Though faith is not "the righteousness," it is the tie between it and us. It realizes our present standing before God in the excellency of his own Son and it tells us that our eternal standing in the ages to come is in the same excellency and depends on the perpetuity of that righteousness which can never change. For never shall we put off that Christ whom we put on when we believed (Romans 13:14; Galatians 3:27). This divine raiment is "to everlasting." It grows not old, it cannot be torn, and its beauty fades not away.