{"id":3946,"date":"2021-11-15T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2021-11-11T08:08:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T15:08:48","slug":"righteousness-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3946","title":{"rendered":"Righteousness at Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently wrote two blogs on the importance of works: one from James 2 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3831\">What we do matters!<\/a> and a follow-up: <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3877\">Obedience in the Flesh<\/a>, in which I observed that some folks seemingly try to get out actually doing anything because it might be perceived as &#8220;works righteousness&#8221; or &#8220;obedience in the flesh.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was talking with a pastor friend the other day, and he had a wonderful response to one of his members who was worried about &#8220;works righteousness.&#8221; Aaron said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>It&#8217;s not works righteousness; it&#8217;s righteousness at work!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The scriptures are clear. Here&#8217;s Ezekiel talking about the new covenant that quite clearly includes Spirit-empowered obedience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And I will give them one heart, and a new spirit I will put within them. I will remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart of flesh, <strong>that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them<\/strong>. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God. (Ezekiel 11.19, 20, ESV, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote two blogs on the importance of works: one from James 2 &#8211; What we do matters! and a follow-up: Obedience in the Flesh, in which I observed that some folks seemingly try to get out actually doing anything because it might be perceived as &#8220;works righteousness&#8221; or &#8220;obedience in the flesh.&#8221; I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3946\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Righteousness at Work!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-11E","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}