Deuteronomy 9:4-6 Righteousness

 4When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

5It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 6Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Righteousness

“This is a preview of salvation by grace through faith, in which we cannot think that it is our righteousness that has obtained it. Instead, it is the righteousness we have received in Jesus Christ.” (Guzik)

Stiff-necked “is a figurative expression for stubborn, intractable, obdurate, and hardheaded.” (Kalland)

Do you understand what David Guzik says, “This is a preview of salvation by grace through faith”? There is nothing we can do to earn salvation! It is by grace through faith, because of the righteousness we have “received” in Jesus Christ!

Blessings