Saturday, May 21, 2022

Numbers 34:1-35:8; Proverbs 30:1-33; Luke 5:1-16

“Even if these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver only themselves by their  righteousness,” says the Lord God. Ezekiel 14:14, NKJV

If the righteousness of these three great men were recognised, God says it would only deliver them from a time of God’s earthly judgement on Israel. They could do nothing for the others. But what of spiritual, eternal judgement? In God’s sight, a person’s so-called righteousness is but filthy rags (Isa. 64:6); there is none righteous (Rom. 3:10). Only the righteousness of Jesus Christ counts. “For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that
he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh” (1 Peter 3:18). Only Jesus can make you righteous! —K. C. Ung

Made righteous through Thy precious blood,
We now are reconciled to God. —C. Fischer

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