1. The Spirit
The
first important aspect of our enslavement to righteousness or to God is Jesus
Christ the Spirit who has Become for us wisdom from God --- and righteousness
and sanctification and redemption ---that, as it is written, "He who
glories, let him glory in the LORD" (1Corinthians 1:30-31).
This
is a fulfillment to a prophecy which states; "Behold, the days are
coming," says the LORD, "That I will raise to David a Branch of
righteousness; A King shall reign and prosper, and execute judgment and
righteousness in the earth. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will
dwell safely; now this is His name by which He will be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS”
(Jeremiah
23:5-6).
The
Lord is our righteousness because He made things right with us with the Father,
by paying the price of sin in our stead, and imputed to us the gift of
righteousness by begotten us and creating in us a new man which was created
according to God, in true righteousness and holiness (Ephesians
4:24).
Jesus
Christ is also the Spirit of truth by which we can draw near to the Father as
explained by Jesus Christ Who said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No
one comes to the Father except through Me.” The truth here represents Jesus
Christ Himself the Word of God Who said; “It is the Spirit who gives life; the
flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are
life” (John
14:6; 6:63).
Therefore,
our first enslavement to righteousness or to God is to be obedient to Jesus
Christ the Word of God, the Spirit of truth Who will guide us into all truth;
for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak;
and He will tell us things to come (John 16:13).
The
Spirit of truth also refers to Jesus Christ in His current position as our High
Priest Who is seated at the right hand of the Father making intercession on our
behalf when we come to present ourselves before the Father as confirmed by the
apostle Paul who wrote; “Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the
Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for
us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, and having a High Priest over the
house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with
pure water” (Hebrews 10.19-22).
So,
the first of the three-fold aspect of our righteousness to which we are
enslaved is Jesus Christ our Righteousness, Who is the Spirit of truth and our
eternal High Priest, to whom we are to be obedient and submissive all the days
of our lives.
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To be continued
With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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