The Lord Our Righteousness

Jeremiah 23. I'm going to read
the text again. I want you to follow. If you do not follow, just listen
carefully. Jeremiah 23, verse 5. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and
a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and
justice in the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved,
and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name whereby
he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. Now everybody
here who is acquainted with the Word of God and knows something about the
nature of man is aware of four things. There are four things
that we know. Those who are acquainted with
this book, those who know something about what happened in the garden,
those who know a little bit about what has passed from Adam to
his son, and from that son to his son, and down to you and
me. And those four things are, number
one, self-righteousness is the chief sin of every natural man. Everybody here, your chief sin,
my chief sin, everyone in this world, our chief sin and our
chief transgression against the Holy God is the sin of self-righteousness. Now it is true that we can always,
under any circumstances at any time, we can always find somebody
more sinful than we are. We wouldn't admit it, but like
the Pharisee in the temple, we pray thus, God, I thank you,
I'm not like other men and other women. We can always, under any
circumstance, we can always find somebody that's more sinful and
more wicked and more deserving of God's wrath and more deserving
of hell than we are, always. And then we can always justify
ourselves even in our sins. We can find a reason why we did
what we did or do what we do or think what we think. We can
always find a reason. If we cannot find a reason in
ourselves for what we think and what we do and what we are, we
can always blame somebody else. Lord, Adam said, the woman you
gave me, she made me eat of the fruit. The woman said, Lord,
if you had not made the serpent and put the serpent in the garden,
we never would have fallen. We can always justify ourselves. We can always find a good reason
why we think as we think and why we talk as we talk and why
we act as we act. Or if we can't find that reason
in ourselves, we can always blame somebody else. That's self-righteousness. And then we find no reason. There
isn't anybody here or anybody in this town who can find a reason
for God to send him or her to hell. There isn't a person of
my acquaintance that will justify God in his righteousness and
in his justice and in his condemnation. Lord, have we not preached in
your name? Lord, have we not cast out devils
in your name? Lord, have we not done many wonderful
works in your name? Our self-righteousness will not
let us say, if God sends me to hell, he'll be just. If God damns
my soul forever, he'll be righteous. If God separates me from his
presence through eternity, I'll get exactly what I deserve. That's what David said, turn
to Psalms 51. In the 51st Psalm, David said
this, we can't say that, and the reason we can't say that
is self-righteousness is our chief and damning sin. It's the
sin that permeates our whole being. It's a sin that will not
let us take our place before God as the chief of sinners,
will not let us justify God in His holiness. In Psalm 51, verse
4, listen to David, "'Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,
and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified
when thou speakest, And be clear when you judge. God, when you
speak my downfall and when you speak my condemnation, you're
just. And when you charge me and when
you judge me, you're clear, because that's exactly what I deserve.
Now something's going to have to be done in this area. Turn to Revelation chapter 19.
I want you to look at something here that I saw many, many, many
years ago. I'm not saying I experienced
it many years ago, or even that I have yet. I'm not laying claim
to that at all. But God's Word says this, that
men who really know God, men who really know God, will shout
hallelujah when God sends men to hell. Men who really know God, women
who really know God, and are on God's side in holiness and
righteousness, will praise His name when He executes His righteous
wrath on unbelievers. Now, you look at it, Revelation
19, verse 1, and after these things, I heard a great voice
of much people in heaven saying, Hallelujah, salvation and glory
and honor and glory unto the Lord our God. Not to men, to
God. Not to preachers, to God. Not
to our denominations, to God. Salvation and glory and honor
and power unto God. For true and righteous are His
what? We're not talking about his mercy
here. We're not talking about his grace
through Christ. We're not talking about his redemptive
love. We're not talking about his mercy
to the ungodly. We're talking about his judgments.
Depart from me, I never knew you. Bind him hand and foot and
cast him into the lake of fire. There shall be weeping and gnashing
of teeth. True and righteous are his judgments. For he hath judged the great
whore," that's the religious system, that has profaned his
name, that has blasphemed his glory, that has taken away his
glory and given it to men. He has judged the great whore
which did corrupt the earth with her fornications, and he hath
avenged the blood of his servants at her hands. It's religious
people that have martyred believers. It's religious people that nailed
Christ to the cross, that beheaded the Apostle Paul, that crucified
Peter upside down, that exiled John to the Isle of Patmos. It's
religious people that hate the gospel of God's grace, and God
is going to judge this religious system, and God is going to condemn
this religious system, and God is going to avenge the blood
of every martyr at the hands of this religious generation.
