The Blessing of Imputation
The
blessing of God’s grace in what He calls “imputation” has both
a positive and a negative sense. Both are described by the apostle
Paul in Romans 4 and both are inseparably joined together. Also, as
all spiritual blessings are, they are in Jesus Christ and Him
crucified. Paul says first in verse 6, “Even as David also
describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth
righteousness without works.” Secondly, it has to do with what
he says in verse 8. “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will
not impute sin.”
God
has not imputed our sins to us and He has imputed righteousness to us
without works. He laid our sins on Christ who died for them and He
made us the very righteousness of God in Him. What was said of
Abraham can be said of every person in Christ and it is enjoyed by
each of them through believing. “Abraham believed God, and it
was counted unto him for righteousness.” What a joy it is to
look to Christ crucified and to count all things as God has counted
them!
-Gospel
report by preacher Gary Shepard
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