RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD - 6 (of 8)

[Albert Finch]

1. What is the primary purpose for developing a righteousness consciousness?

Answer: It is so that we will respond to life as much like Jesus as possible. We have been predestined to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.

"And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect." - Romans 12:2

"For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven." - Matthew 5:20

"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them." - Ephesians 2:10

2. How is Jesus able to do only that which He saw the father do and say what He heard the father say?

Answer: Because of His awareness of the presence of God within Him; Jesus walked in holiness; Jesus nurtured His holiness through continual fellowship with His Father.

"After He had sent the crowds away, He went up on the mountain by Himself to pray; and when it was evening, He was there alone." - Matthew 14:23

"Truly, truly, I say to you, 'the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, these things the son also does in like manner. For Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes." - Matthew 5:19,21

"I and the Father are one." - John 10:30

3. What are some of the benefits of personal fellowship with God?

Answer: Fellowship will cause us to know God and to think and respond the way He does. Fellowship purges us: causes holiness.

"That they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me." - John 17:21

"For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust." - 2 Peter 1:4

"Since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh." - Hebrews 10:19,20

4. What is true holiness?

Holiness is conduct that is in line with God's standards.

"For in Christ there is all of God in a human body; so you have everything when you have Christ, and you are filled with God through your union with Christ." - Colossians 2:9,10

"For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." - Romans 8:29

"Leaving your former way of life, you must lay aside that old human nature which, deluded by its lusts, is sinking towards death. You must be made new in mind and spirit, and put on the new nature of God's creating, which shows itself in the just and devout life called for by the truth." - Ephesians 4:22-24

5. List at least two benefits to having a righteousness consciousness?

Answers: Will cause us to love others; Will cause us to refuse to participate in anything which serves Satan; Motivates our every action and thought to glorify God.

"Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves Me. He who loves Me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show Myself to him." - John 14:21

"...every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you." - John 15:2,3

INTO ACTION:
Affirm and meditate on the indicated scriptures several times daily until the renewing of your mind is made real to your spirit.

AFFIRMTIONS:

I bring forth much fruit because I abide in Jesus. The fruit I bear is through Christ only. (John 15.5)

I am holy since I am in Christ Jesus and Jesus is in God and God is holy. (Leviticus 20:7)

I hold fast to the confession of my faith since God is faithful to perform His word. (Hebrews 10:23)