Welcome to House of God Discipleship Training, where on today we are set to introduce the first session of the material that makes up our foundation. The whole of the foundation consists of Pure Righteousness, Pure Worship, and Pure Judgement.
In the image we see a freshly married couple. They are a young couple and have many things to learn about one another. We see the surprise in the man’s eyes when the bride takes advantage of her wits and shows her new husband which one of them jumps over the broom better. She then instructs him concerning righteousness.
She says:
The segment concerning Righteousness appears in three sections, what Righteousness is, how Righteousness comes, and how Righteousness works in real life.
What Righteousness Is
The Four Attitudes
What it is, is an attitude, four attitudes to be exact. Our attitude about ourselves, our attitude about our sins, our attitude about the Lord, and our attitude about the world.
Attitude about Our Self
Righteousness, what it is. The righteous attitude says that we should be seriously humble in our gifts and talents and in our measure of faith. The House of God images made for Righteousness allows us to see the things that we need to do to understand Righteousness. The images help lock the truth of each session in place. The images act as a hook that brings the session back to the memory so that it can be used in real life.
Seriously Humble
The first attitude that we should develop about ourselves is humbleness. We should be serious about this humbleness for the following reason. We did not make ourselves. It was God that made us and not we ourselves. When we place our attention on this fact it then becomes easier to not think of ourselves higher than we should.
In the Sermon on the Mount, the very first thing that Jesus says is “Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The poor is spirit are those that are the opposite of the rich in spirit. The rich in spirit are the arrogant. Only when we become humble can we take a step toward God, asking what must I do to be saved? God in response to our movement towards Him takes two steps toward us. He steps to us then He steps through us. We gain a personal Relationship with the Lord God.
We commune with God and learn His way. Jesus in the great invitation asks us to come unto Him, all that labor and are heavy laden and He will give us rest. He says to take His yoke upon us and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly of heart, and we will find rest for our soul, for His yoke is easy, and His burden is light.
Gifts and talents
Next on the agenda is our use of Gifts and Talents that are given to us by the Lord God for our use. Gifts are used in God’s Church and Talents are what we use to make a living.
Measure of Faith
Our measure of faith is the amount of faith that we are personally given by the Lord God. Some have more than others.
When we are seriously humble in our gifts and talents and in our measure of faith then we are righteous concerning the attitude about ourselves.
Attitude about our Sins
Our Attitude concerning our sins
Sins are the things that we do that displeases God. Not only is God displeased but He shows his displeasure by non-desired treatment of us by Him. The Bible says that sin pays wages, and that the wages of sin is death. The attitude that we should have concerning our sins is that we should mourn over them. We should be discomforted. We should feel bad for having committed them. No matter how much we feel badly about committing our personal sins we still continue to commit them. God in His compassion for His children has made us a way to mitigate our personal sins. We can confess them and then repent of them, that’s turning away from them, and then we are to turn to the Lord who can and will forgive us and will save us and put us on the path to eternal life.
Attitude about The Lord
We should Love the Lord with all of our heart and soul and mind and strength. It has been said that saying that is easier than doing that. I personally realized God’s love for me at an early age when it was explained that God loved us so much that He gave His Son for us. Abraham would have yet God did. He gave His Son to solve the death problem for us His children. Since He loved us that much I could not help but to love Him then. I continue to love Him now.
Attitude about The World
Our Attitude concerning the world
We know that when we love the Lord more than we love the world then the world will hate us for loving the Lord more. Our attitude should be that we Love the Lord all the more. The backlash is worth the enduring for on the other side is eternity. This world is not our home. The world cannot save us, only God can do that. We are traveling through this place and our final destination is home with the Lord God forever.
As we live in the world this truism becomes fainter the more involved we are with the world. We are to keep our focus on the final phase and not get bogged down in endless world interactions. We need our brothers and sisters to keep us grounded on the correct path. We need the interaction of one another to validate our existence here in this world while we are passing through. We are instructed to number our days that we might apply wisdom.
Pure Righteousness
Pure Righteousness is what is covered here. When we control our attitudes concerning our self, our sins, the Lord, and the world, Righteousness follows like the day follows the night. When we think about our self we think seriously about ourselves, we think humbly, remaining in our gifts and talents, and in our measure of faith. We mourn over our sins, and then we confess them to God, who forgives us our sins, even though we still have to pay for any wrong done, we will not have to die for the wrongness. The wage of sin is truly death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. Jesus takes those sins and gives us life in the sins place.
We love the Lord God with all that we are, and we realize that the world is not our final home, but being with the Lord God will be our eternal destination.