The Holy Spirit Is Responsible To Make Us Righteous

For we, [not relying on the Law but] through the [Holy] Spirit's [help], by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God [our conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action, causes us] to hope. For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love. Galatians 5:5-6

The Holy Spirit is responsible for bringing our righteousness. The Holy Spirit is Who we rely on: He is our only Strength, He Alone is our Teacher, our Advocate, and He Alone is our Stand By.

But the Comforter (Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, Strengthener, Standby), the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name [in My place, to represent Me and act on My behalf], He will teach you all things. And He will cause you to recall (will remind you of, bring to your remembrance) everything I have told you. John 14:26

It is insulting to our Father to believe that our works make us right. Yet so many believe in their works and while believing that works bring us favor with God sounds religious, it is the message of the anti-christ. If a person believes that we are justified by keeping a law, then they are separated from Christ, Galatians 5:1! To believe this way is like believing that a child must do works to earn the attention and love of their father. If a parent needs a child to do things for them to love and pay attention to them, then they are lousy parents. 

Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

Our freedom is that Jesus is the only reason that we have faith. True faith is not a human ability to believe God, faith is Jesus’ ability to believe God working through us.

I have made Your Name known to them and revealed Your character and Your very Self, and I will continue to make [You] known, that the love which You have bestowed upon Me may be in them [felt in their hearts] and that I [Myself] may be in them. John 17:26

Our peace that passes all understanding is that Jesus lives to make our Father known to us so that we may have His very love dwelling within us. There is nothing that we do first in Christ, we are never separated from our Head to initiate anything on our own. We have no part to play that is separate from Jesus. We are told in the Bible that we have to have faith and love, and the Truth is that Jesus is our source for both. It is impossible for a man to have true faith and love on his own. Everything must come directly from our Head first, John 3:27. If we believe that you must do any work on our own, then we are told that we have no part in Christ.