Righteousness (152)
  1. The Lord knew how it felt to be a rejected stone.
  2. Paul is writing as a man who has already lived a life of law-keeping while denying the resurrection.
  3. I hate to break it to you, but "are" is not an action verb. "Are" is a being verb.
  4. As disciples of Jesus, our righteousness cannot be performed before others, because our righteousness was already performed by Jesus.
  5. If you interpret James, as most do, as an encouragement toward proving your faith by your works and then say it is your "favorite" then you are proclaiming that your favorite thing about the Christian faith is the practical outworking, the proving your faith by your works.
  6. To believe God is love and thus loves you is a miracle wrought by the Holy Spirit.
  7. You are the friend in low places. It’s only from this place that you are free to look outside yourself for the remedy to the issues that plague you and humanity.
  8. Righteousness before God is possessed only by grace and that through the currency of faith.
  9. Jesus is the anti-Cain: a giver, not a taker.
  10. It’s the notion of mercy that leads us to the atonement, and it is the atonement that provides a foundational basis for the justification of sinners.
  11. This is an excerpt from “All Charges Dropped! Devotional Narratives from Earthly Courtrooms to the Throne of Grace,” written by Haroldo Camacho (1517 Publishing, 2022).
  12. When God makes promises, he is incapable of not keeping them.
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