CHRIST IS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
Christ Jesus, the Son of God,
is the righteousness of God. The Holy Spirit says through Paul, “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to
God for Israel is, that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they
have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 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. For Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” (Rom 10: 1-4)
Sinners do not attain righteousness by
doing but by submitting to the Righteousness of God, Christ himself. Christ is the end of the law for the believer
because the believer is made righteous in Christ. It is because the works of
the law, the righteousness attained by the law, is finished by Christ. “What the law could not do in that it was
weak through the flesh, God sending his onw Son the in the likeness of sinful
flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness of the
law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
(Rom 8: 3-5) Christ is the Righteousness of God and the Righteousness which
every sinner must have to be accepted of God. We are made righteous by God, by
his Son, by his grace, through God’s gift of faith, not of ourselves. (Eph 2:
8-9)