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Justification in Christ continued

Article of Faith Number 5

God, being a holy and righteous God, and one that changes not, required that the pen-
alty of the offence be paid in full. He required a perfect and righteous offering, His
Son, Jesus Christ. (Rom. 3:10) “As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one.”
(Matt 5:20) “For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom

of heaven.” If we ever shall dwell with God in heaven, we must be in possession of
righteousness and seeing we have none of our own, it must come from another
source. It must exceed in quality and quantity, that which the scribes and Pharisees

claimed.

How shall we come in possession of righteousness? (Rom. 4:21-22) “And being fully
persuaded, (Abraham) that, what He (God) had promised, He was able to perform.”
(V22) “And therefore it was imputed to Him for righteousness.” It was applied to His

account of righteousness by the Lord. (V- 23) says, it was not written for his
(Abraham’s) sake alone. (24) “But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we
believe on Him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.” This righteousness (not

ours) shall be imputed (applied to our account) to believers in God.

(Jer. 23:6) “In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this
is His name whereby He shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.” We
have not righteousness of our own, sufficient to justify us in the sight of God, but the

righteousness of Christ is deposited (imputed) to our account. God will accept noth-
ing less than perfection and even the stars are not pure in His sight, according to Job,
chapter 25. (Rom. 4:6) “Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man,

unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.” Notice that no works of
man was required.

concludes

Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They
will be still praising thee. Selah Psalms 84:4

Just pause and enjoy the simplicity of blessings

and peace, in the House of God!