Christ Our Righteousness

1. Who shall be justified? Romans 2:13

2. How many have sinned (broken the law of God)? Romans 3:23
(See Note 1)

3. Can we be justified by the deeds of the law? Romans 3:20
(See Note 2)

4. Can our righteousness exceed God’s? Psalm 16:2

5. What is the heart of man like? Jeremiah 17:9

6. Did Jesus know man’s heart? John 2:24, 25

7. Can the carnal man please God? Romans 8:7, 8

8. What is man’s righteousness declared to be? Isaiah 64:6

9. According to Jesus, what only can come from an evil heart? Luke 6:44, 45
(See Note 3)

10. Does the Bible speak of people who are righteous? Isaiah 3:10

11. Does the Bible speak of a righteous nation? Isaiah 26:1, 2

12. What constitutes the truth which the righteous nation keeps? Psalm 119:142

13. Who will enter God’s kingdom? Matthew 7:21

Notes:

1. “To justify means to make righteous, or to show one to be righteous. Now, it is evident that perfect obedience to a perfectly righteous law would then constitute one a righteous person.
“But for one to be judged ‘a doer of the law,’ it would be necessary that he had kept the law in its fullest measure every moment of his life.

“The law speaks to all who are within its sphere; and in all the world there is not one who can open his mouth to clear himself from the charge of sin, which it brings against him.” (Christ Our Righteousness, p. 54) [Back to question 2]

2. “The law, being ‘holy, and just, and good,’ cannot justify a sinner. In other words, a just law cannot declare that the one who violates it is innocent.” (Ibid., p. 55) [Back to question 3]

3. Therefore works done by a sinful person have no effect to make a man righteous. Man must first be made righteous by Christ before he can do the goodness that is required of him. How this is accomplished is the subject of the next lesson. [Back to question 9]