The Golden Chain - Robert J. Wieland
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upon Christ, or that He in any way yielded to<br />
corruption"(5BC 1128, 1129)?<br />
<strong>The</strong> two key verbs in this expression are:<br />
"rested" and "yielded? Christ's righteousness is the<br />
result of a "verb" and not a mere "noun." He<br />
always did righteousness; and He could not have<br />
done righteousness unless he chose to. Adam was<br />
created sinless, and if we were to say he was<br />
"righteous" in his sinless state (which it seems<br />
Ellen White or the Bible never says he was) we<br />
would have to imply by that expression that<br />
righteousness was innate in him and it was not by<br />
choice that he was "sinless." But the glory of<br />
Christ's righteousness is that it was by choice that<br />
He was sinless, and not by an innate, preprogrammed,<br />
automaton "nature."<br />
He explains the truth, telling us that He had<br />
taken upon Himself a natural will that was opposed<br />
to His Father's will, and thus He had the same<br />
struggle with "self that we have: "I do not seek My<br />
own will, but the will of the Father who sent Me;"<br />
"I have come down from heaven, not to do My<br />
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