Alright, let's go back now to
Job chapter 40. Now we saw in the first hour
that Job's first problem was pride. And the Lord brought Job
to answer, and He said in Job 44, Behold, I am vile. What shall
I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth
once I have spoken, but I will not answer ye twice, but I will
proceed no further. But that was not enough for Job
to simply shut his mouth. That was not enough. Pride was
not Job's only problem. And pride is never our only problem
either. There's a twin brother that is
always with pride and that's self-righteousness. And so God
brings forth a second main question. That first main question on who's
this that darkeneth counsel, that dealt with the pride. This
is the second main question. that deals with the self-righteousness.
In Job 40 verse 6, ìThen answered the Lord unto Job out of the
whirlwind, and said, ìGird up thy loins now like a man. I will
demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou also disannoy
my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou
mayest be righteous?î Every believer struggles with this constantly. Jacob lived daily and served
God in the right way. God said that about him. But
it's just so difficult to do what you're supposed to do and
not expect something because of it. And that expecting something
because of it turns it into self-righteousness. God is dealing with that here. And here's the thing I want you
to get from this and remember. God's always right. And He deals
only in a way that's right with everybody. But especially to
His elect, redeemed, regenerate people. He always does for us
what is right. What is right. And He's going
to teach us that He owes us nothing. He owes us nothing. We have no
reason to be self-righteous. God owes us nothing. All our
righteousness is of God. And all His favor is free favor,
free grace. Grace means not only unmerited
favor, but demerited favor. Not only do we not deserve grace,
we did everything against God as murderers and evil, wicked
God-haters, and yet God still chose whom He would from among
this cesspool of humanity, fallen in Adam. So God's right to do
what He does. He's always right, and our righteousness
is of God. Now the first thing I want you
to understand here, the problem It's not that Job is looking
to himself for righteousness before the law of God. And I
think this is very important. It's not that he was looking
to himself to make himself righteous before the law of God. You know,
as far as justification is concerned, Job clearly declares in the book
that his righteousness is the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, go
to Job 19 and look at verse 25. Job 19 verse 25, I know that
My Redeemer liveth, I know that My Redeemer liveth, and that
He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, And though
after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I
see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold,
and not another, though my reins be consumed within me. This was
Job's confession. Job believed Christ to be his
living Redeemer. Now, if I believe Christ is my
Redeemer, what do you believe when you believe Christ is your
Redeemer? You believe Christ has redeemed you from the curse
of the law being made a curse for you. That's what you believe
if you believe Christ is your Redeemer. Believe that He went
to the cross, took your place, was made a curse and bore the
wrath and justice of God in your place and that He redeemed you
from that curse. The law can't accuse you and
curse you anymore because Christ redeemed you. He satisfied justice. That's what it is to believe
Christ is my Redeemer. It's also to believe this, is
to believe that Christ redeemed me and freed me from the dominion
of my sin so that I can trust Him to be my Redeemer. We have
to be freed from this sinful dominion that's over us by nature
so that we can even believe on Christ. And He said, sin shall
not have dominion over you, believer, because you are not under the
law, but under grace. That is by His work, by Him redeeming
us. And He has to redeem us from
the body of this death in resurrection. One day He is going to redeem
us from this whole body and take us in with a new body into glory. And that redemption is accomplished
by Christ. And in that day when He has glorified
us, we will be redeemed from all consequence of sin. We will
have a perfect body. A perfect spirit, complete in
righteousness and holiness. So Job's standing here now before
Christ has ever come forth, before He's ever stood on this earth,
saying, I know He's going to stand on this earth and He's
going to redeem me. He already has. How could He
say He already had if Christ hadn't come yet? Because Christ
is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. As Job's surety,
Job's trusting, it's done. And the purpose of God is done. When he entered covenant with
the Father, it was done. And there's no possibility that
Christ would not come forth and finish the work on the cross. And so Job's problem is not that
he's trying to make himself righteous before the law of God. That's
not his problem. And the reason I say this is
for our second point here I want you to see is He was righteous
concerning His daily... He was self-righteous concerning
His daily walk before God. Look at Job 31 and verse 35. Here is where Job was self-righteous. Job 31 verse 35. Listen to this. Oh, that one would hear me. He's
talking about God. Oh, my desire is that the Almighty
would answer me and that my adversary had written a book. Here's what
he's saying. I would that God, who's being
my adversary right now, had written a book and kept up with all my
daily dealings with men and recorded every instance so men could see
that I've done what's right and I've shunned that which is evil.
