Today's passage shows a better way for you to bear genuine fruits of righteousness. So it seems clear that one of our primary purposes in life ought to be producing righteousness. But not all righteousness is the same. Synthetic righteousness often looks and feels genuine; in fact, sometimes it even seems better! There's a better way to bear the genuine fruits of righteousness that benefits others and that your

do not say to yourself, “The LORD has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive them out before you. 5  It is not because of your righteousness swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 6  Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness Egyptian slaves - would associate God's gift of freedom and land as being conditioned upon their own righteousness But God makes it abundantly clear that their righteousness had nothing to do with it.

Only Christ’s satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness make me right with God. And I can receive this righteousness and make it mine in no other way than by faith alone. The only resume that matters is that of Jesus Christ and if we claim His satisfaction, holiness, and righteousness not the value of your faith that makes the difference, but the one whom you put your faith in, the perfect

in his final moments: the weight of sin which was not his; paying a debt that he did not incur; the righteous The cross is the perfect example of that truth. Through Jesus’ suffering and death, we see the perfect love that God has for his people. He lived a perfect life; he never sinned.

Your law keeping must be perfect to please our perfect Lawgiver. clear what God's expectations for you are, and thereby pronouncing a curse on you since you haven't perfectly By reminding you of God's unchanging, perfectly righteous requirement, the law keeps you clinging to AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father God, whose Law is perfect; ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH

can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple. 8  Lead me, Lord, in your righteousness protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. 12  Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous The second prayer begins in v8 with a straightforward request to lead me, LORD, in your righteousness prayer life: these Biblical prayers remind us that: vengeance belongs to the LORD, not to us; God's righteousness Our Father, my King and my God; A LIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Pray that God will lead you in His righteousness

truths of the Bible comes near the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus indicates that the righteousness First, praise God that Jesus has already  fulfilled your coventantal obligation to perfectly abide by In this way, everyone who trusts in Christ alone has the all surpassing righteousness that God requires Secondly, the grace that included you in the righteousness of Christ also equips you to live out all In this way, you're personal righteousness must surpass the Pharisees.

And so he condemned sin in the flesh, 4  in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be with a brutal assessment of what sin has done to mankind and then contrasts our failure with Christ's perfect such good news because the life God gives us depends on the fulfillment of our covenant obligation of perfect In other words, eternal life depends on the righteous requirement of the law being fully met in us. And on our own, weakened by Sarx, we're unable to meet that righteous requirement, and therefore we

The reason being, no one can keep the law perfectly. Yet Jesus kept the law perfectly. He never sinned. How did Jesus become cursed when he kept the law perfectly? Because he was crucified on the cross. AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, the holy judge who justifies the righteous; ALIGN WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God that although you are unable to keep the law, your Savior provided you the righteousness

we have no access to God except through the one and only Mediator and Intercessor: Jesus Christ the Righteous basis of our own dignity but only on the basis of the excellence and dignity of Jesus Christ, whose righteousness behalf, there's not much that we need to do ourselves; after all, what more can we add to the already perfect