Paul’s Theology of Righteousness – Part 10

Message Date: October 3, 2021
Bible

Review

  • 8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8 NKJV
    • Destroy: to loosen (implies to release)
    • Jesus did not do away with what bound her, but He released her from it.
  • Redemption was God’s way of making mankind righteous and releasing man from the works of the devil.
    • Redemption: to rescue and deliver from the bondage of sin and the penalties of God’s violated law (poverty, sickness, spiritual death)
  • The seven redemptive names of God – God has given us the redemptive right to expect these in the name of Jesus.
    • Jehovah: He is that He is. He can’t NOT be.
      • Jehovah Jireh – the Lord will provide
      • Jehovah Shammah – the Lord is there (present)
      • Jehovah Rapha – the Lord Who heals you
      • Jehovah Tsidkenu – the Lord our Righteousness
      • Jehovah Nissi – the Lord our banner (victory)
      • Jehovah Shalom – the Lord our peace
      • Jehovah Raa – the Lord our shepherd

Jehova Tsidkenu

  • Shepherds = prophets, priests, kings
    • 17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ. Colossians‬ ‭2:17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
    • 5 who serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, “See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.” Hebrews‬ ‭8:5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
    • 1For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭10:1‬ ‭NKJV‬
  • Leviticus 16
    • According to the law, priests had to be of Aaron’s line. Priestly service started at age 30. They wore specific garments: white pants (righteousness), blue undercoat (heavenly), gold sash (deity), breastplate (stones with the names of the twelve tribes), turban (holiness to the Lord inscribed)
    • Priestly service:
      • Ceremonial washing
      • Plain clothes
      • Sacrifice/scapegoat
      • Veil/standing in the Holy of Holies
      • Redress/burnt offering (sacrifice of praise)
  • Our priest was born of flesh (garments).
    • 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.‭‭ Philippians‬ ‭2:6-7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • Baptism/dove (washing)
    • 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. 14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?” 15 But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him. 16 When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭3:13-16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • Tempted (in all ways like his brethren)
    • 17 Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭2:17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • Sacrifice: How could He suffer for my sin?
    • 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.‭‭ John‬ ‭1:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • 1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭1:1-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.‭‭ Colossians‬ ‭1:16-17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
    • Ephod-laminin
  • 21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. ‭‭Romans‬ ‭3:21-26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • Veil torn
    • 37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last. 38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. ‭‭Mark‬ ‭15:37-38‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’” ‭‭John‬ ‭20:17‬ ‭NKJV‬
  • Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8 Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 11 None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” ‭‭Hebrews‬ ‭8:1-2, 6-12‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
  • 21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Romans 3:21-26 NKJV
  • As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12 NKJV