The Righteousness that FAITH Eyes

Adam was created upright but fallible. The righteousness about which FAITH is exercised is the righteousness of God and therefore cannot fail, Romans 3:21; 10:3. Adam’s uprightness was a mutable one that might be sinned away and was but the righteousness about which the believer’s FAITH is exercised is an everlasting righteousness, a righteousness that cannot be sinned away, 2 Corinthians 5:21; Proverbs 8:18; “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.” (Daniel 9:24); “Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness and thy law is the truth.” (Psalm 119:142)

The uprightness of Adam was subject to shaking, and we know that Satan did so tempt him to the point of disobedience. But the glorious righteousness about which FAITH is conversant is an unshaken righteousness, a righteousness that cannot be shaken: “Thy righteousness is like the great mountains...” (Psalm 36:6) or as in the Hebrew, “Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God...” What is more stable than a mountain! And what mountain so stable as the mountain of God! The mountains cannot be shaken and no more can that glorious righteousness that Christ earned and established be shaken nor those who by God’s Grace are stayed on Him through God-given FAITH.