Jesus Christ our righteousness offers us His righteousness by grace through faith. It's part of the classic double imputation that takes place at every conversion. Our unrighteousness is imputed to Christ, and His perfect righteousness is imputed to us: "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21). This is why we don't need to try to justify ourselves.




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Jesus Christ our righteousness offers us His righteousness by grace through faith. Part of the double imputation occurring at conversion.



Table of contentsFamily Worship Guide for Jesus Christ Our Righteousness Versus Justifying OurselvesSermon Notes for Jesus Christ Our Righteousness Versus Justifying OurselvesLesson One: It is tempting to (Part One) reject God’s word when it convicts us.Lesson One: It is tempting to (Part Two) justify ourselves.Lesson Two: Because of Jesus Christ Our Righteousness, we don’t have to justify ourselves.



Family Worship Guide for Jesus Christ Our Righteousness Versus Justifying Ourselves



Directions: Read the following passages and answer the questions below:



Day 1: Read Luke 16:14-15, 1 Corinthians 28:9, Proverbs 24:12 and discuss: what are things people believe to convince themselves that they are good and not sinners? Which of these are you tempted to believe about yourself? What does justified mean? Why did the Pharisees ridicule Jesus’s teaching? What teachings in Scripture might we be tempted to ridicule?Day 2: Read Matthew 5:19, 19:16-17, Luke 10:25-28, 18:9-149, and discuss: why did Jesus tell the lawyer and the rich young ruler that if they obeyed the law (the Ten Commandments) that they would live? Does this mean we can obey the law and live (eternally)? Why or why not? Why wasn’t the Pharisee justified, but why the tax collector was?Day 2: Read Luke 2:21-24, Matthew 3:13-15, 17:24-27, 2 Corinthians 5:21 and discuss: why did Jesus do all of these things even going beyond what the law commanded? For example, why was he willing to experience a baptism of repentance when he didn’t need to repent, and why did he pay the temple tax when he was exempt from it as the King’s Son?



Sermon Notes for Jesus Christ Our Righteousness Versus Justifying Ourselves



The title of this morning’s message is, “Jesus Christ Our Righteousness.”



On Sunday mornings we’re working our way through Luke’s gospel verse by verse, and we find ourselves at Luke 16:14.



Something frustrating happened to me on Thursday. I thought I had my sermon finished, but as I was going over it, I was dissatisfied because it was too long and felt like it was going in two different directions:



The first half of the sermon was about the Pharisees justifying themselvesThe second half of the sermon was about the Pharisees loving money



It felt like two unrelated sermons to me, so I split them up.



This morning we’ll talk about the dangers of justifying ourselves and next week we will talk about the dangers of loving money.



Let’s back up to verse thirteen for context…



Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”



If you remember the end of our previous sermon on the parable of the unjust steward when I talked about this verse, I told you that it is not an imperative or command. Jesus is not telling us not to do something: he is not telling us not to serve God AND money.



Instead, this is an indicative. Jesus is indicating or stating something: He is telling us we can’t serve God and money. To serve God is to choose not to serve money, and to serve money is to choose not to serve God.



But there were people who served money, and they heard Jesus say this…



Luke 16:14 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. 



Based on verse one,