Someone said: “Righteousness is God’s Law.” Is this true?
It is true that Elohim’s Law expresses His righteousness but does righteousness flow from the Law, is righteousness attained through the Law or by faith (Romans 7:12)? What is righteousness?
Discussion,
Righteousness is a “right standing,” a divine relationship, with Elohim through faith. If righteousness came through the Law, Jesus died needlessly (Galatians 2:21). Obedience equating to righteousness works only honors the Father when those works are performed through the Spirit during daily Christian sanctification; this, subsequent salvation by faith in Jesus as Messiah; otherwise, works for “righteousness” sake are interpreted by Elohim as a “filthy garment” (Isaiah 64:6) and in the literal Hebrew “a bloody menstrual cloth.“
No flesh will be justified in the presence of Elohim through the Law (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16) and anyone who performs “works” seeking righteousness (a right standing) with Elohim apart from faith, first, in the Messiah, Jesus Christ, will be denied access to the Kingdom as Jesus will plainly tell you, “Apart from me you who work iniquity, I never knew you” (Matthew 7:21:23).
Elohim’s Law: A double-edged sword,
Elohim’s Law, both the codified and spiritual, is a double-edged sword as it defines Elohim’s righteousness by simultaneously defining what is “sin;” therefore, the Law does not engender righteousness but culpability; therefore, no flesh will be justified through the Law as Law is the knowledge of sin (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16; Galatians 3:10; James 2:10) and the Law is relevant to the unrighteous, rebellious, man or woman, not the righteous by faith (1 Timothy 1:9)
One Divine Righteousness available to mankind,
The ONLY righteousness you will attain in this life constrained by Time, physics, a body of death in the Adamic nature (Romans 5:12), is the purity, the righteousness, the sinless perfection, of Jesus IMPUTED/GIFTED over your life by faith in Jesus as your Messiah (2 Corinthians 5:21). You don’t “work” for nor can you earn your righteousness (right standing) with the Father but Jesus accomplished that for you through His perfect obedience to the Law (John 8:45-47) and His shed blood as atonement for your sin at Golgotha (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19); therefore, you receive an imputed-gifted righteousness by “faith” in the righteous One, Jesus our Messiah. This truism was first demonstrated for you in Genesis 3:21 (Hebrews 11).
Concerning the Decalogue etched in stone; Law of Moses scratched upon parchment – righteousness?
The Sinai Decalogue was given solely to Israel and sojourners with them seeking refuge in that theocracy. The Sinai Decalogue is but a mere fragment of Elohim’s eternal spiritual law and it is wholly inadequate for righteousness, but Sinai’s Commandments were given for sanctification concerning thwarting Israel’s compromise with Baal and Molech – demonic paganism; this, for eschatological purposes concerning the Messiah, the Gospel, the Great Commission; simply stated, Elohim did not desire a repeat of the horrific failures and demonic compromise demonstrated by the Adamic and Noahic generations disqualifying them as progenitors of the Messiah and Messiah’s eschatological purposes; therefore, Elohim set-forth codified, relevant, fragmented, edits directly addressing what Jacob’s children were to do and obey in order to be holy as Elohim is Holy (Leviticus 21:8; Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 1:16).
Law – Righteousness and Christianity,
Christians, those who have entered into New Covenant relationship with Elohim by faith in Messiah Jesus, do NOT live their daily life thinking about, contemplating, Torah or Sinai or Moses or days or diets; Christians walk and live by the Holy Spirit who indwells them by New Covenant promise (Ezekiel 36:27) and the Spirit produces divine fruit through the His anointing, “fruit of the Spirit” that fulfills all Law (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16-23; Matthew 7:15-20).
Old Covenant v. New Covenant – Two unique Covenants with completely different applications of Law but one unified method of attaining “righteousness” with Elohim; that is, FAITH (Hebrews 11; John 3; Ephesians 2:8-9).
