#81. Romans 3:21 – Righteousness of God (Justification Series, Part IV)
Part III: Our Justification, Confirmed Yet now, apart from law, a righteousness of God… Characteristic Two: Of God This is a divine righteousness. As silly as it may sound to focus so intensely on these two little words, they are nevertheless quickly dismissed by the common reader. It is hard for me to imagine what I first “thought” when I looked upon the phrase “righteousness of God.” I suppose my brain focused on the “right” of “ right eousness.” At the time, my understanding of “God” was best described as an invisible Being that loved me. It was hard to see anything more. This is because I was trying to arrive at a foreign location without a GPS. I did not have the meaning of the word “righteousness,” as we do here – nor did the phrase “of God” impress me. Those who have read the study on Rom. 1:1, however, realize that “of God” is the English translation of the Greek term theou, which is the “genitive case” of the word theos, “PLACER.” What a sight! The “righteousness of the P...