"..seeking to establish their [religious people] own, they did not submit to God's truth...Christ is the end of the righteous law for all believers."

Jesus said these holy and wonderful words: "It is Finished!", while his spirit and body had just gone through suffering unequaled, and even then, as He spoke this most magnificent and glorious words, He was experiencing the most excruciating pain any human ever endured, for He carried the sins of the world in Himself, the trillions and trillions of sins against God were dealt with forever and ever.
And Jesus never once complained of His work He came to accomplish. And He neither holds it over our heads in any kind of proud manner. Why? Because His love for His Father was perfect and unmoving. And His love for us was looking forward to the joy He would have when we would one day see Him in His glory, and live with Him forever in perfect happiness and great joy!



Christ is all our righteousness. His death fulfilled all what needs to be done for a sinner to enter into eternal life. He did this for all who would come to Him with humble hearts, and ask Him to accept us, and to please forgive us for our sins against Him, and others.



Eternal Life is freely given to all who trust in Christ the Lord.



Here are some good words from Martin Luther to consider:



"As the schoolmen [religious teachers of good works] say that charity adorns faith, so do we say that it is Christ who adorns faith. Wherefore Christ apprehended by faith, and dwelling in the heart, is the true Christian righteousness, for which God counts us righteous and gives us eternal life. Here is no work of the law, no charity, but a far other manner of righteousness, and a certain new world beyond and above the law."



The Law of course is good and right, but it is engraved in rock, and it does nothing for our soul. The Spirit however, is living, and full of life, truth, grace, and love. He will comfort, lead and empower us to live a godly life. Amen to that. God is so gracious to do all this for sinners like us!