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If you have ever wondered whether you are truly secure with God, the answer depends on one question: whose righteousness are you standing in? We turn to 2 Corinthians 5:20–21 and follow Paul’s logic all the way to its conclusion, because the phrase “made the righteousness of God in him” is not religious poetry. It is a claim about what God does to save sinners who cannot repair themselves, cannot produce perfect obedience, and cannot add even a small finishing touch to Christ’s work.

We talk through the doctrine of imputed righteousness and the great exchange: Christ is counted as sin for His people, and His obedience is counted to them as righteousness. That is why we challenge the idea that salvation is a shared project where Jesus starts the work and our willpower completes it. If your assurance rises and falls with your performance, you will never have peace. If righteousness is credited by Christ, you finally can.

To make it vivid, we connect Genesis 3:21 to the gospel: God makes the covering and God clothes Adam and Eve, a picture of grace that points to Jesus. We also address faith and works through Abel and Cain and land in Romans 4:5, where God justifies the ungodly and counts faith for righteousness “to him that works not.” If you care about salvation by grace alone, faith alone, and the permanence of salvation, this message aims straight at the heart of it.

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