Faith Righteousness

But now the Righteousness of God apart from the law is Revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets. (Romans 3:21)  

What is a Righteousness Consciousness?  We’re going to learn some knot tying lessons, (like how to “Fear Not” and especially the “Sin Not”). Let’s talk about ”faith righteousness”.

Let’s be wise enough to go to God to find out what was being said.  Look what God said in Hebrews 10 & Hebrews 1.

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. {Hebrews 10:1}

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. {Hebrews 10:2}

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
{Hebrews 1:3}

“Therefore, according to Hebrews 10:1-2, we should have no more sin consciousness.  Therein lies the area of problem.  We have been highly developed in sin consciousness and have done almost nothing to develop a righteousness consciousness.  Again, this is just not what most of us have been taught.

Sin Consciousness

What is a sin consciousness?  What is a righteousness consciousness?  A sin consciousness is thinking I'm going to fail based on something I did.  An attitude of defeat based on works of my righteousness.

A righteousness consciousness is thinking what I did is not pertinent to this, because it’s covered by the blood of Yahoshua.  A righteousness consciousness is saying that I'm going to have success because I am the righteousness of God.  By the way, righteousness does speak as shown in Romans 10:6, and this is what is called being “skillful in the word of righteousness”, (Hebrews 5:13).

I didn’t say that I hadn’t sinned, but that my sins are purged, {Colossians 2:13}.  Gone!  Kapooey!  The definition of prosperous means “to succeed in reaching”.  So, when John wrote “I pray that you might prosper and be in good health even as your soul prospers”, {3 John 1:2}; he was saying something about like this as explained below.

Here’s an example.  I used to make money in the stock market.  But, time after time after time, I’d hear Yahweh tell me to buy a certain stock now, and I’d hesitate.  I get in a “Trust Knot”.  I want to see if the stock will go down further before I move.  But, just as Yahweh told me, instead of it going down, it goes up.  And often times I missed the wave altogether.  And Yahweh ends up telling me, “It’s too late, don’t buy it now, as the whole world can see it’s going up”.  I am called to be the head and not the tail, which in plain English in practical words means that I move first, and the world follows me, and as such means that I have to hear from God and then trust what I'm hearing.

But, I have failed in doing this trusting part.  So, I have often times beat myself up, realizing I just lost an opportunity to make money.  I get so down on myself over the fact that I have missed God once more, that I am then inept to hear God on the next play even though I can hear him saying, “That’s all right, I got several more opportunities for you to reap in money this afternoon”.  And then when I finally do make the next play, my confidence wanes, and the voices start.  Did I really hear from God?  This play has got to be dumb.  All the analysts are saying this company is about to fold.  Why didn’t I look up this data before I bought this stock?  Why can’t I be smarter, and so on.

I have found that because I focus on the missed opportunities, that this impairs my ability to do the next play right.  I was so consumed with my ability, and seeing my failures that I got into a “Sin Knot”, not realizing that I am not working in my ability and my righteousness.  Okay, back to the top.  A sin consciousness is thinking that something I did is going to cause me to fail.  I have been having a sin consciousness.  So what that I missed God on the last opportunity, and maybe even the last dozen!  My sins have been purged.  I am the righteousness of God.  What does that translate into meaning?  I have a right standing with God and can come into his presence anytime.  So what does that have to do with me winning and being a winner?   I have to tell the voices of the accuser that I am the Righteousness of God, and that according to Malachi 3:11 God will not allow my fruit to drop on the ground and rot.

Here’s an other example from the other side of the coin.  Yahweh told me once that that I have some faults that need changing, and that he was going to reveal them to me.  I could have gotten all bummed out about this.  But, the key to understanding God is to realize that God is not mad at me.  You might have to read over Isaiah 54:9 to really grasp this for yourself.

