Deuteronomy 6:25 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

Absolutely, but they didn’t obey, so where is their righteousness now. In my zeal to bring you my thoughts on apostates yesterday, I may have overstated my opinion on agendas and those who are troubled by them. This all boils down to the issues of being right in our own minds. Doing that leads to one of the most overlooked issues of righteousness, personal possession. Here in Deuteronomy they called it “our righteousness”. Their being right was linked to and judged by obedience to the law and they could not keep it. They held onto their “righteousness” as if it were unconditional, theirs by possession and were unwilling to give it up. Bible history shows us how that worked out for them.

Along comes Christ and He was and is righteous. In Him no harm could be found. He was and is that perfect sacrifice for the remission of sins. What happened to His righteousness?

Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

We stand and walk with God by the right hand of His righteousness. Who is seated on the right hand of the throne of God? Jesus Christ of course.

2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

I have access to His righteousness by faith. It is not my own and yet I still desire to be right.