You must have Christ's righteousness or be unrighteous, and being unrighteous you will be unsaved, and being unsaved you must remain lost forever and ever. It is God's Word, not our comments on God's Word, which saves souls. Dear brethren, if you seek to do good in this world and want a powerful weapon to work with, stick to the gospel, the living gospel. There is power in the gospel of Christ Jesus our Lord to meet the sin and death of human nature. Where the word of the King is, there is power.
Nothing can resist it.
The Word of God is that by which sin is slain and grace is born in the heart. It is the light that brings life with it. It brought us to Christ at the first, and it still leads us to look to Christ until we grow like Him. God's children are not sanctified by legal methods but by the Word. Enclosed from the waste, walled about by grace, planted by instruction, visited by love, weeded by heavenly discipline, and guarded by divine power.