If you want these loving words to be true for you:
1.Realize that you are prevented and separated from having a personal relationship with your Creator because of sin, and because your righteousness is infinitly less than His, your righteousness isn't enough cure this infinite separation. (Isaiah 59:1-2, 64:6; Jeremiah 17:5 Micah 3:4)
2.Recognize that our Creator has promised to provide the Way for us to be saved from our separation from Him, and the Way for us to be saved from the punishment of our sin [wrong doings] which His righteous judgment requires. Realize Yeshua (Jesus) is the promised Messiah, the promised Way. (Isaiah 9:6-7; 53:1-12; Micah 5:2; Zechariah 12:10)
3.Acknowledge that the Almighty has provided Yeshua (Jesus) the Messiah, Whose blood was shed unto death for our sins, so that His suffering can be counted in the place of the punishment your [and our] sins deserve. In this way the Messiah's death covers [atones] the debt of your sins, the spiritual debt our sins result in [separation from our Maker]. (Leviticus 17:11; Isaiah 53:2-12)
4.Turn from yourself - turning to your Maker, entrust your life into His hands, trusting in what Messiah Yeshua did so that you can receive the permanent forgiveness of your sins, in order that you may possess the free gift of everlasting life, and have a spiritual rebirth into a personal and lasting relationship with your Creator. (Psalm 2; 110:1; Proverbs 30:4; Isa 45:17; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Daniel 12:2; John 3:16, 14:6; Romans 10:9-13)
If you have done this then you can know that your righteousness in the eyes of your Maker is not based on your own righteousness, but rather it is based on the righteousness of the One He sent, as it is written in Jeremiah 23:5-6,
"Behold, the days come, says YHVH ['the L0RD'], that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch,... and this is his name whereby he shall be called, YHVH Tzidkenu [YHVH our righteousness]."
This also applies to you, along with all the other promises on this letter, if you have trusted Him with your life, you have received a new heart and a new spirit, and He has put His Spirit within you, and you can know right now, that you have eternal life:
"A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them." -Ezekiel 36:26-27
"I have written these things to you who believe on the name of the Son of 'G0d,' that you may know that you have everlasting life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of 'G0d.'" -1 John 5:13
"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government
shall be on His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful [Peleh],
Counselor [Yautz], The mighty 'G0d' [El Gibbor], the Father of everlasting
[Av Ad], The Chief of Peace [Sar Shalom]." Isaiah 9:6
He is become our peace :-)
SHALOM!!
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"Surely, shall one say, in YAHUEH [YHVH] have I righteousness and strength: even to him shall men
come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In YAHUEH [YHVH] shall all the seed
of Israel be justified, and shall glory."
- Yesha'yahu [Isaiah] 45:24-25