Title: Righteousness of Grace/Romans 3:19-31
Content Law's Righteousness vs. The righteousness of grace/Romans 3:19-31
1. Privileges of the Law: Verse 19
In all areas of our lives, there are detailed rules laid down by human society. But the best thing this society can give a person who obeys the laws and norms is recognition that you are a good person to live in this society. This is all that society can give. But often there are misunderstandings that society's norms and laws can give us. The point is that the society we live in makes us mistaken for everything we can experience. So, God gave the law through Moses to people who think and live as if the laws and norms presented by society are everything. The law God has given is a blessing to our lives. Because the law opens our lives to the world of God. In other words, through the law given through Moses, we were introduced to life in the divine dimension, that is, in the heavenly dimension.
Another reason that the law that God gave through Moses is a blessing is that it allows us to know God's standard of righteousness. Until we received the Law, we lived by the standards accepted by the society in which we live. However, the law that God gave through Moses was introduced as a standard that God recognized as a righteous life. The law gives us instruction on how to be recognized as a man of God, communicate with God as a man of God, and enjoy the heavenly blessings and privileges that God gives as a man of God. So, the person of our faith is the Torah that God has given, that is, the person of the law. That is why we love the law that opened and introduced us to the world of God. The law is one of the blessings God has given us. We are people who go beyond social law and are under God-given law.
2. Our limits before the righteousness of the law: vv. 19-20
But we are perplexed before the law. The reason is that the more seriously we take the law God has given us, the more we realize how incapable we are to reach God's standard of righteousness. God has given us the standard of His righteousness. But our abilities do not meet that. Then you will not be invited to the world of God's glory because you do not reach God's standard of righteousness.
Even though we are human beings who do not attain the righteousness of the law, sometimes we may mistake it as if we have attained the righteousness of the law. It is a case in which one thinks only of what he has kept and does not realize or forgets what he did not keep. Then he thinks only of the laws he has kept and becomes a proud person who falls into the illusion that he is a righteous person. If we fall into the disease of spiritual pride, we use the law to condemn others. It is a life that excludes others as a standard of righteousness toward others. In addition, it becomes a hard life with a heart that does not need the mercy of God toward oneself.
When we are obsessed with the law, we become obsessive-compulsive. I try to keep the law, but in the end, I can't keep the righteousness of the law and it is a series of life that slips again. It is a life filled with guilt for not keeping the law and the obsession to reach the level of righteousness provided by the law on your own. Rather, the law given as a blessing is used as a tool to devastate the soul.
3. The righteousness of grace: verses 21-26
No matter how hard we try to keep the law, we never reach God's standard of righteousness. Man is incapable of reaching God's righteousness through the law. God, who is well aware of this fact, showed another righteousness instead of attaining righteousness through the law. Instead of the righteousness of the law, what God has revealed to us is the righteousness of grace. The Son of Christ, who is the very person of righteousness, has come to us. And instead of Jesus seeing our lives as His own measure of righteousness, judging and judging them, Jesus embraced our lives by His grace. It justifies us who believe in Jesus.
The reason we call it the righteousness of grace is not because of the condition we call the righteous, but because the Son Jesus, who is purely righteousness itself, came to us and embraced us in His bosom. Jesus embraced our fragile and weak lives with all His love. This righteousness of grace is literally the righteousness that God has accomplished. This righteousness of grace is the righteousness that God gave as a free gift. If the righteousness of the law is what we are achieving, the righteousness of grace is to respond with trust, gratitude, and life. We do not achieve it with our abilities and passion, but we respond to what God has given us with trust and gratitude.
Worship and devotion are not for the fulfillment of God's righteousness, but a response of gratitude to God for His grace for us. It is not to achieve blessings through worship and devotion, but to give thanks through worship and devotion to the blessings God has given for us.
Dear saints! We should all live a life that responds to the grace that He loves us and gives freely. It is simply going out with gratitude in front of the love and grace that God has bestowed upon us. Worshiping, offering, and serving in order to receive blessings is a legal faith. We are moved by God's grace and we respond with worship, we respond with material things, we respond with praise, and we respond with service. Today, I bless you in the name of Jesus that you may become believers who accept and enjoy the love of Jesus, and respond to Him through worship, prayer, praise, and practice of life.
question and share
??If you enjoy the law, you will experience blessings, but if you are obsessed with the law, you will be devastated by your spiritual obsession. Let's share an experience of trying to accomplish God's righteousness through the law.
??Jesus came to the people who suffered because of the righteousness of the law and wrapped them in the righteousness of grace. Let's share the experience of being healed from deep pain by the righteousness of grace that embraces us unconditionally.
??Just as Jesus embraced a fragile life with the righteousness of grace, let's pray together so that our house church will become a scene where the wounded and weary souls are embraced unconditionally and wrapped around them to revive the souls and give thanks.