When a Hebrew teacher speaks of having received righteousness or salvation(same thing your salvation is from bondage to sin so once freed you can be righteous) He is not speaking of a position of belief. That is the thinking of Greek philosophy which separates what is in the mind from what is in the body...To a Hebrew the actions seen in the living reflect what is in mind and heart...where does such a thinking come from the scripture. The conclusion of these things we are justified by faith placed in Messiah for by faith we reaped the result of our sinfulness in him stripes, bruising, chastisement, death. As He who knew no sin suffered the result of sin by faith he carried us in Him that our old man is crucified...in a liked manner He carried us to His resurrection and gave us the life of YHWH that was in Him so that we who knew no righteousness might become YHWH's righteousness....this is not a mental position of understanding but to something experienced in our entire being....these things being so why do we see failure... When that which we place our trust and reliance in is the self to live we see sin in our life when we trust Him to live in in and through us we see righteousness...the strongholds in our mind coming from a deceitful heart that says it trust him while trusting its own ways are torn down as Yeshua renews our mind ...for His righteousness is revealed in us from faith to faith...as we rely on Him He teaches us to rely more and more...as in baptism when you are placed in dirt the dead man seems to remain...some things even seem to grow...but as long as he remains dead he will become the dirt around him even if some more hardened(an example of lingering unbelief)parts cling for years there is no doubt it shall become that in which it is baptized...if we continue in faith in Messiah this is the result...our fight is a fight of faith...to rely depend and expect with all our heart all our might and all our soul...we are not fighting flesh and blood but spiritual wickedness(this is not fallen angels and imps but the false trust of Adam that He can be his own source of life) all trust in self and men and this world of men must be brought into captivity to Messiah within you...for we are not fighting men or supernatural host but that all of their lies and false ways would be cast away from us that we become the living word having only the life of YHWH in us one with Him...this is the mark of the prize of the high call of life in messiah Yeshua...
