God’s Righteous Requirements are Fulfilled in us as Walk According to the Spirit

In our prayerful consideration of the righteousness of the bride of Christ, we need to see the definition of righteousness and learn to walk according to the Spirit so that God’s righteous requirements may be spontaneously fulfilled in us.

Amen, it is only when we live in spirit and walk according to the Spirit in our spirit that the righteous requirements of God are effortlessly fulfilled in us!

May the Lord unveil us to see what righteousness is and how much we need to experience this in our daily life for the preparation of the bride of Christ.

In Revelation 19:7-9 we are told that the bride was given to be clothed in fine linen, which is the righteousnessess of the saints. The fine linen, the wedding garment of the bride, is the righteousnessess of the saints. Not just righteousness but righteousnesses; this is very particular.

When we consider the preparation of the bride of Christ, we need to touch on the matter of righteousness. One of God’s attributes is righteousness.

God is love, referring to His inner essence; God’s essence is love. God is light, referring to His shining and expression; in His expression, God is light. God is holy or holiness, referring to His disposition; God’s very disposition is holy.

God is righteous, referring to the procedure or way; God’s procedure, way, and acts are righteous.

Every attribute of God is involved with the preparation of the bride. God’s love has been poured out into our hearts for us to love the Lord as our Bridegroom.

He shines on us and makes us light in the Lord so that we may express Him by Christ shining in us and through us. His holiness is dispensed into us as we come to His holy word; we are sanctified in our very disposition to be as holy as He is. Amen!

And His righteousness is becoming ours, even being wrought into us so that Christ may live in us as our many righteousnesses, the wedding garment.

The words righteousness or righteous are used in the whole Bible more than 350 times; the first time it was in Genesis 6 with Noah.

After the man created by God fell and became mankind, corrupted, wicked, and full of evil, God repented for creating man, and He was about to wipe out the entire human race.

In that atmosphere and condition, Genesis 6 tells us that Noah found favour in God’s sight. Among the many tens of thousands of people living on the earth in wickedness and corruption, Noah was righteous and found favour in God’s eyes. Praise the Lord!

The Definition of Righteousness in Four Aspects: Being Right with Persons, the Expression of God, God’s Kingdom, and being Right with God

According to the entire revelation of God’s word, there are four main aspects of the definition of righteousness.

First, righteousness is to be right with persons, things, and matters before God according to His righteous and strict requirements (Matt. 5:20).

We may think we are right with others, but actually, we are not right. We may be upset at someone or something, and we just kick a chair; we are not right in kicking the chair. The chair didn’t offend us, but we were upset, and we kicked the chair.

There are many matters, things, and persons with which we are not right. We think we are righteous, we think we do things in a righteous and correct way, and we think we are fair, but we are not right with all persons, things, and matters before God according to His righteous and strict requirements.

Just because we’re upset with someone, we think it is ok to lash out at them and speak to them in an upset way. This is not right before God.

Similarly, in the Body of Christ, as we live the church life today, we are confronted with many kinds of people with different habits and dispositions.

Sometimes we look at someone and, based on how they look and speak, we just don’t like their accent, so we don’t talk to them.

This is not something outward; there’s an inward problem, and we are not right. We are short of proper rightness with man, with people, with things, and with matters before God.

The Lord Jesus said in Matthew 5:20 that, unless our righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and the Pharisees, we shall by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

We need the surpassing righteousness, God in Christ as our righteousness; otherwise, we can’t enter the kingdom of God.

The second aspect of the definition of righteousness is that righteousness is the outward expression of the Christ who lives in us as the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:8-9).

Righteousness is not what we do by means of improving or perfecting our behaviour; it is the expression of the living Christ within us.

Before we were saved, we may have been a gentleman, doing things properly; however, after being saved, the Spirit touches us concerning many things in our being and how wrong we are with others.

Our attitude toward our siblings, our friends, and the people around us is not right; the indwelling Spirit exposes this. So we repent, we apologise to others for our attitude and words, and we learn to take Christ as our person for Him to be lived out of us.

