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Day 10 – Our Righteousness

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Psalms 106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

Can any one of us say that we are able to keep all of God’s commandments? Can any one of us say that we do righteousness at all times? Oh how discouraging today’s verse is for the one who is trying to keep the commandments!

Isaiah 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Isaiah points out that even the best good thing we do is like a filthy rag, my friend! There isn’t anything that we can do that will add even one atom-sized portion toward our salvation! Think about it!

Not one of us can say that we are even close to getting to Heaven on our own. The Bible makes that clear in the following verses:

Psalms 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psalms 53:3 Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Romans 3:12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

There’s a them going on in those four verses: “No, NOT ONE!” There is not one person who can get to Heaven on his/her own merit. No amount of good deeds, no amount of money, no amount of Bible reading or church attendance can tip the scales from Hell to Heaven, friend.

Jesus left His royal throne in order to pay a debt He did not owe! His love for you and I is beyond comprehension. We cannot know perfect love like this because we are not God. Only God can love to this degree and only God can pay the sin debt that we owe! We are so undeserving! Because of God’s love for us, He sent His only Son to take the punishment for our sins – through His death, His blood, we receive salvation! We receive freedom from the bondage of that sin!

Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Ephesians 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Colossians 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

Jesus Paid It All
Elvina M. Hall

I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Refrain:
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim;
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

And now complete in Him,
My robe, His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest.

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down,
All down at Jesus’ feet.

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