Romans 4:1-6

We are going to go to Romans 4 in this effort to try to understand how conscience and righteousness function together. The section we are going to read has to do with one aspect of righteousness. There are two major aspects to righteousness, and this aspect is very important.

In the Bible there are two positive aspects to godly righteousness. The one we have just looked at in its barest essentials is that righteousness is a state, or a condition, God declares us to be in simply because we are under the blood of Jesus Christ. This is a state not based on what we have done, but by what God does according to His grace.

We are declared to be righteous by Him as a result of the blood of Jesus Christ. We enter this state by means of being justified by Christ's blood. We have done nothing to earn it through any practical acts of conduct. It has simply been mercifully granted, imputed, or accounted as being there by an act of God, but it is very real. Do not denigrate it in any way, shape, or form. It is very real. It is extremely important because it is ultimately what saves us.