Kingdom Of God And His Righteousness Archives - Bible Arena.
To seek the kingdom of God is to intentionally focus on and fully experience relationship with God, usually through avenues He has provided such as prayer and meditating on His word.The kingdom of God is the territory where His divine virtues, such as righteousness, joy, and peace, are in absolute control, and visibly manifested in their fullness. Think about that for a few moments. Imagine a nation where there is not a trace of wrong-doing, because righteousness is in absolute control.Even so, the righteousness that God gives them results in good works that will set them apart from the unrighteous in the day of judgment, when God will give his children the kingdom. Thus, in agreement with Luke-Acts, salvation in Matthew is not merited, but received purely by the grace of God.
Christ is told to have a kingdom, and his symbolic scepter is told to be of ”righteousness”. Righteousness is doing what is right, just, pure and pleasing to God, and this means that the Lord Jesus will be totally fair and govern his kingdom righteously.His death takes away our sin, and His resurrection establishes us in His kingdom of righteousness. This is called an “imputed” (credited) righteousness. But third, we are to seek and pursue personal righteousness. Anyone who has truly been saved from sin will hate sin and will seek righteousness.
We seek His righteousness by agreeing to allow His death to pay for our sins. God made Him who had no sin to be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Cor. 5:21). This righteousness comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe (Romans 3:22).
