The Righteousness of The Saints

Q: What does the Bible say about the righteousness of the saints?

The Bible describes the righteousness of the saints as the fine linen, clean and white, representing their justification through Christ's sacrifice. In Revelation 19:8, it states that the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints, indicating that believers are justified before God by the work of Christ. This righteousness is a reflection of the believer's sanctification, the process by which they are set apart and made holy through the blood of Jesus. The righteousness of the saints encompasses the active and passive obedience of Christ, which is credited to them, making them holy and blameless in God's sight despite their inherent sinfulness.

Q: How do we know justification is true?

Justification is affirmed in Scripture, revealing that believers are made righteous by faith in Christ alone. Justification is a key doctrine of sovereign grace, confirmed through numerous biblical texts. Romans 5:1 states that we are justified by faith and have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. This doctrine asserts that, apart from works, we are declared righteous based solely on Christ’s accomplished work on the cross. The assurance of justification rests on God’s immutable word, which guarantees that those who believe in Christ possess His righteousness, thus being justified before the Father. Additionally, 2 Corinthians 5:21 emphasizes that Christ became sin for us so that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him, reinforcing the security and truth of this doctrine.

Q: Why is sanctification important for Christians?

Sanctification is vital as it reflects the believer's set-apartness and growing in holiness through Christ. Sanctification is essential for Christians as it represents God’s work to make them holy, which is necessary for being in fellowship with Him. Hebrews 10:10 explains that believers are sanctified through the offering of Christ, highlighting that sanctification is not merely a personal endeavor but a divine act. As believers grow in their understanding and experience of salvation, they are called to live in a way that honors their new identity in Christ. This process continues throughout their lives, as they are increasingly conformed to the image of Christ. Thus, while they remain sinners, they are set apart for God and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live in accordance with His will.

I'm going to read a scripture this morning out of Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. Micah, I love that message this morning. These Old Testament pictures of Christ, I think the kids in the Sunday school class will tell you, they're special to me because our Lord told us, these are they which speak of me. And here we have the writer to Hebrews, those people that were caught up in religion, pointing them to Christ. I pray that we don't have religion, but that we have Christ. So let's start Hebrews chapter 10, starting in verse one.

For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Come to Christ for perfection. Come to Christ, he'll make you perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered because that the worshipers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices, there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering, thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared for me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God. Above, when he said, sacrifice and offering and burnt offering, In offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither has pleasure therein which are offered by the law. Again, then said he, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

By the witch will we are sanctified through the offering of the blood of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering the offering, oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins. But this man, the God-man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost is also a witness for us, giving us that new birth. For after that, he said before, this is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their hearts, and then in their minds will I write them.

And their sins and iniquities, well, I remember no more, because they're gone. Nothing to remember. Now our remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin. Therefore, brethren, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiness by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say his flesh, and having an high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of, in ours in italics, the profession of faith, of Christ's faith, without wavering, for he is faithful that promised. I'll end our reading there. Let's pray.

Heavenly Father, we come to you this morning in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. Lord, we're a needy people and we're thankful that through the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, we can come into thy presence sinless, made righteous in him. Lord, we, our minds can't be wrapped around that, but you've given us to believe and we're thankful. Father, we're thankful for the For the word that you've sent here this morning, we pray that you would bless us once more. We know that thou art gracious and that you love to show mercy. Lord, have mercy on us once more.

Give Todd a word from thee as he stands to proclaim our Lord Jesus Christ. And Lord, give us hearing ears and receiving hearts. Father, feed your sheep. Cause us to see Christ once again, to run to him, to cling to him, to cleave to him, to be one in Christ. Father, we are blessed above all people. We pray that you would continue to bless, that you would cause us to seek Christ always. Leave us not alone, Lord, but send your spirit to be among us. Father, we ask these things and we pray them in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ for our good and for his sake. Amen. If you would turn in your hymnal to song number 275, we'll sing I Belong to the King. 275. I belong to the king. I'm a child of his love. I shall dwell in his palace so fair. For he tells of its bliss in yon heaven above, And his children its splendors shall share. I belong to the King, I'm a child of His love, and He never forsaketh His own.