This righteousness is God’s image being expressed through us (Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10). We are being renewed in the spirit of our mind and we are learning Christ as the reality is in Jesus.

And when we are with others, we learn to take Christ as our everything so that He may be all in all for the one new man.

The ministry of righteousness is a ministry of the Lord’s image (2 Cor. 3:9).

When He was on the cross, Christ created the one new man, which is the church; He created the new man according to God in righteousness and holiness of the reality.

The new man, the church, was created in the atmosphere of righteousness and holiness of the reality.

On the one hand, we’re created in God’s image, so we have the virtue of being righteous; on the other hand, He comes into us to be our righteousness and express Himself through us. Amen!

The third aspect of the definition of righteousness is that it is a matter of God’s kingdom (Matt. 6:33; Psa. 89:14). Righteousness is the foundation of God’s throne, and we need to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.

Righteousness is related to God’s kingdom. God’s kingdom is righteousness; in the church life we enjoy the kingdom of God, which is righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom. 14:17).

Righteousness is related to God’s rule, administration, and government.

The fourth aspect of the definition of righteousness is that it is a matter of our being right with God in our being (2 Cor. 5:21).

Second Corinthians 5:21 is one of the deepest verses in the New Testament, telling us that, Him who did not know sin, He made sin on ou rbehalf so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

We don’t just become righteous; we become the righteousness of God in Christ.

First, we believe in Christ, and God justifies us; He announces to all that we are righteous. Now, He continues His work in us to not only place us in Christ as our righteousness but even more, make us the righteousness of God in Christ.

We are becoming God’s righteousness; what we will express is Christ Himself as our lived-out righteousness.

We who are rebels in our nature, enemies of God and sinful persons, God is making the righteousness of God in Christ. Praise the Lord!

To be right with God in our being is to have an inner being that is transparent and crystal clear, an inner being that is in the mind and will of God. Amen! This is a matter of our being the righteousness in Christ. Amen!

Lord Jesus, thank You for becoming our righteousness. Hallelujah, by repentance and faith in Christ, He is our righteousness! We come to You, Lord, concerning all matters, things, and persons around us; may we be right with them by having Christ lived out in us as our righteousness. We want to live one spirit with You so that we may be right with persons, things, and matters before God according to His righteous and strict requirements. Amen, Lord, live in us today. Be expressed through us as our righteousness. We want to heed our spirit, remain in our spirit, and walk according to the Spirit so that we may bear the image of God! Oh Lord, may our daily living express You as our lived-out righteousness! Oh Lord, may we see that righteousness is a matter of God’s kingdom. We want to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. May we be those who are right with God in our very being. May we have an inner being that is transparent and crystal clear! May we have an inner being that is in the mind and will of God! Amen, Lord, we believe that You are making us the righteousness of God in Christ! Praise the Lord!

Walk According to the Spirit to Spontaneously Fulfil the Righteous Requirements of God

Many Christians know that God is righteous, and especially as we read the Bible and see His requirements of His people, we think that this is impossible for us. It is true that it is impossible for us to fulfil God’s righteous requirements.

However, when we exercise our spirit, live in the mingled spirit, and walk according to the Spirit, the righteous requirements of God are spontaneously fulfilled in us (Rom. 8:4).

Regarding the matter of righteousness, we don’t even realise how much we are not right – we are not right with God, we are not right with those around us, and we are not right with things and matters related to us.

However, if we receive and enjoy the supply of the life-giving Spirit in the church meetings and in our time with the Lord, we can spontaneously be righteous, for Christ is expressed through us.

When we realise that we receive the supply of the Spirit when we’re in the meetings of the church, we will desire to be in every meeting so that we may be bountifully supplied and have Christ be expressed through us.

Whether it is a home meeting, a group meeting, a prayer meeting, a prophesying meeting, a Lord’s table meeting, or any kind of meeting, we feel that we richly eat the tree of life and the river of life is flowing freely.

As a result of enjoying and experiencing the Spirit living and working within us, we become righteous.

