A Righteousness Acceptable to God
"...A ND BE FOUND IN HIM , not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith." - PHILIPPIANS 3:9 [KJV] Here are the two righteousnesses clearly laid down, in one or other of which we must all stand before God—the righteousness which is of the law, and the righteousness which is of God by faith in Christ. But bear this in mind, that a righteousness to be available before God must be a perfect righteousness . This righteousness no man ever did or could produce by his own obedience to the law, for no man ever yet loved God "with all his heart and soul and mind and strength, and his neighbour as himself;" and if a man do not thus love God and thus love his neighbour, he is accursed and condemned already by that righteous law which curseth "every one who continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them." Now the Apos...