FOP/BSS/004 FORCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

TOPIC: FORCE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

TEXT: ROMANS 5:17 - 21

MEMORY VERSE: ROM 3:21

INTRODUCTION

To ‘justify’ simply means to declare righteous and to be righteous means to have a right standing.

Therefore righteousness is to stand before God without any sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority, having a complete knowledge that the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ fully satisfy the claims of justice for us to become the righteousness of God.

Righteousness is a free gift of God to us who believe and have accepted the sacrifice of His Son for our sin. Righteousness does not have anything to do with external things, neither is it a spiritual state we attain after certain number of years of walking with God. It is simply an act of faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ by his death, resurrection and ascension to the right hand of the Father.

EVALUATION

1. Understanding Righteousness

(This evaluation is intended to help us appreciate, know, recognize, realize, be aware of, be familiar with, apprehend, fathom, grasp, take in, figure out, work out, what righteousness is)

a) Phil 3:9, Rom 3:30-32

b) Rom 5:17-18, Rom 3:24

c) I Peter 2:24, II Cor 5:21

d) Rom 10:9-10

2. Living in Righteousness Consciousness

(Here, we stress the need for us to live our lives daily being aware of the fundamental truth that we have been declared right with God since the moment we gave our lives to Christ)

a) Rom 8:1-4

b) Heb 4:16

c) Rom 6:13-14

d) I Cor 15:34

3. Benefits of Righteousness

(This evaluation centres on some of the countless advantages that abound to us by reason of our being made right with God)

a) Rom 5:17, II Peter 3:13

b) James 5:16

c) Ps 125:3, Psalm 92:12

d) Prov 4:18. Psalm 37:23,37

e) Rom 8:30

CONCLUSION

Everyone who has received this free gift of righteousness ought to live with the consciousness of what they have received.

Knowing that the price has already been paid does not in any way gives us a license to sin (Rom 6:1-2), for in doing this we attempt to frustrate the grace of God on our lives.

Sin consciousness brings guilt and condemnation which ultimately affects our fellowship with the father, thereby robbing us of the very best the father has for us.

Live Righteously!

Recommended Books

* Two Types of Righteousness (E.W Kenyon)

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