Ephesians 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
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law, yet, until he accepts Christ and finds in Him the righteousness which is of God by faith, against him the word will ever stand, You have “come short of the glory of God.”
Happily, we have the record of the best Pharisee that ever lived, and in his experience we have the inspired illustration of these words of Jesus.
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Happily, we have the record of the best Pharisee that ever lived, and in his experience we have the inspired illustration of these words of Jesus.
Says Paul of himself, Philippians 3:5,6 ...as touching the law, a Pharisee; ...touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
Yet this was not enough; for as he says in another place:
1 Corinthians 4:4 I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified; but He that judges me is the Lord.
So even though he might, so far as he could see, be blameless, yet that was not proof that he was justified; for it is God who judges: it is God’s standard of righteousness, and not our own, that we must meet, to be justified; and that standard is the righteousness of Christ, to which we can attain only by faith."
A.T. Jones
