I’ve talked with you for a few years. Do you think it is what you do or don’t do that makes you righteous?
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I’ve talked with you for a few years. Do you think it is what you do or don’t do that makes you righteous?
I don't think you can "dilute righteousness". I'm a black and white kind of guy, things are right or wrong. To say someone is a righteous man, when that someone does unrighteousness, there must be a source of righteousness that is not found in the man's actions.
Unless you abide by the Mosiac Covenent terms that when the righteous man does wickedly, his righteousness is forgotten.
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Yes, you’re right, it hasn’t! But when men are ready to bear a thing, they are ready. Not all will be able to accept that there may be some leaven they have been given. But some will. Even if only one or two!
No. Do you?
I already think you don't.
The point is this.
I am rendered righteous by Jesus, through justification through baptism in His death and burial and resurrection. But self-control over my fleshy members is a training process, and though Jesus makes me righteous, yet it takes time for this to show in my life.
Holiness, we are set apart by God for His use, and that is being made holy. But it's as if God selected bent tongs, and a broom with hardly any bristle, and a bent basin, and is using these to serve His temple to show how it's all Him, not us. He's straightening me out, fixing the leaks, like that, and in His purposes, sometimes He works instantly, and sometimes over the course of years.
As we cooperate with Him, yielding ourselves to righteousness, we have fruit unto holiness, as the holiness He called us to is rendered into our lives.
So we are immediately holy in that God set us apart for Him. But we have to yield ourselves to righteousness - the part we see, the part we can better define to ourselves on a practical level - to produce fruit unto holiness.
We are rendered righteous and declared holy. We cooperate with righteousness, and we are rendered holy, which is to act in righteousness not as a matter of obedience, but as a matter of character, being conformed to Him image.
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I don’t really think so either, but it was something to think about.
Well..if you do what is right, that’s righteous. If you do what is wrong, that’s unrighteous. You’re a mixture of both. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. But just because you have Christ’s blood on your door posts and will not be destroyed, is that any reason for you to say, I AM righteous! I AM holy! Why not be honest instead?
He holds up well. He has a hard forehead. It’s not healthy for me though. It hurts to see him attacked for trying to help men.
Is that all you have? His blood on your doorposts? Your ticket stamped, I'm going to heaven! Or do you have a new life in Christ, being born from God?
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If a man does a wrong thing and a judge shows him mercy, it does not mean he didn’t do a wrong thing. It just means he was shown mercy by the judge.
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Of course it’s not all. It’s a beginning.
But I wanted to deal with the danger of declaring oneself holy when they admit they are sometimes unrighteous, sometimes do the wrong thing.
If a man is speaking about himself, it’s best to be completely honest. After all, which of the two sinners praying walked away justified? It was the one who was honest. This is because God likes honesty.
It is right to tell the truth about yourself.
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Which of us claim to be holy?
Which of us claim to be righteous?
Does God say we are holy or righteous?
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Mercy is to treat an unrighteous man as though he were righteous. Mercy does not make one righteous.
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