Jehovah Tsidkenu

Jehovah Tsidkenu means Jehovah our righteousness and first appears in a prophecy by Jeremiah:

"The days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a king who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land.  In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety.  This is the name by which he will be called:  The Lord Our Righteousness" (Jeremiah 33:16).

We know that Jesus is the righteous Branch and we are in His Body, but often we see ourselves as still being unrighteous and full of sin.  In our past our righteousness was as filthy rags, but all that changed when we came to Jesus.  The New Testament says that we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

Righteousness means "the quality of being right."  Our pasts are as filthy rags, but Jesus swapped with us.  He took our sins and destroyed the powers of darkness.  Then He gave us His righteousness.  That's why every promise in the Bible is ours.  There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, because they are clothed in His right standing with God.  God no longer looks at us through our sins.  Now He looks at us through the righteousness of His Son, Jesus Christ:

"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.  The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16).

A righteous man is one who is born again into Jesus' righteousness.  Jesus' righteousness will cause our prayers to be powerful and effective.  His righteousness covers our spirit, personality, mind, and emotions.

The prodigal son spent his inheritance and when he returned home, one of the things his father gave him was a robe.  His father said, "Give my son the best robe."  The best is always the robe that the father wore.  The son, who had been living with pigs and had wasted his father's provision for him was given the best robe.  When we came to Jesus, the Father gave us the est robe, the one that He wears, righteousness.  God takes prodigals, those who have spent all He has given them and have ripped up their privileges, and He cleanses them and clothes them in His righteousness.  That's what we are clothes in, and it came out of heaven's wardrobe.

We'll never have a more expensive robe than the one that the Lord gave us; it was paid for with Jesus' blood.

Jesus triumphed over Satan in three areas.  First in the wilderness, Jesus overcame him by saying, "It is written."  Satan had to obey the Word of God.  Next, on the cross, Jesus stripped Satan of his power.  Jesus overcame sin and took the keys of hell and death.  And, finally, at our new birth, Jesus won again.  He defeated Satan by making us, and all of mankind, victors over sin and death.

We are victorious over Satan today because Jesus gave us His own righteousness.  He is Jehovah Tsidkenu, the Lord OUR Righteousness.

This righteous robe gives us prayer power.  We have a force and strength to bring tremendous results, His righteousness.

Jehovah Tsidkenu reveals the fullness of the measure of our acceptance in the presence of God.

"But thanks be to God that though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.  You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness" (Romans 6:17-18).

"Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.  Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes"  (Romans 10:3-4).

"It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God, that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption" (I Cor. 1:30).

"After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities" (Isaiah 53:11).