That Will Be Our Righteousness

[Sue J Love]

“In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What is the meaning of the stipulations, decrees and laws the Lord our God has commanded you?’ tell him: ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. Before our eyes the Lord sent signs and wonders—great and terrible—on Egypt and Pharaoh and his whole household. But he brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land he promised on oath to our ancestors. The Lord commanded us to obey all these decrees and to fear the Lord our God, so that we might always prosper and be kept alive, as is the case today. And if we are careful to obey all this law before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us, that will be our righteousness.’” (Deuteronomy 6:20-25 NIV)

I am going to parallel this over to present day Israel, for Israel today is comprised of all who believe in Jesus Christ with God-persuaded faith in him, whether Jew or Gentile by physical birth. For in Jesus’ death on that cross he made us both one in Christ by faith in Jesus Christ.

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13;1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

What God did for his people of old was a prefiguring of what Jesus did for the people of the world today. Jesus Christ, in his death on that cross, made the way for us to be delivered from our slavery (bondage, addiction) to sin so that we will now follow him in walks of obedience to his commands under the New Covenant God has with us, his people. For we once lived in bondage to sin, but by God-persuaded faith in Jesus we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with him to walk in obedience to his commands.

But not everyone has faith, just like not all who were rescued from slavery in Egypt served and obeyed God who delivered them out of their slavery. The majority of them, in fact, set their hearts on evil and refused to obey the Lord and his commandments to them. Many of them were idolaters, and revelers, and the sexually immoral who put Christ to the test and who grumbled against God and against his servant Moses. So they died in the wilderness and they did not get to go into the Promised Land.

[1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13]

So it is today. Many who profess to be children of God and those of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ are idolaters, revelers, drunkards, the sexually immoral, and those who put Christ to the test and who grumble against God when he doesn’t do things their way. Many of them, in fact, are now being taught that God makes no requirements of them and that they don’t have to obey God’s commands. And so they give them carte blanche to continue living in sin and not in obedience to God while promising them heaven.

But under the New Covenant God now has with us, his people Israel, both Jew and Gentile by faith in Jesus Christ, we still have to obey our Lord and his commands. We just don’t have to obey all those Old Covenant liturgical, ceremonial, sacrificial, purification, and dietary laws and restrictions, including the requirement of circumcision of all males. All those Jesus did away with in his death on that cross. But we still must obey God’s moral laws under the New Covenant specified for us in the New Testament.

And we, too, are to walk in the fear of the Lord, giving him honor, respect, admiration, and reverence in walks of obedience to his commands and in dying daily to sin, by the Spirit. For if we do not obey God, and if we hold on to our old lives of living in sin, then we will lose our lives for eternity, and we will not enter into eternal life with God. And it is critical that we realize this truth because so many professing Christians are still living for the flesh, still doing what their sinful hearts desire, and they are not obeying God.

God’s words to them do not move them to submit to Christ as Lord and to surrender their wills to the will of God and to forsake their sinful practices and to walk in obedience to our Lord’s commands. Even though our Lord has written letters to them (the Scriptures) encouraging them to show him love and honor and value and to commit their lives to him and to his service, so many are like the Laodiceans who are lukewarm, neither totally against God but not on fire for him, either. And he is about to spit them out of his mouth.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; Galatians 5:16-24 Galatians 6:7-8; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; 1 Corinthians 6:9-20; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

For Our Nation

An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.

Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.

Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.

Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.

That Will Be Our Righteousness
An Original Work / March 5, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

 

[Johanabrahams]

Just as the Living God saved Israel, His "shadow Child" from their slavery so He is still our Savior to save us in Righteousness from our sin. But the Saving Grace is now Revealed to us in the Holy Spirit. And it concerns our soul being in slavery to a "sin consciousness". From which we are Saved now in the Word of Jesus on our Righteousness. Where this Word of our Righteousness which is our Milk we Drink as Babies of God creates our Righteousness in us. We are the Children of the Living God, Jehovah. Thus He raises us in His Life. Which is His Righteousness in a Characteristic. Which is our much Greater Salvation in be not a "shadow Child" but a Real Child born of Him and growing up in His Life and the Glory of enjoying it.