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What Righteousness Is Imputed To Us? The Personal Obedience Of Jesus Christ To The Law, Or The Nature Of God, Love? Which?

Evangelicals today teach that the Righteousness that is imputed to the penitent is the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ to the Law of God, thus the personal obedience of Jesus Christ 2000 years ago is our imputed righteousness.
“In addition to the pardon of sin, justification declares that all the claims of the Law are satisfies in respect to the justified. It is the act of a Judge and not of a sovereign. The Law is not relaxed or set aside, but is declared to be fulfilled in the strictest sense; and so the person justified is declared to be entitled to all the advantages and rewards arising from perfect obedience to the Law … Justification is not the forgiveness of a man without righteousness, but a declaration that he possesses a righteousness which perfectly and for ever satisfies the Law, namely, Christ’s righteousness.” Justification by Faith, p. 1.
When Jesus came to the earth He lived a sinless life. 1 Peter 1:19; 1 Peter 2:21,22; Hebrews 4:15.
He kept the Law of God. John 15:10.
4. He fulfilled all Righteousness. Matthew 3:15.
5. This means that He did the will of God which is to keep the Law of God. (Hebrews 10:5 - 7; Psalms 40:8).
6. Since Jesus did all things which the Father told Him, He obeyed the Law perfectly, thus He had the Righteousness of the Law. (John 8:29; 1 John 3:22).
There is another Righteousness called the Righteousness of God which is presented as apart from or different to the righteousness of the Law. Romans 3:21.

This Righteousness of God is God Himself or His Divinity. Jeremiah 23:5,6; Psalms 31:1; Psalms 5:8; Micah 6:5; Isaiah 46:13.
This Righteousness comes only by the Faith of Jesus Christ. Romans 3:22; Philippians 3:9.
It is this Righteousness that is imputed into us by Faith. Romans 3:22; Galatians 2:16,21.
11. The Righteousness of the Law must also be kept by the convert. Romans 2:26,27.
12. Faith motivates him to do this Righteousness of the Law that is fulfilled in his existence. (Romans 3:28,30,3; Romans 8:4). Romans 10:31,32.
13. We do the Righteousness of the Law when we are born of God. 1 John 2:29.
14. Our Righteousness of the Law which we do is not the personal obedience of Jesus that He did 2000 years ago it is our personal obedience. 1 John 3:7.
15. Christ’s obedience to the Law was His personal obedience for the sake of saving humanity, thus His obedience was unto the death of the cross to deliver man; this calling of obedience is given to other man. Hebrews 2:9 - 11, 14 - 18.
That Christ’s obedience to the Law is His personal obedience and cannot be imputed to anyone is clearly seen, because this will make us become the Savior by proxy, or a false savior. John 17:4,6,19.

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