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Our Righteousnesses - 'Filthy Rags'
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010
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Our Righteousnesses are Like Filthy Rags (Isaiah 64:6)

A righteousness is that which perfectly and completely satisfies the demands of God’s law. Saints agree with Isaiah the prophet when he confesses “all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags,” for they certainly do not satisfy the demands of the divine law. These “filthy rags” are menstrual cloths, which a woman uses to absorb the discharge during her menstrual cycle. They are appropriately called “filthy rags”.

I was born to a teenage mother. Shortly afterward she gave birth to my three sisters, with whom I was raised into the years of our adulthood. I married a young woman many years ago, and have lived with her since. She gave birth to our daughter, who lived in our home until her adulthood.

I say this to let you know that I obviously have been in very close proximity to thousands of those menstrual cloths, those filthy rags. But I have never seen one. Nor do I ever desire to see one. The genteel woman, such as those I cited above, discretely discards them so that no other eye sees them. She does not proudly display them for all to see. And no gentleman takes pleasure in looking for them and examining them.

Someone may now say, “Sir, that is a disgusting subject!” I agree.

But as disgusting as physical filthy rags may be to you and me, spiritual filthy rags are even more disgusting to God. However, men and women by nature and in their self-righteousness glory in them!

Although no man apart from Christ ever performed a righteous deed (Romans 3:10-12), we all have deluded ourselves into thinking we have performed many (as in Luke 18:9-12). The self-righteousness man, in preparation for standing before God at the final judgment, makes of his filthy rags a robe, still dripping with the polluted blood of his depravity, and intends to proudly parade himself before the Judge while boasting, “Do I not look good!”

Now, that is truly disgusting!

As for me, I thank God that by His grace He caused this self-righteous sinner to abhor his personal righteousnesses for what they are ... filthy rags. I acknowledge Jesus Christ as the only man who ever wove a righteous robe, which He did in perfectly obeying and completely fulfilling God’s law. I own Him as my only righteousness (Jeremiah 23:6; 1 Corinthians 1:30; Psalm 71:16). I desire to be clothed in Him alone (Philippians 3:8f).

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