The New Life

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• XV.
RIGHTEOUSNESS.
" He hath showed thee, O man, what is good ;
and what doth
the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?
—Micah " vi. 8.
" Present yourselves unto God, as alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Being
made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness. Even
so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto
sanctification." Rom. vi. 13, 18, 19.
THE
word of Micah teaches us that the fruit of the
salvation of God is seen chiefly in three things.
The new life must be characterized, in my relation to
God and His will, by righteousnesss and doing right
in my relation to my neighbor, by love and beneficence
; in relation to myself, by humility and lowliness.
For the present we meditate on righteousness.
Scripture teaches us that no man is
righteous before
God, or has any righteousness that can stand
before God ; ^ that man receives the rightness or
righteousness of Christ for nothing ; and that by this
righteousness, which is received in fa' .h, he is then
justified before God,^ he is right wit 1 God, This
righteous sentence of God is something eflfectual,
1 Ps. xiv. 3, cxliii. 2 ; Rom. iii. 10, 20.
*Rom. iii. 2j, 24, X. 3, 10 ; i Cor. i. 30; 2 Cor. . 2X ; Gal. iL i6,*
Phil, iii 9.
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