Blessed Teaching of Imputation!

"For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him"

 -II CORINTHIANS 5:21 [KJV]

"He" – God the Father who designed the salvation of a multitude of sinners before the world began. "Hath made Him" – God the Son who was appointed by the Father in the covenant of peace to be Surety for all those entrusted to Him by sovereign, electing grace. "Made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin" – The only way the holy, impeccable, eternal Son of God could be made sin was by imputation.

The sins of all His chosen people were reckoned to, charged to, transferred to the account of the appointed Savior of sinners. "Hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin" – This is that body of people, chosen unto salvation, set apart from the rest of the perishing world according to God’s eternal purpose of grace. "Might be made" – These words do not imply that maybe these will be made the righteousness of God, and maybe they will not. They mean “in order that” and declare a certain result.

"The righteousness of God in Him." – As Christ could only be made sin by imputation, so the only way sinners could be made righteous was for the righteousness of Christ to be imputed unto them. This is that everlasting righteousness referenced in Daniel 9:24 which Christ Jesus brought in by His substitutionary death and resurrection. The transgressions of the world of God’s elect are not charged to them [II CORINTHIANS 5:19] but to Christ, and His righteousness is imputed to them. They are, therefore, declared by God to be legally acquitted of all guilt. "Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth" [ROMANS 8:33].


-preacher Jim Byrd of Thirteenth Street Baptist church of Ashland, Kentucky USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

CHRIST OUR ONLY AND PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS

" The flesh lusteth against the Spirit." —Galatians 5:17 [KJV] Christian experience fully proves this apostolic truth. Hence the children of God cannot do the things that they would: nor have we any authority from God's word to conclude this lusting ever ceased in any of the saints till they got to glory; none are delivered from it while in the flesh. For, as the renewed soul or spirit loves to enjoy spiritual and heavenly objects, so the flesh, or unrenewed part, lusts after those objects it is naturally conversant with, and from which it derives its happiness.  Here is thy conflict, O Christian. Hence the necessity of thy Lord's command, "Watch always." This is the use of the doctrine. What woeful effects have fulfilling the lusts or desires of the flesh produced in eminent saints! Thou standest by faith, be not high-minded, but fear. The conceptions of lust are the productions of sin.— see James 1:15 . The commission of sin contracts fresh s
Read more

Incoming GOOD NEWS!

  Weekend Gospel message to follow for All Hands   (17-19SEP21) 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 to save us  from our sins and from Hell: HOW GOD SAVES SINNERS In Genesis chapter six and seven we have the story of the flood and how God  saved Noah and his family from the horrendous destruction by putting them  into an Ark. We see the righteous judgment of God against sin and the mercy  of God revealed through Christ. The Ark of God is a worthy picture and  pattern of how the Lord is pleased to save sinners and justify them in Jesus  Christ. Here are five things to remember about how God saves sinners. 1). The grace of God , "Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD" (Genesis 6:8) .  Noah did not earn, merit or deserve grace, he found God to be gracious. It  was the sovereign
Read more

3 LIES ABOUT GOD & 3 TRUTHS ABOUT GOD

 I want to share three lies about God I’ve recently seen tossed about on social media as truth by professed believers: (1) God can move in your life.......if you permit Him. (2) Christ can be Lord.......if you confess Him. (3) God can do anything ........except overcome a man’s will. Friends, if God doesn’t even have sovereignty over the human heart (without being granted permission, of course) who is serving who? Who really has all power in this universe? Many of you reading this post pray to God for the salvation of your loved ones. Yet you believe it is your loved one who has to grant God permission to save! God is left only to making their life miserable in the hopes they come to Him. Such foolishness! Such powerlessness! Truth #1 : God moves in the lives of His children without human permission . Truth #2 : Men do not make Christ Lord. He IS Lord. Your current opinion of Him no more changes His Lordship over you than if you declared a boiling lava pit to be a s
Read more