And he says, surely I would take it upon my shoulder and bind
it as a crown to me. Job was so confident that he
had dealt rightly with men and shunned evil. He would be willing
to take this book on his shoulder and walk right up to God with
it, wearing it like a crown. I would declare unto him the
number of my steps. I'd recount all my steps before
God. As a prince would I go near unto
him. If my land cry against me, or
that the furrows likewise thereof complain, if I've eaten the fruits
thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to
lose their life, let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle
instead of barley, the words of Job are ended. He's talking
about how he dealt with men in his life. That's where his self-righteousness
was. Look at Job 32 verse 1. So these three men ceased to
answer Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. Then was kindled
the wrath of Elihu. Why? Because Job justified himself
rather than God. Job had walked in the right way
and he had avoided evil. God said that about Job. He said
there is none like him in the earth. that loves righteousness
and walks according to righteousness and shuns, escheweth evil. None
like him. But Job, by doing that which
was right before God, you know he didn't do it perfectly because
no sinner does. I don't care if you're a believer
or you're not. A believer is not without sin. Job was flat
wrong to say all those things about himself. It just wasn't
true. There's one place Perfectly righteous, that's in the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's why we trust Him alone. We don't look to our
work, we don't look to our walk, we look to Him. But in thinking
these things about himself, Job had begun to think that God owed
him because he had walked so rightly. He thought God owed
him. And so then he also thought God
was unjust to treat him this way and send him to trial. Now, I will give this to Job. He was spurred on to say these
things by these three men that came, supposed friends that came,
because they were just coming and saying to him, Job, the reason
these things are happening to you is you've done something
wrong. They were like all these self-righteous folks in churches
today that tell you the reason good things happen to you is
because you live like you're supposed to and the reason bad
things happen to you is because you're living wrong. They put
it all in your hand. And God's showing here that's
not the case. That wasn't why God sent the child to Job. God
sent the child to Job to teach him not to be self-righteous
about anything. It wasn't because of some evil
he was doing. That wasn't the case. But self-righteousness
thinks something about me and something about my walk is giving
something to God for which God owes me a peaceable life. That's what self-righteousness
thinks. I'm living in such a way that God is indebted to me and
He owes me to have a peaceable life because of these things
I've done. No. Our right living as a believer
now. If a believer lives as he should
live, just like our sins, it doesn't add anything to God.
It doesn't move God or indebt God. It doesn't add anything
to God. Go with me to Job 35 and look
here at verse 1. Job 35 verse 1, ìA lie who spoke,
moreover, and said, ìThinkest thou this to be right, that thou
saidest, ìMy righteousness is more than Godís?î For thou saidest,
ìWhat advantage will it be unto thee? And what profit shall I
have if I be cleansed from my sin?î This is what Job said,
ìIf I avoid sin and I walk in a way to honor God, what profit
is that for me if God still sends me a trial like this?î like He
sends me. He is saying, what use is it
to serve God if it doesn't earn me a peaceable life rather than
these trials? And a lot of you had enough sense
to say, do you really think that's right? Listen to this, verse
6. If thou sinnest, what doest thou
against Him? If you sin against God, you hadn't
done anything against God. You hadn't changed God. Look
at this. If thou transgressions be multiplied,
what doest thou unto him? If thou be righteous, what givest
thou him? Or what receiveth he of thine
hand? Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousness
may profit the Son of man, but not God. But not God. When a believer does what's right,
and he avoids what's wrong, God don't owe him anything for that.
He just did what he should have done. Look at Luke chapter 17. You know, this puts a death blow
to men saying that you're going to somehow be in better favor
with God because of living right and you're going to fall out
of favor with God if you sin. God will correct to believe His
child if we sin. But we're not adding anything
to God or taking anything from God. We're not indebting God
to us by anything we do. It's what we should do. Look
here, Christ is speaking, Luke 17, 7. Which of you having a
servant, that's what God's children are, we're servants of God. Which
of you having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto
him by and by when he's come from the field, go and sit down
to meet. He is out there. He is a servant. And he is doing what he is supposed
to do. He is feeding the cattle and he is plowing the field.
