14Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness.
Ephesians 6
Our righteousness is non-existent. We have zero.
I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ.
Philippians 3:9
We’re not good at law keeping. Our righteousness is provided to us by Jesus. When the Father looks at us, He sees Jesus’ righteousness. Ours is like filthy rags, so it’s a good deal.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Cor 5:21
We can’t put on the breastplate of righteousness unless we have the belt of truth on first. Putting on a false gospel doesn’t put you in the right standing with God and so you can’t put on the breastplate of righteousness. For example, if you put on the false religion of Mormonism, which denies the deity of Christ and says He is the brother of Satan, that’s not the truth. So they don’t get righteousness. I don’t have to work for it. They believe they must but they can’t.
There is this false notion that good people go to heaven and bad people go to hell. It’s just not true. Forgiven people go to heaven!
Why?????
Because good and bad is judged by God, not by us. His standards are high and we can’t meet them, so He met them Himself!
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