Part 8 of 31 from "Christ our Righteousness".
By Carl Oluf Rosenius.
(1816-1868)
Translated from ekris.net
“Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.” Leviticus 19:2.
The law is God’s holy will – in human words and for human consciousness.
As absolute as God’s holiness is, as absolute is therefore God’s claim to us.
It’s the law that tells you what God wants and what he doesn’t want.
And it’s for certain, that this will of God doesn’t end by demanding greater and greater righteousness of you, before you have become as holy as God himself.
The one who really has seen for oneself, how holy the law is, will no longer have any hope of becoming perfect according to the demands of the law.
No, you say, I suppose one never becomes perfect like God: but surely one must do it as well as one can.
No, that is just what you mustn’t do. You must fulfil everything the law demands, and if you don’t do that, then you are damned.
´Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the law.`
This is the law’s own words. But God is merciful, you say. I hope that he for Christ’s sake will forgive me, if I fail now and then.
Merciful – no, not to the one, who owe the law the very least – who hasn’t fulfilled everything. But it’s quite another matter for the one, who has received the righteousness of Christ in faith.
They have nothing, absolutely nothing, which they owe the law. Because they have in Christ exactly the righteousness that the law demands.
Are you one of those then.
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Translation Gert Gravgaard
