The Power of Gospel: -

The Power of Gospel: -
I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to Salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jews first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”
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I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
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I have complete confidence in the gospel; it power to save all who believe, first the Jews and also the Gentiles. For the gospel reveals how God puts people right with himself: it is through faith from beginning to end. As the scripture says, “The person who is put right with God through faith shall live.”
The righteousness of God: - In the gospel is revealed not the victory of the soul striving against sin, but God’s righteous consistency with Himself revealing to the believer a salvation entirely outside himself and therefore, by or of faith-out of that principle and not other.
The righteousness of God, without the gospel, would and must have made a short work of guilty-must have judged them at once and forever. But the gospel is God’s power for salvation because in it is His righteousness revealed in the way of faith. The gospel is the revelation of divine righteousness. It is God who justifies, and He is just in justifying him who believes. God was so glorified in the cross of Christ that He raised Him up and seated Him at His own right hand-not only forgave us, but seated us in Christ in heavenly places.
This is God’s righteousness, which is revealed to faith. Nothing less is righteously due to Christ because of His redemption work. It is the contrast of law-work in all respects. God is righteous in treating not Christ only but the believer in Him according to the worth of redemption in His own eyes.
By virtue of His work god accounts us righteous who believe; we are made the righteousness of God in Him.
W.Kelly
The perfect righteousness of God
Is witnessed in the Saviour’s blood;
‘Tis in the cross of Christ we trace
His righteousness, yet wondrous grace.
God could not pass the sinner by,
Justice demands that he should die;
But in the Cross of Christ we see
How God can save, yet righteous be.
A. Midlane.