1. God is perfect Righteousness
2. Every member of the human race is Un-
Righteousness
These are two complete absolutes in total opposition.
A thing is what it is & a thing cannot be what it is not!
God is perfect Righteousness, & man is completely un-Righteous.
3. Issue We must have the perfect righteousness as God, to be reconciled with God
4. Problem There is nothing we can do to make ourselves something we are not: that is perfect righteous.
From the beginning man has tried to make himself Righteous before God. Adam & Eve started right from the beginning, after the fall…work of the fig leaves. And yet all efforts
of man to be righteous before God will fail, we cannot make our selves something we are not…perfectly righteous.
5. So, since man thinks he can make himself righteous before God, God sent M-L, to show man that he cannot be righteous by his own doing, by anything he does in the flesh.
6. Solution Seeing his hopeless condition, & seeing that through the gospel we can come to God through Faith in Jesus Christ & be made righteous.
This is seen in Job—in all 10 questions of Job…How can a man be R before God?
7. When we believe in Jesus Christ we are raised up in righteousness. God’s righteousness