When we hear the word righteousness, most of us think of something like moral perfection. And moral perfection is by all means essential to real righteousness. To be righteous is to be good rather than evil, or virtuous rather than sinful. That's all quite true, but it only skims the surface of what the expression righteousness means in Scripture.
I think we can best begin to understand righteousness as an attribute of God if we listen to what Scripture says about the righteousness God demands from us. When Moses gave the law to Israel, he said (Deuteronomy 6:24-25): 'The LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God . . . . And it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to do all this commandment before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.'' That verse essentially defines righteousness in the exact terms I have already given you. One more time: Righteousness is 'perfect consistency with and faithfulness to all the moral precepts of God's law.'
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Phil Johnson is Executive Director of Grace to You, the media ministry of John MacArthur. Phil is also an elder at Grace Community Church, where he pastors the GraceLife fellowship group. He is probably best known for his websites, which include The Spurgeon Archive and The Hall...