Now listen, and again they say, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And her smoke rose up forever. The burnings in hell rose up
forever. And these people of God in heaven
said, Hallelujah! True and righteous are His judgments. Now the reason we haven't been
enabled to move over on God's side, we're on God's side when
God's showing love. We're on God's side when God's
showing grace and mercy. But when God speaks in condemnation,
when the cup of His indignation is full and running over, and
God pours out His wrath justly so and righteously so upon responsible
and accountable rebels, we're not on God's side. We're on the
side of the rebel, and that shows our self-righteousness, true
grace, justifies God in his condemnation. True grace says, who am I that
you should show such mercy to such a dead dog? True grace says,
Lord, when you condemn me, you're just, and when you damn me, you're
clear, and when you send me into hell, you're righteous. Hallelujah! Hallelujah. And the smoke of
her torment rose up forever and forever. And the people of God
said, Hallelujah. Everything God does is right.
God doesn't do it because it's right. It's right because He
does it. Now you think about that a little
while. God doesn't do anything because
it's right. It's right because God does it.
God is right. God is holy. God is true. God is wisdom. God is love. God is justice. God is holiness. We've got our conceptions of
what is right, what God ought to do. I don't think God ought
to do that. Because we're not right, we're
self-righteous. God is righteous. That's the
difference. And self-righteousness is our
chief sin, it's our damning sin. It's the sin that plagues every
heart. Now secondly, what's this? Self-righteousness
is the last idol, the last idol that'll come down, that'll be
destroyed in the human heart. It's the last one. The Apostle Peter After three
years, three-and-a-half years with the Master, after three-and-a-half
close, abiding, personal, intimate years at the feet of Christ,
was still filled with self-righteousness and boasted about what he'd do.
Turn to Matthew 23, 26. Matthew 26. Now I want you to
listen to this man. Matthew 26, verse 33. Here is
Peter, the spokesman for the apostles. Here is Peter, the
leader of the apostles. Here is Peter, who said, Thou
art the Christ, the Son of the living God, and heard the Master
say, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona. Flesh and blood didn't
reveal that to you, but my Father which is in heaven. This is Peter. who replied to the Master's question,
Will you go away? Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou
hast the words of eternal life. Here he is, after three and a
half years with the Master. Before our Lord went to Calvary,
the Lord Jesus told the disciples, Let all be offended because of
him. All of you are going to be offended.
And Peter said, listen, Matthew 26, 33, Peter answered and said,
Though all men shall be offended because of thee. I never will
be offended. I never will. And then the Master
said to him in verse 34, Peter, Verily I say unto you, this God
speaking, this night before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me
three times. Now you'd think he'd fall on
his face here and say, Grant that it be not so. Gear me up. Give me help. Give me strength.
Don't let me deny you. Christ said, Peter, you're going
to deny me three times before the cock crows. And Peter said,
listen, verse 35, Though I die with you, I will not deny you. Though I die with you. Those strong words, aren't they?
But self-righteousness is the last idol that will be destroyed
in the human heart. It takes a long time. It's like
progressive sanctification. Even most believers have not
had this monster slain yet. It's a progressive work. Even
over after Pentecost. even over after the healing of
the man at the gate beautiful, even over after all of the formation
of churches. Paul came down to Galatia. Turn
to Galatians 2, verse 11. Let me show you something here.
