No longer is righteousness measured by what a person does or does not do. From now on, righteousness is measured by what God does, what He declares, what He places in your heart by faith. If you will receive by faith what God declares the Holy Spirit will come and will begin the process of making you over again from the inside out. The Holy Spirit’s job is to build into you, into your life, righteousness – the righteousness of God. He will make you righteous. Then you won’t have to go around trying to act righteous. Righteousness is a heart thing.
The word is God and when we believe the word and act on the word we set in motion the will of God for us today.