ADDRESSES ON ROMANS
"When I stand before the throne, Dressed in beauty not my own; When I see Thee as Thou art, Love Thee with unsinning heart; Then, dear Lord, shall I fully know, Not till then, how much I owe.''
My friends, the beauty which Robert Murray McCheyne re- ferred to, that beauty not his own, is the righteousness of God, provided in the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. This redemption was foreshadowed in Eden. You re- member how Adam and Eve clothed themselves in fig-leaf aprons, attempting to make themselves fit to appear before God. But God gave them coats of skins, provided through the death of animals. Here we have the foreshadowing of the death of Christ, as our Substitute, that we might be clothed in his righteousness forever. "WITHOUT THE LAW" 3:21 This righteousness is not only of God; it is also without the law,...-apart from the law. Our salvation is of God, and can not be obtained by obeying the requirements of the law, lest we should boast. We can not work it out. We must accept it by faith. Thank God for such a righteousness as that! There will be no boasting in heaven. There is no ground for boasting; for salvation is all of grace, something to be received by faith through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. In heaven Christ is all the glory. This world is full of boasting. I have heard so much of the twentieth century civilization that I shall be glad when the twentieth century is over. In the salvation of God there is no cause for boasting, even as Paul tells us also in Eph. 2:8, 9: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.'' Page 48}
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