{"id":24228,"date":"2025-02-17T04:37:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24228"},"modified":"2025-02-17T04:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T04:37:39","slug":"the-righteousness-of-god-without-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/02\/the-righteousness-of-god-without-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Righteousness Of God Without The Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBut now the righteousness of God without the law, is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets.\u201d\u2014Romans 3:21<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass\u2019s colt.\u2019 Job 11:12. Proud man would be righteous, though conceived in iniquity, brought forth in sin, and no goodness in him. This pride accompanies him all his days; yea it forsakes not newborn souls. Our natural notions are ever, that doing something will make us righteous. So the judgment of the flesh ever opposes the truth of the Spirit, carnal reason ever runs counter to spiritual faith; but it is the glory of believing hearts to take their views of righteousness from revealed truth. This, to the ineffable joy and unspeakable comfort of poor sinners, manifests a righteousness for their garment, which they toiled not for, neither did they spin. And what shall we say of it? Truly, Solomon in all his glory, angels in all their brightest perfection, are not arrayed like those, who are clothed with the righteousness of the God-man Christ Jesus. Oh for stronger faith in this!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Poor, weak, doubting believer, why takest thou thought for raiment? Hath not God clothed you? \u2018Oh thou of little faith!\u2019 thou hopest, thou trustest in Jesus\u2019 blood alone for the pardon of thy sins, but art distressed in seeing thyself a poor sinner. Thou knowest thou art not righteous in thyself, and often fearest thou shalt never attain righteousness, and perish at last for want of it. Verily, thy face is turned towards Mount Sinai, instead of Mount Calvary; to Moses, instead of Jesus; to thy life of obedience, instead of his life of righteousness; to the law, which requires all, instead of the gospel, which freely gives all.<\/p>\n

So sure as thou hast the faith of Jesus in thy heart, thou hast the righteousness of Jesus on thy back, let law, men, and Satan say what they will. God finds his children naked, he clothes them. Witnesses are ever at hand, evidences are never wanting to prove this truth. The Spirit of truth bears infallible testimony, by the law and the prophets, to the glory of this righteousness. Read, be joyful, and give all glory to free grace for its free imputation. \u2018The righteousness of God, which is by faith in Jesus Christ, is unto all, and upon all them that believe, for there is no difference.\u2019 Rom. 3:22. But who enjoy the comfort of this? Verily no one, till he is brought to say with Paul, \u2018I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.\u2019 Gal. 2:19<\/p>\n

In vain we ask God\u2019s righteous law\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To justify as now,<\/p>\n

Since to convince, and to condemn,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Is all the law can do.<\/p>\n

Jesus, how glorious is thy grace\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When in thy name we trust,<\/p>\n

Our faith receives a righteousness\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That makes the sinner just.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass\u2019s colt.\u2019 Job 11:12. Proud man would be righteous, though conceived in iniquity, brought forth in sin, and no goodness in him. This pride accompanies him all his days; yea it forsakes not newborn souls. Our natural notions are ever, that doing something will make us righteous. So the judgment of the flesh ever opposes the truth of the Spirit, carnal reason ever runs counter to spiritual faith; but it is the glory of believing hearts to take their views of righteousness from revealed truth. This, to the ineffable joy and unspeakable comfort of poor sinners, manifests a righteousness for their garment, which they toiled not for, neither did they spin. And what shall we say of it? Truly, Solomon in all his glory, angels in all their brightest perfection, are not arrayed like those, who are clothed with the righteousness of the God-man Christ Jesus. Oh for stronger faith in this!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1197],"class_list":["post-24228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-spiritual-growth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24229,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24228\/revisions\/24229"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}