God’s Christ, who is my righteousness

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God’s Christ, who is my righteousness,
My beauty is, my glorious dress;
Midst flaming worlds, in this arrayed,
With joy shall I lift up my head.
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Lord, I believe Thy precious blood,
Which, at the mercy seat of God,
Forever doth for sinners plead,
For me, e’en for my soul, was shed.
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Lord, I believe were sinners more
Than sands upon the ocean shore,
Thou hast for all a ransom paid,
For all a full redemption made.
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Bold can I stand in every way,
For who aught to my charge shall lay?
Fully, by Thee, absolved I am
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame.
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This spotless robe the same appears,
When ruined nature sinks in years;
No age can change its glorious hue,
Its glory is forever new.
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Thou God of power, Thou God of love,
Let all Thy saints Thy mercy prove;
Our beauty this, our glorious dress,
Jesus the Lord, our Righteousness.
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Tom

Henrico, VA, United States

Isn’t this song just wonderful? Verse four was particularly touching to me today! I’m not only absolved, I’m actually “ uprighted”, made fully righteous because Christ is my righteousness. It’s well beyond forgiveness and absolution. It’s complete justification!

It’ so much makes me wanna turn the tables on Satan! When the Skiva Brothers tried to exorcise the demon in acts, the demon answered: “Jesus, I know, and Paul I’ve heard of but who are you? ” And jumped on them. Based on verse four, “ who can lay a charge against me? ” Obviously no one! I can turn around and tell Satan the same thing : “Jesus I know and Paul I’ve heard of, but who are you Satan? You’re nobody, I have been fully justified, get out! ” Hallelujah, praise the God who gave men such authority.


Eric Chong

Rohnert Park, CA, United States

God’s Christ, who is my righteousness,

My beauty is, my glorious dress.

Our beauty this, our glorious dress,

Jesus the Lord, our Righteousness.


Catherine

London, United Kingdom

God’s Christ, who is my righteousness,

My beauty is, my glorious dress;

Midst flaming worlds, in this arrayed,

With joy shall I lift up my head.


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Lubbock, Texas, United States

Fully, by Thee, absolved I am

From sin and fear, from guilt and shame


Stephen Bellingham

Irvine, CA, United States

By the knowledge of Him, the righteous One, My Servant, will make the many righteous

Isaiah 53:11b

Thank you Lord Jesus we know You as the righteous One, the resurrected Christ as the servant of Jehovah!


Lorna Palin

Corvallis, Montana, United States

Amen Christ is our righteousness he is the church in us he is all and in all


YP Bellevue

We love you Lord!


Maria L

Fremont, California, United States

Hallelujah, it is of God that we are in Christ Jesus, whom God made our righteousness and sanctification and redemption! Praise the Lord, Christ being our righteousness opens the way for Him to enter into us as our life, our inner law of life, and our everything.


Dawn Citto

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Amen, Ohhh Lord, Amen, Hallelujah!!

What a Word... No Age can Change its Glorious Hue!

Its Glory is forever NEW>

Fully by Thee, Absolved I am...

From sin, guilt, fear & shame!

Thank you dear precious Lord, for such a marvellous salvation.

We praise YOU forevermore!


Allen In Christ

Nigeria

Bold can I stand in every way,

For who aught to my charge shall lay?

Fully, by Thee, absolved I am

From sin and fear, from guilt and sham

In the Blood, no one can lay a charge on me, not Satan, not him, not her not anybody. For in the blood I’m just Christ before God.

Christ is given to us by God to be our righteousness. Hence, in Christ we have righteousness and thus are justified. Some hymns confuse Christ's righteous act with Christ the person who is our righteousness. For instance, a popular hymn written by Nicolaus L. Zinzendorf and translated by John Wesley begins, "Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness / My beauty are, my glorious dress." Therefore, when we added it to our hymnal, we corrected this line so that it says, "God's Christ, who is my righteousness, / My beauty is, my glorious dress" (Hymns, #295). It is not Christ's act of righteousness that is our righteousness but Christ Himself who is our righteousness.

When the Apostle Paul was in the Jewish religion, he surpassed many of his equals (Gal. 1:14). However, he did not at that time obtain God's righteousness. In Philippians 3:9 he spoke a deep and excellent word: "And be found in Him, not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God based on faith." Paul did not want to be found in himself, having his own righteousness; he wanted to be found in Christ, having the righteousness which is of God. We, like Paul, need to be found in Christ. That He is our righteousness is expressed by the words of a well-known hymn: "God's Christ, who is my righteousness, My beauty is, my glorious dress." Christ, as God's righteousness, is our covering under whom we stand. God has put us into Christ and made Him our righteousness (1 Cor. 1:30). We stand under His covering. We are one with Him. He, Himself, His very person, not one of His attributes, is our righteousness.

There are two aspects of Christ being righteousness from God to the believers. The first aspect is that He is the believers' righteousness for them to be justified before God objectively at the time of their repenting unto God and believing into Christ (Rom. 3:24-26; Acts 13:39; Gal. 3:24b, 27). The first stanza of Hymns, #295 says, "God's Christ, who is my righteousness,/My beauty is, my glorious dress." Christ is our beauty given by God to us to be put on us as our clothing, our glorious dress. This is outward, objective.

The second aspect is that Christ is the believers' righteousness lived out of them as the manifestation of God, who is the righteousness in Christ given to the believers for them to be justified by God subjectively (Rom. 4:25; 1 Pet. 2:24a; James 2:24; Matt. 5:20; Rev. 19:8). We were sinners who repented to God and believed into the Lord Jesus. Right away God gave Christ to us as a glorious dress to cover us, so we are acceptable to God righteously, outwardly. This is objective righteousness. Also, when Christ was given to us to be put on us, He entered into us to be our life and life supply to live Himself out of us. This living out is the manifestation of God in Christ. This is pleasant in the eyes of God. Surely, God would justify us subjectively, not just objectively. Now we can see the two aspects—outward and inward. Christ is put on us, and Christ enters into us to live God out of us to be our subjective righteousness.

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