But since I know that God is not mad at me, then I never have to be concerned that God is going to change his mind, and even though he said that he would not be mad at me, (Isaiah 54:9), he really might be.  No, God promises that he will never be mad at me.  End of story.  So, if God wants to reveal to me some of my faults, it must be because God knows that I am capable of changing, and I can’t think of a better person to reveal my faults without criticism than God.  What a loving father, Abba God.

So, as the day progressed, I got an email from someone and it sort of pointed to a lack of omission on my part.  I could have defended myself, but I relaxed and said.  There might be some part of this that is true, and that’s when I heard Yahweh tell me that I have been neglecting my Mother.  There it was.  It was gentle, and followed the guidelines of James 3:17.  So, I immediately recognized that the was Yahweh, and I repented, (meaning to change my mind), and acknowledged that this was a fault, and made a determination to seek God from now on in regards to how I can not do this anymore. 

But, at no point was I concerned that God was going to get mad at me.  I think that if I thought that God was going to get mad at me, then I would not have been so eager to have God correct me on the matter.  This is called a righteousness consciousness or conscience, or having my heart established in Faith Righteousness.  1 John 1:9 says that if I confess my sin, he is faithful and just to forgive my sins and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness.  Well, if I'm cleansed from all unrighteousness, then I'm righteous.  I am the righteousness of God.  I'm righteous, not because of my works, but because Yahweh’s word said so, and I trust that that is so, (this is called faith), regardless of my works.  This is where we get the term “Faith Righteousness”.

If your heart is not established in faith righteousness, then you’ll not be able to succeed in reaching or to stay in the safe harbor.

Here are some big sounding words again, {Romans 10:3}.  “Established” means “Forever”, “Everlasting”,  “Without End”, or “Permanent”.  I wish I could come up with some eternal fixture to illustrate what establish means.  But, all that I can come up with can be torn down.  The best that I can think of are the the carvings on Stone Mountain, or Mount Rushmore; or better yet, look how God told Abraham, “And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.”, {Genesis 17:7}.

A root system on a tree would explain it better.  When the sower sows the word, immediately the enemy comes to steal the word, {Mark 4:15}.  He wants to get to you before you dig down and acquire roots.  Matthew 13:19 expounds on this further stating that “the enemy will take away that which you don’t understand”.  This is why Yahoshua said in the next verses in Mark 4:24,  “Take Heed to what you hear”.  This will establish in you a root system or the “blessed assurance”.  Blessed assurance is that assurance, unqualified confidence in the righteousness of God, knowing that you have an empowerment of Yahweh’s Power for success.

Unless you have established, or convinced, or convicted your heart that you are righteous by faith and that you are not condemned, then when the opportunity comes to prosper or to be made whole, you’ll miss the mark, and fall short of the Glory that God wants to bless you with  We won’t have the confidence or that “blessed assurance” to trust in God, because we will be trusting in our own ability; or we’ll be trusting in another man’s ability, both of which are trusting in man’s ability. 

Jeremiah 17:5-6 talks about this in the New International Version “that those that trust in man, will not see prosperity when it comes”:

Jeremiah 17

⁵ This is what Yahweh says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from Yahweh.

⁶ He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes.  He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

⁷ But blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, whose confidence is in him.

⁸ He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.  It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green.  It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”

This is a really good picture of the man with a sin consciousness and a man with Righteousness Consciousness.  You get sick, who you gonna call?  The doctor or upon Yahweh.  Someone might say, woe is “me”, “I” am undone, for “I” am a man of unclean lips, (I, I, I)... or “How can I lose with His blood I use”.  You decide. (hint: I am made the righteousness of God) .  Jonathan’s son, Mephibosheth thought for sure that he was a “dead dog”.  He didn’t know about the blood covenant between his father and the king that made him in right standing with King David.   You can read the account at 2 Samuel 9:1-13.  It is a great account of how we have seen ourselves before God and his throne of Grace, compared to how God sees us. 

Let’s go to 2 Corinthians 5:17-18

¹⁷Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 

¹⁸Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Yahoshua, (the Messiah), and has given us the ministry of reconciliation,



Now, connect that with verse 21.

