He is our mediator, and with his innocence and perfect holiness he removes from God’s sight my sin—mine But you can be confident that you have perfect representation before the throne of God in heaven, because In order for Jesus to be your perfect mediator, v17 indicates that 'He had to be made like his brothers friend and example in life is certainly important, but be sure to first of all know Jesus can be your perfect Jesus is able to be this perfect mediator because He was conceived by the Holy Spirit.

reconciled to God. 21  God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness Paul's statement here is profound; you have already become the perfect person you will be for all of

Yet David isn't bitter about God, even after receiving God's righteous verdict and justified judgment you very nature; you need to go from being in Adam and his sin to being grafted into Christ and His righteousness

But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father— Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2  He 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

God gave Adam life, and in return, Adam must perfectly obey God. Even if you somehow could perfectly keep God's law on your own (which you can't), you would still be This new Adam, Jesus Christ, perfectly kept God's covenantal obligations, and thereby earned eternal body and soul, in life and in death, to your faithful Savior Jesus Christ, you have a faithful and perfect It's through "the obedience of the one man [Jesus] the many [including you] will be made righteous (v19

lies. 14  Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. 15   The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous but the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to blot out their name from the earth. 17  The righteous protects all his bones, not one of them will be broken. 21  Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous The righteous (that's you by the way!) cry out... They have troubles; they're brokenhearted and crushed in spirit; In fact, the righteous person may have

v9-17 - Abraham was justified by faith before he was given the sign of the covenant, proving that righteousness persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. 22  This is why “it was credited to him as righteousness it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, 24  but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for it was credited to him  weren’t written for his sake alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness—for Christ's resurrection is the proof that the righteousness we so desperately need has been secured.

The verses below nearly perfectly parallel God's pronouncement of blessings, except that they explain We often forget that God loves perfect justice and righteousness (Ps. 33:5, Rev. 15:3). Everybody deserves every one of the curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28, but God gracefully holds the full effect

In other words, they don't go from being planted by streams of righteousness to sitting in the company AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: The LORD, who watches over the way of the righteous; ALIGN

nevertheless, without my deserving it at all, out of sheer grace, God grants and credits to me the perfect satisfaction, righteousness, and holiness of Christ, as if I had never sinned nor been a sinner, as if I had been as perfectly obedient as Christ was obedient for me.