{"id":10989,"date":"2024-05-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=10989"},"modified":"2016-05-03T23:09:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T20:09:44","slug":"what-grounds-foundations-favour-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/what-grounds-foundations-favour-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the grounds or foundations of favour? II"},"content":{"rendered":"Hello, Dear friends. I pray that you will prosper in everything and be in health even as your soul prospers.\r\nYesterday we started a discussion on the foundation for God\u2019s favour. We saw that righteousness is the basis on which God chooses to bless and favour us.\r\nHowever, we must differentiate between two kinds of righteousness, &#8211; between legal-based righteousness and practical righteousness.\r\nThrough faith in Jesus Christ we become clothed in his righteousness and nature. \u00a0In the our spirit we have the perfect character of \u00a0the Almighty God even though we do not become perfect in our actions immediately after becoming followers of Jesus. We reflect God\u2019s life, character and thoughts more and more in our lives to that extent to which we submit ourselves to the new nature in our spirit. \u00a0Our daily submission to God\u2019s nature and character in us is what I call practical righteousness that qualifies us for God\u2019s favour.\r\nPaul agreed with this, that is why almost all his Epistles are divided into two parts: Our legal position in Christ and the practical implications of that.\r\nFor example, the Epistle to Ephesians is divided into two parts \u2013 doctrinal part and practical exhortation.\r\nIn the doctrine chapters (1-3) the main subject is the great redemption wrought \u00a0by God through Jesus Christ. In the practical chapters (4-6) we see guidelines laid down for us, as to how to live as Christians in a way that is pleasing to God our redeemer. Both parts are clearly connected and talk about our righteousness in Christ.\r\nThe second part of this message is obviously very practical advising us on how to live out our faith (4:1; 6:24).\r\nSo we see two sections in Ephesians, the first talks about our status in Christ (chapters 1 &#8211; 3), the second talks about our life in the world (chapters 4 &#8211; 6).\r\nWhen the Bible talks about righteousness as a foundation for favour, it takes both of these two aspects into consideration.\r\nWithout redemption and the forgiveness of our sins it is impossible to enter into this heritage. Favour is a heritage for God\u2019s children. On the other hand, having accepted God\u2019s redemption and received His forgiveness, God expects you to bring forth the fruits of righteousness in your life. He expects you to live worthy of the calling with which you are called.\r\n<h6>\r\n\u201cDear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous\u201d\u00a0(1John 3:7)<\/h6>\r\nThe righteous person is not simply the one who thinks or confess that he or she is righteousness, but\u00a0 the one is who does what is right or lives a life of righteousness.\r\nPractical righteousness, purity and holiness will bring God\u2019s favour to your life no matter where stand right now.\r\nDear friend, if you value God\u2019s favour and would like to see its clear manifestation in your life, it is not enough for you to proclaim yourself as righteous, but you must indeed \u00a0walk in righteousness.\r\nSee you tomorrow,\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through faith in Jesus Christ we become clothed in his righteousness and nature.  In the our spirit we have the perfect character of  the Almighty God even though we do not become perfect in our actions immediately after becoming followers of Jesus. We reflect God\u2019s life, character and thoughts more and more in our lives to that extent to which we submit ourselves to the new nature in our spirit.  Our daily submission to God\u2019s nature and character in us is what I call practical righteousness that qualifies us for God\u2019s favour.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-photo-5845398-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38454,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions\/38454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}