HAVE YOU BEEN DELCARED RIGHTEOUS??

  Have You Been Declared “Righteous?"

"Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your 
Father in heaven is perfect." Matthew 5: 48

   In this passage, perfect “Kaliyl” (Aramaic, a
language Jesus spoke) means mature, complete,
lacking  nothing in care  for others as the Lord 
God  cares  for  His creation.  In  no way  does  
this passage imply sinless perfection, as God is
without flaw.  (We are "declared" (Grace) com- 
plete, in our Lord Jesus by Grace thru faith.

   "For He himself is our peace, who has made
both one,  and " "For  he, himself is our peace,
who has broken down the middle wall of  sepa-
ration, having abolished in his flesh the enmity,
that  is the law of  commandments contained in 
ordinances, so as to create in himself one  new
man from the two, thus making peace;and that
He  might reconcile  them both to  God in  one
body  through  the  cross,  thereby  putting  to 
death the enmity."          Ephesians 3: 14-16

     
1. The vehicle of this “perfection” is the  grace 
    of God in Jesus Christ, afforded his children               
    because of and through their faith in Jesus, 
    the Word.  The means is not faith, but Grace.
   The only qualification is a childlike faith in or 
    dependence on and trust in Christ, His work 
    and Word resulting in the believer following
    through on that faith.

  2. Since God's grace is the vehicle, or means,
    and faith in Jesus Christ the only qualifica-
    tion, what is the true link to God the Father
    in the life of a believer?   (One of  the most
    important principles we may discuss) Jesus
    Christ,  his Holy Spirit, takes  up residence
    within our hearts and souls, minds and  the
    spirit of  that believer.  When  Jesus Christ
    comes into the life of a believer, He brings
    with Him the ability to keep the Law.  

         What Scripture says in Matthew 22: 36-
     40, all of the  Law is wrapped in  this great 
     commandment:  "Jesus said to him.
         "You  shall love  the Lord  your God with
     all  your soul and  your heart,  and with  all
     your mind.  This is the first and  great com-
     mandment.  And the second  is  like  it.  'You
     shall  love  your  neighbor as  yourself.'  On
     these  two commandments  hang all the Law 
     and the Prophets."  (When you read the com-
     mandments with care you see, if you love the
     the Lord God, you will keep the first four. If
     you love your neighbor, you will keep the six
     that follow.

     Since  mankind is  incapable,  on his own, of
     living the great commandment or the second, 
     Christ must  empower believers  through His 
     indwelling  presence.  Jesus Christ brings, in      
    himself, the ability to love the Lord  God, and
    to love your neighbor as yourself. 

      See Hebrews 3: 4-7,10 concerning the rest
      provided the believer by this abiding in the
     Lord  Christ.  The  believer will cease from
     his  own  work,  of  the  flesh.  Jesus  Christ
     then produces the fruit of  the Spirit, not of
     works. 

          "A vine produces grapes by being a 
                 vine, not by working at it."

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“Slipping of the believer” (Reversion to flesh)
1. When we take our eyes off Christ and focus
    on anything;  self, the world, men's opinion
    the "Law,"  we  begin  to serve self  in flesh.
    (used to be called "backsliding.:) 

2. When  we  undertake  anything,  (no  matter
    how high sounding) if it is not the expressed
    will of God, as outlines in his Word, we have
    slipped into to "works of the flesh." (iniquity) 
   
3. Anything we do that is SIN, as described in 
    God’s Word, is a work of the flesh and slip-
    ping.

4. When we know something should be done
    and fail to do it, it is sin, or slipping. 

“Restoration of the Believer”
1. 1 John 1: 8, 9, 10
  "If we say that we have no sin,  we deceive our-
selves,  and the  truth is not in us.  If  we confess
our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
If  we say that we have not sinned, we make him
(out to be) a liar and his Word is not in us.

2. Return to Matthew 6 : 31-33
"Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall 
we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewi-
thal shall we be clothed?  (For after  all  these 
things do the gentiles seek:) for your heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have need of all  these
things.  But  seek ye first the Kingdom of God,
and  his  righteousness:  and  all  these  things
shall be added unto you." 

     Back to the basic doctrine of justification;  
"to absolve or clear from guilt or blame" (by
the  Lord  God.  None else can  do this, since
he/she has sin of their own. He had to be sin-
less to pay the price for our sins.)  

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