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PRACTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS

Text : 1Jn 3:7 ISV 

 *Little children, don’t let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.* 

One popular verse in the mouths of some believers these days is "I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus". 

Yes, 2Cor 5:21 told us exactly that - For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

However, this verse of the scriptures is not a ticket to sin neither is it a licence for loose living. As a matter of fact, the international standard version rendered that verse thus: 

 *God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that God’s righteousness would be produced in us.* So it is clear that the reason God made Jesus who knew no sin to be sin for us is so that we can produce God's righteousness. 

Before Jesus Christ came to die for us, man has no wherewithal to produce God's righteousness, that's why Isa 64:6 says...... all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. 

But thanks be to God that man now has the capacity to practice and produce God's righteousness. 

 *It will be anormally and height of self-deception to keep making practice of sin and still confess to be the righteousness of God in Christ.* 

Hear what God has to say on this matter in 1 John 3:7-8.

Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

 *Many have been decieved and many more are still being deceived by the hyper-grace teachers and their trending but unguided messages.* Our Master had warned us against them long time ago - And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. Math. 24:4-5.

And today, He is still sounding the warning bell, He says *LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU: HE THAT PRACTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS IS RIGHTEOUS, EVEN AS HE IS RIGHTEOUS.* What are you practicing? 

Bible Reading : 1 John 3: 1-24.

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