We do not try to be righteous; we simply are righteous, for Christ lives in us. Our inner being becomes transparent, crystal-clear, and we know the heart of God. We know the Lord’s mind and have a clear understanding of His will and work.

As a result, what we do will be according to the Lord’s mind and will; this is righteousness. Some Christians think that only when they do something wrong are they not right with God; this is a superficial concept of righteousness.

Even when we don’t do anything wrong, when we’re not walking according to the Spirit, we are not right with God. Apparently, we’re not wrong in any way outwardly; actually, our entire being falls short of being right with God. Oh Lord!

It is like a student who goes to school and is present and is in the classes, so there’s nothing wrong in this aspect; however, he is absent-minded in class and doesn’t pay attention to the teacher’s speaking.

Outwardly, he is not wrong, but actually, he is wrong, for his being is not present in the class.

We need to come to the Lord again and again and contact Him as the life-giving Spirit so that we may be infused and saturated with the Spirit; this will cause us to be transparent in our being, and Christ will be lived out in us as our righteousness.

Spontaneously, we are right with God, we are right with man, and we are even right with the things around us. We will realise how we should act toward others around us and how we should deal with our material possessions.

We become a righteous person, a person who is right both in big things and in small things, and who is right with God, with others, and with himself.

When others see us, they sense Christ living in us, and our living is in righteousness, being the image of God, God expressed.

We simply need to walk according to the Spirit, being inwardly supplied by the Spirit; then, spontaneously and effortlessly, we will fulfil the righteous requirements of God.

Not only will the commandments forbidding murder, fornication, stealing, giving false testimony, and coveting be fulfilled in us, but even more, Christ will be expressed through us.

The apostle Paul could not fulfil the commandment concerning coveting when he was in his flesh (Rom. 7:24); however, when he was in Christ, there was no condemnation, for he simply expressed Christ.

There’s no need for us Christians to try to fulfil the Ten Commandments; we simply need to walk according to the Spirit of life, and all commandments will be fulfilled in us. Hallelujah!

Lord Jesus, we choose to turn to You and contact You in our mingled spirit! Keep us turning to our spirit, Lord, and keep us enjoying You as the Spirit with our spirit. Hallelujah, there is a supply in the Spirit with our spirit, and we can enjoy this supply in order to live the Christian life! Amen, Lord, may we be infused and saturated by the life-giving Spirit so that our entire inner being may become transparent and Christ may live in us! Amen, Lord, may we know Your will and Your mind, and may we do Your will by walking according to the Spirit. Keep us in our spirit today. Keep us under Your divine dispensing to receive Your rich supply so that we may express You! Amen, may Christ be expressed through us as our righteousness. Yes, Lord, may we be those who walk according to the Spirit of life so that the righteous requirements of God may spontaneously be fulfilled in us! Praise the Lord, when we walk according to the Spirit, Christ is our lived-out righteousness!

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References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brother James Lee in this conference, and portions from, Life-study of 2 Corinthians, pp. 239-253, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, The Maturity of the Bride (2025 Memorial Day Blending Conference), week 5, The Righteousness of the Bride – day 2.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – God is righteous in His doings, / He is perfect in His ways; / Just is He in all His actions, / And He well deserves our praise. / Righteous was His condemnation, / Righteous His requirement; / For the law had deemed us sinners, / And for judgment we were meant. (Hymns #1203 stanza 1)
  – All I have in Adam is but sin and death, / I in Christ inherit life and righteousness; / When in flesh abiding, Adam I express, / But when in the spirit Christ is manifest. / When I am in Adam, though I may not sin, / Unto death, a sinner, sentenced I have been; / When in Christ I need not righteously to act, / I’m already righteous, justified in fact. (Hymns #593 stanzas 1-2)
  – O Lord, Thou art the Spirit now / Who in my spirit makes His home; / He mingles with my spirit too, / And both one spirit thus become. / Lord, teach me how to exercise / My spirit now to contact Thee, / That in Thy Spirit I may walk / And live by Thy reality. (Hymns #493 stanzas 4-5)