And he comes in from the field and you are going to say to him
now, Oh, let me reward you for doing that. Go in there and sit
down now at the table. And he says, And will not rather
say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup. This is more of your... your duty to me, make the table
ready, where I may eat, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I
have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat and drink." Now
look here, here's the point right here. Does he thank that servant
because he did the things that were commanded him? Does he thank
that servant, praise that servant because the servant merely did
what it was his job to do? Look, I don't think so. Verse
10, So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which
are commanded you, say, We're unprofitable servants. We've
done that which was our duty to do. God don't owe us anything. If we've done that which was
right, that don't make God owe us anything. That's just what
we should have done. So a believer who's not self-righteous
in justification, a believer who's cast all his care on Christ
and trust in Christ for justification can still become self-righteous
over his daily walk and what he's doing in this earth. Both
are deadly. When a believer does what's right
and avoids what's wrong, God doesn't owe us anything. It's
simply what we ought to do. So we ought never start having
this self-righteous idea that somehow by our work God owes
us. That's the definition of self-righteousness. And then thirdly, look at this,
the worst thing about self-righteousness. Don't you hate self-righteousness
as a believer? I hate it. And it's in me. These two ugly, evil twins, pride
and self-righteousness, are with me everywhere I go. But the worst
thing about it is, it's saying we're right. When we say we're
right, we're disannulling God's judgment. And we're condemning
God in order to make ourselves righteous. Look at this, verse
8. God says, Will thou also disannull
My judgment? Wilt thou condemn Me that thou
mayest be righteous? Job was disannulling God's judgment. Job was condemning God by saying,
God's not right to send this trial upon a man like me. A man
who lives right and hates evil, it's not right for God to send
this trial to me. That's what Job was saying. And
God said, will you actually do that, Job? You're going to disannull
my judgment in doing what I judge to be best and condemn me so
you can be righteous? That's what all men do who call
into question God's sovereign right to do with His own whatever
He will. Go to Romans 9. Romans chapter
9. Look here, Romans 9. God right here is talking about
election. His right to elect whom He will. Romans 9.10. He
says, when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac. So both these children got the
same father. He says, the children being not
yet born, neither having done any good or evil. So they say
in these boys, there's nothing different about these boys in
these boys. They're both born of sinful corrupt
seed, so they're both sinners conceived in sin. but they hadn't
done any good or evil. And he says that the purpose
of God according to election might stand. This is why God
elects some and passes by others, so that we know it's not of our
works, but it's of God that calleth. Salvation is not of our works,
it's of God that calleth. It was said unto her, the elder
shall serve the younger. As it is written, God said, Jacob
have I loved, but he so have I hated. Now will men condemn
God? Will they disannoy God's judgment
and condemn God that they might be righteous? Look at the next
thing. He says, what shall we say then? What are men going
to say about this? Is there unrighteousness with God? Will men say that's
not right for God to choose some and pass by others? You know
what that is? That's condemning God and His
judgment to do what He will and calling Him unrighteous so that
we can call ourselves righteous. That's self-righteousness. God
forbid. God told Moses. Look there, Romans
9. He said there in verse 15. He
said to Moses, I'll have mercy on whom I will have mercy. I'll
have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it's
not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God
that shows mercy. You know what God told Moses
by that? He said, it's my right, it's my glory as God to choose
whom I will and pass by whom I will. That's His glory. But
sinful man will call that into question and say, God's not right
to choose whom He will. They'll say, God's not right
to be God. And try to take Him off His judgment seat and put
themselves in that place and say, the way I've done it is,
I'd give everybody a chance to be saved. If God gave everybody
a chance to be saved, you know what would happen? Not a one
of us would have been saved. Because you hate this God I'm
telling you about. That's why. A man by nature hates this God
right here that can do with his own what he wills. None of us
would have bowed to Him. Thank God He didn't give you
a chance. Thank God He purposed it right down to the I and the
T. And He's going to make it all come to pass. And not lose
one each other. But you see the point there?
