Christ told the people this to completely unnerve them. Their understanding of righteousness was wrong. He wanted them to understand that there was a new definition for righteousness and they had to let go the old definition. <p>The new righteousness is the righteousness of faith by which the righteousness of the Lord is imputed to believers in Jesus Christ.<p>The KingdomOfHeaven is the HolySpirit who issues from the SpiritRealm into the PhysicalRealm.