OBJECTIVE
TO KNOW HOW TO LIVE A WONDERFUL LIFE WITH CHRIST.
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INTRODUCTION
Now that you have given your life to Christ, how to you know that you are doing the right thing always?
Today most believer till find it difficult to overcome sin.
They key to living above sin daily does not lie in our ability to do, but in understanding the redemptive work of Christ.
WHAT IS SIN?
Sin is a nature, of doing things against the will of God. Sin is the act of Disobedience to the will of God. (1 John 3:4)
The consequence of sin is that it separate us with God and also it stop the communication between God and man.
WHAT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS?
This is the nature of God. It is a gift that God gives us when we are born again. (Gen 15:6). Its a holy state where everything we do is in line with him. We are free to communicate with him both in spirit and i truth.
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ORIGIN OF SIN AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (Romans 5:17)
Sin came into the world through one man, Adam when he disobeyed God's instruction in the garden of Eden. (Gen 2:16-17). The nature was further strengthened when the law of Moses came in (Romans 5:20). People became aware of how far they were from being perfect and kind of threw in the towel because it seemed too difficult (James 2:10).
Hence Righteousness reigns by God's grace just as sin reigned by the law. Now we don't have to strive to be righteous because in Christ Jesus, we are. We also now have the holy spirit to help us lives that are pleasing to God.
WHAT IS SIN CONSCIOUSNESS?
This is the act of focusing on the acts of the devil or on the weakness of the sin-nature, its inability to live right or be pleasing to God. This happens when there is no understanding of the thorough work Christ did on the cross for Mankind.
To know if some one is sin conscious , the person will constantly be dealing with the fear of God. Shame for what one has done, guilt , feelings of condemnation and inferiority in the midst of other believers. All these make one slave to the sin nature even though one has been freed from it.
WHAT IS RIGHTEOUSNESS CONSCIOUSNESS.
These is simply being mindful of our new nature in Christ, righteousness. There are two kinds of righteousness God's righteousness which he gives us irrespective of what we do and self righteousness which is characterized by pious works in order to gain acceptance in God's sight and escape the penalty of sin.
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Self righteousness is some what a part of being sin conscious; it says if i dont do this or that, i can't earn my place in God's kingdom.
The benefit of being righteous/ understanding our righteousness is that it helps to overcome feels of inferiority, insecurity, fear, inherent fears, anticipation of things going wrong, (Isa 54)
As as a church, the revelation of what our righteousness (free from sin) is establishes us and frees us from oppression, fear and any form of weapon designed to attack us will not prosper.
HOW DE WE UNDER ST AND RIGHTEOUSNESS?
When a Christian encounter with the holy spirit is the best to reveal and disclose the totality of righteousness,our new nature with Christ. We can not use our common sense to understand the spirit because it is designed by God to direct us and lead us to the right track. The holy spirit will tell you that you crucified with Christ so the nature of sin is now dead and you are alive with Christ. (Gal 2:20-21). He will explain to you that you have dominion over your mortal body because of the new nature in you (Rom 6:11-14)
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But Christ came to show us a better way to do it without us feeling like we are under an obligation to do so, it was through Love (Rom 13:8-10)
For all the law points to the character of God (Rom 7:12)| and its is all embodied in love.
It is very necessary to live a life of love because God is love. We should show love to one another in our working places, schools businesses and every where we go.
If we walk in this righteousness, we will discover that;
- We have forgiveness whenever we err (Heb 4;16)
- We have acceptance based on what Christ did and not based on our present performance (Rom 10:3-4)
- We have access to his presence (Rom 4:1-2)
Walking in righteousness also means freedom from faulty thinking and superstitions (1 corinthians 8:1-2, 4-8) and being declared free from sin and cleansed from sin. (Holy)
HOW TO STAY CONSCIOUS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
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The best way for us a Christian to be more conscious of our new nature rather than the sin nature is to look on the following aspects of our relationship with God.
God with us- always remember all the time you slept, woke up, left your home, came back and lots more that God has been with you during this activities.
