The great reason why the Lord Jesus assumed our humanity, and offered it by an act of self-oblation, was just to bring in this everlasting righteousness; or, to put it in a personal form, more adapted to the phraseology of the last-mentioned saying, the righteousness of Christians is the Son of God dying on the cross and going to the Father. Christ Himself is our righteousness or propitiation, which avails with God for the complete acceptance of our persons. Thus, the righteousness of God, viewed in this personal aspect, just coincides with the position that the dying or crucified Christ is the righteousness of His people, or made of God unto us righteousness; and that not by a make-believe, but because what He did, His people are considered to have done in Him.

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