You know what's not in this passage?
1948.
Because what son of David started ruling in 1948?
That's what I'd like to know.
Did they all get saved in 1948?
No.
That's a fraud.
That's a whole nother sermon.
But what we see here is Jesus.
Because look at verse number six, it says, "In his days," talking about the days when
Jesus Christ will rule and reign on this earth in the millennium, "In his days Judah shall
be saved and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is his name whereby he shall be called."
I love this, the Lord our righteousness.
So what name is Jesus going to be known by?
The Lord our righteousness.
Let me tell you something, Jesus is our righteousness today.
When it comes to salvation, the Bible says in Romans chapter 10, it says, "Brethren,
my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved, for I bear them
record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness,
have not submitted themselves under the righteousness which is of God.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth."
What's the Bible saying?
He's saying, "My desire for Israel is that they might be saved."
Why are they not saved?
He said, "Because they are going about to establish their own righteousness."
And listen, if people today are not saved, it's because they're going about to establish
their own righteousness.
Whether they call themselves Christian, or Jew, or Muslim, whatever religious label they
go by, if they are going about to establish their own righteousness, they are not saved.
Even if they claim, "Oh, I'm Christian," no, if they're going about to establish their
own righteousness, they need to be saved.
Because Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believe it.
Paul said, "And be found in him not having my own righteousness," which is of the law,
but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.
And so that righteousness that is imputed unto us when we believe on Jesus Christ, that
is our righteousness.
That is what gets us into heaven.
That's why Jesus said, "Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes
and Pharisees, you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven."
Let me tell you something.
My righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Pharisees.
I don't care how separated they are because my righteousness is Jesus.
That's the righteousness by which we get into heaven.
Our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, but His righteousness being imputed unto us will
save us and get us into heaven.
That's our ticket into heaven is through Christ, through His righteousness.
So that's why Jesus' name is called the Lord our righteousness.
And if He's not your righteousness, you're not saved.
The Bible says salvation is not of works lest any man should boast.
That means if anybody thinks it's works, they're not saved because they would boast about that
and say, "Oh yeah, I'm going to heaven because I'm such a wonderful person."
And what does He keep drawing back to when He talks about the righteousness that is of
the law?
What's He referring to there?
Keeping the commandments.
So a lot of people will have this twisted view where they say, "You know, you don't
have to do good works to be saved, but you do have to stop doing bad things to be saved."
You know, it's not doing works that saves you, but you do have to turn from your sins
and stop doing those bad things in order to be saved.
But here's the thing.
God says keeping the law is your righteousness, and it's a filthy rag.
And keeping the law includes not stealing.
Isn't that keeping the law?
Not fornicating, not killing, not committing adultery.
Those are all your righteousness, all those commandments that you keep.
And so if you tell someone, "Hey, you have to stop doing those things.
You have to turn from those sins or be willing to turn from those sins," here's what you're
saying to those people.
"Hey, your righteousness is going to help save you."
It's believing in Jesus and a little bit of your righteousness, you know, where you're
going to turn from some of these sins and stop doing these things.
You're going to, you know, follow the Ten Commandments or whatever.
No, it's Christ our righteousness that's going to save us.
So it says in verse 9 back in Jeremiah 23, and we need preachers.
By the way, there are a lot of preachers who are right on salvation.
They know it's by faith alone.
They know it's by grace.
They know it's not of works.
They know it's not by the righteousness of the law.
But it seems like they're afraid to fight against the false salvation.
You know, they'll preach it right that it's by faith, but why won't they go after this
repent of your sins crowd?
Why won't they go after this work salvation crowd?
Why won't they go after the lose your salvation crowd?
We need some pastors and preachers that are not afraid to throw down and pluck up and
break down and destroy these lies so that they can build and plant that which is correct.