"Man is utterly unable to obey God and to live in agreement with God. This is one truth that man finds the greatest difficulty in learning. He rises up in pride and anger at this truth, denying it with all his being. From where, then, can man learn this truth? Nature does not teach it. The law does not teach it. This truth lies hidden in the Lord Jesus (Rom. 8:2-4). The law can never bring man to a perfect righteousness, for man can never perfectly obey the law. Man's fleshly nature, being corrupted by sin, has been made weak and unable to obey the law.
Only Christ can bring man to a perfect righteousness. Christ does this by paying the punishment for our sin and setting us free from its guilt, and by imputing to us his perfect righteousness and so setting us free from having to justify ourselves by our own attempted self-righteousness."
-John Owen, Communion With God, Pg. 92
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