Biblical Truth and Discipleship
Righteousness is not extended to those who are unrepentant and still under the curse of sin. It can only be accessed by true faith in Christ and acceptance of His death as the payment for the penalty of sin on their behalf. Good deeds, or being a good person does nothing for the forgiveness of sin and therefore cannot merit righteousness.
His suffering, death, and resurrection will attract followers to place their faith in Him as Lord and Savior. His work is the greatest example of God's love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness that can be shown. What greater attraction to the church is there than this?
“There is,” he says, “on the one hand the constant operation of common grace which began in Paradise after the Fall, and which has remained till this day precisely what it was in the beginning and this constant common grace itself consists of two parts.” These two parts are God’s restraint of the power of destruction in nature and God’s restraint “of the power of sin in the heart of man, to make possible the appearance of civil righteousness on the earth among sinners and heathen.
Hosea 4:6 Teaching Ministry 