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God makes it clear throughout His word that His standard for man is absolute righteousness. An older form of the word was “rightwiseness.” Perfect righteousness means that everything that is done is done rightly.
When we look at what God says about righteousness we could become discouraged – “All of our righteousnesses are but filthy rags…there is none righteous, no not one.” It is clear that no man has any hope in his own righteousness, or lack of it.
Earlier Jeremiah said that God is an awesome God. Praise God that He is awesome. In His “awesomeness” He chose to solve the conundrum. Because man has no hope of righteousness He provided One to be our righteousness – the Branch of David. When Messiah Jesus came He was our righteousness, His righteousness took the place of my righteousness. The Lord is my only righteousness. When I received His righteousness by faith my record was clear, God does not see my righteousness, He sees the Lord as my righteousness!
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