Christ is our Righteousness

If you are a Christian, then you desire, because of and by the grace of God, to be a counter culture for God’s glory and others good. While you do not always do it, you are aware of and focusing on future realities; trusting God for the future. God's righteousness touches the past, present and future. It is that for which we hunger 5:6 and for which we suffer 5:10. It is a conformity to God’s moral law, going further than the scribes and Pharisees 5:20. Our good works are not to earn anything but to obey our King.

Recipients of God's grace are identified by character and good works. Christian righteousness is not as man has warped it; thinking we are better than others or being prideful; it has nothing to do with that at all. It is not a teaching of salvation by works; the 1st beatitude made clear that those who inherit the kingdom will be the poor in spirit, who see themselves as bankrupt, having nothing, not even righteousness; as Paul said, he did not come with righteousness of his own derived from the law but the righteousness which is through faith in Christ for all who believe. Christian righteousness is much deeper, of the heart, through God’s Spirit indwelling His people; the new birth brings it.

Jesus is our righteousness (2 Cor 5:21). Faith in Christ gives us all the riches of Christ’s Righteousness. To have it you must be born again.