The Righteousness Which is From God

Driving home: O Lord, thou hast made us for thyself, and our hearts are restless till they rest in thee.

This metaphor illustrates the inescapable, internal awareness of accountability and guilt before God, likening it to a permanent tattoo on one's chest.

If I may liken this awareness, this consciousness, in a physical way, it's as though every man, woman, boy, or girl comes into the world tattooed on his chest with a ticket for judgment. And every time he's honest in bearing his chest in the mirror of his own consciousness, he is reminded that he is accountable to God and that as an accountable creature, he's guilty before God and will always, ultimately come to the judgment of God. And if he had eyes to look within the depths of his soul,

5:09 - 5:53 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin details the three positive characteristics of this righteousness: it is from God (divine initiative), in connection with Christ (every thread from His person and work), and…

This analogy, drawn from Isaiah, likens Christ's person and work to the loom and threads that constitute the perfect garment of righteousness for believers.

was not only a righteousness from God but it was a righteousness in connection with Christ in other words the apostle came to understand that if this righteousness is to be likened unto a garment as the apostle likens it I'm sorry as the prophet Isaiah likens it in his prophecy then every thread in this garment of righteousness comes from the loom of Christ person and work his life of obedience to the law his death under the curse of the law not only constitute the warp and the woof of the fabric

33:18 - 34:03 Read in full sermon

Driving home: The common denominator of every analogy of faith is this: in it the believing person goes out of himself into another.

These analogies explain faith as a disposition that goes out of oneself into another, emphasizing its non-meritorious nature and consistency with a salvation that is all of God.

to be the means of receiving this righteousness because in faith alone is there a disposition perfectly consistent with a salvation that is all of God you see faith is likened in the Bible to an empty hand taking the provision made by another not necessarily a clean hand but an empty hand faith is likened to a thirsty soul drinking water provided by the by another faith is likened to a trembling frightened man running and hiding to a refuge already provided by another faith is likened to a weary man

37:01 - 37:45 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: A parable is told of a peasant girl who works for a cruel overlord, receiving a moth-eaten dress she perceives as beautiful through special glasses, only to have a king's…

This extended parable illustrates the blindness of self-righteousness, the deceptive promises of the devil, and the liberating truth of God's provision of perfect righteousness in Christ, which is received by faith when one's spiritual 'glasses' are removed.

Paul try to work out a righteousness of their own which God says will never never stand them in good stead and they do not in the language of Romans 10 3 submit to the righteousness of God I want to close the exhortation this morning with a parable that I've constructed for this very purpose and you children who like stories you listen to pastor's story this morning will you imagine with me that we're taken back in some kind of a time machine to the days when they had kings and there were serfs in the kingdom and there were lords and overlords and governors

43:40 - 44:24 Read in full sermon