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1 | Can we lose our righteousness? | Rom 8:34 | McGracer | 54242 | ||
Dear Forum, If God justifies us "declares us righteous" as a gift, then are we, for all practical purposes, always righteous before Him or can we lose our justification? McGracer |
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2 | Can we lose our righteousness? | Rom 8:34 | Reformer Joe | 54243 | ||
You are asking two different questions here. We are in a continuous judicial state of righteous before him because of Christ's righteousness on our records. We are declared righteous and a truce exists between us and God at the moment we possess saving faith in Christ (Romans 5:1). Can we lose our justification? Nope. See Romans 8:34. Our salvation is preserved by God. However, our lives can show us to have been never truly justified in the first place. --Joe! |
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3 | Can we become more righteous in state? | Rom 8:34 | McGracer | 54250 | ||
Joe, If we are in a continuous judicial state of righteousness before God, then can we ever lose that state of righteousness or can we do anything to gain more righteousness that what He has judicially declared us to be? McGracer |
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4 | Can we become more righteous in state? | Rom 8:34 | Reformer Joe | 54252 | ||
No, we will not become more justified or less justified. We do become more righteous as the Holy Spirit conforms us to the image of Christ. --Joe! |
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5 | More Righteousness? | Rom 8:34 | Mommapbs | 54253 | ||
Joe - When God imputs the righteousness of Christ to a believer, does he/she need more? HOW does one become MORE righteous? Please explain this. Thanks - Blessings, Mommapbs | ||||||
6 | More Righteousness? | Rom 8:34 | Reformer Joe | 54255 | ||
Simple...it is not more righteousness to get us into heaven. Christ's righteousness is sufficient and efficient for that. However, God then works in our lives to make us more like Christ. The evidence of the faith by which we are justified are the works that result from the Spirit's transforming work in our life. Justification by faith is immediate and eternal. I am bound for heaven because of what Christ has done for me. Sanctification begins at justification and continues throughout the believer's life. That is why we read in the New Testamant that our destinies are sure, and yet we are still to press on and strive and work out that salvation. That labor that Paul writes is the cooperative work we engange in with the Spirit in our sanctification. Again, this is not earning heaven, but rather the evidence that we are His (1 John, 2 Peter 1, James 2, Romans 8) and a process which the Spirit will complete when we are indeed made perfect in all our thoughts and behavior in glory. --Joe! |
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7 | More Righteousness? | Rom 8:34 | McGracer | 54263 | ||
Joe, This is EXACTLY what I have been trying to say. At new birth, we receive a new, righteous spirit that is joined forever to Christ's spirit in us - 1 Cor 6:17. It is our new divine nature indwelt by God Himself - 2 Pet 1:4. This is who we ARE. If the body, at any time, dies, we go immediately into our Lord's presence because of who we ARE and Christ already in us. Scripture says that our new self (the inner man)which we put on (once in the Greek) is ALREADY created in the likeness of God, righteous and holy - Eph 4:24. This is internal Christ-likeness of which we are already participants and where we simply ARE. In the meantime, as you have correctly stated, the Spirit is transforming the rest of us (thoughts and behavior, a term that the Bible calls "soul") into Christ-likeness. This is external Christ-likeness were we grow and mature. McGracer |
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