²¹He who knew no sin was made to be sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

Righteousness is not something that grows up and becomes.   It is a gift you received the moment you accepted Yahoshua as your Lord and Savior.

You cannot buy a Volkswagen and hope it will grow up and become a Cadillac.   One was made, or manufactured, a Volkswagen, and one was made, or manufactured, a Cadillac.

You were recreated in Christ Yahoshua—Made the righteousness of God.

I have been made the righteousness of God in Christ Yahoshua.  He was made sin with my sin, and I was made the righteousness of God with His righteousness.  Then, you might say, well you just brought God down to our level.  No, I didn’t do that.  God did that~!  You might say, “Well, you just exalted yourself up to Yahweh’s level.”  No, I didn’t do that either, I'm just reading what God wrote~!

I just believed what God wrote.  God is for me, not against me.  I am supposed to prosper.  It should not come as a surprise when I prosper in health, and when I prosper in wealth.  I am already blessed.  I don’t have to put on a sad face and go before God and ask him in his tender mercy to be compassionate on me.  He already is.  I just have to receive it by faith.

Nor, do I have to beg God to give me the words to preach, when he has told me that me that Jeremiah 1:9applies to me.  God said that he will put His words in my mouth.  Now, I could get all “down in the mouth”, saying how I messed up this week, or recount what it seems like the devil won another victory in some area of my life, and I am so unworthy to be Yahweh’s messenger, and again beg God to be compassionate on me and give me a something to preach.

Or I could say, God I see in your word that you who began a good work in me, are faithful to complete it, (Philippians 1:6), and that you told me that you would put your words in my mouth, so I'm going open wide my mouth and let you fill it, Psalms 81:10.

Wouldn’t you like to have a righteousness that comes by faith rather than by what you can do, or works, or law?  As long as you think of yourself as unworthy, then you’re saying that based on your works, you don’t consider yourself righteous.  Well, this is not faith.  This is trusting in your abilities rather than what God finished at the cross 2000 years ago.

There are two kinds of righteousness.  One is your righteousness, and this is where Romans 3:10 says that there is none righteousness, no not one.  And as if Paul were on purpose trying to show us that there was a flip side to this coin, {Romans 3:10 ~ Romans 10:3}, he wrote in Romans 10:3, the following.

For they being ignorant of Yahweh’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

However, going back to Romans 3, notice that in this same chapter Paul goes on to explain in Romans 3:21 that there is another righteousness, and this is the righteousness of God that comes by faith.  Faith is nothing more than believing what God wrote.  If God wrote that he that knew no sin was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him... Then I believe based on Yahweh’s word, {2 Corinthians 5:21}, that I am the righteousness of God in Him.  By the way, that “in Him” is referring to Yahoshua.  Was Yahoshua made sin for you?  Has this happened?  Then it also has happened that you are made the Righteousness of God, in Him.

Hebrews 11:7 ~ By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

Suppose that someone were to ask you, “Are you righteous?”, or “Are you as righteous as God”?  You might look at yourself and the numerous times that you’ve missed it.  You might recall one time when you watched a something you should not have watched, or the time that you got exceptionally angry, and you would say, “No, I'm not righteous at all”.  

It would seem odd, and really arrogant to call yourself righteous.  Well, you’d be partially correct.  Based on what even the top performer of righteous works, God says that even our righteousness is like filthy rags, (Isaiah 64:6).  So, you and the Scriptures agree on that point.  In ourselves we are unworthy, but we are not in ourselves anymore.  God loves me just as much as he loves Yahoshua, (John 17:23).

However, something happened on the cross.  There was an exchange program where Yahoshua not just took our sin upon himself, but became sin for us in order that we might be made the Righteousness of God.  In fact, Yahoshua goes on to tell us that the love God had for Yahoshua is now in us, (John 17:26).  So, with our righteousness we miss the mark.  But, now because of the shed blood of our Lord Yahoshua the Messiah, we are made the righteousness of God.

