God’s righteousness means that He will and must act in accordance with His own will, His own moral perfections, and His own truthful faithfulness. His character and conduct is always right and must do what is right. The Scripture says: “You are righteous and your judgments are right (Psalm 119.137).

God is righteous and upright (Deuteronomy 32.4). The RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD is an essential quality of God flowing out of His perfect holiness whereby He is morally perfect and always acting in perfect harmony with His character. He cannot deny Himself or go against His own character. God is the standard of what is right and He shall always uphold what is right and cannot deny His own perfect standard.

We may say that the righteousness of God is the glorious expression of His perfect holiness. What makes God to be God and what sets God apart as the glorious Almighty shows itself in His righteousness. Because God is infinitely pure and holy, He must be opposed to all sin (Romans 3.25). This character quality of God is so beautiful that the psalmist extols: “the Lord is righteous and He loves righteousness” (Psalm 11.7). He is righteous in all His ways (Psalm 145.17).  Daniel knew that the Lord is righteous with respect to all His deeds (Daniel 9.14). That means that every single thing God does in all of human history is good and right.

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