{"id":133,"date":"2021-12-29T11:57:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T11:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2024-04-20T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:58:19","slug":"christs-work-vs-our-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Christ&#8217;s Work vs. Our Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is nothing finished that we do: all our duties are imperfect duties; they come off lamely, and defectively from our hands&#8230; O there is much impudence and vanity in the best of our duties: but here is the grand relief, and that which answers to all the grounds of our doubts and fears upon that account; Jesus Christ hath finished all His work, though we can finish none of ours: and so, though we be defective, poor, imperfect creatures, in ourselves, yet, notwithstanding, we are complete in Him (Colossians 2: 9, 10)&#8230; Christ&#8217;s complete obedience being imputed to us, makes us complete, and without fault before God.<\/p>\n<p>It is true, we ought to be humbled for our defects, and troubled for every failing in obedience; but we should not be discouraged, though multitudes of weaknesses be upon us, and many infirmities compass us about, in every duty we put our hand to; though we have no righteousness of our own; yet of God, Christ is made unto us righteousness; and that righteousness of His is infinitely better than our own&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John Flavel, Sermon XXXV, <em>The Fountain of Life<\/em>, Works, Volume 1, pages 436-437.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing finished that we do: all our duties are imperfect duties; they come off lamely, and defectively from our hands&#8230; O there is much impudence and vanity in the best of our duties: but here is the grand relief, and that which answers to all the grounds of our doubts and fears upon that account; Jesus Christ hath finished all His work, though we can finish none of ours: and so, though we be defective, poor, imperfect creatures,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/?p=133\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puritans","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misterrichardson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}