RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR RECONCILATION

Matthew chapter 6










Today we are walking in: Righteousness For Reconciliation




Today we look to the word RIGHTEOUSNESS--H6663 tsadaq -- Justify, Righteous, Just, Justice, Cleansed, Clear Ourselves, Righteousness








The Torah testifies.........……




Deuteronomy 6:25

And it shall be our righteousness H6663, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.











The prophets proclaim..................






Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness H6663 is of me, saith the Lord.













The writings bear witness............




Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness H6663 of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.







RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR RECONCILIATION




The fundamental and universal need of every human being on earth is righteousness. Yah’s Word makes it clear that none of us are righteous in and of ourselves:




The fool says in his heart, “There is no Yah.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good. The Most High looks down from Heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand, any who seek Yah. All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one (Psalm 14:1-3).




Sin and moral corruption are universal, a legacy of Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden. Furthermore, there is nothing any of us can do to make ourselves righteous: “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away” (Isa. 64:6). Unless righteousness comes to us from an outside source, we have no hope of entering the Kingdom of Yah.




Fortunately for our sake, Yah Himself has provided the righteousness we all so desperately need: “For in the gospel a righteousness from Yah is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith’” (Rom. 1:17). The word gospel means “good news.” Yahusha came preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. As this verse from Paul’s letter to the Romans indicates, the gospel of the Kingdom had within it a “righteousness from Yah” that is appropriated by faith. Faith in Hamachiach and in His death on the crucifixion stake to remove our sin and moral corruption activates the righteousness of Yah and applies it to our lives. So when we come into right positioning with Yah’s government in the Kingdom, it is not our righteousness but His in which we stand.




“The righteous will live by faith.” This means that they believe the Word of the Kingdom government. Our righteousness comes from Yah. He is saying to us, “Look, either you can position yourself (which is what religion tries to do) or you can allow Me to position you. Religion is weak and useless; it avails nothing. Only in My Kingdom can you find righteousness. You could not save yourself so I saved you. You could not clean up your own mess so I cleaned it up for you. Through the blood of My Son I washed away your sin and moral defilement. It is I who put you back into right alignment with My government.




I am the one who restored your right standing. You are in the right position because I put you there.”




To put an even finer point on it, Yahusha Hamachiach Himself is our righteousness. It is through Him that the righteousness of Yah becomes our own:




It is because of Him [Yah] that you are in Hamachiach Yahusha, who has become for us wisdom from Yah—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let him who boasts boast in the Most High” (1 Corinthians 1:30-31).




Yahusha became for us our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. We owe everything to Him. That is why we have no right or reason to boast in ourselves or in our own goodness. We should boast in the Most High alone, who has brought us back into right positioning with Himself and given us access to the Kingdom of Yah and all its riches, resources, and privileges. From our position of righteousness, which we have from Him, we can confidently anticipate that He will meet and supply all our needs. Religion will never do this.




People outside the Kingdom use religion to try to establish a righteousness of their own making because they are ignorant of the righteousness that is available from Yah. Paul expressed it this way:




Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from Yah and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to Yah’s righteousness. Hamachiach is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes (Romans 10:3-4).




Hamachiach is the end of the law. He is the end of all of the rituals and laws people try to keep. He is the end of all of our self-effort to become righteous. He is the end of all our attempts to relate to Yah on our own terms. For everyone who believes—everyone who trusts and submits their lives to Him—Yahusha becomes their righteousness. This is why we all need Yahusha in our lives. Only through Him can we become rightly positioned with Yah.




The righteousness we receive in Hamachiach is not for ourselves alone. When we become rightly positioned with the government of Yah, He commissions us to spread the word of His righteousness to others so they too may become rightly positioned with Him. This commission is called the ministry of reconciliation:




Therefore, if anyone is in Hamachiach, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from Yah, who reconciled us to Himself through Hamachiach and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that Yah was in Hamachiach reconciling the world to Himself in Hamachiach, not counting men’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Hamachiach’s ambassadors, as though Yah were making His appeal through us. We implore you on Hamachiach’s behalf: Be reconciled to Yah. Yah made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of Yah (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).




To reconcile means “to restore a broken relationship, remove an estrangement, or bring back into balance.” All of these describe what happens when we become the righteousness of Yah in Hamachiach: our broken relationship with Yah is restored, the wall of separation between us is removed, and our lives are brought back into the balance Yah originally intended. We are placed in right positioning. And from that right and secure place we are prepared and equipped to carry the message of the Kingdom to others so they too can be reconciled to Yah. This is the good news of the Kingdom!




PRINCIPLES




1.Our pursuit of righteousness places us in the right positioning to receive all the rights, resources, blessings, and privileges of the Kingdom that are ours as Kingdom citizens.




2.Purity of heart is a critical, indispensable key to abundant Kingdom life.




3.The prosperity of the righteous is an ongoing blessing from Yah that spans generations.




4.Right positioning places us under the protection of the King.




5.The key to righteousness is knowledge of the law.




6.Knowledge of the Bible, our Kingdom constitution, is also the key to effective citizenship in the Kingdom.




7.The Bible is the constitution of the Kingdom of Yah and the source of righteousness for its citizens.




8.Positioning places us under proper authority in the Kingdom.




9.Righteous positioning, which is based on obedience, is so important that it is the standard of measure in the Kingdom of Yah.




10.Our righteousness comes from Yah.




11.Yahusha Hamachiach Himself is our righteousness.




12.When we become rightly positioned with the government of Yah, He commissions us to spread the word of His righteousness to others so they too may become rightly positioned with Him.