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RIGHTEOUSNESS of God has to do with His plans!

Most people thinks once they're living by their conscience they are righteous before God but that's not true, from God's standpoint the most wicked person from the viewpoint of man may be righteous before God.
HOW?
Wickedness often comes from a crushed heart so most people doing bad things are acting on the bad experiences they've had in the past.
That's why God always allow a person we call "wicked" to meet His representatives it's your attitude towards God's representatives that will determine whether you're good or evil.

This is what Jesus Christ the son of God had to say on this matter:

“When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will put the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. “Then the King will say to those on his right: ‘Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world. For I became hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you received me hospitably; naked and you clothed me. I fell sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous ones will answer him with the words: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and receive you hospitably, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ In reply the King will say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ “Then he will say to those on his left: ‘Go away from me, you who have been cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels. For I became hungry, but you gave me nothing to eat; and I was thirsty, but you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger, but you did not receive me hospitably; naked, but you did not clothe me; sick and in prison, but you did not look after me.’ Then they too will answer with the words: ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying: ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of these least ones, you did not do it to me.’ These will depart into everlasting cutting-off, but the righteous ones into everlasting life" Matthew 25:31-46

From the above scriptures those who will be condemned never chose wickedness because they searched for Jesus to be kind to him but they missed something really vital:
Recognition of Jesus' brothers!
Jesus is God's representative so his brothers are God's representatives the world don't recognize. Jesus said failure to recognize them makes one a wicked soul from God's standpoint.

So it's very very important to IDENTIFY God's representatives always!