Our Self-Righteousness
Consider this from Eliphaz the Temanite:
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy
is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
The commandment of God is ‘be ye holy’. It was for Israel which Eliphaz the Temanite should be at least familiar. For Christians, it also applies.
Leviticus 20:7
7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
1 Peter 1:15-16
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
There are those who have reasoned Eliphaz’s position questioning self-righteousness. Now, with the advent of Christ, His righteousness is imputed which justifies us before God. That justification then qualifies us in His sight that we are righteouss before Him. Our righteousness isn’t comparable nor ever could be perfect but it isn’t something we dismiss because Christ imputes His own.
Consider Job 6:29…
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity;
yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job is touting of his self-righteousness against Eliphaz who has levied:
Job 4:7-8
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,
and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5:6-8
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Eliphaz is reasoning that Job cleaving to his integrity and self-righteousness is an error he ought to repent of. In his estimation, such suffering and affliction only draw night those who are mired in iniquity but Job is touting his self-righteousness affirming in 6v29 ‘yes, you declare my iniquity but consider again because my righteousness is in your accusation’.
Job was declared perfect and upright; one who feared God and eschewed evil before he was afflicted through Satan. Therefore I conclude, don’t cast off your confidence - your own righteousness - because it has great recompense of reward.
We must still be worthy of God and obedient to the faith (Ro 1:5) as these verses of scripture reveal: Mt 10:37, 38; Lk 3:8, 21:36; Ep 4:1; Co 1:10; 1 Th 2:12; 2 Th 1:5, 1:11; Re 3:4.
Finally, consider the prodigal son as it relates to the imputation of righteousness David writing of it in the thirty second Psalm:
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Luke 15:11-14, 17-24
11 …two sons:
12 …younger …said …Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. …
13 …younger son …wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 …famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
17 …he came to himself, he said, …
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, …
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
At this point, the prodigal is any one of us prior to believing by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are no more than servants unto sin prior to coming to Christ. Read on…
20 …he arose, … his father had compassion, …
21 …Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
In like manner as the Father receives the son, so has God received us and we are accepted in the beloved and, by the Spirit of adoption, are no more servants which abide not in the house forever but are sons, heirs of God, and joint-heirs through Jesus Christ.
God’s imputation of Christ’s righteousness has not only justified us but taken us out of the miry clay; bringing us from a place of filling our bellies with the husks the swine eat and placed us upon the Rock of Christ, clothed us with a robe of His righteousness, and given us a new ring and shoes representative of both our ambassadorship and service unto our King.
We, as Christians, should then seek to preserve our own self-righteousness which gives us a measure and mark useful for watching, examining, and judging ourselves that we are in accord with biblical wisdom and understanding: our behavior is both obedient and correct.
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
Mark 13:35
Mark 14:38
Luke 21:36
1 Corinthians 16:13
Consider this from Eliphaz the Temanite:
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy
is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
The commandment of God is ‘be ye holy’. It was for Israel which Eliphaz the Temanite should be at least familiar. For Christians, it also applies.
Leviticus 20:7
7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
1 Peter 1:15-16
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
There are those who have reasoned Eliphaz’s position questioning self-righteousness. Now, with the advent of Christ, His righteousness is imputed which justifies us before God. That justification then qualifies us in His sight that we are righteouss before Him. Our righteousness isn’t comparable nor ever could be perfect but it isn’t something we dismiss because Christ imputes His own.
Consider Job 6:29…
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity;
yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job is touting of his self-righteousness against Eliphaz who has levied:
Job 4:7-8
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,
and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5:6-8
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Eliphaz is reasoning that Job cleaving to his integrity and self-righteousness is an error he ought to repent of. In his estimation, such suffering and affliction only draw night those who are mired in iniquity but Job is touting his self-righteousness affirming in 6v29 ‘yes, you declare my iniquity but consider again because my righteousness is in your accusation’.
Job was declared perfect and upright; one who feared God and eschewed evil before he was afflicted through Satan. Therefore I conclude, don’t cast off your confidence - your own righteousness - because it has great recompense of reward.
We must still be worthy of God and obedient to the faith (Ro 1:5) as these verses of scripture reveal: Mt 10:37, 38; Lk 3:8, 21:36; Ep 4:1; Co 1:10; 1 Th 2:12; 2 Th 1:5, 1:11; Re 3:4.
