Who Are the Righteous?

Elohim God[The Spirit and the Bride] let us know who we are. We are destined to die because of heavenly sins. Therefore we should obey the words of God according to the bible for going back to kingdom of heaven.

Who Are the Righteous? Innumerable people around the world claim to believe in God. However, God says that there is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who does good, not even one.

 Ro 3:10-12 "As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; there is ... no one who seeks God. ... there is no one who does good, not even one."

 Who is a righteous one whom God approves? The Bible says that there is no one who seeks God and comes near to Him except the righteous.

 Adam, the ancestor of mankind, sought God and came near to Him before he sinned. But after he committed sin by eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he hid himself from God when He called him, "Adam, Adam!" rather than came to Him, saying, "Yes, here am I." From that moment he sinned, he became afraid of God and shrunk from His presence. Since Adam committed sin, his heart was changed.

A righteous person obeys the word of God

 If we feel alienated from God, we should recognize that we are gradually falling away from righteousness and should turn ourselves to it. Through the account of Noah, let's see how we can become righteous and what we must do to become righteous.

 Ge 6:9 "This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God."

 Let's find out why Noah was called righteous and blameless by God, through his works.

 Heb 11:7-10 "By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. By faith Abraham, ... he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God."

 What did Noah, a righteous man, do? He realized God's plan of judging the world in those days, and prepared an ark in obedience to God's command. By faith Noah built the ark, so he was called a righteous man and an heir of righteousness.
 All who were called righteous and forefathers of faith like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, had absolute faith in God and obeyed whatever God told them to do.

 With absolute faith in God, Noah built the ark to save his family and the world. That was the most righteous thing in God's sight and caused him to be called an heir of righteousness.

 Jas 2:17-26 "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. ... You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? ... You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. ... As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead"

 The book of James shows us what is righteousness in God's sight. God considers it a righteous act to fully obey His word, not just to know it.

 We, too, have faith in God: We believe that He will gather the 144,000 and lead the people of the new covenant into the everlasting kingdom. We try to do God's will by fully keeping all His laws and diligently carrying out our ministry of preaching the gospel, loving God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind. When we thus put our faith into action, God calls us 'righteous.' The righteous are those who obey God's word; they are perfect in God's sight.

 Just as Noah and Abraham were called righteous, so the 144,000 are now called righteous. It is because they truly believe God's word and also put it into practice.

 Though a man knows and believes that 'the Sabbath is right,' unless he observes it he cannot be blessed; only by keeping the Sabbath holy, he can receive the blessing God has promised. Likewise, if a man just believes that 'the Passover is right,' how can he receive God's blessing? Only when he celebrates the Passover by eating the bread and drinking the wine, he can receive the blessing of eternal life and the seal of God.