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It Is Written

John Bradshaw

Righteousness by Faith

Our Father in heaven, we thank you today for Jesus.

And we ask that as we come to your word, that you would strengthen us, speak to us, and give us grace to experience your power.

1 of the low points of my academic career, 1 of the most memorable challenges I ever had, I can never forget, happened a good few years ago now.

It was while I was undertaking a math assignment.

I was 6 years old and in the fourth grade.

My birthday came right in the middle of the school year.

So I did the first 2 years in, oh I don't know, 18 months or so, less, then skipped a grade and at 6 years old I was grappling with what appeared to be extremely complicated mathematical problems.

Well, at least complicated for this six-year-old.

This traumatizing experience came early in the fourth grade year, really right in the beginning.

I had the most wonderful teacher I had ever had.

Well, let me say that again, because up to then I hadn't had too many teachers, had I?

We were working through a list of very advanced mathematical equations when I got stuck.

I sat staring at what was on the page in front of me, realized I simply couldn't do the work.

And the longer I stared at my page or at my maths book, the more I knew that I couldn't even do the first 1 of these problems listed.

I still remember what those math problems were.

And I remember that I might as well at the time have been reading hieroglyphics.

Mounsey was the best teacher in the entire world from then till now, best teacher I've ever had.

As a matter of fact, I think I knew it way back then at the time, but I'm still in touch with her, you know.

And I don't mean because she's so old, because even then she was really young at the time.

All the respect, all the love in the world for her.

This wonderful human being came to my aid.

Mounsey, I've never seen anything like this before.

She showed me what to do and I said, oh now that I know what to do, it really isn't that difficult.

And I never had another problem with understanding how to do that sort of work.

All I needed was for someone to show me how.

Mounsey showed me how, I didn't have a problem with it.

I just needed someone to show me the way.

Do you think there might be a modern-day spiritual parallel to my mathematical conundrum way back then?

In the Word of God, God presents to us what is necessary for a person to enter into heaven.

And as you read in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 6, verse 9, you discover that it says, Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?

And then Paul lists 10 different categories of sin, and he says that these, or those that do these, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Paul wrote to the Philippians and he told them very clearly that what is required for a person to know eternal life is for that person to be Righteous.

Just any old kind of righteousness will not do.

And certainly a person cannot enter heaven relying on one's self-righteousness.

A righteousness that we can originate won't get us very far.

It is tainted and tinged and infected by sin.

Like the fig leaf righteousness of Adam and Eve after the fall, it isn't helpful.

Paul wrote to his good friends there in Philippi and he told them, about As far as you can measure a person's righteousness, you'd think I was a pretty righteous sort of a guy.

I persecuted the church and did whatever the law said a man should do, and still that didn't fit me for heaven.

In fact, Paul said, I now consider all that to be refuse, dung in the King James Version, garbage.

And Paul explained, what I need to have is not my own righteousness, but I need to have Christ's righteousness, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

And when I have that, I will know Jesus and I will know and experience the power of His resurrection.

What we need is the righteousness of Christ, not our own.

But the problem with that is there are Christians everywhere who see this written in their workbooks and they stare at it frustratedly and like a little boy crying in math class they don't know what to do because although they see the problem and though they might have heard about the solution, they do not know how to make it work in their lives.

I wanted to go to heaven in the worst way and I knew that heaven was for good people But I didn't know how to be good.

In fact, I knew for certain that I was anything but good I had a good heart if you know that you judge it the way you judge people.

I was a decent human as far as decent human beings go, but at my core I was a sinner and I had no power to do right or to live right.

And so the question is this, how does a sinner who is not just before God become a righteous in God's sight?

How do those who are wrong become right in God's sight?

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