Knowing JESUS Daily Devotional | July 18, 2020 | LESSONS FROM PSALMS | FAVOR AND BLESSINGS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield – Psalms 5:12

Beloved, both your loving Father in heaven and Jesus Christ our Lord have the nature of righteousness.

God.

Psalms 145:17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

Jesus.

1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

They both loveth righteousness .

God.

Psa 11:7 For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness;his countenance doth behold the upright.

Psalms 33:5 He loveth righteousness and judgment:
the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

Jesus

Heb 1:8 — Heb 1:9 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

FAVOR AND BLESSINGS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield – Psalms 5:12

Beloved, because both your Father and Jesus have righteousness as their nature and loves it, They both blesses anyone who lives in biblical acceptable righteousness.

Biblical and acceptable righteousness are attained through two medium.

1. Through faith in Christ and His vicarious substitutionary sacrifice.
This is called imputed righteousness.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Rom 3:24 — Rom 3:25 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

2. Through grace, doing the good works, God ordained His saints to walk in. This is called imparted righteousness..

Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

FAVOR AND BLESSINGS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield – Psalms 5:12

As you learn of Christ, then , you replicate His nature.

Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

These attributes and nature of Christ, becomes doable through grace.

2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Tit 2:11 — Tit 2:12 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

FAVOR AND BLESSINGS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield – Psalms 5:12

So after you have attained and sustained these biblical acceptable righteousness, then enviable and incorruptible inheritances becomes yours here and hereafter. See some of them.

1. Divine favour.

Psalms 5:12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

2. Divine lifting.

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

3. Enjoying the labour of your hands.

Isaiah 3:10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him:
for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

4. Unhindered answer prayers.

1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

FAVOR AND BLESSINGS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield – Psalms 5:12

5. Shining in God’s kingdom.

Matthew 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

6. Partaking in the marriage supper.

Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Beloved, these are all yours , so reach out and possess your possessions living a lifestyle of biblical righteousness, till Christ comes.

Brethren Noah, Job ,Daniel attained righteousness, you also shall do same in Jesus name.

Genesis 7:1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Ezekiel 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.

FAVOR AND BLESSINGS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield – Psalms 5:12

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