God only knows ONE LEVEL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.... HIS OWN...
well, this is true.
are you intending to match that?
by what means?
There is only ONE LEVEL of holiness...GOD'S
okay.
so how will you be as Holy as God, Cobus?
Romans 4
1What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?2For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.3For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”4Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.5But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness,6just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works:
7“BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN,
AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
8“BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.”
9Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, “FAITH WAS CREDITED TO ABRAHAM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”10How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised;11and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,12and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.
13For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.14For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;15for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.
16For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,17(as it is written, “A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS HAVE I MADE YOU”) in the presence of Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.18In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE.”19Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;20yet, with respect to the promise of God, he did not waver in unbelief but grew strong in faith, giving glory to God,21and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.22Therefore IT WAS ALSO CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.23Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,24but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,25He who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised because of our justification.
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Cobus, when someone is born from above, they are
declared righteous (justified) by God.
He justifies (declares as a Judge) the ungodly, because He is God, and He can be
BOTH JUST (perfectly righteous in His Judgments, never diminishing His Law, or His Holiness or Perfection)
AND the JUSTIFIER (full aquittal, not guilty, pardoned, made righteous) of the one who believes (has faith) in.........WHAT?
on what ground does He justify (declare righteous) the guilty?
because He worked a work in them that made them as Holy and Righteous as he is literally?
not even you believe this, Cobus, as this would mean you believe you will be A God, with The God.
or is it that He sent Jesus to live Perfectly under the Law, then to die as a the perfect sacrifice for OUR sins, SO THAT -
GOD, who requires payment for sin (the wages of sin is death) - (He made Him Who knew NO SIN to be sin for us, SO THAT).....WHAT?
2 Corinthians 5:21
21He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf,
so that we might become
the righteousness of God in Him.
what is:
the righteousness of God in Him?
Romans 1:17
For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."
so HOW does God JUSTIFY THE UNGODLY?
Romans 3:25
Justified by Faith
24being justified
as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; 25whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; 26for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time,
so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
no Christian who has experienced the new birth will say they do not now have a desire (also a gift - it goes with PISTIS, THE GIFT) to do what is right in God's eyes.
they do....He works that in us.
but you can never, ever take away from the Full and Finished Work of Jesus and substitute your own righteousness, even after the new birth Cobus.
God doesn't KILL YOU and evict you from your body and move in Himself.
why would He do THAT?
He could have just created a billion copies of Himself if that was His purpose.
that's not His purpose.
what is His purpose?
Ephesians 1:6
5He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6
to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.