And although it sounds pretty prideful to say that I am the righteousness of God, it’s actually not.  It’s realizing that whether I feel like it or not, if God said that I am the righteousness of God, then I am the righteousness of God.  To still contend that you’re not worthy, and that you’re so unholy, and so forth; has pride as it’s motivating factor.  I guess you’re saying that your unworthiness is greater than Yahweh’s word, and this in itself is self-righteousness.

Romans 10:3

For they being ignorant of Yahweh’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

To deny that you are righteous is to call God a liar, and is saying that you’re trusting more in what you’ve accomplished in the area of righteousness, (which even God has called filthy rags), stronger than Yahweh’s word of righteousness that you receive by faith.

Philippians 3:9

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

If I could talk about Abraham as pertaining to the flesh, and if Abraham was made the righteousness of God based on what he did, we could Glorify Abraham, but not God.  But the scripture says that Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.  Now, if someone worked all their life at a job, and on each payday got a paycheck, you wouldn’t call these paychecks a gracious gift from the company.  That’s because the company owes that man or woman the money for work rendered.  But, suppose that this same company helps out another man that does not work for this company and writes him out a check.  The company calls up this second man and all this man has to do is come get the check.  The only way that this man will not get the check is if he doesn’t come pick up the check.

Well, obviously he has to believe that there really is a check waiting for him, or he won’t show up to pick it up.  And he comes and picks up the check.  His faith in believing that there really was money for him paid off.  Maybe, he was so behind in debts that the creditor’s were about to cart him off to jail, but there was enough money from this company to pay off all debts that this man owed, and he gets the check and pays off all the people he owes money to.

This would be Grace, or a Gift.  This man’s faith has set him free.  He is now in right standing with his creditors.  He could have worked until he had paid off the debt, but he chose instead to trust that there was a free gift for him.

King David talked about such a man to whom God imputed righteousness without works, saying “Blessed are they whose inquiries are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.  Blessed is the man to whom Yahweh will not impute sin”, (Now, go read Romans 4:1-8)

Now, here’s the paradox.  If we got Yahweh’s righteousness in place of our own, then we can no longer say that we are unrighteous without implying that Yahweh’s word was not strong enough to work for us.  But, if you believe and welcome Yahweh’s word as true in your life, then accept that you are the Righteousness of God.  And since you are the Righteousness of God, even if you’re just a new “born again” believer.  I apologize if this is offends you, but anything less shows that you are still under the law, and under bondage trusting in what you can accomplish.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth, (Romans 3:4)

Galatians 3:13-14

       ¹³Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

        ¹⁴That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Yahoshua, (the Messiah); that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

We have got the Blessings of Abraham.  Read Romans 4 to find out what the blessing of Abraham is.  Aren’t you curious to know what is this gift that we got.

Read Romans 3 & Romans 4

So, how does this apply to your case in point?  Well, I’ve found that as I have confidence that I will prosper, or that I will succeed, not based on my abilities, and my sins.  As my mouth lines up with my heart, I prosper.  My soul is prospering.  And then I find that I have more tolerances for others.  Their sins are purged also, and I am more aware of that fact.

(This is a Righteousness Consciousness).

I Trust that God who began a good work in them, is faithful to complete it.  I find that knowing that I am the righteousness of God, causes me to relax, (I believe the big words that we hear this called are the “Peace of God”, or the “Gospel of Peace”, preaching “Peace”, {Ephesians 2:14-19}), and as I relax in God; then I get into his ability, (and we call this Grace), and not my own.  If we want to be gracious, then we must have grace.

You must have a Righteousness Consciousness, or believe that you’re on the winning team surrounded by winners who were made the Righteousness of God having all of our sins purged.  How can I lose with His blood I use.

