11:00 Service:Speaker Winston Pannell, Eager Ave. Grace Church
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.— Hebrews 10:24-25
Blessed is the assembly of justified sinners, brought together, redeemed and baptized into one body by His Spirit, whose love for the Lord Christ and for one another enables us to sing and pray with one heart, walk together in love and worship God in Christ, and give with one motive, the absolute certainty of salvation and final glory conditioned on Christ alone.This is where each member needs to realize the importance of his presence, his prayers, his support, and his cooperation.The Scripture says, "Come go with us, and we will do thee good."This is where we learn and grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord and Savior.This is a foretaste of glory to come, of heaven itself.
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The Doctrines of the Imputation of Sin to Christ,
And the Imputation of His righteousness to His People
I am to show in a positive Sense, how Christ was made Sin. And He was made Sin in the same manner, as we are made the Righteousness of God in Him. Which is imputatively. Blessed is the Man to whom the Lord imputeth Righteousness without Works. Imputation is, reckoning accounting or placing to Account, and esteeming thereupon. The Act of Imputation, therefore, whether, of Sin, or Righteousness, makes no internal Change in the Object of the Act. For it is not a transient Act; but it is an inward Act of the Mind, which cannot produce a physical Change, in the Object upon whom it passes. And, consequently, the Imputation of Sin to Christ, was not, nor could be productive of any internal Change in him. Notwithstanding the placing to his Account, in the divine Mind, our Guilt, or criminal Actions, he remained, innocent, pure, and spotless, in himself. This one thing being duly attended unto, will enable us to answer various of the trifling Objections, which are raised against the Doctrine of the Imputation of our Sins to him, beyond any solid Reply. Some have objected, that if Sin itself was imputed to Christ, he must have been defiled by it. But that is a great Mistake: For Sin, as imputed, defiles not. If it did, the Imputation of it, would be impossible with God, not only with respect to Christ; but also, Sinners themselves; because infinite Purity, cannot put forth any Act which would render the Object of that Act morally impure. If the Imputation of Sin to the guilty Creature does not pollute him, which is a certain Truth: How should the Imputation of it to the Holy Jesus, defile him: Imputation is not Transfusion. In the latter a Person becomes the Subject of that which is transfused. But in the former, no one becomes the Subject of that which is imputed, by the Act of Imputation. And therefore, though the Transfusion of Sin, if that could be, which it cannot, would necessarily defile: The Imputation of it, does not pollute the Object of that Act. And, consequently, the Imputation of Sin to the Blessed Jesus did not, nor could pollute his holy Nature.
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Bearing witness unto the truth.
John 18:37
“For this cause came I into this world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.”
To this declaration from Christ, the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate asked; “what is truth.” (V-38)What a question! The answer is even more astounding. The Truth revealed, uncovers for sinners the “mystery, which has been hid from ages and generations, but is now made manifest to His saints.” (Colossians 1:26)Paul, writing to Timothy in 2 Timothy 1:10 said this mystery “has been made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”
Jesus declared He came into the world to bear witness unto the truth. The word “bear” and the word “witness” are the same word in the Greek. That word is “Mar-too-reh’-o” which means to testify what one has seen, heard or experienced by Divine revelation. Christ came to “witness a witness” unto the truth. He who is “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14), He who is “the Way, the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6), He who alone is true; “Let God be true and every man a liar;” (Romans 3:4) came bearing witness unto the Truth “Which shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
That truth is summarily this: Jesus Christ has abolished death; He has died, the Just for the unjust, (1 Peter 3:18) that we might have life and immortality through His shed blood and imputed righteousness. He put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself, (Hebrews 9:26) by satisfying all the demands of God’s Holy Law and justice against His people and literally “brought life and immortality to light,” (How God can be a Just justifier) unto them through the gospel preached, and by grace alone heard, understood and believed.
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