Part 1: Romans - Dr Desmond Ford

[@daleschrader1946]

Beautiful message

[@Dr.Ez.ANewLivingWay]

Wonderful Words of Life!

[@crystalwilson6424]

The world became a darker place when Dr. Ford died. What a blessing he was to me! His teaching changed my life. I'm looking forward to meeting him in heaven.

[@fleetwd1]

the story of countless thousands indeed

[@chocolate44ly]

I believe the righteousness of God is revealed in the saints, we can have confidence in God for He has promised. No need to be down about our own selves for we are to leave this behind and look up. As Paul said in 2 Cor 3:3-6. Our sufficiency is in God. We can be certain before God in Christ.

[@fleetwd1]

"He made him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Cor 5:21

[@chocolate44ly]

@@fleetwd1 That lines up well with Romans 8:3,4.

[@fleetwd1]

​@@chocolate44ly in Him we have confidence Because His Righteousness fully measures, In ourselves and the Righteousness enabled by the Spirit we never have confidence. There are two types of righteousness one is put to our account or imputed by faith and faith is the substance of things hoped for but it is not seen . The other is infused, or imparted by the enabling of the Spirit. this is produced by faith but it is seen. His is imputed and called the righteousness of God ours is imparted and is called the Righteousness of the Law by Paul. they are not the same one is unseen the other is seen. they are distinct types and those who do not make that distinction can never have complete confidence because trusting in our own which is seen and imparted ignores the all sufficiency of God's righteousness which is unseen but imputed.

[@chocolate44ly]

@@fleetwd1 I believe you have that wrong. Righteousness of the law is a expression used solely for the flesh. It is the same as "works of the law". Works of the Spirit is obedience and "obedience is unto righteousness". Now if we look at Romans 8:4 it tells us that the law might be fulfilled in us or that the righteous requirements of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. Romans 1:16-17 J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS) 16-17 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. I see it as the very power of God working for the salvation of everyone who believes it, both Jew and Greek. I see in it God’s plan for imparting righteousness to men, a process begun and continued by their faith. For, as the scripture says: ‘The just shall live by faith’.

[@fleetwd1]

You must be forgetting your favorite text Rom 8:4 "That the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit."

[@kristokirov]

RIP