Paul came down here to Antioch, and this is what he said about
Peter in Galatians 2, 11. But when Peter was come to Antioch,
I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
What had this man done now? Well, before that, certain Jews
came down from James. He ate with the Gentiles. But
when these fellows came down from Jerusalem, these Jews, he
withdrew himself and separated himself, fearing them which were
of the circumcision. That old pride of being a Jew,
being of the circumcision, being of the Lord's people, being of
the Lord's nation, led Peter away from the Gentiles over here
to the Jews. And Paul came down here and said,
Peter, you're wrong in this. Your pride and your self-righteousness
is showing, Peter. The apostle Paul had this progressive
work of slaying the dragon of self-righteousness, slaying the
monster of self-righteousness. He said, I'm not worthy to be
an apostle. And then he declared, I'm less
than the least of the saints. And then, I'm the chief of sinners. I want you to turn to the book
of 2 Samuel chapter 6. 2 Samuel 6, and let me show you
a beautiful thing here, a beautiful picture. Here was a man who knew
God in his heart. Here was a man with all of his
infirmities and failures. I believe in his heart God had
slain the monster of self-righteousness. I believe he knew more about
God than any man who lived before him or after him. It says here in 2 Samuel 6, verse
15, David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of
the Lord, with shouting, with the sound of the trumpet. And
as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal, the Saul's daughter,
looked through a window, and she saw her husband, King David,
leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in
her heart. Now here was the custom. When
the ark was brought into the city, there was a servant or
a slave. The ark was carried by the priest,
it was preceded by the Levites and all of the trumpets and so
forth. But out yonder in front of the
whole procession was a slave who danced down the street before
the ark, naked. Probably a loincloth, but practically
naked. Here is King David. Saul was
dead, David was the new king, the king of glory, the king of
power. Israel had defeated her enemies.
David had the whole kingdom in his hands. He was the toast of
the whole world. He was respected and honored
and feared. He was a man of great renown.
He was the spiritual leader. He was God's spokesman. He was
the man that stood between the people and God. He was the greatest
man on the face of the earth at this time. And when that ark
came through the gates, with the Levites preceding it and
the trumpeters and so forth, his wife Michelle looked out
the window, and instead of a servant, instead of a slave dancing down
the street in front of the ark of God, was David is the king
out there in front of that artist. And she despised him. She was
aristocratic, you know. She was highfalutin. She was
the queen. He was the king. People were
supposed to adore, bow before, honor, respect them. Look at her husband. Reminds
me of one of whom he's a type, down on his knees washing the
disciples' feet. That's the place of a slave.
Back in the days of Christ, people walked in sandals out in the
dust, and when they came to the door, there was a slave, a servant,
with a towel wrapped around his waist, and nothing else on but
that towel. He'd kneel down before these
people who came through the door, and they'd stick their dirty,
dusty, tired, weary feet up in his face, and he'd wash them,
and then dry them with that towel, probably powder them. And my
Lord did that. And here was King David out there.
And so, verse 20, look at it. Then David returned to bless
his household after this was all over. He came home. Here's
the king. And Michelle, the daughter of
Saul, came out to meet him. Listen to the sarcasm. Listen
to the self-righteousness dripped from these words. Oh, how glorious
was the king of Israel today. who uncovered himself today in
the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain
fellows shamelessly, openly uncovereth himself. And David said, Michael,
let me tell you something. It was before the Lord which
chose me before your father and before all his house to appoint
me ruler. over the people of the Lord,
over Israel. Therefore will I play, and will
I dance, and will I strip myself, and will I humble myself, and
will I take the place of a slave before the Lord? And I'll yet
be," watch it now, we'd better learn this, We'd better learn
this, this old idol of self-righteousness and human glory and respect and
honor and renown. If God doesn't kill it now, he'll
kill it in hell gradually, eternally. And I will yet be more vile than
this, and I'll be base in my own sight. And I'll tell you
something, Michelle, you've never learned. and of the handmaidens,
or maidservants, which thou hast spoken." You said these maidservants
despised me because I did what I did. But I'm telling you this,
of these same maidservants, well, of them shall I be had in honor. That's right. You've got to demand your respect
by your position. I gain mine by humility." That's
what he's saying to her. Now look at the next verse. Therefore
Michelle, the daughter of Saul, had no child until her death. Self-righteousness is chief sin
of every human being. It lives in the heart, it thrives
in the heart, it grows in the heart, it fills the heart, And
it's the last idol, the last idol. God can indoctrinate us. God Almighty can reform us. He can give us a way to walk
and words to say. But how difficult it is to tear
down human glory and human righteousness from off that throne of the human
heart. It just does not want to die.
