
Believing is having.
Next, He gives to us Righteousness. It is a Revelation of the Righteousness of God that becomes available to the man who has faith in Jesus. (Romans 3:21-26)
God becomes the Righteousness of the man who takes Christ as his Savior and crowns Him as Lord of his life.
2 Cor. 5:21 “Him who knew no sin, He made to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him.”
He not only becomes our Righteousness, but by the impartation of His nature, we become His Righteousness, His sons and daughters.
Heb. 10:38 “My Righteous one shall live by faith.”
We are called His Righteous ones.
Not only are we the Righteousness of God, but we have become the sons and daughters of God.
The climax of the Revelation that God gave to Paul, recorded in Romans 8:14-17 states this clearly.
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. For ye received not the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ.”
This is sonship with all its glorious privileges.
Paul does not stop there. These sons and daughters are partakers not only of God’s nature, but of God Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:11 “But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you. He that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through His Spirit that dwelleth in you.”
I Cor. 6:19 “Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you?”
This all comes to the believer by faith.
There is no Sense Knowledge faith required.
You do not need to have any feelings to prove that you are Born Again.
All that is necessary is the Word of God.
Romans 10:9 declares: “Because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
You do not need Sense Knowledge evidence to prove that you have received the Holy Spirit.
Luke 11:13 “How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.”
Your confidence is not in any physical manifestation or physical evidence. It is always in the simple Word of God.
Luke 1:37 “No Word from God is void of power” (or ability to make good).
These mighty Scriptures give one ground for Faith.
We have confidence when we know what we are in Christ.
Unbelief is largely the result of ignorance of what we are in Christ.
When I saw what God had done for me in Christ, my whole being was thrilled, faith was an unconscious fact, it was mine, He did it for me, I said “Thank you Father” and I began to enjoy my rights in Christ.

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