The name, Yahweh-Tsidkenu: the Lord my righteousness,<\/i> was given by God to Jeremiah, announcing the coming of Jesus. \u2018I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David\u2019s line\u2026 And this will be His name: \u201cThe Lord Is Our Righteousness.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Jeremiah\u00a023:5\u20136\u00a0NLT) Before Jesus came, our righteousness was dependent on our own efforts. <\/p>\n
\u2018We will be counted as righteous when we obey all the commands the Lord our God has given us.\u2019<\/i> (Deuteronomy\u00a06:25\u00a0NLT) But we failed the righteousness test big time! Then \u2018the Lord our righteousness\u2019<\/i> became our solution. Here\u2019s how: God \u2018made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.\u2019<\/i> (2\u00a0Corinthians\u00a05:21\u00a0NKJV) <\/p>\n
Notice, in Jesus we\u2019ve \u2018become\u2019<\/i> [been converted\u2026 turned into] righteous before God! We\u2019re not to try to do<\/i> right just so we can feel<\/i> right before God or generate a supply of good works to draw from when we need credit. We\u2019re to draw what we need from the righteousness deposited into our account by Christ. If we need humility, purity, patience, kindness or love, it\u2019s useless to look within ourselves. They\u2019re just not there! <\/p>\n
We must draw them by faith<\/i> from the supply stored up for us in Jesus. Guilty hearts can draw forgiveness, anxious spirits can draw peace, weary souls can draw strength, and confused minds can draw guidance from our inexhaustible supply in Yahweh-Tsidkenu.<\/i> Just as you receive salvation by faith, you must draw righteousness and everything else you need through faith in what God has accomplished and stored up for your use in Jesus\u2014the Lord your righteousness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The name, Yahweh-Tsidkenu: the Lord my righteousness, was given by God to Jeremiah, announcing the coming of Jesus. \u2018I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David\u2019s line\u2026 And this will be His name: \u201cThe Lord Is Our Righteousness.\u201d\u2019 (Jeremiah\u00a023:5\u20136\u00a0NLT) Before Jesus came, our righteousness was dependent on our own efforts. \u2018We will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}