All that Christ did for us was so that all that Christ is could be imparted in us.
Romans 8:3-4 TPT “For God achieved what the law was unable to accomplish because the law was limited by the weakness of human nature. Yet God sent us his Son in human form to identify with human weakness. Clothed with humanity, God’s Son gave his body to be the sin-offering so that God could once and for all condemn the guilt and power of sin. [4] So now, every righteous requirement of the law can be fulfilled through the Anointed One living his life in us. And we are free to live, not according to our flesh, but by the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit!”
The law says: “Here are the rules of the law; they are to be performed by you perfectly so that you might have life.
Grace says: “Here is the life receive Him, and he will perform perfectly in you the righteousness of the law.”
In the sermon on the Mount, Jesus explained the difference between the law and the righteousness of the law by using a number of examples, such as, it’s not enough that you don’t kill your brother; you must not hate your brother in your heart. This is the righteousness of the law or the heart of what the law represents. When you live under the law, you are trying to keep the surface rules to impress God enough that he will value you and bless you. Romans seven says that through the body of Christ, we died to the law that we might be joined to another so that we might bear fruit to God. We all died to rule-keeping and have been enjoying the life-giver. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and death. The more you try to keep the law, the harder you fall, but the more you trust in the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, the higher you rise.
The law says, “Do this and live. Grace says, “Live and do this.”
Jesus said that unless our righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus was obviously not asking us to try even harder than the scribes, and Pharisees did to keep the rules. He was actually requiring something of them that was impossible for them to perform because they were already failing at doing their best to keep the law perfectly. He was setting them up to come to the conclusion that they can never perform enough and that their only hope is to give up on themselves and to throw themselves totally on the grace of God. If You are living performance-based Christianity, the law will eventually crush your face down into the dirt until you finally, in utter helplessness, look up and discover the Spirit of life that is in Christ Jesus that has set you free from the law of sin and death because of the performance of Jesus at the Cross.
You do not have to spend any more time trying to impress God so that he will value you and bless you. Jesus has already impressed God, and because you are now in Christ, the Father values you as much as He values Jesus. By the way, because of that, you already have every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.