The Possessors of Righteousness
From Redeemed with Judgment: Sermons on Isaiah: Vol. 1, pages 481-482, by Homer C. Hoeksema. _________ “Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever” (Isa. 60:21). Those who inherit the earth are the righteous. They are righteous in the legal or objective sense. They are those who are declared innocent, who are free before the tribunal of God’s justice, and who have a righteousness of God. They are righteous in the deepest sense according to God’s eternal...