My obedience is not what's counted. Christ's obedience is what's counted as my obedience. So Michael Smith says, Before God has kept all of God's righteous law, but Mike Smith has not actually did it. What Christ did in his righteous keeping of all of God's righteous law, God looks at and says, that is Michael Smith walking there. Michael Smith, who could have never even began to start down the road of keeping the righteous law, deserves the death that is required for not keeping the law. But Christ stood in my place and he took my death, my penalty for all my sin and yours if you're a child of grace. He took that penalty upon himself.