He will call me someday to his palace above. I shall dwell by his glorified throne. I belong to the King and He loves me, I know, for His mercy and kindness so free. are unceasingly mine, wheresoever I go, and my refuge unfailing is He. I belong to the King, I'm a child of His love, and He never forsaketh His own. He will call me someday to his palace above. I shall dwell by his glorified throne. I belong to the king and his promises that we all shall be gathered at last in his kingdom above by life's waters so pure when this life with its trials is passed. I belong to the King, I'm a child of His love, and He never forsaketh His own. He will call me someday to his palace above. I shall dwell by his glorified throne. Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly.

While the nearer waters roll, While the Tampa still is high, Hide me, O my Savior, hide, Till the storm of life is past. Claim then to the haven guide, O receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none, Hangs my helpless soul on thee. Leave, ah, leave me not alone. Still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stained. All my help from thee I bring. Cover my defenseless head with the shadow of thy wing.

Thou, O Christ, art all I want, more than all in me I find. Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, heal the sick, and leave the blind. Just and holy is thy name. I am all unrighteousness. False and full of sin I am, Thou art full of truth and grace. Plenteous grace with Thee is found, Grace to cover all my sin. Let the healing streams abound. Make and keep me pure within. Thou of life, the fountain heart. ♪ Freely let me take of thee ♪ ♪ Spring thou up within my heart ♪ ♪ Rise to all eternity ♪ That's so good.

Well, I reckon it's a prerequisite if you're gonna be a Thornberry, you gotta know how to sing. That was so good, thank you. Well, our last speaker of the day, Pastor Todd Nyberg, Todd's Road Grace Church. Just can't say how much I love and appreciate Todd, and I look forward to hearing what God's given you for us to hear today. I love acapella. Would you turn to the book of Revelation, chapter 19? Can I get that? I'm sorry. I just can't see my notes very well. It's all the way down there.

Revelation 19, verse eight. To her, the wife of the lamb that has made herself ready, in verse seven, to her was granted that she should be arraigned Fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. I've entitled this message, The Righteousness of the Saints. In the original, the definite article is used. the righteousness of the saints. The saints.

That name given to believers is the name that is usually used to describe a believer. A believer a couple of times, Christian a couple of times, saint over 100 times. The believer is a saint, a sanctified one, an holy one. The word means holy, set apart, sanctified. The definition is pure, morally blameless, Other, not of this world. This describes every believer without exception. If I'm a believer, if you're a believer, this describes me and you. Saint. I love Hebrews chapter two, verse 11, where it says, both he that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are all of one.

However he is, I am. And then he says, for the which cause he's not ashamed to call them brethren. There's nothing for him to be ashamed of. I'm so ashamed of myself all the time. My sin is ever before me. I'm in good company. David said that. but he's not ashamed of me. There's nothing for him to be ashamed of.

Sanct. I believe that sanctification is probably the most comprehensive word in the Bible that describes God's salvation. Sanctification. It's unfortunate that human religion, uses this to define behavior. Justification is your legal standing before God. Sanctification has something to do with your behavior. Now, I have no doubt that the grace of God affects a man's behavior. Don't get me wrong. But if that's the way I'm defining sanctification, all I'm doing is darkening counsel with words without knowledge.

That's the way the word is used in, quote, reform circles. Reformed. I don't even like that term. The truth never needed to be reformed. The truth is not reformed, it's eternal. And so we err if we use that kind of language. But in reform circles, sanctification is the process progressively becoming more holy and less sinful. As I give the effort needed as I pray, as I deny myself, as I read the scriptures, as I deal with the sin in my life, I become more holy and less sinful. Now, somebody that makes that statement really is lying.

You can't call it anything else. That kind of view is a denial of the two natures of the believer. The Lord Jesus Christ has two separate natures in one divine person. Fully God, 100% God, just as if he were not man at all. No blending. He's not half God and half man. He's fully man, bone of our bones, flesh of our flesh, just as if he were not God at all, the God-man, Christ Jesus.

