The Righteousness of God is through Faith

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The Righteousness of God is through Faith
Romans 3: 27-31 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Or is God the God of Jews only? Is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also, since God is one—who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Beloved of the Lord since no one can be (right) or righteous before God by keeping the law, Paul now explains that right standing with God comes through faith in the atoning work of Jesus on the cross. In verses 21 -26, God’s saving righteousness has been manifested now in the death of Jesus Christ so that God’s justice and love are reconciled on the cross. So, the question Paul asked in verse 27 is then what becomes of our boasting? Listen if the way to God is the way of faith and of receiving, that faith. Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, then all boasting in human achievement is gone. There was a certain kind of Judaism that kept a kind of profit and loss account with God. There was a certain kind of Jew who strictly kept every detail of the ceremonial law, and for every time he carried out one of the law’s little regulations, he made an entry on the credit side. He came to a frame of mind in which he somewhat held that God was in his debt.
Paul’s whole position was that every man is a sinner, that no man could ever have put himself back into a right relationship with God through his own efforts, that every man is God’s debtor, and that all grounds for self-righteousness and boasting in one’s achievement are forever gone. The Apostle Paul has demonstrated, from chapter 1 so clear and plain, the way of salvation to be only in Christ, and by Christ; now he returns back to his original subject, about the total inability of either Jew or Gentile, justifying themselves before God.
Brother Tripp said “There is simply nothing you can do to gain God’s favor. You have to accept this and remember it. You will never be righteous enough for long enough to satisfy God’s holy requirements. Your thoughts will never be clean enough. Your desires will never be holy enough. Your words will never to spotless enough. Your choices and actions will never be God-glorifying enough. The bar is too high for you and me to ever reach. There are no exceptions. We all live under the same weight of the law and the same helplessness to sin. We’re all better rebels than submissive. We’re all more naturally proud than humble. We’re all more given to idolatry than the worship of God. We do better at making war with our neighbors than loving them. We all find envy more natural than contentment. We’re all thieves in one way or another. We all covet what others have. We more naturally bend the truth than protect it. We condemn with our words rather than giving grace. We lay down evidence every day that we will never independently reach God’s standard.
“For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” Now that doesn't mean that there is no difference between sinners. Let me

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