And I'll show you this, the third thing that everybody who knows
anything about this Bible knows, the third thing. Self-righteousness
is the sin most condemned by the Lord Jesus Christ. He hated
it, he condemned it, he turned all the canons of his power against
it. Turn to Matthew 23. In the 23rd
chapter of Matthew, human glory, human righteousness, human ability,
Christ despised it. Now when our Lord dealt with
people like the woman at the well, here was a woman living
in sin, living in adultery, married five times, was living with a
man who was not her husband, Our Lord spoke to her compassionately
and graciously and kindly and dealt with her about her sins
and warned her about her sins and told her to go and sin no
more. Our Lord met Zacchaeus. He was
a man who was a traitor to his own people. He was a tax collector. Instead of collecting the taxes
that were due, he would add on four or five times as many taxes
and put it in his own pocket Here was Mary Magdalene, out
of whom the Lord cast seven devils. Here were the publicans. Here
was the harlot who bathed his feet with tears and dried them
with the hair of her head, to whom he spoke compassionately
and kindly and mercifully, Thy sins be forgiven thee. But, boy,
to these religious, moral, pious hypocrites, in Matthew 23 you
listen to our And my friend, don't be one of them. Don't be
one of them. May God slay this monster of
self-righteousness in your heart. Don't be one of them. Christ
said, Woe unto you scribes, you Pharisees, you hypocrites. You may clean the outside of
the cup and of the platter, but within you're full of extortion
and excess. O blind Pharisee, cleanse first
that which is within the cup and the platter, that the outside
of them may be clean. Also, woe unto you, scribes,
Pharisees! Hypocrites, you are like whited
tombstones, which appear, which indeed appear beautiful outward,
but are within full of dead men's bones. Even so, you also outwardly
appear righteous unto men. You're not righteous, you're
peer-righteous. You profess righteousness, but
within you're full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Look at verse 33. You serpents, you snakes, you
generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Our Lord never talked that way
to Zacchaeus. He never talked that way to the
woman at the well. He never talked that way to the
publicans and sinners. He talked that way to this religious
veneer, this crowd with the outward appearance, this crowd whose
hearts were rotten and whose outward flesh appeared righteous
to men. He called them serpents. He called
them a generation of vipers, poison serpents. How can you
escape the damnation of hell? The fourth thing that every person
knows, who knows anything about this Bible, anything about God,
anything about himself, he knows that he's got an enemy. And that
enemy is himself. It's his righteous self. It's
not his flesh, it's his righteous self, his cheap sin, his cheap
enemy. Old John Owen had to battle this
monster till his deathbed. He received so much acclaim and
renown from men, he fought it till his deathbed. It's the last
idol that's destroyed in the human heart. It'll keep raising
up. It'll raise up in prayer. It'll
raise up in church. It'll raise up in worship. It'll
raise up in the pastoral office or any church office. It'll rear
up its head. I'm a little better. I'm a little
smarter. I'm a little holier. I'm a little
better than you are. And God has to keep on killing
it, he has to keep on stomping it, because we can't learn that
lesson David learned, who was the highest in the world, made
himself the lowest. We can't learn that lesson which
the Master tried to teach us, if I, the Master, have washed
your feet. You ought also wash one another's
feet. No, we got to go get us a bowl
of water and a towel and try to act like we don't have good
sense and get down and wash somebody's feet. That's not what he's talking
about. I will be, he said, yet more
vile. I will be yet more base. You haven't seen anything yet,
Michelle. Before God Almighty, I'm nothing. And everybody that knows anything
about God, when they see my attitude, I'll get more respect from them. Or I may be in your eyes despised
because you are a self-righteous religious hypocrite, but not
in the eyes of those who know God. Self-righteousness is the
sin our Lord turned the canons of heaven against. The only people
in this Bible that our Lord calls snakes and vipers and serpents
were church members, preachers, leaders of religion, wrapped
in their garments of show. And then the fourth thing that
everybody who knows God knows is this, the righteousness for
sinners is Christ Jesus, the Lord, and that brings me to our
text in Jeremiah 23. You turn over there with me just
a minute and let me briefly give you this. First of all, it says,
and his name shall be called, verse 6, the last part, his name
shall be called, the Lord our righteousness. I don't have any. I don't have any. He's my righteousness. Who is
it talking about? Who is the Lord here spoken of?
Who is this Righteous, capital B-R-A-N-C-H, Righteous Branch? Who is this descendant of David? It's the Lord Jesus Christ. And
the scripture here says he is the Lord. And if you've got a
King James Bible, you've probably got a figure by that word thee,
a two or an A or a B or something, and out to the side it says in
the Hebrew, it's Jehovah. Jehovah Sidkenu. The Lord is
our righteousness. Who is our righteousness? The
Lord. And this one is Jesus Christ.
