Here\u2019s an amazing and life-changing truth. The God who made His sinless Son to \u2018be sin\u2019<\/i> takes unrighteous people like us and makes them \u2018righteous\u2019.<\/i> How does it happen? By works? No, by faith! \u2018People are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.\u2019<\/i> (Romans 4:5 NLT) <\/p>\n
This righteousness isn\u2019t about behaving<\/i> the right way\u2014it\u2019s about believing<\/i> in the right One. You can\u2019t become righteous in God\u2019s eyes through human effort or keeping the law. You become righteous only through faith in Christ, and trusting in His finished work on the cross. You say, \u2018But I feel so guilty when I sin.\u2019 And you should; it\u2019s a good deterrent! <\/p>\n
But Christ took away all your sins; therefore He took away all your guilt. So what are you feeling? Inner conflict! Your regenerated spirit lives in your unregenerated body, and it reacts the same way your natural body reacts to something harmful. Sin feels foreign to the new you, and when you indulge in it, the pleasure is brief and the aftermath is bad. In essence, your spiritual boundaries have been violated, and your regenerated spirit is telling you that you can\u2019t indulge in sin anymore. That\u2019s not who you are! The old you could have indulged in sin and enjoyed it, but the new you can\u2019t, because you are \u2018a new creation in Christ\u2019 (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). So rejoice! <\/p>\n
Today God sees you as \u2018righteous\u2019, therefore you can approach Him at any time with complete confidence (see Ephesians 3:12).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s an amazing and life-changing truth. The God who made His sinless Son to \u2018be sin\u2019 takes unrighteous people like us and makes them \u2018righteous\u2019. How does it happen? By works? No, by faith! \u2018People are counted as righteous, not because of their work, but because of their faith in God who forgives sinners.\u2019 (Romans […]<\/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\/343"}],"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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}