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> ><B>THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN CHRIST >Pastor J. C. O’Hair > >What does an unrighteous sinner have to do to be ‘in >Christ’ and receive the righteousness of God? Receive >Christ and God’s righteousness and eternal life by >faith. > >Salvation, righteousness, and eternal life are all the >gifts of God; “not of works, lest any man should >boast.” (Ephesians 2:8 and 9 and Romans 6:23 and >Romans 5:17 to 21). Only the ‘righteousness of God’ >will admit a human being into heaven. Any and every >human being may have the ‘righteousness of God’, by >grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His >perfect work of redemption. > >Let us prayerfully and seriously consider Romans 4:4 >and 5, and then Romans 3:24 to 28 and Ephesians 1:6 >and 7: “Now to him that worketh is the reward not >reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that >worketh not, but believeth in Him that justifieth the >ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” > >“Being justified freely (with. out a cause) by God’s >grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, >Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through >faith in His blood, to declare God’s righteousness for >the remission of sins that are past . . . that God >might be just and the ‘JUSTIFIER’ of him which >believeth in Jesus.” . . . “Therefore, we conclude >that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of >the law.” > >“To the praise of the glory of God’s grace, wherein He >hath ‘GRACED’ us in the ‘BELOVED’, in Whom we have >redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, >according to the riches of God’s grace.” >As we consider and prayerfully analyze these wonderful >statements, let us consider with them Romans 5:17: >“For if by one man’s sin death reigned by one, ‘much >more’ they which receive ‘abundance of grace’ and ‘the >gift of righteousness’ shall reign in life by one >Jesus Christ.” > >In these ‘grace’ and ‘justification’ (‘righteousness’) >Scriptures, which we have quoted, the Holy Spirit has >presented the most wonderful truth that has ever been >proclaimed to condemned, ruined, lost sinners, all of >whom are absolutely helpless and hopeless without >justification by grace through faith in God’s beloved >Son and His perfect redemptive work.

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