As you have been reading in the previous chapter, we will try to define righteousness, which is two principles (laws). They base the two principles on first Thessalonians chapter five verse eight. The scripture reads, “… Putting on the breastplate of faith and love….”

Knowing the difference between being always right and walking in the righteousness of God, the Father. The basis of laws of righteousness devotes themselves to seeking his will. Being righteous is not just talking the language of mental permission of being in God.¹⁹ But, your action is in gross error, and you’re being legalistic against others, not giving them the grace God the Father gave you through Christ Jesus. 

Seeking and doing the will of God is an act of faith and love. These two actions make two laws: the laws of faith and the royal Law of love. According to Romans chapter three, verse twenty-seven, the Law of faith reads: “Where is boasting then? God excludes it; by what Law? Of works, no! But by the Law of faith.”

The Law of faith states that faith always happens today and is simultaneously in eternity. Faith is the substance that moves God to act on your behalf. It will be the evidence of how you put total trust or hope in what God said in his word.

Now if God’s not trusted, the faith you operate in won’t work. Besides this evidence, and hope your agreement towards God’s word and arrangement from Christ Jesus and another person is like-minded in the Spirit of faith. This trust and agreement in knowing God will reward everyone who seeks him first. If this Law doesn’t operate totally, then you don’t have faith but are afraid. And you are working in the Spirit of fear.

The royal Law of love reads in the Epistle of James chapter two, verse eight, “If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ You do well.” ²⁰This Law will be discussed more in-depth in a later chapter because this will show the reader. How far we have departed from the truth of God’s word.

The combination of the two principles (laws) gives you God’s absolute righteousness, and they are the kingdom of God’s principle. The entire realm of heaven and the whole universe operates under the Law of faith and love. Along with abiding by several other regulations, we discuss this later in this book. We must learn how to act in righteousness and define the word’s word’s true meaning.

In Romans chapter fourteen, verse seventeen, we find that the kingdom of God isn’t meat or drink, which in layperson’s terms means. God’s kingdom doesn’t include the possession of material things of the sensual world, nor what we try to get. Then, we must learn to maintain what God has given us spiritually and naturally.²¹ God uses what we call gold and other precious metals and gems to build his kingdom.²² He doesn’t care to indulge in the worldly views of mammon or its values, nor does he lust to get more.

The total driving force of the Kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy, and these spiritually fruitful attributes find themselves in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Those attributes of the kingdom of God are the character of the Spirit of God. God wants humanity seeking after him with the same intensity as a soldier who attacks the enemy.²³

Let me warn you of this intensity of going after righteousness, which the seeking of righteousness in a legal fashion can lead to the error of self-righteousness. You could end up working into a doctrine of devils and form a heresy that can make you misread the below passage of the gospel of Luke chapter sixteen, verses sixteen and seventeen. Like many denominations have done with many scriptures. I will let you read the same passage in the Amplified Bible.

“The Law and the [writings of the] Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since then, the gospel of the kingdom of God has been and continues to be preached, and everyone tries forcefully to go into it. Yet it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of the letter of the Law to fail and become void.”

Now God isn’t telling the believer that his working in the kingdom of God is a labor in vain, nor Is God telling the believer to go to hell by quitting. Jesus is saying for the believer to strive toward the narrow and straight way of the kingdom.²⁴ Jesus spoke, “He that entered  by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.” ²⁵

The only ones in the King’s gate are the sheep and the valid owner of the sheep. The Chief Shepherd, Jesus Christ, the savior of humanity. Yet if he climbed up the other way, the same is a thief and a robber.²⁶ 

Now going back to the previous chapter, when we talked in the story and used the word “right now,” that would mean owning something you have bought, and you have taken ownership of the item you purchased.

That is the only reason we may demand to have something “right now.” So, where do we, the believers or sinners, get off saying we have rights? How does one buy righteousness? What is the interest rate percentage or the suggested retail price for a two-piece faith and love dinner? How much stock of pure joy could a person purchase at 100 shares?

The average person may not make sense of the facts about faith, but it makes as much sense as someone trying to become right or buying their way in front of a holy God. The Bible reads, “He that in these things serves Christ is acceptable to God”²⁸

I remember one time in my life when I was in college, my first year, and I walked to class. The bright, crisp winter morning made me skip my first class. As I passed the main auditorium, I noticed that the college was having an event with the alums.

They were buying items, and the woman behind the counter was selling the merchandise. I was ready to pass the procession of people. When I saw in the corner of my eye that the woman selling the merchandise got up on the counter and opened her legs to have sex with one of the male customers. In my rage, I turned only to see the alumni of the prestigious college going on with their subsequent purchases of items.

So, I turned again, ready to call my doctor, when I saw the same people engaged in sexual intercourse again. Only to turn around to see nothing but people buying and selling, and they even waved at me. Does anybody have the psychotropic drug Prozac?

I will talk more later in orientation about this crazy vision and its meaning later in the book. My point in saying this is that what we add up only by what we see right through ourselves. Now seeing what is righteous, you need more than what you just see, or your righteousness will become self-righteousness.

Now we see that the righteousness of God is the gold tried by the fire of faith and love in the Holy Ghost.²⁹ In addition, these two principles are the key to keeping us from destruction, and these principles are the door by which the shepherd comes into us.³⁰ Therefore, righteousness, according to the Bible, proves to be both faith and love.

Can you tell me how a person could be a right witness without these elements? Being right and not righteous is the burden of proof that this kind of thinking will lead to a natural-thinking person! Furthermore, the belief that we only judge by being right or wrong leads me to my next question. Is thinking in the realm of right and bad natural, or is this thinking human nature? Let’s find out.

CHAPTER NOTES:

19) James 2:19

20) paraphrased

21) Matthew 6:33; John 3:6; Romans 14:17

22) Revelation 21:11-22:14

23) Luke 16:16-17

24) Matthew 7:13-14

25) John 10:1

26) John 10:2

27) Isaiah 55:1

28) Romans 14:18

29) James 1:3; 1 John 4:17-21; Revelation 3:15-19

30) Psalms 23

*From the Book “A Tree Called Morality”