Your Righteousness Will Shine (Psalm 37:5-6, Rom 8:31-37)

Introduction: Romans 4:1-3(AMP and MSG)

1.    The demonstration of Christ as the righteousness of God

2.    The demonstration of the believer’s righteousness in Christ

The demonstration of Christ as the righteousness of God

Þ   1 Corinthians 1:(26-29) 31

o   Philippians 1:21- For to me, to live is Christ and die is gain

o   A hard truth- for to live is Christ is about living to satisfy Him

o   You can’t satisfy what is dead.

o   The turning point for every believe to be enrich in God’s glory is:

1.    From Him

2.    In Christ

Þ   Jeremiah 23:5-6

o   He is called, The Lord our Righteousness

o   Hebrews 7:1-3;11-16

o   The process of obtaining righteousness is by faith (Genesis 15:6)

o   But this faith must be rooted in submission to God (Genesis 14:18-23)

o   Submission is a condition---Righteousness is the state of the condition

§  An apple fruit is a fruit, but for it to be fruitful, it has to be in a state to be eat. 

Þ   Righteousness: It is a state of life that God himself justifies or imputes unto a man to possess Christ’s image and likeness so that the man becomes a legal custodian of God’s promises. The man can use it, plead in it, and appear before God in it, just as if it were fully his own”

The basis of Christ our Righteous:

-       The Gospel of Christ-Romans 1:16-19, Revelation 14:6-7

-       The Predestined Will of God: Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 53:1-6,10-11

-       The Commission of God’s Man: John 16:7

o   He is the man who the Spirit:

§  Convict

§  Respond to the state of Righteousness 

§  Judgment

o   Exodus 33:15-17

3.    The demonstration of the believer’s righteousness in Christ

a.    Seeking-Matthew 6:33

b.    Faith- Hebrews 11:30-40