To say those things, God says, without disowning my judgment,
will you condemn me that you might be righteous? Let God be
true in every man alive. We just need to learn to bow
to God. It's His right to be God. And we need to remember
that when He sends the trial. When He sends the trial and we're
suffering and it's just painful to us. It's God's right to do
it. We need it somehow. He's going
to bring good out of it. It's going to be for our good.
So then now, fourthly, let's look at this. To be self-righteous
is to boast that our own right arm and our right hand can save
us. Christ is the arm of God. Christ is the voice of God. That's
God in human flesh. That's God's own right arm, the
power, the right arm, the strength. That's His voice, Christ. Look
at Job 40 verse 9. God says, Has thou an arm like
God? Or canst thou thunder with a
voice like Him? Isaiah 40 verse 10 says, Behold,
the Lord God will come with a strong hand, and His arms shall rule
for Him. Behold, His rewards with Him,
and His works before Him. Who is this He's talking about?
That's His arm. He shall feed His flock like
a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with
His arm, and gently carry them in His bosom, and gently lead
with His right hand those that are with young. God says, do
you have an arm like God? Do you have a voice like Him? Like Christ? He is pointing us
to Christ our righteousness now. You want to get the cure for
self-righteousness? God is going to turn you to Christ
our righteousness. You got an arm like His? This
One who has always done that which pleased Me? Even to the
death of the cross, you've got an arm like His, you've got a
voice that can thunder like His and speak only that which is
true and honoring and glorifying to God. Look here, Christ is
God's majesty and excellency. He's His glory and beauty. Job
40, verse 10. He says, deck thyself now with
majesty and excellency and array thyself with glory and beauty.
We couldn't make ourselves holy in the beauty of holiness. Christ
had to come and be formed in you and make you have a pure
heart and make you holy and beautiful by His work. That's what Christ
said. We couldn't do that work. We
couldn't make ourselves righteous and purge our sins and justify
ourselves and robe ourselves in excellence and glory. We couldn't
do that. Christ had to come. And He had
to lay down His life and He had to come and robe us in His beautiful
garment, His righteousness to make His people righteous and
beautiful. God says, you think you're righteous?
Can you do this? Make yourself beautiful and excellent
and comely? And then He said this, He reminds
us of this, that God satisfied His justice and made His people
righteous by pouring out His wrath on Christ in place of His
people. God satisfied His divine justice
that His people, we had broken God's law and God won't pass
by sin. He is going to pour out judgment
on everybody He saves. That means everybody He saves
has got to die because God is just and He will not just overlook
sin and breaking of His law. He is going to honor His law.
The soul that sinneth must die. So He sent His Son and His Son
He took the sin of His people and went and stood in the room
and place of His people as His sinful people. This one man representing
all His people. And God poured out His wrath
on Him in place of His people and satisfied His justice. Satisfied
His own justice. And I'll tell you what's going
to bring us to repentance and bring us down from our wicked
self-righteousness is when God turns us to see Christ on that
cross bearing what we deserve. That's when we'll put our mouth
in the dust and quit boasting of our righteousness. And so
God says all that right here, verse 11. You cast abroad the
rage of thy wrath. Behold everyone that is proud
and abase him. Look on everyone that is proud
and bring him low. Tread down the wicked in their
place. Hide them in the dust together and bind their faces
in secret. Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right
hand can save you. You cast your wrath apart. You
satisfy your own justice. You bring the wicked down in
the dust. We can't do that. Only God can satisfy justice.
Only God can turn us to Christ and bring the wicked down into
the dust. God says, only if you could do this would I say that
your own right hand could save you. See, that's what we're saying
when we claim we're righteous. We're saying that we could save
ourselves. God says, no you can't. You can't save yourself. So God,
now then He's going to use several large animals that He's created.
He's going to illustrate all this and teach us where to submit
to God, knowing what He has done to us is right. Now look here.
God uses this large animal called behemoth. which God made. We don't know what it is. It's
irrelevant what this animal was. It was some big, large animal
and God describes it here as being a very glorious animal.
