The Righteousness Of God.

“… they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” 
Romans 5:17

In understanding righteousness, it is important you know that when you got born again, you received the gift of righteousness, in other words, righteousness was credited to your account. Secondly, God has also given to you the nature of righteousness which according to Ephesians 4:24 is the new man in Christ created in righteousness and true holiness. Thirdly, God is also your righteousness, (See Romans 3:26) and fourthly, you are the righteousness of God. (See 2 Corinthians 5:21)

In understanding what it means to be the righteousness of God, you will have to understand that when Adam sinned, he sinned for us, therefore all have sinned, so we all suffered because of Adam's sin. Also, as a consequence of Adam's sin death passed upon all men, so a man suffers not because of what he did wrong but as a result of Adam's sin. Because of this many have put the blame on God for not stopping man from sinning when He knew man was going to sin.


Therefore, for God to save us from the consequences of sin and for Him to be justified from the blame of Adam's sin; He sent His innocent and sinless Son to come and die for all our sins and offences. So Jesus suffered the punishment we deserved and was made sin for us who knew no sin that we should be made the righteousness of God in Him. Now, just as in Adam death passed upon us because of his sin. In the same way in Christ there is a divine exchange, Jesus took our place and died our death, we took His place and became the righteousness of God; which gave us access and a right to all that Jesus has a right to because we are now living in his stead.

Since we are now the righteousness of God, we were not restored to what Adam had at the beginning; we are now patterned after Christ. So by simple faith in Jesus, we are completely justified from all sin.  

Instruction.
Please pray the prayer in Galatians 4:19 for yourself.

For further study, read: 
Romans 1:16-17, Romans 3:22-26, Philippians 3:3-9, 1 Corinthians 1:30.

Doing the Word.
Live as the righteousness of God.