One thing that pleases the good Creator is His righteousness.in an individual. His righteousness is His nature of love, how He thinks. How God acts is how He is. And how is that?.Romans 13:10. Other things...

Being righteous is being in truth. God is truth. How to know the truth in your heart.

Righteousness is truth and vice versa. Righteous is doing the right things, being on the good side of that producing good for all. Righteousness is light:.Psalms 18:28.

Rghteousness is not what many people think it is.

2Corinthians 5:21 "For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we would be considered as being the righteousness of God in him."

John 7:18 "He that speaks of himself seeks his own glory, but he that seeks the glory of another that sent him, the same is true and no unrighteousness is in him."

Psalms 119:172 "My tongue shall speak of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness."

Psalms 18:20 "God rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me." Isaiah 32:17 "And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.(no anxiety)." Isaiah 42:6 "I God have called you in righteousness and will hold your hand and will keep you and give you for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles."
Isaiah 46:12,13 "Hearken unto me, you stouthearted that are far from righteousness. I bring near my righteousness.(what is His righteousness?), it shall not be far off and my salvation shall not tarry.(2Corinthians 6:2)..." Isaiah 50:10 "Who is among you that fears God, that obeys the voice of his servant, that walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in what God's name means and he'll stay upon his God."

Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." Romans 11:6 "And if by grace, then is it no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace..."

The spirit of God is in you when you have come to believe that you are righteous because you have seen the gift.(Romans 5:17).and appreciate it:.Romans 8:10 "And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin.(Colossians 3:1-3), but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.".But how does one get there?

Genesis 15:6 "And he believed in God and he counted it to him for righteousness.".Proverbs 8:6-8.

How to know if a man, woman or child is righteous and what are the fruits of righteousness?.Matthew 7:16,20 with Isaiah 32:17 "And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever."

Belief.accords.with righteousness:.2Corinthians 6:14,15; Psalms 64:9. It comes from knowing, not from doing, but once you have it, do good works and get rewarded.

Living from one's ego provides only false hope for life, so one's life is constantly turning back on a person to their hurt as it was also in Old Testement times. Few ever discover why:.Ephesians 2:12 "...having no hope and without God in the world.".The ancients of the Old Testament had an answer, but rejected it. Derek found the answer.

Righteousness comes from the Creator, the Lord.(what's 'the Lord'?). Righteous is not something you become by doing:.Hosea 10:12: Romans 10:6-10. It's something freely given that you receive by wanting.

Faith comes with this gift and therefore is also called a gift. You'll be good because you are righteous, having been given the gift of righteousness, not be good to get righteousness; again, because it is a gift, for why would you work to get that which is available simply as a gift?

Righteousness is.being free.to do all you want, free of all the necessary restrictions imposed upon the peoples of the world because most are still on the road out of the low consciousness ego level, which is always ready to run rampant into destruction if left unchecked; true of religion and true of living in the world. The ego needs boundaries because it quickly goes toward evil.

The righteousness of God has no restrictions..Romans 13:10. The only spiritual guideline for being on Earth now is the golden rule. If that was followed by all there would be no laws necessary to control the ego when it wants to and often does go astray.

The golden rule is the consciousness that Christ had. This is what He had when He was on Earth in the physical body of the one we have come to know as Emmanuel. The golden rule is the high consciousness of the God family, a family of love, service and help, a family of those not wanting to do harm.(Romans 13:10), not wanting to use deceit.(deceit is used when one is out to gain something by taking from someone else), a family here to learn the way out of the low consciousness level that has caused all the problems humanity has ever had.

When one loves, when one is of service to others, when one helps where need is there, he or she is of God, because he is of the same thinking as the Infinite One is, the same thinking that Christ came to Earth to reveal:.John 17:23,26.

When one is like this he or she is of what is called the Christ consciousness. More and more people today are becoming of this higher consciousness. What can each of us do to bring it quicker?.

Shortly after the death of Emmanuel and resurrection of Christ there were few of high consciousness:.Philippians 2:21 "For all seek their own, not the things which are Emmanuel the Christ's."

Soon, very soon now, high consciousness people will have filled the Earth with the ways of love, the ways of the Infinite One. The difference will be amazing. High consciousness will remain in the hearts and minds of all people. A new age of humanity has long since begun and is now mushrooming:.Matthew 13:31,32; Revelation 11:15; Isaiah 11:9. 

Righteousness basically is being good, doing good, again living by the golden rule is living in higher consciousness, where the brain and mind can fully develop.

The Great Infinite One we most often refer to as God wants righteousness:.Isaiah 45:8 "Drop down, you heavens, from above and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the Earth open and let them bring forth salvation and let righteousness spring up together. I the Lord have created it.".And, He wants it in all of us.

Isaiah 51:6 ".....my salvation shall be for ever and my.(God's, not ours).righteousness shall not be abolished."

Daniel 12:3 "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness
as the stars forever and ever."

