Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and

Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome back to Romans chapter three. Day one, we

establish that none is righteous, not one. Day two, we establish that for by works of the law,

no human being will be justified in God's sight, that it's not what you do that saves you.

Now we're going to get to how one is saved.

Verse 21, he says this, but now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law,

although the law and the prophets bear witness to it. The righteousness of God means this.

Again, I mentioned it yesterday.

That righteousness in the book of Romans doesn't mean right activity. It means a right

standing before God. And he says that this righteousness has been manifested apart from the law,

although the law and prophets bear witness to it. What does this mean? Here's what this

means. There is a pastor that Kyle likes to talk about a lot that very famously said that we are

supposed to unhitch from the New Testament, I mean from the Old Testament. That could not be farther

from the truth. You know who did not think you should unhitch from the Old Testament?

The Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 3. In fact, he says that the point of the entire Old Testament is that the law,

that's what Moses wrote, and the prophets, this is what they would call the Old Testament,

that the law and the prophets bore witness to one thing.

And what the whole Old Testament was about, it was not about laws and legalism

and Ten Commandments. That's not what it was ultimately about. It was all about bearing witness

to this righteousness of God being manifested apart from the law. In other words, all of the Old

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