12/02/2026
YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS ISN'T A FUNCTION OF WHAT YOU DO OR DID, IT IS A RESULT OF WHAT CHRIST DID.
At the cross, there was a great exchange, he who had no sin became sin and he that had sin became righteousness. That was the GREAT EXCHANGE.
Christ became what we were so that we could become what he is.
1 Peter 3:18
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:"
What brought us to God isn't our works, or actions of righteousness, what brought us to God is CHRIST.
What makes you righteous or right standing before God is what Christ achieved at the Cross, not what you're trying to achieve.
2 Corinthians 5:21
"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."
YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THIS FIRST!!.
Your works cannot save you, neither can it make you righteous.
2 Corinthians 5:20-21
"Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God."
This is where your works begin to be important. Now we are AMBASSADORS of Christ. We LIVE as ambassadors of Christ.
Colossians 3:1
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God."
Now that you are in God by the righteousness of Christ, there's a disposition of your heart. It is to seek those things that are heavenly.
Colossians 3:5-6
[5]Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
[6]For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Now that you are born again, MORTIFY your members.
This is the gospel
1. You come in on the strict basis of what Christ did.
2. You're kept righteous strictly by what Christ did
3. You received the Holy Spirit as an empowerment to live righteously, not as a LAW but as an organic function of the inner life.