Salvation - Righteousness and Holiness
What’s the difference?
15
Mar 2019
SALVATION: (REDEEMED) When Christ shed
his blood died upon the cross we were forgiven and redeemed. Ransomed and
bought back
RIGHTEOUSNESS: (JUSTIFICATION) When
Christ Rose and ascended again and sat at the right hand of the father, We,
through water baptism ascend with him and are enthroned beside him ... that's
called justified and it means being made righteous "that we become the
righteousness of God in Christ".
HOLINESS: (SANCTIFICATION) The journey
of our transformation into Christ likeness is called sanctification which means
separated into God The fruit of our separation unto God is called
"holiness" "without which no man shall see God"
So then in summary, Christ's death on
the cross washed away sin, purchased and forgave us … if we will except
it.
His resurrection and Ascension makes
us righteous and acceptable before God welcome in his presence.
Our journey towards Christlikeness is
called sanctification, which makes us holy.
Forgiveness and righteousness is
something God alone can do.
Holiness is our willing & joyful
response and obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit in our journey towards
Fathers heart.
Righteousness is completely free ...
paid for by Christ received by grace and faith. Holiness is a response we work
out with fear and trembling. faith without works is dead being alone.
Redeemed is - Saved from what we did
Justified is - Made Righteous by Christ coming into our life - A
FREE gift from God
Sanctified is our Day by day step-by-step denial of self in
obedience to the constant
- · Admonishment
- · Reproof
- · correction &
- · rebuke
By the Holy Spirit, His usual methods of assisting our dialing
walk are as follows:
- · Whisper
- · Word
- · Worker or
- · Whack
Holiness
Is the increasing separation from worldliness to godliness.
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS
Q. Christ blood is our holiness?
A. Technically true as there is no holiness but Gods, but
theologically, Christ's blood is our righteousness. Without which we cannot
begin "our journey" of holiness.
Q. Are there are no works required for salvation?
A. Absolutely correct. However there are works required to STAY
saved or to BE saved. Matt 7:21 clearly states that if we are not WORKING out
The Fathers will we will NOT enter heaven.
A. Is Gods love is unconditional?
Q. No such verse in scripture although there is multiple verses
that prove Gods love is very conditional.
Q. Are we Once saved always saved?
A. There are 5 verses that form the basis of this belief.
Unfortunately, all are taken out of context with what the rest of scripture
says. We are most definitely eternally saved providing we fulfill Gods will
& conditions
RIGHTEOUSNESS
& HOLINESS SAME BUT SEPARATE
For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not
according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and
going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves
unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to every one that believeth Romans 10:2-4
Our attempts to out work Christ's FREE righteousness usually end up in our becoming "Self righteousness". Which is as much a problem for believers today as it was for the jews in the days of the early church.
Christ’s free gift of righteousness
received through grace & faith, is hardly understood, received nor
enjoyed. Most believers, and it must be sad to Fathers heart, do not enter by
faith the rest that He has given us through imputed & imparted
righteousness. Its like someone saying to you I have just walked 10,000 miles
for you so you don’t have to do it, and we respond with a warm thank you, sing about
it for 45 minutes every Sunday morning, but on Mondays we head out to walk the
10,000 miles all over again. Its done already, its finished, completed, believe it,
receive it, enter into the rest of it.
So we exhaust ourselves trying to establish our righteousness and pay for
our salvation and of course fail miserably, Becoming exhausted in the process.
Then somewhere along our exhausted journey we hear the false doctrine of greasy
cheap grace that covers everything, I heard of one man preach that it doesn’t
matter if you stab five people to death, you are still under grace and God of
course forgives you? I assume that man had never read
Romans 6v1 – Should we sin that grace may
abound? God forbid, how can he who is dead to sin live any longer therein?
But to an exhausted soul, who has
already long arrived at the conclusion that they simply cannot fulfill
righteous and therefore assume that they cant reach it because its just not
possible, and so they must have the wrong end of the stick and perhaps, just
perhaps, the right way is ALL grace, not works. But then why does scripture say we must work out our salvation with "fear and trembling" Why does Christ say that only he that hears & DOES His words will survive the storms of life"? Why does James write "Faith without works is dead being alone"?
Of course, an "all grace" doctrine, if we allowed ourselves the luxury of
considering it, it would become very appealing to us. How can people live in
the rest of finished righteous and remain free from the snare of greasy grace
if they don’t know how to guard against it? How can they know the truth of the REST unless it is preached to them?
As it
stands, many “Christian leaders” do not personally benefit from Christ’s
finished work themselves and so they cannot preach it. And yet this doctrine is
critical to positive, solid Christian growth & maturity. It is very
difficult for a soul under continual condemnation to function effectively both
in fellowship with the Father and carry out evangelism among men. The sincere yet uniformed soul can scarce lift their head as the accuser of the brethren knows they do not yet have the
key to the prison door of constant failure.
Which key is a simple reckoning and believing what the scripture actually
says about righteousness, that it cannot be achieved it can only be received.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin,
but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6v11
RECKON is an accounting term - Consider it done!
The confusion is over holiness, we walk
through the door of Christ’s free righteous and begin a life of learning to
walk step by step in yielding and obedience to the Holy Spirits leading. This path is called Sanctification and the fruit of that walk is called Holiness,
Righteousness is received, holiness is walked out. You cannot be more righteous
than Christ has already made you, but day-by-day, step-by-step you can learn to
be more holy before Him. Christ’s
Righteousness saves us, our Holiness (through His righteousness) keeps us saved – We have and never will have holiness of our own, but by walking after the Spirit our obedience yields HIS Holiness in our lives. He looks for the evidence of our walking towards Him AFTER He has redeemed us by His Sons blood. No walk, no heaven as scripture clearly states
Without holiness no man
shall see God!
Hebrews 12:14
Most believers’ struggles are not with Christ’s free righteousness but with
resistance to the Holy Spirits leading into holiness, we ignore, we resist, we
rebel and then we wonder why we cant find the presence of God or get our
prayers answered?
If I regard
iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me – Psalm 66v18
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