The threads focus is FAITH, is the key to salvation/righteousness, not self-works. I have presented salvation/righteous by FAITH scriptures (you continue to argue against) & I will continue (I have many more) to do so.
This law keeping for obtaining righteousness/salvation narrative you promote is not for today's Body of Christ.
I completely agree that that salvation/righteousness is only by faith and I have never claimed that keeping the law will result in earning our righteousness/salvation as a wage - that was never the reason for why we should keep the law, so you are simply not paying attention to what I am saying and are falsely accusing me of doing thing that I am not doing. If you cite a verse that says that righteousness is by faith and I agree and discuss what it means to have faith, then I am not arguing against the verse, but am discussion how to correctly understand it, but you ignore what I say and continue to post more verses in support of righteousness being by faith, then you are persisting in your ignorance of what it means to have faith.
God is trustworthy, therefore His law is also trustworthy (Psalms 19:7), so the way to have faith in God is by following His law and it is incorrectly for you to describe obediently relying on what God has instructed as being self-works rather than God's works. In other words, Jesus is God's word made flesh, so you are incorrect to think that the way to have faith in God's word made flesh is something other than by obeying God's word.
King James Bible Dictionary FORGIV'EN: Pardoned remitted.
FORGIVEN - Definition from the KJV Dictionary
1 Jn 2:12 I am writing to you, little children (believers, dear ones), because your sins have been forgiven for His name’s sake [you have been pardoned and released from spiritual debt through His name because you have confessed His name, believing in Him as Savior].
Christ Is Our Advocate - My little children (believers, dear ones), I am writing you these things so that you will not sin and violate God’s law. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate [who will intercede for us] with the Father: Jesus Christ the righteous [the upright, the just One, who...
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(MY NOTE: Believers you are (<right now >) FORGIVEN (<past tense), NOT just until your next sin! FORGIVEN (DONE DEAL) for Christ's name's sake, not our self-works!)
My stated (with supporting scripture) position is: Christ is the Lord our righteousness. There is nothing we can do: to work for/earn or achieve salvation/righteousness, without His FAITH as the foundation.
Christ expressed his righteousness through setting an example of how to walk in obedience to God's law, so that is also the way that we walk when he is our righteousness, which is why those who are in Christ are obligated to walk in the same way he walked (1 John 2:6), and which has nothing to do with working for/earning or achieving salvation/righteousness. In Hebrews 1:3, the Son is the exact expression of God's nature, so the way to have faith in His nature as being the guide for how to rightly live is by following his example.
Acts 16:18 Jesus said; to open their [spiritual] eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness and release from their sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified (set apart, made holy) by faith in Me.’
Hab 2:4 (B) the righteous will live by his faith [in the true God].
Rom 1:17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed in a way that awakens more faith]. As it is written and forever remains written, “The just and upright shall live by faith.”
In Isaiah 51:7, the righteous are those on whose heart is the Mosaic Law, so the righteous living by faith does not refer to a manner of living that is not in obedience to it. Likewise, in Galatians 3:10-12, Paul associated a quote from Habakuk 2:4 saying that the righteous shall live by faith with a quote from Leviticus 18:5 that those who obey God's law will attain life by it, so again the righteous who are living by faith are the same as those who are living in obedience to the Mosaic Law.
Because He loved us "1st" in spite of our sins/transgressions/rebellion. And bought/paid for "in full" ALL our sins. We deserve what He suffered in our place!
We know this because of the law. The law (or trying to keep it "no one can perfectly) accept Him). The law is a teacher who's job is to expose sin & administers it's punishment DEATH "without mercy". It leads us to understand our sin has doomed us to a horrible fate & we are (on our own) helpless & in need of rescue.
God's law came with instructions for what to do when the people sinned, so it never required us to keep it perfectly. If you agree that the Mosaic Law reveals what sin is and that we should refrain from doing what God has revealed to be sin, then you should agree that we should obey it.
The only way to redemption is thru Him. He is the Way (not our self-works) the Truth (not our self-works) & the only means to eternal life. The only way to have a right standing/be righteous before the Father is: thru FAITH placed in His sinless perpetually cleansing God blood sacrifice. The OT, it's laws & sacrifices foreshadowed/foretold His promised coming redemption/salvation.
God's law is the way (Psalms 119:1-3), the truth (Psalms 119:142), and the life (Deuteronomy 32:46-47), and the way to know the Father (Exodus 33:13), and Jesus is God's word made flesh expressed by living in sinless obedience to it, so he is the embodiment of the way, the truth, and the life, and the way to know the Father (John 14:6-7). Self-works rely entirely on ourselves, so they do not rely on what anyone else has instructed, which again means that it incorrect for you to consider relying on what God has instructed to be self-works instead of faith. The foreshadows testify about what is to come, so we should live in a way that testifies about the truth of what is to come by living in obedience to God's law rather than live in a way that denies the truth of what is to come.
The new FAITH based covenant is here. Cut in His sinless perpetually cleansing God blood & ratified by His resurrection. It retired the old covenant (Matt 27:51)
Christ did ALL the FAITHFUL obedient work needed & He alone holds the keys to life & death. He deserves all the credit, plaise honor & glory. Making salvation/righteousness about how great our self-works are. Say's what He did isn't quite good enough. Robbing Him of His due/earned position. He is the Lord our righteousness, our great God & Savior. To which I say thank you Lord Jesus. AMEN & Amen
In Palms 119:29-30, David wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faithfulness, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith, and the Mosaic Covenant was also a covenant of grace. In Jeremiah 31:33, the New Covenant involves God putting the Mosaic Law in our mind and writing it on our hearts, so it is also as covenant of law.
In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, so God training us to do these works is itself the content of His gift of salvation, and participating in that training has nothing to do with how great our self-works are or with saying that what He did is quite good enough. Furthermore, in Titus 2:14, Jesus gave himself to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people of his own possession who are zealous for doing good works, so becoming zealous for doing good works in obedience to God's law is the way to believe in what Jesus accomplished through the cross (Acts 21:20), while someone returning to the lawlessness that he gave himself to redeem us from which is what would be saying that what he did was not good enough.
Obediently relying entirely on what God has instructed does not rob God the credit, but rather it is the way to give Him all of the credit. Our salvation is from sin (Matthew 1:21) and sin is the transgression of God's law (1 John 3:4), so while we do not earn our salvation as the result of obeying it, living in obedience to it is nevertheless intrinsically part of the content of the gift of Jesus saving us from not living in obedience to it, so it is contradictory for you to say that Jesus is our Lord and Savior while speaking against obediently submitting to him as Lord and against doing what he is saving us from not doing.