From that moment when he believes, the believer has been provided with a righteousness which enables him to appear in the presence of God without instant judgment and expulsion. We must remember the words of the prophet Habakkuk. He says of God, “You have purer eyes than to look upon evil and You cannot look upon iniquity” (Hab. 1:13). In that great step of providing His own righteousness to the sinner, God already has made every believer positionally to be one who has been “set apart,” “a saint”