Your Righteousness Isn't On-and-Off. 🧵
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You aren't a sinner one day and righteous the next.
That's an unstable identity.
In Christ,you have an ETERNAL identity.
Romans 5:1 says we have "peace with God."
This peace is permanent.Not based on your performance.
The boy said: "“I don’t think it was actually me [swimming]... It was God the whole time. I kept on praying, kept on praying. I said to God, ‘I’ll get baptized.’”"
In a remarkable feat of endurance and faith, 13-year-old Austin Applebee of Perth, Western Australia, has captured global attention after a harrowing maritime rescue.
Facing rough seas and dangerous conditions, Applebee swam approximately 4 kilometers over the course of nearly four hours to reach help after his family was swept offshore. His heroic actions directly led to the rescue of his mother and siblings.
God's definition of righteousness is far different from humanity's point of view. God's righteousness is based on faith; man's righteousness is based on works.