The righteous are operators of God's justice, because, having been born again, they can exercise their rights and gifts received from Heaven, to do as Jesus said: Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also, and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father (John 14.12). Never allow the promises to go unfulfilled in your life: It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tittle of the Law to fall away (Luke 16.17).

        The righteous were born again because, upon receiving the gift of repentance, they accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord. They confessed their sins and were saved - washed in the blood of the Lamb of God and sanctified in the Word. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians 6:11). In the world of perfection, nothing wrong is written on their “records”, so when they die, they will go to Heaven!

         I don't know how you live, but God's command is: rejoice in Him. Therefore, the simple fact of not fulfilling this command separates us from faith and from what divine power will do in and for us, when we determine the blessing revealed in the Word and believe (Psalm 32.11). If you're sad, complaining about everything, even the Lord, and don't follow His guidance, confess your mistake right away and ask for the Lord's joy (Nehemiah 8:10)

          No righteous person can accept their prayers going unanswered, but must act like the widow who pestered the unjust judge and made him judge her cause: Then the Lord said, 'Hear what the unjust judge said. And shall not God avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? (Luke 18:6,7). In the Master's explanation, it's clear that she wouldn't have gotten the answer if she hadn't persevered in supporting her request!

          The righteous are part of the redeemed, so consider the parable of the lost sheep, when Jesus explained that the Good Shepherd left the 99 sheep in the fold and went in search of the one that had gone astray. Have you fallen into sin? Christ is looking for your soul without condemning you: What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? (Luke 15.4). Jesus is the Man!

           With the Savior's death, the righteous became the very righteousness of God: For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him (2 Corinthians 5:21). Who never knew sin? The Father, for His Son knew sin not by having done wrong, but by suffering for our mistakes. In Jesus, the heavenly Father has made us His righteousness. That's why we can and must demand an end to all evil!

           The righteous can give praise in memory of the Lord's holiness. After all, He clothes them with power to do His work just as His only begotten Son did in our midst. Start determining your rights in Christ right away. The only condition for this is to believe (John 11:40).

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares