Perfected 02: Righteousness

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Righteous

Being righteous used to mean something.

A good character used to be the currency of success.

Hebrews 12: 1-2 NLT 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.

* Champion – He leads the way, prince; author

* Initiates – begins a work that can not be stopped 

*Perfects. – completes, in his faith brings ours to completion. (Tele ios) 

The Result? 

Matthew 5:48 NLT 

But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

*Perfect (Tele ios) complete, fulfilled; purposed; balanced integral. 

We can not attain that level of perfect balance ourselves.

James 1:17

‘Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow. ‘

You will be completed by, brought into balance by, given purpose by God. Because He is perfect in these things, you too will be perfected in these things by Him through faith in Jesus.

The ultimate balance is found by aligning your flesh with what God has accomplished in your spirit (made you balanced and complete).

And that is faith…

Your flesh can’t see it, but Your spirit man knows it!

Our flesh runs out of options when the balance of our spirit prevails.

1 Corinthians 13:10 TPT

…but when love’s perfection arrives, the partial will fade away.

We adjudicate our entire world by what we can understand.

But all we ever define is the world we can see, feel, taste, and hear.

We have mapped out all the elements of the world we can define.  

The balanced world God created operates on a different set of elements. 

Jesus injects two divine elements, Holiness and Righteousness, into us to bring our faith to completion and our balance to perfection.

Hebrews 12:2

…the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.

It’s perfect faith that fuels everything.

We bring a mustard seed, and He explodes that to completion.

He has to neutralize some flesh elements to help us come to divine balance.

Blame, shame, condemnation, pride, selfishness, and judgment.

The Divine element of holiness neutralizes blame, shame, and condemnation because they directly prevent us from realizing our heavenly position and worth.

Christ’s imputed righteousness dismantles our artificial constructs, the systems, and solutions that we place in our lives to justify and excuse ourselves and that we use to control and manipulate others. All that to mitigate our hurts and control situations towards our comfort.

Righteousness

It is His righteousness, not your stuffy self-righteousness.

Let’s figure out some of the characteristics of this divine element.

IT IS NOT BASED ON HUMAN CONSTRUCT

Because this is not from the physical or human periodic table, it is not defined by human characteristics.

Matthew 5:20 NLT

‘ “But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven! ‘

The righteousness we are called to have surpasses religious construct and artificial laws.

IT IS NOT BASED ON OUR SUCCESSES

Matthew 19:21 NLT

Jesus told him, “If you want to be perfect (teleios), go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

What Is It?

The Equity of Character

Having a Character of Divine Balance

IT IS GIVEN TO US BY CHRI