The following quotation explains the false forensic gospel.
“The righteousness imputed to the believer in Jesus gives him a standing with God higher than the standing enjoyed by Adam in his sinless state. It gives him a higher standing than the angels. It raises him in the scale of moral value to equality with Jesus Christ. Such is the gift of God’s justifying righteousness, which comes by faith of Jesus Christ. Yet it is in heaven, not on earth; outside of us, never within the greatest saint; in Jesus Christ, and in no one but Jesus Christ.” Robert D. Brinsmead, Justification, pp. 34-35. (Emphasis supplied).
But first of all, Righteousness through Faith is the Righteousness of God. Philippians 3:9.
This Righteousness is YHWH, God Himself. Jeremiah 23:5,6; Psalms 143:1.
The Righteousness of God imputed is the Righteousness of God imparted. (Romans 4:11; Romans 5:17).
The Righteousness of God is within the heart. Psalms 40:9,10; Romans 3:22.
When we have Righteousness imputed, this means that the Righteousness is imparted or given actually to the believer by God as the gift of the Spirit in blessedness. (Romans 4:6-9; Galatians 3:7-9,14; Galatians 4:6).
Our Righteousness is Christ who is within the human temple, not millions of miles away. (1 Corinthians 1:30; Galatians 2:20,21).
Righteousness without means that the person is without God (who is Christ), and without Christ (who is our Righteousness) in this world; such a person is in a lost state. (1 John 5:20; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 2:12).
Righteousness rains down on the earth in the gift of he Spirit of God who is our Righteousness, and which Spirit dwells within us. (Hosea 6:3; Hosea 10:12; 2 Corinthians 3:17; 1 Corinthians 3:16).
The Holy Spirit is given in the heart as Justification. (Galatians 3:7-9,14; Galatians 4:6).
If a person does not have the Spirit of Christ within him (which is given in Justification), he does not belong to Him. Romans 8:9,11.
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