The Gospel for Real Life by Jerry Bridges

Author:Jerry Bridges
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Navigators
Published: 2003-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Nothing in my hands I bring,

Simply to the cross I cling.

The same attitude of renunciation and reliance is also well expressed in Edward Mote’s hymn The Solid Rock:

My hope is built on nothing less

Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;

No merit of my own I claim,4

But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.

As we come to Christ, then, empty-handed, claiming no merit of our own, but clinging by faith to His blood and righteousness, we are justified. We pass immediately from a state of condemnation and spiritual death to a state of pardon, acceptance, and the sure hope of eternal life. Our sins are blotted out, and we are “clothed” with the righteousness of Jesus Christ. In our standing before God, we will never be more righteous, even in heaven, than we were the day we trusted Christ, or we are now. Obviously in our daily experience we fall far short of the perfect righteousness God requires. But because He has imputed to us the perfect righteousness of His Son, He now sees us as being just as righteous as Christ Himself.

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