The believer has two natures, the divine nature, given in the new birth, partakers of the divine nature, and his old sinful nature that he was born with. And it's there just as bad as it ever was. And every believer knows this is so. To sanctify means to set apart to be holy.

Ephesians 1.4, according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy. That's the same word translated saint. We just read in Hebrews chapter 10, by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

I was set apart to be holy. I was declared to be holy by the work of the Lord Jesus Christ on Galbraith Street. And this was once for all. It's not something that needs to be repeated. I'm eternally holy in the blood of the lamb. And every believer is sanctified by the spirit of God.

Second Thessalonians 2.13, we're bound to thank God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has, from the beginning, chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. The sanctifying work of God, the Holy Spirit, in the new birth, what's its evidence?

You believe the truth. You believe the truth? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God? Do you believe who he is? That's faith. It's known who he is. And the reason you have that faith is because you've been the subject of the sanctifying work of God, the Holy Spirit. So saint, every believer is a saint. Revelation chapter 19. Verse eight. and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. Let's look at verse one of Revelation 19.

After these things, What things? Well, he's talking about in Revelation chapter 17 and 18, the destruction of Babylon. False religion. He spoke of the harlot of Babylon and he said, come out from among her and be separate. False works religion. There's two religions. There's the religion of Babylon. There's the religion of Christ. There's works, there's grace. There's the religion of Cain, there's the religion of Abel. Cain, his works, Abel, knew he could not approach God apart from the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The religion of the Pharisee, the religion of the publican. The religion of the Pharisee, Lord, I thank thee that I am different. I'm not as other men are. the religion of the public and God be propitious, be merciful to me, the sinner, do something about my sin. I can't make it go away. Would you do something for me? Now, after he had. Described it would probably be I know it would be beneficial for all of us to read Revelation 17 and 18.

But after these things, he says, I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, Alleluia, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. Now this is heavenly language. There's no error here. There's no sin here. This is heavenly And this is the first of four times we read the word Hallelujah.

Praise the Lord. It's used so flippantly by so many people, I realize that, but don't let that take away from the awesomeness of this word. Hallelujah. Salvation and glory Honor and power unto the Lord our God. Four things are ascribed to God. Salvation. If I'm saved, He saved me. Salvation is of the Lord. Glory. Now in salvation, He gets all the glory.

And let me tell you why that makes me so happy. because that means nothing's required of me. He did it all, and that's why I love his glory. I love his glory because he's glorious. I love his glory because he deserves the glory, but I got a probably more selfish motive in loving his glory. If he did it all, I'm in good shape. Honor, oh, the honor that goes to him in his salvation.

Power, power belongeth unto the Lord. Verse two, four, true and righteous are his judgments for he hath judged the great whore, the whore of Babylon described in Revelation 17 and 18, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. Now there's perfect agreement in heaven with him. When he's talking about this judgment upon the whore of Babylon, he says true and righteous are his judgments.

They're all perfect, they're all together right. There's no jarring disagreement with him. Everything he does is right, just, holy, and true. And may I add this, and I hope This is something that I believe from the depths of my heart. Apart from Christ, if he sent me to hell, just right, holy and true are his judgments. I believe that.

Verse three, and they said, Alleluia, this is the second time this has said after hearing of this judgment against the false religion that had corrupted the earth. And again, they said, hallelujah. And her smoke rose up forever and ever. Speaking of the eternal nature of hell, her smoke rose up forever and ever.

Verse four. And the four and 20 elders, and the four beasts. We first read of them in Revelation 4. The four and 20 elders represent the Old Testament and New Testament church, the 12 patriarchs, the 12 apostles, the whole church. The four and 20 elders and the four beasts fell down and worshiped God. that sat on the throne saying, amen.

So be it. Hallelujah. Verse five, and a voice came out of the throne saying, praise our God. All ye his servants, ye that fear him, both small and great. And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the voice of many waters and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Alleluia! There we have the fourth time.

The Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. The Lord God Omnipotent. I love that word. Of course, I don't completely understand it any more than I understand anything else completely in the scriptures. I don't understand any of it completely in the scriptures. But the Lord God omnipotent, that is speaking of his unlimited power.

His power is unlimited. He does all that's consistent with his nature. You know, people say power corrupts. Well, it does any man, but it doesn't corrupt him. The Lord God omnipotent. His omnipotence is seen in creation and I'd love to think of him. There was a time when all there was was God. There wasn't any stars, there wasn't any... He willed the creation into existence. Light be! Light was. What mighty power to create the universe. I love to think of his power in Providence.

He controls everything that takes place. There's nothing that is separate from his absolute control. He's omnipotent. You see, out of his omnipotence comes his sovereignty. He's got the power to make sure his will is always done. The core meaning of God's sovereignty is he's the first cause of whatever is, and how glorious he is in his providence, all things. work together for good, all things. All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose and how his power is displayed in salvation, his omnipotence. What omnipotence for God to become flesh. What omnipotence in the God-man dying.

That's so mysterious to me. How could he die? He's God-man. How could he die? I don't know, but he did. God did die. The God-man did. And I know why he died. He died because, as somebody said last night, guilty as charged. He bore the sins of his people and became guilty, and he died. I couldn't be saved if He's not God. I couldn't be saved if He's not man. He's the God-man. And He saved me.

What power it took for Him to die. Think of the power in the resurrection. When He was raised from the dead, what almighty power. What almighty power to put away my sin. What almighty power to make me holy and righteous. What almighty power is displayed in giving me a new history that's all good. Somebody says nobody can change history. He did. I've got a new history, no skeletons in my closet. I stand before God without guilt. What power in regenerating me, giving me a new heart. I couldn't do that.

Only God could do that. What power is displayed in preserving me and how his power will be displayed when I stand perfectly conformed to his image, glorified. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth. That's his sovereignty. Of course he does. He's omnipotent. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

So what do we say to that? Verse seven, let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." Now, turn back to Ephesians chapter five for a moment. This is what John's talking about. Verse 25, husbands, love your wives.

Ephesians 5.25, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. Now, while it's true, I'm the one who benefits if I love my wife. I'm the one who benefits from that. But that's not what this is talking about. When Christ loved his church, he was loving himself. That's who every believer is in union with the Lord Jesus Christ. He was loving Himself for no man yet ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it even as the Lord the church For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones for this cause he talks about what took place in Genesis chapter 2 for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and Shall be joined unto his wife and they too shall be one flesh now. This is a great mystery But everything I'm talking about It's Christ in the church This refers to Genesis two, after God made Adam, he said, it's not good for man to dwell alone.

You know, in that man. The church was already there. That rib. And the Lord put him to sleep, picturing the cross and brought the woman out of the man. What a mystery. the relationship between Christ and his church. Go back to our text in Revelation 19. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb is come. I want you to remember this about the church, the elect.

They are God's gift to his son. The primary purpose of the church is the gift of God to his son. Now, I've heard preachers say, God love you so much that he gave his son so you'd be in heaven. Well, God loved his son. and He gave you to Him for His glory. What a blessed gift of grace.

The marriage of the Lamb is come. And His wife hath made herself ready. Now what does that mean? His wife hath made herself ready. Now here it doesn't say she was made ready, although she was, but it says she made herself ready. Turn a couple of pages back to Revelation chapter 16. Verse 15. Behold, I come as a thief.

Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame Now what is it to make yourself ready? Now I realize that this is God's work of grace in you and me Don't misunderstand me But you make yourself ready when you make sure the only garment you have on is the wedding garment the righteousness and merits of Jesus Christ, you wouldn't stand before God in any other way.

Do you remember that parable of Matthew chapter 22 where the king comes in at the marriage feast and there's somebody there without a wedding garment? Now when you went to a wedding, the garment was supplied. You came in, put the garment on and go in. This man somehow didn't deem that necessary. He went in without the wedding garment.

