2 Corinthians 5:21 | NKJV (21) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
“For He hath made Him to be sin for us…” – means it was the choice or will of God for Jesus to do this
He became sin with our sin. He did not sin and was spotless but He took upon Himself our sin past, present, and future.
To be righteous means you are right with God, made right to God’s standard, innocent, justified
The only way that God could be legally right in making us right in His eyes is if He gave us His righteousness through Jesus.
Under the Old Testament, the people’s sins were covered under the blood of animals and remembrance of past sins was made every year.
Jesus has offered up His own blood. He offered Himself and carried His own blood into the Heavenly Holy of Holies to obtain eternal redemption for us.
The Blood of Jesus does not cover our sins. His blood washes away and takes away our sin so that once washed, there is no more remembrance of past sins.
We are no longer under the penalty of sin.
Sin consciousness causes you to draw back and to be afraid of God.
Righteousness consciousness causes you to be bold and to draw near to God.
I am as right with God as Jesus is because it is His righteousness I am made right with!
We see the signs of people that are aware of your sin and failures and shortcomings.
- People who are sin conscious try to cover their own sins by their own work.
- People who are sin conscious (aware of their sin) hide themselves from the presence of God.
- People who are sin conscious are living in fear.
We should not even talk about our past sins and be in a sin consciousness.
We should talk about our righteousness in Christ. We should talk about how we are innocent and right with God.
God is as pleased with me as He is with Jesus!
Jesus has dealt with the sin problem!
1 John 4:15-17 NKJV (15) Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (16) And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (17) Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
Symptoms of people who do not know they are the righteousness of God:
- People who don’t know they are righteous in Christ continually live in fear.
- People who don’t know they are righteous in Christ live in shame and guilt.
Romans 10:1-3 NKJV (1) Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. (2) For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. (3) For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
Declaring that I am the righteous of God in Christ is submitting to righteousness not arrogance.
Romans 10:4-10 NKJV (4) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. (5) For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “THE MAN WHO DOES THOSE THINGS SHALL LIVE BY THEM.” (6) But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) (7) or, ” ‘WHO WILL DESCEND INTO THE ABYSS?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). (8) But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): (9) that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. (10) For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
If you are experiencing shame, guilt and condemnation, you have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
- People who don’t know they are righteous in Christ are always talking about how unworthy they are.
- People who don’t know they are righteous in Christ are always asking other people to pray for them because they don’t have confidence in prayer.
You need to believe that God hears you and will answer you!
- People who don’t know they are righteous in Christ are always begging God to do something.
- People who don’t know they are righteous in Christ tolerate with all manner of the works of the devil in their lives.
They don’t believe they have a right to deal with it because of our past sins.
- People who don’t know they are righteous in Christ don’t live in peace and joy, and don’t act boldly on the Word of God.
Jesus did not come to show us how unrighteous and unworthy we are. He came to show us how a righteous person is supposed to live!
We need to ready and study the Word until we begin to act just like Jesus in boldness, prayer, and lifestyle!