You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. In this message, Pastor DaVon shares how your identity is not defined by your past or mistakes, but by what Jesus has accomplished for you! Through Christ, you are forgiven, accepted, and made righteous. Walk boldly in who God says you are!
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Romans 12:1-2
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Beseech - to urge or to beg
Mercies - benefits (Psalm 103:1-5)
You present - not God, deny yourself.
Reasonable service - your way to worship
Renew - renewal, renovation, complete change
Your mind is the control center of your life
Mind - mentality, philosophy, way of thinking, thought life, reasonings
Mind consists of your conscious, subconscious, and conscience
The conscious mind, subconscious mind, and conscience are three distinct aspects of how we think, process information, make decisions, and determine what is right or wrong.
Renewing your mind means intentionally changing how you think by aligning your thinking with God’s Word.
Romans 3:23-26 NLT
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he makes sinners right in his sight when they believe in Jesus.
We are free from the penalty of sin and the power of sin. We are not free from the practice of sin nor the presence of sin.
There is a difference between a sinner and a saint or the righteous.
2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV
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.
Righteous- right standing with God. Innocent. Cannot be earned. Only comes with faith in Jesus.
Jesus, who never sinned, was made sin. You, who always sin, were made righteous.
Romans 10:10 NLT
For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved.
Romans 10:10 TPT
The heart that believes in him receives the gift of the righteousness of God—and then the mouth confesses, resulting in salvation.
The only way to have good standing with God is by accepting His gift, His Son Jesus
Romans 5:1 NLT
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith, we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us.
Galatians 2:16 NLT
Yet we know that a person is made right with God by faith in Jesus Christ, not by obeying the law. And we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made right with God because of our faith in Christ, not because we have obeyed the law. For no one will ever be made right with God by obeying the law.
1 Corinthians 1:30 NLT
God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.
Romans 5:17 NKJV
For if by the one man’s offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.)
Romans 5:17 AMPC
For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God'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 Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed
Reign in life - rule and control (v. 17)