Featured What is the Gift of Righteousness ?

You are evading the Truth,

They that Christ died for are made righteous by His obedience Rom 5:19 and Reconciled to God while they're enemies and unbelievers Rom 5:10, their unbelief does not prevent that !

 

What is the Righteousness of God by faith of Jesus Christ ?

Rom 3:22

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Its the Righteousness we are made by the obedience/faithfulness of Christ, Rom 5:19

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience/faithfulness of one shall many be made righteous.

That is His Obedience is equivalent to His Faithfulness, which is called in our text "by the faith of Jesus Christ" !

The word faith pistis means:

II.fidelity, faithfulness

The word faith in our text is Genitive which:

Paul has in mind here the Faith or Faithfulness of Jesus Christ which is the causal effect of the Righteousness of God.

Rom 5:19 could have very well have read

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the faith or faithfulness of one shall many be made righteous.

And this Righteousness of God in Rom 3:22 is revealed to Faith through the Gospel in Rom 1:16-17 !

 

They that Christ died for are made righteous by His obedience Rom 5:19 and Reconciled to God while they're enemies and unbelievers Rom 5:10, their unbelief does not prevent that !

Now dont evade the point made with scripture ! Do you see the point I made ? Review it with me !

 

yeshua

That comment is anti scriptural, for Rom 5:10 states clearly that they were reconciled to God while being enemies by the death of His Son Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Now you falsely say that they were only provided a way back to be reconciled, that is detracting from what Christ's Death did as stated !

 

I don't know what you talking about , sounds like a rabbit trail !

 

That verse does not invalidate Rom 5:10 ! Those Christ died for are reconciled to God [by His Death] even while they are being enemies, Rom 5:10

10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Believers, before they became believers, were reconciled to God by Christ's Death !

Yeshua denied that here:

Now it appears you side with him ! If you do, you too deny the scripture and undervalue the accomplishment of Christ's Death alone !

 

What was imputed to Abraham for Righteousness ?

What was imputed to Abraham for Righteousness ? Rom 4:3,22

3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.

Understand something, it was not Abraham's Faith that was imputed to him for Righteousness, simply because Righteousness is Revealed to Faith Rom 1:17

17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

So promptly dismiss that error,but it was the Imputed Righteousness of Christ that was imputed to him for Righteousness, which he embraced by Faith. He was made Righteous however by imputation as a result of Christ's Own Obedience unto Death in his behalf Rom 5:19

19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

That being made Righteous is by Imputation, and Abraham and his spiritual seed are the Many !

They are made, declared Righteous because Christ's Obedience unto death provided for them perfect satisfaction to God's Law and Justice, and that was charged to Abraham and counted him Righteous !

So the it which was counted as Righteousness to Abraham, was not his Faith, but the Object of his Faith which had been revealed in the Gospel to his faith, the Righteousness of God, because of Christ's obedience Rom 5:19 !1454

 

When God gives a Gift !

When God gives a Gift, its not as the false religionists make it out to be, a offer for man to decide with his freewill on whether or not he is going to take it, for that is nothing but a diabolically lie, not supported by scripture, yet when He gives us a Gift He ensures the communication of the benefits of it so that we come into the possession of the Gift, or otherwise it was never a Gift given by God !

Remember when the Jewish Apostles knew that God gave the Gentiles the same Gift as they, which is speaking of the Spirit, its because they seen it with their own eyes that the Gentiles had the same experience as they had at the beginning, for we read Acts 10:45-47

45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured or bestowed out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

Also notice in Vs 47 the word received the greek lambanō and means:

II.to receive (what is given), to gain, get, obtain, to get back

In other words, it does not mean something offered here, but something given so that it was possessed , obtained !

The Holy Ghost was not offered to the Gentiles, but it was Sovereignly poured out upon them by the Sovereign Christ Acts 10:45

45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

That word pour ekcheō can also mean bestowed upon !

45 And the believers from among the circumcised [the Jews] who came with Peter were surprised and amazed, because the free gift of the Holy Spirit had been bestowed and poured out largely even on the Gentiles.AMP

BTW this was in line with the Redemptive Purpose of Christ, that the Gentiles receive the Holy Spirit Gal 3:13-14

13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Acts 11:17

17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

Again they received the Gift because God gave it to them into possession of it !

So whenever we hear of those speaking of Salvation being a Gift, but yet its not yours until you accept it, they are deceivers and liars ! Thats not how God gives Gifts , thats a man made devil inspired lie !1402

 

Righteousness Imputed without works !

Rom 4:6

6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

6 In the same way, David also pronounces a blessing on the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from actions:CEB

Actions, Acts, Deeds are all works !

6 David said the same thing when he was talking about the blessing people have when God accepts them as good without looking at what they have done:

Its extremely hard to find any that Truly believes, understands and appreciates this nugget treasure of Truth found in the sacred oracles, and what it does really mean to have Righteousness given, imputed, charged unto one without works !

Now most of us, if not all of us do believe that a work is something we physically do with our hands or just in a physical sense, yet though that is True, a Work is defind as such, however what the devil has caused many of us to fail to realize, is that a work is also done in and with the mind, the heart ! In fact, the greek word ergon defines a work thusly :


I.business, employment, that which any one is occupied

A.that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking



II.any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind


III.an act, deed, thing done: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work

You see that ? Any product whatever, accomplished by MIND:

(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges,

Psychology. the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and activities.

intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing; intelligence.

intellectual power or ability.

The greek word for mind nous:

Hence, if we believe and say that our hearing, understanding, and believing something, with our intellectual abilities is the reason why God imputes to us Righteousness [which is Salvation], then we are contrary and opposed to the sacred and blessed Truth here described in Rom 4:6, and we are in fact advocating that God imputes Righteousness based upon and on account of my works, the works of my mind, the accomplishment of my mind ! Paul once wrote that he served with his mind Rom 7:25

I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

So again, if we believe that we are saved and or receive Righteousness imputed to our charge because of our believing, our faith, any action we have done, we forfeit any claim to the Blessedness of Rom 4:6 !

6 This is what David meant when he spoke of the happiness of the person whom God accepts as righteous, apart from anything that person does:GNT