Justification is God’s action in approving us according to His standard of righteousness; our righteousness as believers in Christ is not a condition we possess in ourselves but a person to whom we are joined – Christ is our rightoeusness, and we are justified by God in Christ, for we’re joined to this living One! […]
The Breastplate of Righteousness and the Firm Foundation of the Gospel of Peace
In spiritual warfare, we need to put on Christ as the constituents of God’s armour; in particular, we need to put on the breastplate of righteousness to cover our conscience and have the firm foundation of the gospel of peace as our shoes, covering our feet for standing in peace. Amen! On the one hand, […]
Christ became Wisdom to us from God to be our Righteousness and our Sanctification
It is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, both righteousness and sanctification and redemption; we can enjoy Christ as wisdom from God to us and have Him as our subjective righteousness, our daily sanctification, and the redemption of our body. Praise the Lord! 1 Cor. 1:30 […]
Christ as the Unfulled Cloth becomes our New Garment by Believing into Him Today
According to Matt. 9 and Luke 5, Christ is the unfulled cloth and our new garment; He is our new garment covering us before God and He’s also our wedding garment for us to participate in the wedding feast, so there’s no need for us to imitate Him: we just need to enjoy Him, love […]
Enjoy and Experience Christ as our Objective and Subjective Righteousness Today
In order for us as believers in Christ to be awarded with Christ as our crown of righteousness in the next age, we must experience and enjoy Him as our subjective righteousness, as our lived-out righteousness in this age. We need to have not only Christ as our objective righteousness for our justification before God […]
Enjoy Christ as our Divine Provision and as Everything to us in and for the Body
Today we need to enjoy Christ as our divine provision and as our everything in and for the Body of Christ. Christ as our allotted portion supplies us with everything we need, and in Him we lack nothing; He’s the all-sufficient God and the great I am, and we can enjoy and experience Him every […]
The Righteousness of the Bride: Christ as our Subjective Righteousness Lived out of us
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For the joy set before us, which is the Lord Jesus as our dear Bridegroom coming for His bride, we are today preparing to be the bride of Christ; there is the need for the righteousness of the bride, that is, the wedding garment that the bride wears for the wedding feast, which is […]