You Have Been Made Righteous
Pastor Zubeda Sing · 1 min read
“For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”
You have been made righteous through Faith. You have been justified through Faith in the blood of Jesus. Let us read what Paul wrote about this in Romans: “4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 4:5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.”Romans 4:4-5
The first thing you have to do is to stop trying to make yourself righteous. Stop trying to be a little better. What are you to do? Just believe. God makes unrighteous people righteous. God has made Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in Jesus. There is a complete exchange. This righteousness is available through Faith in His blood. We are made righteous through Faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.
We are actually made righteous, by nature and by act. Just as surely as Adam’s disobedience made us all sinners, in exactly the same way, Christ’s obedience made us all righteous. Not just in theory, not just in theology, but in the way we live, in the very nature that is in us.