1Peter 3:12 "For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers......" 

Zephaniah 2:3 ".....seek righteousness, seek meekness......"

Righteousness is a gift.(Romans 5:17), a gift of learning about this being called Christ, a gift that is expected will be used.(righteousness may be a gift and one who appreciates it will carry it with him down the pathways of life:.Psalms 23).to your benefit by taking it further, that is, learning more:.Isaiah 26:9 "With my soul have I desired you in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek you early.(how?); for when your judgments are in the Earth the inhabitants of the world will learn.(original is 'teach') righteousness.".How important are our efforts to bring this about? And how do we get God on our side?.2Chronicles 15:2.

The truth is you have a soul and there is a way to unite with it. The goal is to unite the self that is mostly ego controlled, to one's real self, through one's connection to the Soul of all:.1Corinthians 15:34 "Awake to righteousness and sin not.(meaning making the mistake of missing the mark); for some have not the knowledge of God.(yet). I speak this to your shame." Ephesians 4:20,21 ".....learned Christ.('Christ' is something you learn). If so be that you have heard him and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Emmanuel.".He came to reveal the consciousness of the Father, that is, how it is that the Creator thinks, how He is.

Paul in this scripture in his writing to the church in Corinth, Greece, way back when, is saying to be on the qui vive, so that you never forget.(or, never miss the mark; that is, fall off and away from the knowledge of the Creator on this).to realize that you are righteous. You are righteous because the Creator is that way and you too are God; you just don't realize that and because you don't, you rely upon your ego and what feeds it, the five senses.

The "new man" can only come about through a belief in righteousness:.Ephesians 4:24 "And that you put on the new man, which after.(or, 'in line with' – in line with the Creator because one now comprehends righteousness).God is created in righteousness and true holiness."Therefore our reward depends upon this.

The Creator is more than big enough to straighten out any evil in His own way and time. So why does He wait?

Righteousness is something.(a gift from God).that one learns once he or she is on the road of spirituality.

Through information gained through our own meditation, prayer, and personal Bible study and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we come to understand about Christ.

Most religious people have no real idea of what 'Christ' means. As mentioned, some learn Christ one way, and others differently: Ephesians 4:20,21 "But you have not so learned Christ. If so be that you have heard him and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Emmanuel."

Christ is right there with you when you are engaged in your quiet and alone spiritual time. Young's Literal Translation of Ephesians 4:21 has it:."If so be you did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Emmanuel.".Paul's example.

It is through a relationship with the Creator that all one's desires for good are realized, with many occurring now in this physical life.

God comes to us, when He is ready. Apart from that, we would never know the real God. Many prompts do occur to all of us during our lives here, but some of us just need more to wake us up.

So, what does He come to us with? He comes to us with the key to it all, the key to all good, His righteousness:.Ephesians 1:19 "And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power."

So what has prevented this great power from being active in you? Belief is according to the working of His power in us, but God never overrides us:.Mark 6:5,6. So what is this thing to know about that would make possible the gift of belief necessary to receive all things you may want?

What's belief? Believe what? That you are indeed righteous. How righteous? That's why this subject! Read it.

Romans 4:17 ".....God, who quickens.(makes alive).the dead and calls those things which be not as though they were." How is that for the Great Infinite One having faith in us? God calls you righteous, and you will soon see why. God knows what He is doing, and with whom. He does not 'play around' with peoples' lives. He has great respect for us.

Isaiah 45:19 "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the Earth. I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain. I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right."

Paul tells us:.2Corinthians 6:14 "Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion has light with darkness?".In a business venture ancient king Jehoshaphat found this out the hard way:.1Kings 22:48,49.

Note that Paul is saying that an unbeliever is one who is unrighteous and that's one who doesn't know as yet his or her true state in God. And why do they not know it? 

It means an 'unrighteous one' is one not yet awakened to the fact that in the high spiritual realm of God, one is then righteous:.1Timothy 1:13 "Who was before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious, but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.".So what is the chasm that the majority cannot seem to cross and why?.Luke 16:26.

One is also unrighteous if he thinks he is. The effect is the same. Paul had to deal with this problem. 

John 15:19 "If you were of the world, the world would love his own. But because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you."
   And how are you not."of the world"?.1Corinthians 12:3.

Many good and sincere God fearin' religious folks realizing that sin still exists in their lives, think of themselves from that point of view, thus thinking of themselves, in error, to be unrighteous and thus alienating themselves from Creator-God. That is why this subject!

If righteousness was doing everything right, you would not need the Creator's grace. 

Like faith and righteousness being inseparable, so are all the other high consciousness attributes of love. That is why it is important to understand toward gaining an overstanding of just what righteousness really means. It is not 'doing everything right'. Who of us ever can do so or ever has consistently done so? Job came close! But who of us ever really has, but the one called Emmanuel, who came here, mature in being righteous, perfect and holy?

One of God's judgments or decisions is for all to learn righteousness.

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