In one of my conversations with Anthony Buzzard the word “righteousness” was mentioned and Anthony made the following comment, “righteousness is a dreary word”, now the word dreary used by Anthony means something dull, bleak or depressing which makes you feel sad or uninspired. When Anthony said this I instantly realized that he did not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ because the gospel message heavily depends upon the believer being imputed with GODS righteousness, the righteousness of GOD by faith.
Romans 4:20-24 “Abraham did not waver at the promise of GOD through unbelief but was strengthened in faith giving glory to GOD and being fully convinced that what GOD had promised GOD was also able to perform. And therefore it was accounted (imputed) to Abraham for righteousness. Now it was not written for Abrahams sake alone that righteousness was imputed to him but for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in GOD who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.”
Romans 3:21 “But now THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD apart from the law is revealed being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of GOD through faith in Jesus Christ..”
Anthony did not know the difference between righteousness UNDER THE LAW and the IMPUTED RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD BY FAITH. Under the law the righteousness was of the person who kept the law and as Isaiah says,
Isaiah 64:6 “But we are all like an unclean thing and ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE LIKE FILTHY RAGS, we all fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away.”
Both Paul and Isaiah say that righteousness under the law was worthless because it wasn’t the righteousness of GOD. GOD imputes righteousness or credits the saints with a quality they do not have naturally with GODS own righteousness because they have faith to believe GOD and Christ.
Romans 5:17 “For if by one man’s offense death reigned through that one, much more then those who receive abundance of grace and THE GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.”
GOD RIGHTEOUSNESS is a gift to the person who has faith in GOD just as Abraham had faith in GOD. To not understand this is to be ignorant of the message of the gospel because scripture says,
1 Corinthians 6:9 “Do you not know the unrighteous SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD.”
To be in GODS kingdom, to have salvation, we must have GODS imputed gift of righteousness. Without GODS imputed gift of righteousness no one will inherit the kingdom of GOD. This is a very serious thing to not understand this. Anthony Buzzard and millions of other people don’t understand this. Have you been taught this truth in the church you attend ?
The Ten Commandments do not impute the righteousness of GOD to the one under the Ten Commandments.
Galatians 2:21 For if righteousness came by the law, the Ten Commandments, then CHRIST DIED FOR NOTHING.”
What righteousness anyone has must come as a gift from GOD imputing HIS own righteousness to you because you believe GOD. Do you see and understand this, well if you do you know much more than Anthony Buzzard and millions of other people.
Today in this world people are caught between two opinions; keeping the Ten Commandments to please GOD or having faith to believe the gospel that GOD preached through HIS son that all the works of Ten Commandments keeping will not produce the righteousness of GOD but rather GOD will impute, give as a free gift, HIS own righteousness to the one who will believe the new covenant gospel and PASSOVER from filthy rags to gold, silver and precious stones. The Ten Commandments are self righteousness but the gospel is the message of GODS own righteousness imputed to you because you believe.
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