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As a matter of fact, I do not believe that any one of us is made righteous at all, by our life here. The truth of the gospel is that you are never more righteous than the day you received Christ as your Lord and Savior. We speak about "us" and "them." There are people who just have come to know Christ, perhaps in the last month, who do not look like the rest of us who have been sitting around here for thirty or forty years. You can find it also in our conversation about people who are new to the faith. We think that we are getting a little more righteous. We think by what we have done, either in our knowledge of the Word or our ability to pray or witness, or to do acts of mercy and kindness to others, that somehow we are improving. Sometimes the word "discipleship" is used that way. And unfortunately, many who call themselves Evangelical Protestant Christians also believe the same thing. There is no doubt in my mind that that is what our culture believes. I know that our culture believes a person is made righteous by what he does. But I know, from the standpoint of content alone and the problem of our culture, that what we are going to talk about today is extremely important. Sometimes a person may hear a message they like a lot and that I may not have thought it was too significant, and vice versa. And I know that sometimes I can overstate the importance of a given message. We are talking about the righteousness of God. We are blessed and that is the subject from Ephesians 1. If you are interested in that, that is the message. We have never really understood what God has said that we already have. And yet I see a lot of us walking around like we have nothing. It is wonderful to know that you already have everything you could ever possibly get in the Lord Jesus Christ. I am going home to be with the Lord and I am having a wonderful time now. And we get all these letters telling us if we only had what they have we would be much happier. My wife and I just moved into a new place and it is amazing how advertisers know we moved. I mean, everybody comes around telling me that I need something else. I would just like to know that I have all there is to get, spiritually speaking. But God has blessed us, according to the Bible, "with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ" ( Ephesians 1:3). You know what I mean? And it may not be what we want. Now there are a lot of folks who want to bless us. We are going to talk about exactly how we are blessed by God.
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SCRIPT IT COUNTS TO GOD RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT HE REPAYS SERIES
We begin a new series in one of the books that really puts you into the heavenly places, to say the least. Take your Bibles, please, and turn to Romans 3 beginning at verse 21. All biblical references are quoted from the New King James Version unless otherwise noted. The author inserts personal comments when quoting Scripture which are indicated by square brackets.