Righteousness

If you know (perceive and are sure) that He [Christ] is [absolutely] righteous [conforming to the Father’s will and purpose, thought, and action], you may also know (be sure) that everyone who does righteously [and is therefore in like manner conformed to the Divine will is born (begotten) of Him [God]. 1 John 2:29 

As we begin this study on righteousness, let’s first look at what righteousness actually means. According to the Dictionary and Strong’s Concordance righteousness means to be morally upright, virtuous, without guilt or sin, innocent, faultless, approved and accepted by God, one whose thinking, feeling, and acting is conformed to the will of God, and finally to have integrity. So we can take these meanings and replace them for righteousness and be saying the exact same thing.

With that in mind, we can accurately say for us to know that someone is born again of God they must be morally upright, virtues, guiltless, sinless, innocent, faultless, accepted by God, and one whose thoughts, actions, and feelings are conformed to God’s will. All of these things must also be in a like manner to Christ’s righteousness! Our Father had John write it, so it’s Truth! 

Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t believe that most Christians have this mind within them. But as we have done so many times before with these studies, we are going to look at our Father's Word and we are going to see what the Truth is, and faith will come to us by hearing and studying the Truth of the Word. The Word will give us hope that extends past our own abilities and it will transcend us into the reality of God’s abilities. So get pumped up because we are going to see that because of Jesus’ success, we are righteous, even as He is righteous.