THE FATHER’S RIGHTEOUSNESS

         THE FATHER’S RIGHTEOUSNESS

Son-ship would worth nothing if the children cannot freely access their father’s presence. Son-ship would have no love relationship if the children are scared of their father. It would be simply another form of slavery if the children hide in fear at the sound of their father’s voice. Servants may not feel worthy to wine and dine with their masters but sons should have 100% right to sit on the same dining table with their father without a sense of inferiority complex.

If the children always feel guilty whenever their father is around then they are not children but servants. Servants fear their masters but sons enjoy fellowship with their fathers

¹⁵ For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. {Romans 8:15}

Righteousness is the ability to stand before the Father’s presence without a sense of guilt, fear or inferiority complex. Righteousness is the ability to come boldly before the father’s throne. It is the right to appear before God and call him daddy.

God wants to enjoy his children’s presence, he wants to fellowship with them and hear them call him “Daddy”. He doesn’t want his children shrinking away from him as though he were a monster or an angry and wicked father. He therefore had to grant us free access into his presence. He brought us into a place of highest privilege, a place of mercy, a throne of grace so we can freely worship him without fear or guilt. He did this by sending us His first begotten son, Jesus Christ who was made to become righteousness for us.

  Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

² By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. {Romans 5:1-2}

It is by Christ that we have access into the father’s presence. He became our righteousness, our access to the father. God made him to be righteousness for us so we can approach His throne without the feeling of inferiority, fear or guilt.

³⁰ But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

³¹ That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.{1Corinthians 1:30-31}

He is our righteousness. He was made righteousness for us so that we won’t work so hard trying to be righteous by ourselves. Isn’t this amazing! Earthly fathers demand righteousness from their children but our heavenly father supplied righteousness to His children. What a love must have provoked that. 

A righteous God could not afford to stand the dwindling nature of our self- righteousness therefore He had to impute into us His very kind of righteousness.

With a view to demonstrating, at the present time, His righteousness, that He may be shown to be righteous Himself, and the giver of righteousness to those who believe in Jesus.{Romans 3:26 Weymouth new testament}

He gave us his very kind of righteousness so that when the table is set for the family communion, no one will be found to fall short and unqualified because of his/her faults, weaknesses or sin. He did this for us so that we would always be qualified to come before Him whenever he desires to commune with us.God would not allow sin come in the way of his communion with His children. Abba father would not allow anything to hinder his relationship with his children. None of us, His children would hide in fear and guilt when the father desires to have pleasure from communing with us.

 Oh the wisdom of God! His ways are past finding! Not only did He supply his children with righteousness, He also made his children to become righteousness. This is a higher realm of wisdom. He didn’t want us to just have the virtue called righteousness, He made us become the virtue. We are not just righteous, we are righteousness and more so, God’s righteousness. Yes that’s who we are. We are GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS.

²¹ 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. {2Corinthians 5:21}

The father can now have everlasting fellowship with His children. There is nothing hindering the children from going beyond the veil anymore. All can come boldly now to koinonia with the father. Everyone can freely enjoy the father’s free gift of righteousness.

 Love is what is served at the father’s table of fellowship and righteousness is the ticket to entering the banquet hall. Both of them, love and righteousness are from the father and the only thing required of the children is to boldly come in faith.

¹⁷ For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

¹⁸ Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

¹⁹ For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. {Romans 5:17-19}

Come all sons and daughters! Come receive the gift of the father. Come receive that which only the father can give. Come buy without money. It is free. Why waste energy on self-righteousness which is transient when the father has called you to enjoy everlasting righteousness freely. Why labour for the meat that perishes when you can enjoy the true bread from heaven which is eternal.

Your obedience to rules and religious rituals cannot grant you the quality of righteousness the father requires of you. His glorious ideals cannot be met by mere mortals. His standards are so high that the children cannot afford it except they receive it as a gift. Only the first begotten son was able to meet the demands of justice and righteousness. 

It is by the obedience of the first begotten son that we are made righteous. It is not by our obedience. Our obedience could not and can never match the Father’s requirements. All we need to do is to accept the free gift of righteousness which Jesus has won for us. He is our righteousness.

"In His days Judah will be saved, And Israel will dwell securely; And this is His name by which He will be called, 'The LORD our righteousness.'{Jeremiah 23:6}

 The father will accept all as righteous who come to Him through the first begotten. All of God’s children are always accepted in the beloved.

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. {Ephesians 1:6}

It is IN the beloved that we are accepted. We have free access to the father through him. We bear the righteous genes in us now because we are born of God. We must look like our father, hence he gave us or better put made us His righteousness. An everlasting righteousness. He established us in righteousness. Now there is no fear, guilt nor inferiority complex.

“In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.” {Isaiah 54:14}

¹⁴² Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth. {Psalms 119:142}

What a privilege we enjoy to be established in righteousness and not just a transient righteousness but an everlasting righteousness, the very righteousness of God himself.

"Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.{Daniel 9:24}

I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, My soul will exult in my God; For He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.{Isaiah 61:10}

 What is hindering his children from coming freely before his courts? He has wrapped us with a robe of righteousness. Come all who thirst, come and drink of living waters and you will never thirst again. Come receive the gift of the father which only he can give. Stop hewing for yourself empty cisterns that can’t hold waters. Stop digging broken cisterns, they can’t hold waters. Forget your broken/unstable self- righteousness and come drink from the father’s fountain of living waters.

For my people have done two evil things: They have forsaken me, the Fountain of living waters; and they have built for themselves broken cisterns that can’t hold water! {Jeremiah 2:13 TLB}

 “My people have committed a compound sin: they’ve walked out on me, the fountain Of fresh flowing waters, and then dug cisterns— cisterns that leak, cisterns that are no better than sieves. {Jeremiah 2:13 MSG}

Receive the father’s supply of righteousness. Stop trying to meet a demand that the first begotten already met for us. Your self-righteousness is not good enough. It can’t hold waters. Don’t walk out on the father. Stop trying to work out your own righteousness. Remain clothed in His righteousness.

and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,{Philippians 3:9}

²¹ But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

²² Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference {Romans 3:21-22}

God our father has given everything freely unto us to enjoy. He is a good father. Watch out for the next article as I reveal to you:

THE FATHER’S PROVISION

THE FATHER’S PROTECTION

THE FATHER’S WILL

THE FATHER’S MERCY {PITY}