OUR FATHER WHO PROVIDES RIGHTEOUSNESS AND NOT WE OF OURSELVES

Romans chapter 10 verses 1 - 4 says this;

1 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. 2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

The Apostle Paul mentions the people from whom he came and he testifies to their zeal for God but notes that their zeal is misdirected because they did not understand that the law that they had been under was ultimately a prefiguration of the righteousness of Christ and that He was the fulfilment of the law.

To believe in Christ is then to appropriate His total fulfilment of the law to oneself.

Amen.

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