Blocked Inheritance

[Br. Bear]

Thank you Quantrill

indeed, we can not add nor take from His Righteousness, ever.


Quicken me, O LORD, for Thy name's sake: for Thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. Psalm 143:11


Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of Thy righteousness. Psalm 51:14


Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day. Psalm 25:5


Bless you ....><>

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: that no flesh should glory in his presence.
But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 1Corinthians 1:27-31

 

[B-A-C]

indeed, we can not add nor take from His Righteousness, ever.

The way this is worded, I agree. But let us say Jesus give us 99.9% credit for His righteousness. I can't add to His righteous, it's true.
But I can add my own 0.1%

Matt 5:20; "For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Rom 4:3; For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."

Just by believing God... Abraham got himself a little more credit.

Rom 6:16; Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

Paul says "obedience" results in righteousness.

Heb 12:11; All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

The writer of Hebrews says... discipline "yields the peaceful fruit of...... righteousness"

2 Pet 2:21; For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them.

Peter says we can "turn away" from righteousness.

John says if we "practice" righteousness... we are righteous.

1 Jn 3:7; Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

In fact if we don't practice righteousness... we are children of the devil.

1 Jn 3:10; By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother.

Almost all of the last half of James 2 talks about this...

Jas 2:20; But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?
Jas 2:21; Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
Jas 2:22; You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;

Faith alone didn't save Abraham.... obedience (righteousness) with his faith is what cause his faith to be "perfect".

Unlike others who have been on here in the past... I am not saying we have to be "perfect". But I am saying we are either practicing righteousness, or we are practicing unrighteousness.
You know who you belong to.....

Rom 6:16; Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

...and so does Jesus.

 

[Dovegiven]

Righteousness we produce, like a grape appears on a vine that started with a little flower, is what "the Vine" Jesus expects in Him. Those bring us rewards. His blood gave us His Righteousness, like the bud on the grape vine that precedes the flower. His righteousness will carry us for eternity where we will enter in at last not needing God to have to cast another sin out of His memory and ours

Abraham received his blessings on the basis of his faith, which empowered his obedience. So did Rahab receive her blessing of being spared death for receiving the spies, which was her contribution of righteousness. But only the righteousness of Jesus carries over into eternity, our imputed righteousness which 100% enables His faithful to follow with our rewards for what we do righteously in this flesh.