Self-righteousness and the gospel

The real issue of righteousness

Job 9:2 ESV

“Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?

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True righteousness is not the result of human effort

Even though God’s law tells people what God requires, human beings cannot keep it because of the weakness of their sinful human natures.

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Self-righteousness is a contradiction in terms

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God calls people from their pretended self-righteousness

Isaiah 2:22 ESV

Stop regarding man in whose nostrils is breath, for of what account is he?

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True righteouness

It comes from God

Romans 10:3 ESV

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

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It is grounded in Jesus Christ

Acts 13:39 ESV

and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

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It comes about by faith

Romans 5:1 ESV

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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It is received in humility

Luke 18:13–14 ESV

But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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