Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
Tag Archives: Righteousness
If You Could Obey for a Thousand Years
If you obey for a thousand years, you’re no more accepted than when you first believed. Your acceptance is based on Christ’s righteousness.
Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies
Pleasure and Performance
Faith is the realization that God’s pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for Him.
God Is Pleased with You in and because of Jesus Christ
God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.
Feeling Beat up by People Lately? There’s Good News!
Though men may accuse you, judge and condemn you, yet know for your support, that you are acquitted before the throne of God. However you may stand in the eyes of men, as full of nothing but faults, persons made up of nothing but sin, yet are you clear in the eyes of God.
God looks upon weak saints in the Son of His love, and sees them all lovely. They are as the tree of Paradise, ‘fair to his eye, and pleasant to his taste,’ (Gen. 3:6).
Ah, poor souls! You are apt to look upon your spots and blots, and to cry out with the leper not only ‘Unclean, unclean!’ but ‘Undone, undone!’
Well, forever remember this, that your persons stand before God in the righteousness of Christ, upon which account you always appear, before the throne of God, without fault. You are all fair, and there is no spot in you.
Thomas Brooks, “The Unsearchable Riches of Christ,” The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 3, ed. Alexander Balloch Grosart (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1866/2001), 70.
Sola Fide: By Faith Alone
This must be our ground and anchor-hold, that Christ is our only perfect righteousness.
HT: @tabletalk
Solus Christus: In Christ Alone
People should put their trust in nothing but Jesus Christ alone, not in their prayers, merits, or their own good deeds.
HT: @purisomniapura
Not by Works of Righteousness Which We Have Done
If Christ is enough, then it is folly to trust our own works or to try to add one atom of righteousness to Christ’s work.
Preach It!
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
HT: @nwbingham
What Atonement Means
Sin is indeed always in us, and godly people feel it; but it is covered.
HT: @crossway
Life Is Worship 