The Wednesday Word
Gospel Mercies, Part 2 by D.G. Miles McKee The gospel comes to us with many benefits. These are what we call Gospel Mercies. In the first of this series of messages we discussed ‘Forgiveness’ as one of the excellent mercies from the Throne of Grace. Today we will consider ‘Accepted as Righteous’ and ‘Adoption.’ Accepted as Righteous . Because of the doing, dying and rising again of Christ we are accepted as being righteous. Think about it. We are not merely declared innocent; we are beyond innocent. We are declared righteous and all because of the work of another. We are accepted, in Heaven, because we are in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:6). Righteousness is a wonderful gospel benefit whereby God looks at us and says we have done everything right. We are righteous! We have been acquitted of all charges and Christ’s actual righteousness has been reckoned to us. This is like getting our past expunged and being ...