Section 2
stopped their attempts to keep the law. They would never again have tried to establish their own righteousness before God, but would have taken Christ as their righteousness.
The principle is the same with a great many Christians today. After being saved, they make up their minds to do good to please God. As a result, they spontaneously make regulations for themselves which may be considered as their self-made laws, and they endeavor to fulfill them in order that they may be pleasing to God. Like the Jews, they do not see that Christ is the end, the termination of all regulations and that they should take Him as their life that they may live righteously before God. Furthermore, they need to see that genuine righteousness before God is Christ, the One who has terminated the law that He might be the living righteousness to every one who believes in Him. Romans 10 unfolds so much of Christ that we may know how to par ticipate in and enjoy Him as our real and living righteousness before God.
INCARNATED AND RESURRECTED
We need to read Romans 10:5-7: "For Moses writes that the man who does the righteousness which is out of the law shall live in it. But the