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.

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.

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

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

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

He is our mediator, and with his innocence and perfect holiness he removes from God’s sight my sin—mine way that the Torah describes it over and over, the animals offered to atone for sin had to be without defect You were born into God's covenant with Adam in which you only gain ongoing life if you perfectly obey AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our holy and perfectly righteous Father, who justly requires unblemished obedience ALIGN YOUR LIFE WITH GOD'S WILL: Thank God for your mediator who had no defects

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

Deeper Jesus doesn't just stand before the Father as some sort of idealized, theoretical concept of perfection He is, as John describes in v1, the Righteous One. faith and trust in Christ will one day also fully realize with all five of our senses the love and perfections

But as bad as the immediate effects of broken oaths are, they pale in comparison to the eternal effect When you trust in Christ, His characteristics become yours, and through His righteousness you will dwell AAA Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father, who dwells in perfect holiness; ALIGN YOUR LIFE

Prayer (About) ACKNOWLEDGE WHO GOD IS: Our Father is a holy and just God who will judge all people righteously unfairly condemned others, and thank God Jesus endured unjust judgment so that you'd be freed from God's righteous