THE HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
By Robert E. Hanna
Scripture Reading: Galatians 5:5
In rightly dividing the Word of Truth, we must be ever watchful to delineate between justification by obedience to the law and justification by faith alone. In his Student's Commentary, George Williams says of the textual verse under consideration: "Paul reveals the hoped-for glory, and faith builds on that hope. Righteousness is the foundation. Righteousness is not waited for--- it is already possessed, --- but faith waits for the hope connected with it."
The hope of the Body of Christ is the Lord Jesus Christ (Col.1:27; I Timothy 1:1; Titus 2:13}, He is our hope, and we are hoping (expecting) His glorious appearing. The world thinks of hope as a wish or desire. Our hope is a fact, a possession. We have the hope of eternal life, signed, sealed and soon to be consummated. We have the hope of righteousness --- His righteousness, imputed to us by His vicarious suffering. We have the hope of glory --- Christ in us. Every aspect of our hope is irrevocable.
In Isaiah 64:6 we read, descriptive of ourselves, "We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags..." And in Romans 3:10, "There is none righteous, no, not one." This being true, Job's question recorded in Job 9:2 would certainly seem appropriate: "...How should man be just with God?" Righteousness cannot be earned, cannot be deserved by sinful man. "But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Romans 4:5). This is the answer to Job's question! Our only righteousness is "The righteousness which is of God by faith" (Philippians 3:9).
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