Hello All Saints\u2019 Youth Group Reunion,<\/p>\n
The weather up here in Northern Maryland has been strange so far today\u2026 It has been a mixture of bright overcast and gathered areas of deeper blue (read: water-filled) clouds. The birds don\u2019t seem to mind. And the squirrel who pillaged the corn cob at the feeder in my backyard this morning was not perplexed either\u2026 thus if animals aren\u2019t, then I shant be either! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
I thought for a few minutes on this next name of God and how to make it applicable to us. The name comes from a \u2018Messianic\u201d passage in the Old Testament. Whenever you see the word \u201cMessianic\u201d, just extract the word \u201cMessiah\u201d. And any Christian worth their salt (ha ha) should know to Whom this is referring, right?! Let\u2019s read\u2026<\/p>\n
Jeremiah 23:5-6<\/p>\n
\u201cBehold, the days are coming,\u201d says the Lord, \u201cthat 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\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lord Our Righteousness = JEHOVAH TSIDKENU<\/p>\n
So the word to really pull out is \u201cRighteousness\u201d and consequently \u201cRighteous\u201d. Merriam-Webster has a good definition of the word \u201cRighteous\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n
1<\/em>:<\/em><\/strong> acting in accord with divine or moral law<\/em>:<\/em><\/strong> free from guilt or sin<\/em> <\/em><\/p>\n I also read online that the Hebrew root word \u201cTsidek\u201d can mean \u201cStraight\u201d.<\/p>\n So putting the two together we can arrive at an understanding of the word \u201cRighteous\u201d; To be righteous is to be in accord with God\u2019s law as set forth in His word\u2026 You are a straight-shooting (ha ha) obedient subject of your Master, the Lord. You are walking the Straight and Narrow\u2026 Being and doing such, you are righteous, living a life of righteousness. \u00a0<\/p>\n Now reading this you may recall a contradictory statement in the NT\u2026<\/p>\n Romans 3:10<\/p>\n As it is written (In Ecclesiastes 7:20): \u201cThere is none righteous, no, not one\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Uh oh. If Romans 3:10 indicts you and me and all of humanity of disobedience towards (crimes against) Holy and Almighty God\u2026 thus condemned to hell\u2026 how is it that people can be saved and escape eternal torment? How can unholy and unrighteous sinners be rescued and made into holy and righteous saints in the eyes of God??<\/p>\n Look at the first part of the name\u2026. THE LORD.<\/p>\n The Lord can do it! Hallelujah! It goes back to that old line you\u2019ve heard since you were a kid, \u2018Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.\u2019<\/p>\n Romans 4:5<\/p>\n But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness\u2026<\/p>\n So being truly converted to Christ through faith puts us in the same \u201cfamily\u201d as Old Man Abraham who believed (trusted by faith in) God too\u2026<\/p>\n Genesis 15:6<\/p>\n And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.<\/p>\n So an ungodly man is unable to be righteous on his own, but can be declared righteous (forgiven of our sins) by virtue of Christ\u2019s sacrificial death on the cross\u2026<\/p>\n Colossians 1:13-14<\/p>\n He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.<\/p>\n Really then, believers knowing their past condition can joyfully give credit where credit is due: to JEHOVAH TSIDKENU! Amen! Believers in this day and age proclaim it and believers in the future will too.<\/p>\n Peace, Hello All Saints\u2019 Youth Group Reunion, The weather up here in Northern Maryland has been strange so far today\u2026 It has been a mixture of bright overcast and gathered areas of deeper blue (read: water-filled) clouds. The birds don\u2019t seem to mind. And the squirrel who pillaged the corn cob at the feeder in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,46,47,48],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","tag-hebrew","tag-names-of-god","tag-old-testament","tag-yhwh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nJim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"