOTIONAL 

August 25th, 2017

"For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:17)."

The Bible definition of righteousness doesn’t mean right living; right living is a result of righteousness. You can’t live right until you’re righteous. Thus, righteousness, essentially, is a nature; the nature of God that produces in a human person, the rightness of God. That nature or ability to do right was imparted to your spirit when you were born again. Thus, your true and only nature is one of righteousness. I’ve heard some people say that when a person is born again, his old nature and the new nature in Christ co-exist, but that’s not true. Now that you’re born again, the life and nature of God has completely supplanted the human life and nature with which you were born by your biological parents. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” The man who’s born again is a completely new species, one that never existed before. He has only one nature, which is the divine nature—the nature of righteousness: “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust” (2 Peter 1:4). There’s no other nature in you except the nature of God, which is the nature of righteousness.This is why it’s possible for you to live right and do the will of God. The righteousness of God in you is a force that causes you to do the will of God.

PRAYER Dear Father, I thank you for I’ve received the gift of righteousness; therefore, I reign in life, over and above the world’s system that condemns. I have right standing in your presence because every form of guilt and condemnation has been taken away, and I’ve received of your nature of righteousness, and walk accordingly, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY: Romans 5:1 AMP  

Therefore, since we have been justified [that is, acquitted of sin, declared blameless before God] by faith, [let us grasp the fact that] we have peace with God [and the joy of reconciliation with Him] through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed).  

Romans 8:1-4 

Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior]. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do [that is, overcome sin and remove its penalty, its power] being weakened by the flesh [man’s nature without the Holy Spirit], God did: He sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man as an offering for sin. And He condemned sin in the flesh [subdued it and overcame it in the person of His own Son], 4 so that the [righteous and just] requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power]. 

1 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Psalms 135-138

2 YEAR BIBLE READING PLAN: Luke 18:35-43 1 Samuel 13 

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