[Discoveries] 06-16-07 Righteous before God

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/*How then can a man be righteous before God? -- Job 25:4*/

Job's three friends are searching for Job's sin but cannot find it. This 
is their last attempt. Bildad says in essence: "You cannot be righteous 
because no one can be righteous." Job must be dirty. Yet when God 
described Job to Satan, He called Job "blameless" and "upright."

Many Christians seem to take up Bildad's search for sin in every 
believer. You must be dirty. And if I turn you upside down and shake you 
long enough, sin will fall out of your pockets.

But how does God describe us? "Becoming the righteousness of God" (2 
Corinthians 5:21) "without condemnation" and "set free from the law of 
sin and death" (Romans 8:1-2) "God's seed remains in us; we cannot go on 
sinning" (1 John 3:9) "raised up with Christ and seated with Him in 
heavenly realms" (Ephesians 2:6)

Sometimes, in the name of "humility," God's work gets insulted. God is 
stronger and wiser and better than we are. He has taken us on as His 
children. His work in us is powerful (Philippians 1:6, 2:13). He is 
older and smarter than all those who want to destroy us.

How can a man be righteous before God? By God's magnificent intervention 
even "the least of these" shall be called brothers and sisters of Christ.

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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