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Justification by the Imputed Righteousness of Christ!

“ The doctrine of justification by the righteousness of Christ is a doctrine of great importance; the apostle speaks of it as if the essence of the gospel lay in it and calls the opposite to it, justification by the works of the law, "another gospel" (Galatians 1:6-7; 3:8) . It is a fundamental article of the gospel; some have called it, the "basis" of Christianity...This doctrine is the ground and foundation of all solid joy, peace, and comfort, in this life, and hope of eternal glory hereafter.” – Gospel report by preacher John Gill (1697–1771 A.D.)

The Necessary Revelation

In spite of what false religion says in our day, Christ and His word still say, "All things are delivered unto Me of My Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and h e to whomsoever the Son will reveal Him" (Matthew 11:27) . No man can by searching find out God, God must reveal Himself to us and in us. This He does to His people through the word of the truth of the gospel and by His Holy Spirit. He does this, as Paul says, when it pleases Him to do so. He cannot be hurried, and His hand cannot be stayed. Paul’s description of his own experience is the same with all that God saves: "But when it pleased God, Who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood" (Galatians 1:15-16) . Not even the clearest preaching of the gospel alone will avail for sinners wh
"The light of the glorious gospel of Christ, W ho is the image of God." - II Corinthians 4:4 [KJV] Oh! what beauty and blessedness shine forth in the gospel, when we view it connected with the Person and work of the Son of God! Take the doctrines of grace isolated from the Person of Christ; they are scattered limbs; there is no beauty in them; but view the truths of the gospel, in connection with the Person and work of the Son of God, what a heavenly light, what a divine glory is cast upon every truth connected with His sacred Person, atoning blood, finished work, and dying love! This is the way to receive the gospel: not as a thing of shreds and patches, a mere collection or scheme of certain doctrines floating up and down God's word, as waifs and strays from a stranded ship; but as one harmonious gospel, full of grace, mercy, and truth, impregnated with divine blessedness, and all connected with, all springing out of, the Person of the God-man. How it