Note that this righteousness is  “TO ALL AND ON ALL WHO BELIEVE”.   Of course that means each one of us.   But, this really is going to shed some light on the passage of scripture that we know so well in the next verse, for this was talking about a comparison between the “TO ALL AND ON ALL WHO BELIEVE” and the key phrase, “For, there is no difference”.  Now, see that the next word “For” in verse 23 is referring back to “there is no difference”.  This highlights the fact the righteousness of God is for TO ALL AND ON ALL WHO BELIEVE, for there is no difference, FOR ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.   In other words, this righteousness is apart from the law.  

Romans 10:1-4
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel* is that they may be saved.  For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.  For they being ignorant of Yahweh’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.  For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

I am reminded of how one comes to know Christ.

Romans 10:9-10
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”  (that is, the word of faith which we preach):  that if you confess with your mouth Yahweh Yahoshua and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

I kept thinking along these lines.  If we get saved by believing that God raised Yahoshua from the dead and then confessing with our mouth that Yahoshua is Lord, and yet we still think that we have to obtain some form of righteousness on our own, then we’re missing step one!  We really never believed that Yahoshua rose from the dead.  Maybe we do believe God raised Yahoshua from the dead, but we don’t really believe that “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”, if you still believe that you’re unworthy.  So, you make his death, burial and resurrection of no effect.

I mean if we were to stand before God and he asked us why should he allow us to come into heaven, and our answer is not because “By the blood of your son who cleansed me from all unrighteousness, therefore I am the righteousness of God in Christ”, then you’re not going to get in.  If your response is “I am so unworthy”, when he calls you worthy, then you have just committed the unpardonable sin.  You have rejected his pardon.

Hebrews 10:28-29
Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

God has empowered us to call things into being by our voice.  And if we call in with our mouths such as “We are not worthy”, then you’ll have what you say, but you won’t like it.  The sin that is being referred to above in Hebrews 10:28-29 is that your words have been stout against Him.  Look at the previous verses.

Hebrews 10:22-23
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold fast the CONFESSION, {to say with your mouth}, of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

For you to stand up before God, if you have made Yahoshua, (the Messiah) of Nazareth Yahweh of your life, he has made you his righteous; and for you to stand up and say “Hoe, I'm just so unworthy, I'm just so no good, oh, I'm just a worm in the dirt, I just, ohhh, I just don’t deserve any of your blessings, Lord. blah, blah, blah.”

That borders so close to blaspheming the Holy Ghost, it isn’t even funny, and I’ll tell you this right now, that to talk this way is a sin.  And Hebrews 10 says that.  We’ve concentrated so much on our obtaining righteousness by our works, that we missed what is an unpardonable sin.

It’s not so much, oh, oh we’ve, we’ve done an unpardonable thing, and.  But, How can you pardon something when you’ve rejected the very thing that’ll get you out?  You’ve reject your pardon.  How you going to get pardoned?  You’ve reject your pardon.

Your confession ought to be, “I am made the righteousness of God in Christ”, and that’s all!  Many of those whom I love might not go to heaven.  They will say, but we did this and did that, and God will reply, “I don’t know you”.

What shall we say then?  That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith; but my friends and family, pursuing the law of righteousness, have not attained to the law of righteousness.  Why?  Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law.  For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.  As it is written: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 

What shall we say then?  That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith; but my friends and family, pursuing the law of righteousness, have not attained to the law of righteousness.  Why?  Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law.  For they stumbled at that stumbling stone.  As it is written: “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, And whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” 

Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for my friends and family is that they may be saved.  For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.  For they being ignorant of Yahweh’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. (Romans 10:4)

Will you stumble and fall at the fact that you have to receive that you are the righteousness of God in Christ by faith?   And then confess with your mouth you are the righteousness of God in Christ.  My prayer of faith today is that God is restoring your soul, {your mind, will & emotions}, and is leading you in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake, {Psalms 23:3}.

Colossians 1:12

¹²Giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.  ¹³He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, ¹⁴in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins

“For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [Yahweh’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Yahoshua, (the Messiah) (the Messiah, the Anointed One).”  {Romans 5:17 ~ Amplified Bible}.

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