Having understood that when weighed in the balances against this impeccable standard, we discover that we have all sinned and fallen woefully short of the glory of God. Likewise, blessings and curses are assigned when God measures us. Blessings are pronounced upon those who are in perfect conformity and harmony with the holiness of God. This blessing is the salvation that God bestows upon those who meet His perfect requirements. This requirement we meet through the blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ. The ultimate curse of breaking the Law is the second death. This is the eternal punishment of hell.
In the book of Psalms, we learn that “righteousness and justice” are the foundation of God’s throne. That is, He is himself right, just, and true. Righteousness is essential to His very being and characterizes all He does: God is morally and ethically right, and He acts only in keeping with what is right and just. This theme is common in Scripture. “The judge of all the earth shall do right.” Genesis 18:25 “That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do, right?” Further, He is a “righteous judge.” II Timothy 4:8 “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”
A righteous man is one who is right and does what is suitable, and at the righty maintains a “right relation with” what is expected. It is that aspect of God's holiness which distinguishes him as consistent with his moral demands. God is sovereign, and as such it is his very nature that constitutes the very essence of righteousness. God in his perfection is the essence and standard of what is right. God is sovereign and so rules the world by his own will. But it is something more indeed to know that he rules in righteousness. For all the apparent inequities of life, for all the patient favours he shows the wicked, and for all the afflictions that fall upon the righteous, it is necessary indeed that we know that God is just and that he will always do what is right.
Righteousness consists in glorifying God and nothing less. The law to which men are bound is God’s law – not a law that is “above Him” but a law that is “within Him.” And this standard, being nothing other than the nature and will of God, is the standard to which the immutable God has bound himself: He always acts in a way that is consistent with his perfection. It is primarily for this reason that man’s “unrighteousness” is described in terms of “not glorifying God as God”. God is the ultimate standard, and epitome of perfection, justice, and righteousness.
Psalms 89:14 “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.”
Deuteronomy 32:4 “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
Dr Ashwin Drummond
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