Righteousness & Holiness. Defining their difference......deno.......share freely.

The difference between Covenant Righteousness and Holiness.....deno.
      Righteousness means ones good and right standing with God. It is a position with God. It is not a deed or work of the Law.
      Abraham believed God and his faith was counted to him for his righteousness way way before Moses was even born. This positioned Abraham (who had not the Law of Moses) in the position of being IN COVENANT WITH GOD AND WALKING WITH GOD (attached, tied together, connected). Abraham was Gods man and God was Abraham's God and exceeding great reward. Abraham's faith was counted for his righteousness without the deeds of the law.
        Righteousness and holiness are two different things. (Faith justifies meaning makes one have right standing with God, & Holiness sanctifies, makes one fit for the Masters use). Righteousness is your position with God BY FAITH. Holiness is from your commitment to Jesus as his bride or wife as to sin not against Him. To help this generation get this I will go out of the box a little to help them see it. Faith connects you, attaches and marries you to Christ. Holiness is your marital spiritual love making to him in faithfulness and purity.
        Because of our weaknesses thru the flesh God chose to save us and justify us BY FAITH in Christ the Passover Lamb and not by the works of the holy law, which Peter and Paul learned from Jesus that no one could keep the Law as to never sin. No not even one. I can't and you can't. Lets not kid ourselves. The Laws standard for righteousness was to keep all its rules and regulations flawlessly, not committing one sin was the demanded standard for righteousness or for RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD by the law. No one but Jesus could do that.
       We needed ANOTHER WAY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THAN THE KEEPING OF THE LAW...this is why Christ came. To give us something to BELIEVE for righteousness just as God came to Abraham to give Abraham words and promises to BELIEVE so that his faith, WHAT HE BELIEVED would be counted to him as his righteousness, his connect, his tie to God, his attachment, HIS RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD.
       Faith in Christ blood, death and resurrection puts us in GOOD POSITION WITH GOD WITHOUT THE DEEDS OF THE LAW JUST AS IT DID ABRAHAM AND YET EVEN IN A GREATER POSITION WITH GOD THAN HE HAD. Abraham was a friend of God on earth. In Christ we are the Sons of God on earth. Big BIG position difference. BETTER POSITION, BETTER COVENANT. BETTER RELATIONSHIP. Abraham called God God, We call Abraham's God our FATHER "dad" DADDY as Jesus did.
       The lost have no right standing with God because of their unbelief. Their position in standing with God is the position of being FAR OFF FROM GOD because of their unbelief. An unbelieving Jew may live by the law of Moses strictly. He may abstain from pork, women, and the world as a separated life by the deeds of the law, BUT BECAUSE HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD AND THE CHRIST, HE HAS NO RIGHTEOUSNESS or RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD. His unbelief condemns him, (it disconnects him, unties, and detaches him from God). That means he is not in right standing with God anymore. His righteousness is ZERO because of his unbelief. Jesus told them, If you do not believe that I am the Son of God and the Christ, then in that standing you will die in your sins. That is not a good position to be in before God.(John 8:24). So concerning the unbelieving Law keeping Jew, his holiness is his great deception and his unbelief is his condemnation. His unbelief condemns him for whatsoever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23)).
       This mentioned above is why Jesus said in John 3:16-18) that he that BELIEVES IN ME IS NOT CONDEMNED (His faith gives him GOOD STANDING WITH GOD), but he that believes not is CONDEMNED ALREADY. Meaning there is nothing God can do for those who are not in the position of right standing with God that can only come from faith in Jesus Christ. Abraham believed Gods promise and HIS FAITH JUSTIFIED HIM AND HIS FAITH WAS COUNTED AS HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, as HIS RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD.
       Therefore we conclude that what we believe and confess about Jesus is VERY IMPORTANT. It is the connect or disconnect positioning place. John 5:24 reveals the glory of those connected, those who believe and whose faith in Jesus Christ blood, death and resurrection is their righteousness THEIR POSITION OF RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD. John 5:24 is powerful good news......deno.