Romans 3:24 also tells us that His righteousness is free and we received it by grace. Ephesians 3:23 & 24 say, ” and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” Here, verse 24 says that our inner man (the new man) is just like God . Now only our minds need to be renewed. God is righteous and we were created by God in righteousness and holiness. In John 17, Jesus prays to the Father saying that He has given us His glory. Jesus has given it to us and when we believe it, we receive it. We are beholding His glory here on earth and representing God. God transformed us who were sinners, to be carriers of His glory. So, now we are not mere men but men who carry God inside us. We metamorphosed from a sinner to a carrier of God because of His righteousness.

Romans 4 is all about the righteousness that Abraham received from God. How did Abraham become righteous? He believed God’s Word and that was credited to him as righteousness. Romans 4:16,17 says, “Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all (as it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;”. The Word that God gave Abraham did not agree with Abraham’s situation but he believed that God was still able to fulfill His promise and that faith was credited to him as righteousness. He hoped against hope and did not believe in his circumstances. He was so sure that if God has said it , it will happen! That is the confidence a righteous person has.His focus was on what God said. He did not consider anything else. Romans 4:25 says that Jesus rose again for our justification.

God has justified us and made us members of His household. Now we who are made righteous should live in the liberty that a child has in his father’s house – we should be righteous-minded. We have received a Spirit of sonship that calls Him, Abba Father! Romans 10:10 says, ” For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Romans 8:30 says,”Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.”
God has predestined us, justified us and has given us His glory so that He could prove to the world who the righteous are! Let us be righteous-minded and keep in step with the Holy Spirit and God will demonstrate His glory through us to the whole world and the world will know that Jesus is alive through us the righteous ones of God ! !

– Tangu Bro