The Righteousness of God 
RIGHTEOUSNESS
(Overcoming Life Essay) by Doug Woolley
11/5/86
Sin is that which separates an individual from God. Jesus came to bridge this separation by taking our sins and giving us His "righteousness", or right standing with God. We become righteous by having faith in the power of the blood of Jesus Christ to wash away our sins. There is nothing we can do to earn our righteousness; it is only through faith that we are put right with God. When we accept the atonement of Jesus' blood to make us righteous, we become a new creature with old things passing away and new things coming to pass. As a new creature, we need to clean out our old ways of thinking and update them with pure and lovely thoughts. With God's spirit in us, we can take on the nature of God by conforming to the image of His Son. The prevailing nature of God is that of love; therefore, love should be our prevailing nature. Jesus Christ shed his blood to put us right with God so that we could fulfill our purpose for living.
The Righteousness of God
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD is appropriated in a person's life by having faith in the Lord Jesus, who shed His pure blood for us as a sacrifice for our sins. With the condition that we confess our sins, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from our sins and unrighteousness. At this point God will cleanse us from all unrighteousness, and then we can stand before God righteous and holy. In Gal. 3:10 we are told that a curse will come upon those who do not "abide by all things written in the book of the law." Because no man has ever abided by all of the law, no one has been justified in God's sight by the law. Because we have transgressed the covenant, there is no amount of good works that can make us righteous before God. In other words, we cannot earn our righteousness by doing good works, but we can obtain righteousness by faith in Christ's redemptive work. With God's righteousness in us, we have become a new creature and lay aside the old sinful self.
(Overcoming Life Essay) by Doug Woolley
11/5/86
Sin is that which separates an individual from God. Jesus came to bridge this separation by taking our sins and giving us His "righteousness", or right standing with God. We become righteous by having faith in the power of the blood of Jesus Christ to wash away our sins. There is nothing we can do to earn our righteousness; it is only through faith that we are put right with God. When we accept the atonement of Jesus' blood to make us righteous, we become a new creature with old things passing away and new things coming to pass. As a new creature, we need to clean out our old ways of thinking and update them with pure and lovely thoughts. With God's spirit in us, we can take on the nature of God by conforming to the image of His Son. The prevailing nature of God is that of love; therefore, love should be our prevailing nature. Jesus Christ shed his blood to put us right with God so that we could fulfill our purpose for living.
The Righteousness of God
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD is appropriated in a person's life by having faith in the Lord Jesus, who shed His pure blood for us as a sacrifice for our sins. With the condition that we confess our sins, the blood of Jesus cleanses us from our sins and unrighteousness. At this point God will cleanse us from all unrighteousness, and then we can stand before God righteous and holy. In Gal. 3:10 we are told that a curse will come upon those who do not "abide by all things written in the book of the law." Because no man has ever abided by all of the law, no one has been justified in God's sight by the law. Because we have transgressed the covenant, there is no amount of good works that can make us righteous before God. In other words, we cannot earn our righteousness by doing good works, but we can obtain righteousness by faith in Christ's redemptive work. With God's righteousness in us, we have become a new creature and lay aside the old sinful self.