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  A RIGHTEOUSNESS IN WHICH JEHOVAH HIMSELF CANNOT FIND A FLAW
  by William Gadsby
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Summary: We must have a righteousness in which Jehovah Himself cannot
find a flaw, a righteousness which Jehovah cannot mend, a righteousness
which neither sin nor Satan can mar.

Topics: "Imputed Righteousness", "Salvation Grace"
Scripture References: Psalm 34:2, Isaiah 61:10, Romans 3:22, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Philippians 3:9

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William Gadsby preaches about the necessity of having a righteousness
that surpasses human capabilities, one that only Jesus Christ can
provide through His perfect obedience and spotless righteousness. He
emphasizes that those who rely on their own righteousness will never
understand their need for Christ's righteousness, but for the broken
sinner who recognizes their unworthiness, receiving God's righteousness
will bring joy and exaltation. Gadsby highlights how Christ's
righteousness, when imputed to believers, covers them with a robe of
salvation and enables them to glorify God's name through praise and
thanksgiving.

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We must have a righteousness in which Jehovah Himself cannot find a
flaw, a righteousness which Jehovah cannot mend, a righteousness which
neither sin nor Satan can mar; and unless we have on a righteousness of
this nature, we can never enter into the blessedness of the world to
come.

Where, then, are we to find it? Eternal praises to the matchless mercy
of a covenant God, we have it in the blessed Person, glorious work, and
spotless obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ! And, therefore, as it was
essential for Him to fulfill all righteousness for His people, He loved
the Lord His God with all His heart, with all His mind, and with all His
strength. He began at the beginning, and went through holily,
righteously, and steadily every step of the law of God and all in
justice and righteousness. He fulfilled every iota of it, and gave it
immortal glory and honour. The law could only require the perfect
obedience of a perfect man, but He gave it the perfect obedience of the
God-Man, and stamped forever a holy dignity and majesty on it, in order
to manifest that this glorious righteousness is suited to every sinner's
case, to all their needs, and to honour and glorify all the perfections
of God; and thus He has "forever perfected them that were sanctified,"
all those who were set apart for Himself. They are perfected forever in
His own blessed obedience and spotless righteousness; and this
righteousness which God gives shall endure forever. As for you who have
a righteousness of your own, you never can feel your need of Christ's
righteousness. You do not know your need of it, and it is an insult to
your pride to mention it. But, for the poor creature who feels himself
to be a loathsome, vile, and ruined sinner, and is brought
experimentally to feel what he is before a heart-searching God, and that
every iota of the law is against him - for God to give this
righteousness to him, to put it upon him and communicate the power of it
to his soul, why it will raise and exalt him to such a blessed enjoyment
of God's righteousness that his tongue will sing aloud and speak forth
praise to the honour and glory of His blessed Name; and he will say, "My
soul shall be joyful in my God; I will glory in the God of my salvation;
for He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness; He hath adorned
me with the garments of salvation."

-William Gadsby, from a sermon preached June 1, 1843

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