God made it that way. He adorned this animal with all
this glory, this big, large, mighty, powerful animal. And
here's the point, verse 19. This animal Behemoth is the chief
of the ways of God. This is his chief of all his
creation. He said this is the chief thing
I've created right here. I've put so much glory on this
animal. And you can go back and read
it later about all the description of him. But watch what he says
here. He that made him can make his sword to approach unto him. What he's saying is No matter
how glorious we as believers, we know God's made us glorious.
God has showered us with great glory in making us new entirely
by the work of Christ. So that before God we have no
sin, before God we have the righteousness of God Himself in Christ Jesus. We are holy as God is holy by
Christ's work. We are accepted of God. We are
one with God. He shed all this glory upon us
just like He did this big animal behemoth. But He says, I that
made you can bring my sword near you when I get ready. So we have
no reason to say, you know, when we are self-righteous, Job was
saying, I don't deserve God to bring His sword near me and correct
me because I am living right. Well, where did all that come
from? It came from God. God said, I gave it to you so
I can bring the sword near you when I am well pleased to. And then He uses a large fish
called Leviathan. Again, it doesn't matter what
it is, but He's teaching us to never think that we're so big
that we can stand before God apart from Christ. Look at verse
Job 41. Canst thou draw out Leviathan
with a hook, or his tongue with a cord, which thou lettest down?
God's saying, I can, but you can't. So down at verse 10, here's
the point. None is so fierce that dares
stand up to him. No man can stand up to this large
water animal. He says, who then is able to
stand before me? God said, I can do all these
things to this animal. I made him. I control him. No man can stand before him.
I can stand before him, God said. So then, who can stand before
me? We're never so big, we're never so right that we can stand
before God who is above all in righteousness. Never. Humble
yourselves from self-righteousness to the feet of Christ. That's
what He's teaching us. And then God asks this. He asks us this. Besides all that, we think we've
indebted God. He asks us, what have we first
given to God that God hasn't first given to us? Look at Job
41.11. Who hath prevented me? That word prevented means who
has given to me first or who has gone before me that I should
repay Him. What so ever is under the whole
heaven is mine. Who has given to me anything,
God said, that I didn't first give to Him. Here is what He
is saying in Romans 11.35. Who hath first given to Him and
it shall be recompensed again unto Him. God is not going to
be a debtor to any man. If we have ever given God anything
first, God will pay. But He says this, Of God and
through God and to God are all things to whom be glory forever. Amen. It means we have not first
given God anything. If we want to boast about our
righteousness and say, God indebted God to me, just know this, if
you did what was right, God first gave you that. You didn't give
God that first, He gave you that first. He made you do that which
was right. And that goes with everything
we possess. So we can't glory in ourselves, we have to glory
in Him. You know what the next word is in Paul's letter? He
follows up that last verse of Romans 11 with Romans 12, and
he says this, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God,
that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable
unto God, which is your reasonable service. God has first given
us everything. It's reasonable to serve Him.
Not to try to indebt Him, just to serve Him. And then look,
lastly God brings Job now to a place he wasn't brought to
the first time. When he stopped there at the
beginning, Job said, I'm going to shut my mouth now, I'm vile,
I'm not going to speak anymore. The Lord said that wasn't enough.
Job 42.1, then Job answered the Lord and said, I know. Job answered
the Lord now, he says, ìI know that thou canst do everything,
and that no thought can be withholden from thee.î He says here, ìGod,
you asked me, ìWho is he that hideth counsel without knowledge?î
I answered, ìTherefore have I uttered that I understood not, things
too wonderful of me which I knew not.î ìGod, you said here, ìI
beseech thee, and I will speak. I will demand of thee and declare
unto thee.î He says, ìI answer.î I have heard of thee by the hearing
of the ear, but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore, I abhor
myself and repent in dust and ashes. Job didn't say that before.
He didn't say that before. It was not enough that Job said,
I'll shut my mouth. A lot of people shut their mouth
when in their heart they're thinking, I'm right and you're still wrong.
God said, no, you're going to be brought down to dust and you
can confess, I'm right. And you are wrong. And he didn't
stop until he brought him down and brought him to say that.
