ARE YOU LIVING OUT RIGHTEOUSNESS IN YOUR HOME?

Deep inner peace is directly linked to righteous living. The more we actively promote righteousness, the more we experience greater and deeper inner peace.

Isaiah 32:17, 18: “And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.”

We must teach our children the doctrine of righteousness.

Firstly, the only righteousness that is acceptable and pleasing to God is our full acceptance of Jesus Christ into our lives. He is our only source of righteousness. Without Christ we cannot live lives pleasing to God.

How does this work? When we accept His perfectly righteous Son, Jesus Christ, into our lives as our Savior and Lord He accepts us as righteous and declares us righteous. It is all through His beloved Son (Colossians 2:3).

In Genesis 15:5, 6 God promises Abraham that his descendants will be as many as the stars in the heavens: “And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them and he said unto him, so shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD, and he counted it to him for righteousness.”

In Genesis 12:3 God promises Abraham: “In thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

In Galatians 3:16 it states that the seed coming from Abraham to bless all the nations of the earth was Jesus Christ and all those who receive Him as their Savior and Lord. When Abraham believed God for the promise of an immeasurable multitude (all the nations of the earth), he was actually believing in Jesus Christ who was the ONE SEED by whom all the nations (by believing in Jesus Christ) would be declared righteous.

Galatians 3:16 (ESV): “Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, ‘And to offsprings,’ referring to many, but referring to one, ‘And to your offspring,’ who is Christ.”

Secondly. The state of being declared righteous must reveal its fruit in our lives so that our homes will experience the peace of righteousness.

How can we have peace with God because we believe in Jesus Christ and yet at the same time not have peace in our homes? The state of righteousness must find its fulfilment in a lifestyle of righteous acts.

This begins right now in our own homes. There are far too many Christians who declare their state of righteousness in Christ and yet their homes, and even their churches, are filled with arguments, disunity, debate, and turmoil.

Love and unity, which we all have in Christ, must be worked out in our homes, families, and churches.

How can we have righteousness and peace in our churches if we do not have it in our families first? How can we have it in our families if we do not have the righteousness of Christ filling up our minds and hearts with His peace?

God declared Abraham righteous, but he lived out his righteousness in his daily life.

Genesis 18:19: “For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the LOD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.”

Abraham’s righteousness resulted in the working out of judgment and justice through all that they did and wherever they went.
1. He COMMANDED his children and household after him.
2. He and his family KEPT the way of the Lord.
3. He and his family executed justice and judgment.
Working out his righteousness would have resulted in great peace, not only in his own home, but in all the homes that believed in God as Abraham did.

Ephesians 2: 8-10: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works (righteous actions), which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

Philippians 2:12, 13: “Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure”.

Be encouraged. Colin Campbell