Daily Diary - June 20th, 2016

Righteousness Through Christ!

Galatians 2:17 ¹⁷ “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! ¹⁸ For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. ¹⁹ For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life, which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. ²¹ I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

If righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.  We need to conclude that we need a savior and that we have been crucified with Christ.  It is by God’s grace alone that we have been saved.  We are not worthy of this great gift of salvation, but God loved us enough to make us righteous through His son.

Question:  Have “You” accepted that you are saved by Grace and not by your work?

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

I have witnessed on many occasions “Christians” who are passing judgment and are speaking from a spirit of pride in their selves.  This pride is an act of them boasting about what they have done that makes them righteous.  This is the opposite of God’s grace.  All have fallen short of God’s glory and are found unworthy.  The grace of God that flows from the proper spirit of humility represents the work of Christ Jesus in a way that others can gain the “revelation” of Christ.  It is the work of God and not of man that one should be saved.

Galatians 1:11-12 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. ¹² For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Father God we thank you for your grace.  We walk in your righteousness alone and seek your will for our lives in Jesus name!

Ephesians 2:4-6 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,⁵ even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), ⁶ and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,