Now a lot of people think this is when God saved Job. And I
think I know why we think that. One is because in the beginning
God said of Job, there is none like him in the earth. A perfect
and an upright man, one that fears God and eschews evil. And
then, as we read the book and we see all this proud self-righteousness
come out of Job, we think, if God said there's none like Him,
where does that leave me? And it's our natural, proud,
self-righteous thought to think, He couldn't have been a believer
and said all that. Oh yeah, He was a believer. And you can be a believer and
say all that and a whole lot worse. See, it's pride and self-righteousness
to think, I believe we couldn't say that. Oh yeah, you could.
I do it every day. You do too. And I'll tell you
another reason I think men think this is when God saved Job. It's
because Job said there, I've heard of you with the hearing
of the ear, but now mine eye sees you. I see you now like
I've never seen you before. And I just believe that Some
believers have not yet experienced what Job experienced here. So
they think this is when Job first saved him. I'll tell you something
happened to me. God called me to faith in Christ
somewhere in the mid to late 80s. I say that because it was
a period of time there that I was hearing and studying and learning
and God was teaching me and bringing me down and then eventually I
confessed Him and what have you. But it was a while there, somewhere
in there that God saved me. I don't know exactly where. But
then about 18 years later, God put me through a trial about
4 or 5 years. And it ended with me seeing Christ
like I had never seen Him before. So much so that I asked myself,
Lord, is this the first day I have ever known You? I've heard of
You, but now I see You. And I thought, I went a little
while thinking, maybe that's when the Lord, maybe I didn't
know the Lord before, maybe the Lord just saved me. Well, about
eight years after that, God put me through another... There was
trials all in between there, but God put me through another
really tough trial. I was here then. And I saw Christ
like I never saw Him before. And again I thought, Lord, You
just saved me. I've heard of You, but now I
see You. You just saved me today. Fact is, God is saving us every
day. And that's called growing in
grace and knowledge of Him. That's called God teaching you
who He is more and more and more. And the more He teaches you who
He is, the more you see Him like you've never seen Him. And the
more you say, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.
That's how sanctification works. The more the light comes on in
the condemned building, the more you see the buildings condemned.
And the more you see all your hope is the light. And Christ
is that light. And we are the condemnability.
So I don't think, I think Job was a believer and God was dealing
with him as a son. And I want to end with this.
Let's thank God now as we go into this new year that He brings
us to repent and that He saves us in Christ and that He won't
charge us with our pride and our self-righteousness. Aren't
you thankful for that? Christ is so much so the righteousness
of His people and has so put away our sin that God won't charge
these very things that we've seen in Job and we see in ourselves. Pride and self-righteousness,
God won't charge us with it. He'll correct us from it to keep
us looking to Christ, but because of Christ, He will not charge
His people with it. Aren't you thankful for that?
Those two ugly twins, pride and self-righteousness, So in this
new year, when you go into these daily troubles and these trials,
I pray God to make us not face them in pride. You know, that's
what we always want to do. We want to face these troubles
and, oh, I'm going to take the tiger by the tail and I'm going
to handle this, you know. Oh no, don't approach them that
way. Come to Christ's feet. Lord,
I can't do a thing. I know you know everything. Nothing
can be hidden from you. If I speak, I'm going to utter
things too great for me. I'm going to just darken your
counsel with my ignorance. Lord, I need you. That's humility. That's why Moses is the most
humble man on earth. It wasn't because Moses was a
pushover. It was because whenever Moses had a trouble, he hid his
face before God and said, Lord, I'm depending on you. That's
humility. It's to trust God to do His will.
May God keep us from self-righteousness. Let's remember this. Whatever
you do that's right, God gave that to us first. And it's not
giving anything back to God. It's just doing what we ought
to do. And so don't ever start thinking self-righteously that
I'm owed something from God. God's given us everything freely,
freely, without a cause in His people. He gave the unspeakable
gift and He gave His Son. And our righteousness is Him.
So look to Him. And most of all, may God make
us thankful for that, that Christ is our righteousness. Always
look away from yourself. Always look away from your ideas
and your thoughts and your ways and look to Christ. He is our
righteousness, our provider, our wisdom, our power. Everything
we saw here in these two messages, that is what Christ is to His
people. He is the Savior, for He shall save His people. That
does not apply to me and you. I am not the Savior. You are
not the Savior. He is the Savior. So what do
you do? Fall back into the arms of the
Savior. Trust Him to save you. Amen. I pray God will bless it.