AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS!!!
1 CORINTHIANS 15:34 AWAKE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SIN NOT; FOR SOME HAVE NOT THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD: I SPEAK THIS TO YOUR SHAME.
Awake to RIGHTEOUSNESS, what RIGHTEOUSNESS? Many Christians will ask this, and I speak this to our shame. The LORD JESUS gave us HIS very own RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE made us heirs joint-heirs with HIMSELF. We now can call HIS FATHER, our FATHER. We have to have complete RIGHTEOUSNESS to address HIS HOLY FATHER. We cannot still be the old fleshly person with the carnal mind and come before the presence of THE HOLY GOD. You have to be born again as JESUS said. Born of THE SPIRIT. You have to be a NEW CREATURE. We are to be ambassadors for him, to tell everyone of CHRIST and HIS SALVATION, as others were for us. We are to tell others that our sins were placed on CHRIST. HE took our sin and paid the price we owed. HE took our sin and gave us HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Live and walk in HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, believe that you are RIGHTEOUS. Do not let anyone confuse you about that. The BIBLE tells us plainly that CHRIST GAVE US HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. You are now a child of GOD.
1 JOHN 1:3 BELOVED NOW WE ARE THE SONS OF GOD AND IT DOTH NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE: BUT WE KNOW THAT, WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR, WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.
1 JOHN 3:7 LITTLE CHILDREN, LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: HE THAT DOETH RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS, EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS.
JOHN 3:3 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
JOHN 3:5 &6 JESUS ANSWERED, VERILY, VERILY, I SAY UNTO THEE, EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THAT WHICH IS FLESH IS FLESH, AND THAT WHICH IS SPIRIT IS SPIRIT.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 THEREFORE IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST, HE IS A NEW CREATURE: OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY; BEHOLD ALL THINGS ARE BECOME NEW.
2 CORINTHIANS 5:18-21 AND ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD, WHO HATH RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF BY JESUS CHRIST, AND HATH GIVEN TO US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION. TO WIT, THAT GOD WAS IN CHRIST, RECONCILING THE WORLD UNTO HIMSELF, NOT IMPUTING THEIR TRESPASSES UNTO THEM; AND HATH COMMITTED UNTO US THE WORD OF RECONCILIATION. NOW THEN WE ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, AS THOUGH GOD DID BESEECH YOU BY US: WE PRAY YOU IN CHRIST STEAD, BE YE RECONCILED TO GOD. 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.
Donna Kay Purifoy
1/9/2020