God is in us- Knowing that God is in you, you are one with God (Rom 8:11) This gives you the assurance of being able to share his glory (COL 1;21) it makes you look. talk and walk differently with others in the word.
God is for us- Meditating on the knowledge that nothing can work against you because God is on your side gives you the strength to carry on and face anything life throws at you (Romans 8:35-39)
CONCLUSION
To live in a world like ours where sin is truth and righteousness is a myth, one has to be conscious of what the nature of righteousness entails. it's important to realize that we can not be made righteous by what we do (Eph 2:9). In it only faith in Christ also the death and Resurrection of Christ that enable us to realize the reality of Christ Jesus in our life. We should be able to understand that Christ is always in us and we should preach the word of God to every one in our environment.
GOD BLESS YOU.
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thanks for the time you used for reading my post
soo informative and you are right about the first sin
you are right sir.
He disobeyed God by taking from the forbidding fruit that God order him not to take.
Thanks for this great topic.
The more we are conscious of sin, the more we might fall into sin. It is better to be righteous conscious. Living a righteous life is what makes us be a Christian. one thing about living righteously is that the reward won't only end in this world but there is a hope of the wonderful and glorious kingdom ahead that awaits us to reign with the King of kings. Sin has no good to do to us. May God give us the grace to always live righteously
thats is true
Sin is really terrible,it has cause very harmful effects in our life, and will always keep us away from God, but i pray that shouldn't be anyone's portion here in Jesus name, Amen.
I really like your topic sin, consciousness and righteousness .sin distance ourselfs from God and to closer to him, then mankind needs to learn a righteous life.
yes we have to be sure and ready for the last day of judgement
Righteousness is necessary to be considered to be called God's children when we are righteous, it means we are doing things rightly in the way of the lord.
And like you said, it's only the grace of God that makes one righteous, the power of sin has taken over man and we can only be righteous through Christ our lord
we all need to live a life that God want us to live.
All the same thank you for your comment.
"They key to living above sin daily does not lie in our ability to do, but in understanding the redemptive work of Christ"
God gives us strength to do whatsoever to avoid sin all we have to do is seek.
A well detailed write up.. Nice article @femiandrew
thanks to you for sharing your time
Thanks for sharing this with us, this is a nice topic, If "righteousess-consciousness" only means denial of the presence of sin, it is a worthless, powerless concept. It is only powerful if sin is truly absent.
Thank God grace is NOT merely the power to plead deniability to the existence and dominance of sin in our lives--it is the power of God to stop sinning! Thanks....
Sin is a reproach. Since pushes us away from God. The devil doesn't want our Intimacy with God, that's why he tries to pain sin to be fun.
.... But the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploit. The Grace to overcome is there for us already.
Thanks for this post
The more we are conscious of sin, the more we might fall into sin. It is better to be righteous conscious. Living a righteous life is what makes us be a Christian.
The key to living above sin does not lie in our ability to do, but in understanding the redemptive work of God.
Let's be conscious of righteous, not sin.
Do not say that you were not aware of all the bad things you are doing.
Accepting christ and keeping to his will and commandment is very important in our live as Christians.
When you commit any sin you mind and your spirit will continue to judge you because you life is now going in the negative direction to the Lord .
Do not allow what you see, hear or what people do to deceive you and put you in the wrong direction with the Lord .
Being righteous is totaly by abstaining from all sort of sins and been conscious of our believe in the creator .
If you are not righeius there is no way you can inheritvthe kingdom of the Lord at the last day.
May God lead usvaway from the hands if the evil one and also lead us away from sin.
thank a lot for your comment
Great topic, sin righteousness, we have to be conscious with whatever we do to stay away from sin, because for we all to be righteous, we have to flee from sin.
For all have sinned and come short of God's glory. The greatest achievement is not just being a believer, but absolute repentance from sin. Thanks for the nice message.
Life in Christ is the ideal.
Thanks
Lovely post
thanks alot
Let's be conscious of righteous, not sin.
Sin is the nature of doing things against the will. This is slowly the act of disobedience to the will of God.
The key to living above sin does not lie in our ability to do, but in understanding the redemptive work of God. I really appreciate this message @femiandrew