His Righteousness...Yours Is DUNG................Matthew 5:20). Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. If it should be said there men were a parcel of hypocrites, and therefore their righteousness is not to be mentioned, with the righteousness of real and sincere Christians, it is easily replied, in the words of the wise man (Eccl. 7:11). There is not a just man in the earth, who doeth good and sinneth not. The most holy men that ever lived on the earth, have been always ready to acknowledge the imperfections of their obedience and righteousness........................................... The scribes and Pharisees had put all of the emphasis on physical acts of compliance with many laws and traditions; but in their hearts, they were still of their father, the devil (Jn. 8:44). They had made the outside clean, but within, they were full of all uncleanness, hypocrisy, and iniquity (Mt. 23:25-28). Jesus parable of the Pharisee and the publican in Luke 18:9-14 gives us an idea of the outward standard of holiness that the Pharisees observed!!.....Romans 4:5-6, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works.”
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