Section 10
parable in Luke 15 the father told his servants, "Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him" (v. 22). This robe signifies the righteousness of God, which is Christ. Praise the Lord that the righteousness of God has been put on us! God's righteousness deals with all we have done. Through the redeeming death of Christ, this has been fully accomplished.
HOLINESS WORKED INTO US
In addition to this, God is now working His holiness into us. God's holiness is not upon us; it is being worked into us. This is not a matter of merely an outward covering, but an inward imparting. As we have seen, holiness is God's nature. God works His holiness into us by im parting His nature into us. He does this by coming into us to be our life. God comes into us as life so that He may saturate all the inward parts of our being with what He is. Even now God is saturating every part of our being with His element. In this way, God makes us holy. This is not outward righteousness; it is inward holiness. It makes us holy not only positionally, but also dispositionally. This is sanctification.
God's righteousness has been reckoned to us through the redeeming death of Christ, and now