He's the descendant of David. He's the branch of Judah. He's
Jehovah! Jehovah. He's called Jehovah
by John. In John 1, 1, in the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was Jehovah, God! And the Word was
made flesh and dwelt among us. He's called Jehovah by Thomas.
In John 20, 28, Thomas says, My Lord, Jehovah, my God! That's who Jesus Christ is. He's
called Jehovah God by the Father who said in Hebrews 1.8, Thy
throne, O Jehovah, is forever. He said, I was with the Father
before creation. Glorify me with the glory which
I had with thee before the world was. He's the creator of all
things. All things were made by him,
for him. If Jesus Christ is a mere man
and nothing more, then he's an arm of flesh. And the scripture
says, Cursed is he that trusteth an arm of flesh. And we're no
better than heathen idolaters. No better than the heathen idolater
who falls before his stone God and worships it. We're no better.
For if Jesus Christ is a mere man and nothing more, if he's
nothing more than a human being, if he's not God, we're worshiping
the creature. and not the Creator. But who
is this? Who is this? The Lord, our righteousness. It's Jehovah. It's the descendant
of David. It's the righteous branch. Jehovah
God. How is he my righteousness? I
want to give this to you briefly, but if you get this, if you can
get a hold of this, you'll understand the gospel. How is He my righteousness? There are three words we have
to use. The first word is representation. The second word is obedience. And the third word is imputation. That's not hard. The first word
is representation. He is my righteousness, first
of all, by representation. The word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. God sent His Son. made of a woman,
made under the law. He came down here in the likeness
of sinful flesh. Christ became a man. He became
the representative of every believer. He took our nature. He took our
flesh. He took all of our temptations.
He was a human being. He thirsted. He wearied. He grew
tired. He got dirty. He sweated. He bled. He wept. He laughed. He was a human being. He was God in the flesh. He was
the God-man. He was our representative. All
right. Second word, obedience. After man fell, he was as responsible
to praise God as he was before he fell. After man fell, he was
as responsible to worship God as he ever was before he fell.
After man fell, he was responsible to obey God. Adam's fall lessened
his ability, but not his responsibility. After man fell, he was as responsible
to walk with God as he was before he fell. But he couldn't do it because
of his inability, because of his fall. After man fell in the
garden, the law of God was still binding. Every requirement, every
jot, every tittle was still laid upon man to praise God, to worship
God, to love God, to walk with God, but he couldn't do it. Look
at him over there behind the bushes, hiding, naked, afraid,
trying to clothe himself with a fig leaf apron. Look at him,
look at that creature. God says, where are you, Adam?
Come you're not over here walking with me, talking with me, fellowshipping
with me, living in my presence. I'm naked. I'm naked. So Jesus Christ came
down here as a man, and what Adam was responsible to do and
couldn't do, what Adam was accountable to do and couldn't do, he did. By one man's disobedience we
became fallen creatures. By another man, Christ's obedience,
we became righteous. By one man's disobedience, we
fell. By the righteous obedience of
another, we became holy. Christ said, I didn't come to
destroy the law, I came to fulfill it. Jesus Christ obeyed the law
actively, actively obeyed it, and passively obeyed it. He who knew no sin was made sin
for us. He was wounded for our transgression,
bruised for our iniquities, nailed on the cross to satisfy God's
justice. Now there's man over there, a
fallen creature, responsible, accountable, every demand of
God still upon him, but he can't fulfill it. He can't do it. He's
separated from God. A man comes. An infinite man,
a perfect man, God's man, came down here and actively, not just
passively, most preachers when they preach the work of Christ
just preach His passive work. He died on the cross, He opened
not His mouth, He didn't resist, He voluntarily died, He gave
His life. That's His passive obedience.
And that satisfies justice, that lets the whip of God fall on
His back. By his stripes we're healed.
