What does it mean to walk with God? As Christians, we say that this is what we do each day.
For the Biblical insights on walking with God, the following sermon by Pastor Jeremy Choy will enlighten us and help us deepen our daily walk with God.
Click here for Jeremy Choy: Walking With God.
The following article is adapted from Rev Dr Kong Hee's preaching on Jehovah Tsidkenu (The LORD Our Righteousness) on 3 August 2024 at City Harvest Church.
With righteousness we have the ability to stand in God's Presence without any sense of guilt, condemnation or inferiority.
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Romans 8:1 (NKJV)"
The effects of righteousness are as follows:
1. Righteousness restores your standing with God.
"The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever. Isaiah 32:17 (NKJV)"
2. Righteousness restores your communion with God.
"for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came forth from the Father. John 16:27 (NASB)"
3. Righteousness restores your confidence in life.
"The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, but the righteous are bold as a lion. Proverbs 28:1 (NASB)"
How does God make us righteous?
"God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)"
Vertical righteousness Corum Deo (in the presence of God) is passive, positional, imputed and justifying.
Horizontal righteousness Corum Mundo (in the presence of others) is active, actual, imparted and conforming.
Righteousness is a gift made possible through Jesus Christ. "For if by the trespass of the one (Adam), death reigned through the one (Adam), much more surely will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in [eternal] life through the One, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:17 (AMP)"
The Greek word for "receive" in the above verse is lambano which means actively take it, be intentional about it!
Righteousness is the key to God's power. As we internalise once and for all that vertical righteousness has been imputed upon us, keep receiving God's grace every day and appropriate His righteousness every day in Christlikeness we receive an abundance of God's grace "so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:21 (NKJV)"
Click here for Kong Hee: Jehovah Tsidkenu and fast forward to 40:45 for the sermon.
