Born Again People Are Just Righteous

"If ye know that He is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of Him." 1 John 2:29

Our Father told us that the way we would know who was born of Him, was by the righteous acts that He would do through them. God not only said righteous acts, but righteousness as Jesus’ righteousness! Now that is righteous, and we see in 1 John 3:3, that through the power of the Holy Spirit’s hope we are pure as our Father is pure.

And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless

Jesus gave all of His righteousness to us. We were created in His image and He is the firstborn among many brethren. But it’s so much more powerful than just being in Jesus’ image, we are actually one with Jesus. We live because the same power that lives within our Lord and Savior lives within us. So it shouldn’t be a stumbling block, this should be an area of our rejoicing, because we are one, one with Jesus, and one with each other, and since we are one, the world will believe!

“How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God? Hebrews 9:14

Remember what we have been studying about righteousness, it means to be guiltless? Well, so many don’t feel guiltless, so when we talk about now being God’s children and being pure as our Father is pure, they tend to have issues. Our Father knows who we are. He knows what we are. Jesus was tempted in every area of His life, just as we are, so Jesus was tempted to feel guilty. About what I don’t know, but the Bible teaches us that He was tempted as we are tempted, so He was! Now our Father did something about our feeling guilty, He sent Jesus, and God knew that the Blood of Jesus would purge our consciences from dead works. The Blood of Jesus will clean all of that guilt up. I have so many things I could feel guilty over, yet the Holy Spirit has empowered me not too. That’s not bragging on my ability to block feelings, that is being thankful for our Father's ability!

We have the Spirit of our Father within us. He is strengthening us to trust God’s Truth. He is allowing us to believe this and He is empowering us to live in it. The Spirit has given us the joy and peace of believing this, that we may abound in hope, and that hope has brought faith, faith Authored and Finished by Jesus!