O have I got GOOD NEWS for you: The Eternal Essential your Soul desperately needs RIGHT NOW, in this life, and out in Eternity is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD found only in THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US.
Where is the boasting of sinful human nature then? It is excluded by the Law of Faith in JESUS CHRIST Who is THE END of the Law for RIGHTEOUSNESS to every sinner that believeth. The LORD JESUS CHRIST Himself has brought in everlasting Righteousness: for He offered up Himself without spot as an ATONEMENT, and now God the Father is Just, and the Justifier of the sinner that believes in Jesus. God is the righteous Judge, and the infinite loving Father to all sinners, Who laid down His own life through JESUS Who suffered for our sins.
The natural man that is dead in his sins is unconscious of his own sinfulness; grossly ignorant of God's Holy nature; unaware of the Righteousness which God requires (i.e., absolute perfection); oblivious to the perfect Righteousness which Christ has prepared long ago; a stranger to the Person who is the Righteousness of God (Christ Jesus Himself); unheeding to the Spirit of God's drawing and persuading; and terribly ignorant of how to obtain the Free Gift of the Righteousness of God. Will your Soul be prepared to enter Eternity and face your Holy Creator? The only preparation for your Soul is to be washed Clean and MADE NIGH through Faith in JESUS' PRECIOUS BLOOD, and then be MADE RIGHTEOUS by being covered in the spotless Robe of Christ's PURE RIGHTEOUSNESS. The Spirit of God must do all this for you; Salvation is not your working in any way. You must only Enter Freely at the Poor Door. As long as you refuse to receive Christ freely and submit to His Righteousness, your Soul is in a perilous situation as each day goes by.
Human nature's vain glorious attempts to set up its own righteousness is a doom loop, and only the Holy Spirit can snap you out of your self-righteous spell. Human nature is madly determined to prop up a righteousness of its own. With untiring diligence, human nature is trying to spin its own covering, just like Adam did in the garden of Eden. Human nature works tirelessly to build a shaky shelter with a shifty foundation, very poor materials, and bad mortar, and at the last, the rickety shelter of self-righteousness tumbles down upon the Soul. If you try to add one stick or stone from yourself to the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
The very best thing to do with your own righteousness is to get rid of it forever, for it will damn your soul for sure. You need the absolutely flawless Righteousness of Christ; come to Christ Jesus now, and take the Righteousness of God from Him freely. Only be a sinner with nothing, and receive Everything from Christ. You could never deserve to have your sins forgiveness; God's rich mercy can never be earned by your deadly efforts. If you reject Christ's free terms of Salvation, His precious Salvation can never be yours.
Self-righteousness is deeply entrenched in the heart of man, with persevering attempts, going to desperate lengths to accomplish this deadly foolish hope. But Christ Jesus has already wrought out a Perfect Divine Everlasting Righteousness in every respect. Self-justification and self-salvation is crazy nonsense. Any thoughts, works, or feelings that come from you are sinful and vain, so NEVER trust them.
The Salvation of your Soul lies absolutely outside of yourself. Never rest in your own righteousness for this is a wretched dangerous ease. Never trust yourself at all; Only Look unto JESUS. If your Hope and Faith is not entirely fixed on what JESUS did for sinners, you are lost right now. You must SUBMIT to Christ, and His Righteousness; Yield to Salvation by Free Grace and Bleeding Love. You must GIVEN Righteousness and Rest from Christ Jesus Himself: You have nowhere else to go but to HIM. Self-righteous religion is a deep ditch, and once your Soul falls there, it is impossible to pull you out: Only the Holy Spirit can rescue you from the deep ditch of religion. Be wise: Flee to Christ for Refuge, Righteousness and Rest; Forsake your mephitic self-righteousness; Rest quietly and securely in JESUS' BLOOD and RIGHTEOUSNESS; Ye Must be Born Again of the Spirit of Christ.
You are Lost, because of your sins against God. One lascivious look is the root of adultery; indecent thoughts and desires are the root of fornication; envy, hate and ill-will are the root of murder; and murder is inward hate ripened into the deed. Since you have no righteousness whatsoever, God in His tender mercy has prepared and wrought out the perfect divine RIGHTEOUSNESS, by which He can now freely justify the ungodly, because JESUS was absolutely Pure and Holy in thought, word and deed, and then as a Substitute, JESUS bore your sins in His own body on the tree, and suffered the punishment your sins justly deserved. God the Father laid the iniquity of us all upon His only begotten Son, making JESUS to be SIN for us, even Jesus Who knew no sin; and by the transference of Sin, the sinner who believes in Christ Jesus is made to be the Righteousness of God in Christ. Christ was made to be SIN for us, so that sinners might by MADE RIGHTEOUS in CHRIST. God manifest in the flesh, the Holy Son of God Himself, bled and died on your behalf.
You must have Christ's Perfect Righteousness, not your own righteousness, in order to escape the terrors of the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God without any alarm. The only way of Salvation is by the Blood and Righteousness of Jesus Christ, and the attempts of modern thought are sheer delusion. Has any of your righteousness been wrought out by yourself, or has the absolute perfect RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST been freely imputed to your guilty Soul by the power of the Spirit of Christ? Your Soul can be eternally safe in the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST today, for His Righteousness is Holy and without spot or blemish. Now understand: The Eternal Essential your Soul desperately needs RIGHT NOW in this life, and out in Eternity is the RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD found only in THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, EMMANUEL, GOD WITH US.
