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Know the Reality of Our Righteousness in Christ

The fourth step necessary to attain the highest kind of faith is to know the reality of our righteousness in Christ.

ROMANS 3:23-26

23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his RIGHTEOUSNESS: that he might be JUST, and THE JUSTIFIER of him which believeth in Jesus.

This is not theory but a Bible fact. God’s Righteousness Is a Gift Most people have thought that righteousness is some kind of a state they had to attain to by right living, but that isn’t true at all.
Of course believers are to live right. But, actually, “righteousness” means rightness or right standing. And righteousness is a gift. If you can’t see that, read Romans 5:17 again and let it sink in. Righteousness as a gift is something that is received now. Righteousness as a stage of spiritual development is a fruit of the born-again recreated human spirit and it takes time to grow. Amen

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