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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Psalms 11:7
For the Lord (YHWH) is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face.
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That blessed man of God, David king of Israel, was a principal figure in the genealogy of Jesus the promised Messiah. Jesus is called the 'son of David' in the very first statement in the New Testament of the Bible, Matthew 1:1. And yet we hear David's lament in the Book of Psalms when he cries to the Lord as he comes face to face with his sinful nature after his affair with Bathsheba. {2Sam.11:2-4}

It was then, he cried out “For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are justified when You speak and blameless when You judge. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.” {Ps.51:3-5} David had truly acted very, very unrighteously!

Well, the simple but unpleasant truth is that we were all conceived in sin. We were all brought forth with the stain of Adam's sin on us. And the worst part of that truth is that we had no possible way to make it better, no way to fix it! It takes the shedding of blood to remove sin, and that from a pure and holy sacrifice. {Lev.17:1}

So there was, and still is, no way for sinful man to remove the stain of sin from his own life. But thanks be to God, our righteous God, He has made a way where there was no way—so our Savior Jesus, the promised Messiah, sinless, holy and pure. could say; {John 14:6} “I am the way, the truth and the life; No one comes to the Father but through Me.”

All we have to do is desire it, seek it and accept it. It is God's desire that we do, and we have been given the Holy Spirit to dwell within us and to provide the power to live a sanctified, holy life! It is by His power in us that we can live and walk in the fruit of the Spirit rather than enslaved by the deeds of the flesh. {Gal.5:15}
We cannot buy it or earn it, {Eph.2:8-9} It is the free gift of our Father who loves righteousness and loves us!

So, our Lord Jesus would proclaim in the so very wonderful Sermon on the Mount:

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” (Matthew 5:6)

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