Finally, consider the prodigal son as it relates to the imputation of righteousness David writing of it in the thirty second Psalm:
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Luke 15:11-14, 17-24
11 …two sons:
12 …younger …said …Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. …
13 …younger son …wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 …famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
17 …he came to himself, he said, …
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, …
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
At this point, the prodigal is any one of us prior to believing by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are no more than servants unto sin prior to coming to Christ. Read on…
20 …he arose, … his father had compassion, …
21 …Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
In like manner as the Father receives the son, so has God received us and we are accepted in the beloved and, by the Spirit of adoption, are no more servants which abide not in the house forever but are sons, heirs of God, and joint-heirs through Jesus Christ.
God’s imputation of Christ’s righteousness has not only justified us but taken us out of the miry clay; bringing us from a place of filling our bellies with the husks the swine eat and placed us upon the Rock of Christ, clothed us with a robe of His righteousness, and given us a new ring and shoes representative of both our ambassadorship and service unto our King.
We, as Christians, should then seek to preserve our own self-righteousness which gives us a measure and mark useful for watching, examining, and judging ourselves that we are in accord with biblical wisdom and understanding: our behavior is both obedient and correct.
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
Mark 13:35
Mark 14:38
Luke 21:36
1 Corinthians 16:13
Our Self-Righteousness
Consider this from Eliphaz the Temanite:
14 What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints;
yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16 How much more abominable and filthy
is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
The commandment of God is ‘be ye holy’. It was for Israel which Eliphaz the Temanite should be at least familiar. For Christians, it also applies.
Leviticus 20:7
7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.
1 Peter 1:15-16
15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
There are those who have reasoned Eliphaz’s position questioning self-righteousness. Now, with the advent of Christ, His righteousness is imputed which justifies us before God. That justification then qualifies us in His sight that we are righteouss before Him. Our righteousness isn’t comparable nor ever could be perfect but it isn’t something we dismiss because Christ imputes His own.
Consider Job 6:29…
29 Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity;
yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.
Job is touting of his self-righteousness against Eliphaz who has levied:
Job 4:7-8
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity,
and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Job 5:6-8
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Eliphaz is reasoning that Job cleaving to his integrity and self-righteousness is an error he ought to repent of. In his estimation, such suffering and affliction only draw night those who are mired in iniquity but Job is touting his self-righteousness affirming in 6v29 ‘yes, you declare my iniquity but consider again because my righteousness is in your accusation’.
Job was declared perfect and upright; one who feared God and eschewed evil before he was afflicted through Satan. Therefore I conclude, don’t cast off your confidence - your own righteousness - because it has great recompense of reward.
We must still be worthy of God and obedient to the faith (Ro 1:5) as these verses of scripture reveal: Mt 10:37, 38; Lk 3:8, 21:36; Ep 4:1; Co 1:10; 1 Th 2:12; 2 Th 1:5, 1:11; Re 3:4.
Finally, consider the prodigal son as it relates to the imputation of righteousness David writing of it in the thirty second Psalm:
1 Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
Luke 15:11-14, 17-24
11 …two sons:
12 …younger …said …Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. …
13 …younger son …wasted his substance with riotous living.
14 …famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
17 …he came to himself, he said, …
18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, …
19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
At this point, the prodigal is any one of us prior to believing by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are no more than servants unto sin prior to coming to Christ. Read on…
20 …he arose, … his father had compassion, …
21 …Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
24 For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
In like manner as the Father receives the son, so has God received us and we are accepted in the beloved and, by the Spirit of adoption, are no more servants which abide not in the house forever but are sons, heirs of God, and joint-heirs through Jesus Christ.
God’s imputation of Christ’s righteousness has not only justified us but taken us out of the miry clay; bringing us from a place of filling our bellies with the husks the swine eat and placed us upon the Rock of Christ, clothed us with a robe of His righteousness, and given us a new ring and shoes representative of both our ambassadorship and service unto our King.
We, as Christians, should then seek to preserve our own self-righteousness which gives us a measure and mark useful for watching, examining, and judging ourselves that we are in accord with biblical wisdom and understanding: our behavior is both obedient and correct.
2 Corinthians 13:5-6
1 Corinthians 11:30-32
Mark 13:35
Mark 14:38
Luke 21:36
1 Corinthians 16:13
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