Weekend
Gospel message to follow for All Hands (10-12AUG18)
Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in "SO GREAT SALVATION" by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace -God's unmerited favor- from their sins and from Hell.
Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in "SO GREAT SALVATION" by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace -God's unmerited favor- from their sins and from Hell.
THE
GROUND OF OUR JUSTIFICATION
If
I were asked, What is the ground of our justification (being declared
righteous and accepted) before and with God? I would answer without
hesitation, The righteousness God has provided in and by His Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ, through His obedience unto death, which God has
imputed (charged, accounted) to us.. There is no other ground of
justification before God. Faith is not that ground; repentance is not
that ground; obedience is not that ground. The ground of forgiveness
and acceptance before God is entirely and exclusively the work of
Christ on the cross as God the Father “made Him to be sin for
us” (charging, accounting our sins to Christ), “that
we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (accounting,
charging Christ’s righteousness to us). When this great truth is
ignored, denied, challenged, or confused, the whole Gospel of God’s
sovereign grace and the whole standing of the church is also ignored,
denied, challenged, and confused.
-Gospel
report by preacher Bill Parker
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