The wonder of grace.
God actually gave me His personal righteousness. As soon as I obeyed
Acts 2:38 by faith in my heart that I died with Christ, and my old man died and the body of sins was destroyed in my life, He granted me His righteousness, and I was therefore as righteous as He is. It is HIS own righteousness He gave me. And that was before I could do one righteous thing.
Rom 5:19 KJV For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
1Co 1:30 KJV But of him are ye in
Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
2Co 5:21 KJV For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that
we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Mat 6:33 KJV But
seek ye first the kingdom of God, and
his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Rom 10:3-4 KJV For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. (4) For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Php 3:9 KJV And be found in him,
not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
When focus is on us and our good deeds, the eyes are removed from grace. The greatest miracle above all is salvation from sin by the cross. And anything that downplays that as we have seen in this thread is essentially antichrist.
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