That lets the judgment of God and the wrath of God fall upon
him and send him to hell for us without him replying, protesting. But his active obedience is when
he came down here as a man, perfect man, and he met the law which
said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
he fulfilled it. And he met the law which said,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, and he fulfilled
it. He met the law of God that said, Every thought of foolishness
is sin, and he fulfilled it. He met the law of God that said,
Whatsoever is not of faith is sin, and he obeyed it. The Heavenly
Father said, In him I am well pleased. And even his enemy said,
We find no fault in him. The perfect man. As my representative,
my representative, he obeyed the law and he obeyed God's wrath. Actively he obeyed every law
of God for thirty-three and a half years. Passively he satisfied
God's justice. He, without a word, without a
murmur, he took all the judgment and wrath that infinite holiness
could throw on him. And when he Completed, he said,
it's finished. It's finished. All right, imputation. Now turn to Romans 3. This is
important. It becomes mine. How is Christ
my righteousness? Representation. Obedience. But watch it now. Imputation. Charged to my account. Charged
to my account. All right, Romans 3, 19. Now
we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them
who are unto the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world become guilty. You been there yet? God stop
my mouth. Guilty. You been there? Got to
be there. That's what I was talking about
in the introduction. And therefore by the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in his sight. By the law is the
knowledge of sin. But now, oh praise God, now the
righteousness of God is without the law. We get one that will
have to be without the law because we can't obey the law. It's manifested,
it's revealed, being witnessed by the Lord and the prophets.
Where is it? What is it? It's the righteousness of God
which is by faith, by faith, of Jesus Christ and it's unto
all and upon all them That belief, there's no difference. For all
is sin, and comes shore of the glory of God. It's yours by faith. It's yours by faith. Look at
Romans 4. Romans 4, verse 3. What sayeth
the Scriptures? Abraham believed God. It was counted to him for righteousness. He believed God. That's how he
got it. That's how it became his. Your works will only add
to your condemnation. After Adam fell, he and Eve went
over and got some big fig leaves and started sewing them together
so they could cover their nakedness. That's what we're doing. We're
trying to appease God. We're trying to make ourselves,
as Don said in his prayer, acceptable before God outside of Christ.
It can't be done. It will add to your condemnation.
You've got to be in Him, and we're in Him by faith. That's
where it is. It's in Christ. How do I get
it? Believe on Him. Receive Him.
Look at Romans 5.1, "...therefore being justified by faith, we
have peace with God." Look at Romans 8.1, "...there is therefore
now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus." That's
where it is. All right, watch it now. Three
words. Representation. Obedience. Imputation. Go back to Adam. By one man's disobedience we
became sin. Adam represented us. He was our
representative. Just two men, the first Adam
and the second Adam. The Bible talks about in Adam
all die and Christ all made alive. Just two men, Adam, two Adams,
the first Adam and the second Adam. The first Adam is of the
earth, earthly. The second Adam is the Lord from
heaven. You're in one or the other right now. I hope you've
been in both. The first Adam represented us,
he disobeyed, and it was charged to our account. The second Adam
represented us, and he didn't disobey, he obeyed, and thank
God in him it's charged to my account. All right, the last
question I close. Can you say right now, the Lord,
my righteous Look at that big capital letter there in Jeremiah
23, the Lord our righteousness. Can you say that? Old, naked,
depraved, fallen, wretched, guilty, sinner, son of Adam, deserving
of wrath, deserving of judgment, deserving of hell. Can you say,
in my flesh dwelleth no good thing? I'm the chief of sinners,
but the Lord is my Righteousness. You want to talk about your religion
a little bit, you get over there in Paul's writings in Philippians
3. Paul said, I was educated at
the feet of Gamaliel. I was circumcised the eighth
day of the stock of Israel. I was of the tribe, the favorite
tribe of Benjamin. I was a Hebrew of Hebrews as
touching the law. I was a Pharisee. concerning
religious zeal, I persecuted the truth, touching the righteousness
which is of the law, I was blameless. But I count all of these things
but loss, yea, I count them but dumb, all of these things, that
I may win Christ and be found in Him. Every sermon I ever preached,
every church I ever founded, every good deed I ever did, every
offering I ever gave, every mile I ever walked, every door I ever
knocked on, every witness I ever gave, every book I ever read,
everything I ever know, have ever known, I count it but done,
that I may win Christ, be found in Him, not having my own righteousness,
but the righteousness of God. which is Christ the Lord. He's
my righteousness. Our Father, bless the Word. How
grateful we are for Thy Word. How grateful we are. If we were
left to ourselves, what wretched, self-righteous, holier-than-thou,
damnable creatures we'd be. hypocrites, scribes and Pharisees,
a generation of snakes, unable to escape the damnation of hell,
outwardly appearing beautiful unto men, but inside full of
dead men's bones. But we have a righteousness,
a holiness, with which thou art pleased. We have a holiness which
no one can let

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