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What Is Righteousness?
By Fred Pruitt

Someone recently asked me the following:

Fred, tell me in two paragraphs, what you know about righteousness.

My Reply:

Only 2 paragraphs, eh?

Well, brother, righteousness is not something I know. At least in the way your question strikes me. It is like truth. God IS truth. When we are in God, we are in truth, and it is our being, because He is our being. So we ARE truth. Righteousness is the same way. God IS righteousness. "Christ our righteousness." Therefore, Christ being in us, we ARE righteousness. It is outside of behavior or deeds.

Abraham believed, and it was "accounted" to Him, by God, whose WORD is the consistency, or being, or existence, or upholding, or truth, of all that is. Therefore, Abraham, being "accounted" righteous because of his faith in the promise God gave, IS righteousness, because God's "accounting" is not the same as man's. God's accounting Abraham righteous means Abraham IS righteous, or is the living embodiment of righteousness. Abraham walked around not figuring out what to do and how to do, but simply walked around BEING righteousness, because He was pronounced so by God. Who is going to argue with God, or point out inconsistencies? We ARE righteousness. You wake up righteousness, walk around as righteousness, do righteousness all day long, and go to sleep righteousness, while sleeping are righteousness, and wake up again the next morning to be righteousness all over again. God has "counted" it so, and who will disagree with his math?

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