The only wedding garment is the righteousness and merits of Jesus Christ alone as my only covering before God. Now, what is it to make yourself ready? You're not going to be like that fellow who didn't have the wedding garment on. Remember what the king said, bind him hand and foot and cast him into outer darkness because he didn't have the wedding garment on? There's one wedding garment. Faith in Christ is getting yourself ready.

You look to him only. You know, I love to say this. When the Lord said, follow me. He didn't that didn't mean imitate me. Now I want to imitate him. Don't get me wrong. I want to imitate him. That's not what it means. If you follow someone. You look at them and you look nowhere else. You don't look down at your feet to see how you're doing. You don't look beside you to compare yourself to somebody else. You don't look behind you to see, do I have evidence that I've saved? Has God done something? Do I have something to prove? No!

You look to Him only. Your only wedding garment. Now, believe. It's a command. It's on good advice. It's a command, and your right to believe comes from God's command. Put on the wedding garment. No other righteousness but His. She made herself ready. Back to our text. And to her, was granted, graciously bestowed upon her, that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. I love the way she's arrayed. Doesn't say she put it on. It says she's arrayed. I love when the father said to his returning prodigal, take the best robe and put it on him. A ring on his hand, shoes on his feet.

Now look at this description of this robe, and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. Clean and white, pure and glistening, this is the fine linen, the righteousness of the saints. Notice it does not say the righteousness of Christ imputed to the saints, though it is.

Understand this about imputation. If God imputes righteousness to me, it's because that righteousness is there. That's why he imputes it to me. That's what Christ accomplished on Calvary Street. The righteousness of Jesus Christ is the righteousness of the saints. I love it in Matthew chapter three, verse 15, where he comes up to John the Baptist. He says, baptize me. And John says, I need to be baptized of thee. Comest thou to me? How awkward would you feel if the Lord Jesus Christ asked you to baptize him? Which on the badness certainly felt awkward.

And the Lord said, suffer to be so now for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. What the Lord did, he did as an us. When he fulfilled all righteousness, I fulfilled all righteousness. You know, some translations and I'm gonna talk about this a little bit more in a moment, but some translations call this the righteous deeds of the saints, and the righteous acts of the saints, and the good deeds of the saints.

You'll find that in more translations than not. Well, if by what that, if it means the righteous deeds of Christ is the righteous deeds of the saints, I'll go for it, but I can't go with This fine linen clean and white being my righteous deeds enabled by grace. I don't believe that for a second. Let me read you the amplified version.

The amplified version says the ethical conduct, the personal integrity, the moral courage, and the godly character of those who believe. All I need to give to display the complete wrongness and wickedness of that is Isaiah, speaking under the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit. He was a believer when he said this, our righteousnesses are as filthy rags and in That word filthy, minstress. Is that the fine linen clean and white? I don't think so.

Paul said in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21, for he hath made him sin for us. who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God. That's not the righteousness of the saints. They're good deeds, their ethical conduct, their moral courage.

That's the righteousness of Jesus Christ that he worked out when he walked upon this earth. That is the righteousness of the saints, and that's what Paul was talking about when he said in Philippians chapter 3 verse 9, O that I may win Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. Now, the word righteousness is in the plural. It's literally the righteousnesses of the saints. And I suppose that's where people get the righteous deeds or the righteous works.

But deeds or works are not in there. The righteousnesses, the plural, is talking about the active and the passive obedience of Jesus Christ. He actively kept God's law perfectly. And he gave himself up to die. That's his passive obedience. He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. And when he gives us his obedience, we have perfection. No sin. All I've done is good. I've never done anything wrong. That's the righteousness of the saints, the active and the passive obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, the fine linen, clean and white.

Turn with me for a moment to second Corinthians chapter five. This is a passage of scripture that used to always trouble me. I don't know what it meant. Verse 10, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. Now, I used to get pretty nervous when I read that scripture. Because there are a lot of things done in my body that are bad. You too. This describes all of us.

