{"id":3754,"date":"2016-05-07T08:12:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T08:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2016-05-07T08:12:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T08:12:50","slug":"our-righteousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3754","title":{"rendered":"OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3942\" \/><br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3943\" \/>There is but one human righteousness, and it is Christ, His Person and\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3944\" \/>work. When we speak of \u201cour Righteousness,\u201d we are speaking of Him, for\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3945\" \/>He is eternally, the Lord our righteousness (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Jer%2023.6\">Jer 23:6<\/a>). In this regard,\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3946\" \/>as in all others, nothing can be added to, nor taken away from Him. Our\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3947\" \/>gracious, loving Father has brought us the Best Robe, one woven\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3948\" \/>throughout, without seam. Nothing we do can mar it, no matter how\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3949\" \/>hideous our sin, and no imagined goodness that we perform can add a\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3950\" \/>stitch unto it.<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3951\" \/><br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3952\" \/><br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3953\" \/>Do not presume that works of faith wrought in and through us by God, Who\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3954\" \/>worketh in us both to will and do of His good pleasure (<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Php%202.13\">Php 2:13<\/a>), are\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3955\" \/>meritorious in any way or considered as supplemental to His. If we are\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3956\" \/>considered in ourselves at all, even based on our best work, we are\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3957\" \/>undone. And do not despair, though your sin become exceeding sinful to\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3958\" \/>you. Of God are we in Christ Jesus, Who is made unto us Righteousness\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3959\" \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1Cor%201.30\">1Cor 1:30<\/a>). We have no other, and need no other.\u00a0<br id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1462602307608_3960\" \/>Chris Cunningham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSThere is but one human righteousness, and it is Christ, His Person and\u00a0work. When we speak of \u201cour Righteousness,\u201d we are speaking of Him, for\u00a0He is eternally, the Lord our righteousness (Jer 23:6). In this regard,\u00a0as in all others, nothing can be added to, nor taken away from Him. Our\u00a0gracious, loving Father has brought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-chris-cunningham","category-righteousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3756,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/3756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}