This verse is used to teach believers rewards in heaven. You'll be rewarded according to how well you've done here on earth. But here's the truth. If I'm in Christ, all the deeds done in my body are good deeds. And if I'm outside of the Christ, all the deeds I've done in my body are bad. And we are going to be judged according to what was done in our body. Now, this is how true. The righteousness of Christ is mine, this fine linen, clean and white, the righteousness of the saints. When I stand before God in judgment. It's all good. No sin. Back to our text in Revelation 19. Not only have we not committed sin, if we have his righteousness, we've always done that which is right.

And to her was granted graciously given that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. And he saith unto me, write, write this down. Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, these are the true sayings of God. Now there's a specific people who are blessed, the called. Blessed are they that are called.

Now, when I hear that, the thing that first comes to my mind is, am I called? Has he called me? Well, I can tell you how you can tell. The called call. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. Whosoever is one of my favorite words in the Bible. I'm in that group. Whosoever shall call. I can't work, it doesn't say work, call, you can call for help.

Here's the important word, the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord is who he is. You're calling upon him who is sovereign, him who is all powerful, him who is gracious, him who is absolutely just. You're calling upon all of his attributes to save you.

Lord, save me by an act of your sovereign will. Save me by your justice in a way that honors your justice. Save me by your grace. Save me by your kindness. You're calling on all of his attributes. Save me by your independence. Don't you love the independence of God? He has no needs. He has no need. He doesn't need you to do something for him to do something for you. He's independent.

We're calling on him for who he is. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's who's saved, that's who's called. Who is called? Those who call. If you call, I can guarantee you this, it's because he's called you. Amen. Oh, thank you so much, Todd. That's so comforting, wasn't it? If salvation's all Christ, all of God, and none of me, that's what I can trust. Oh, thank you.

We're going to have lunch served here in a few minutes. Our ladies have prepared what I know will be something very delicious. Give them in time to set up some tables, and we'll go through that door and come through the line. If you can stay over tonight, we're going to have a get-together at 6 p.m. at Trey Hermanos. There's bulletins out in the vestibule. It's got the address and so forth. We've got a room just before us, so we can meet there and have a time of fellowship.

And before we have our closing hymn, let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, how we thank you for allowing us to be here this morning and to once again hear the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And Lord, I pray that you'd be pleased to call us. It's by the preaching of your gospel that you would call us to Christ, not to religion, not to a changed conduct, but Father, call us to Christ.

Cause us to run to him. Cause us to fall at his feet and beg him for mercy. Father, we're begging for mercy. That you might be pleased to be merciful to us. That you'd wash us in the precious blood of your son. And Father, that you would enable us to see your glory, the redemptive glory of your person in what the Lord Jesus Christ has accomplished for a sinful, vile people. to make us the righteousness of God in him. Show us your glory, we pray. Father, we thank you for this food, as that you'd bless it to our bodies and give us a time of fellowship. And Father, for those who are traveling back home, give them traveling mercies. And I pray that you'd meet with us again tomorrow. Meet with us again and let us hear another word from thee. Prepare our hearts for another blessing for your word.

Father, it's in Christ's name, for his sake and his glory, we pray, amen. All right, Sean. Okay, if you would, turn in your hymnal to song number 240, 240, and stand as we sing, I am coming, Lord. 240. I hear thy welcome voice that calls me, Lord, to thee for cleansing in thy precious blood that flowed on Calvary. I am coming, Lord, coming now to Thee.

Wash me, cleanse me in the blood that flowed on Calvary. Though coming weak and vile, Thou dost my strength assure. Thou dost my vileness fully cleanse, Till spotless, all and pure. I am coming, Lord, coming now to Thee. Wash me, cleanse me in the blood that flowed on Calvary. "'Tis Jesus calls me on to perfect faith and love, to perfect hope and peace and trust, for earth and heaven above. I am coming, Lord, coming now to Thee. Wash me, cleanse me in the blood that flowed on Calvary.

The Righteousness of The Saints

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about the righteousness of the saints?

How do we know justification is true?

Why is sanctification important for Christians?

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The Righteousness of The Saints

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What does the Bible say about the righteousness of the saints?

How do we know justification is true?

Why is sanctification important for Christians?

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