TITLE: 1. FULLY CONVINCED, 2. WRITTEN FOR OUR SAKE
Text: Romans 4 vs 13-25
1. "Closing" Romans 4, but it does spill over into Romans 5 as Paul continued to make His case of IMPUTATION and RIGHTEOUSNESS APART FROM THE LAW.
2. God developed the testimony of Abraham as an exhibit of how He would deal with all His elect in the matter of salvation (inheritance, righteousness, promise).
3. Paul argued the principle and person by which this would happen. He said, God transacts all matters of blessing exclusively through the Promise (Salvation through Christ).
4. And in this Christ, there is ground and given the righteousness of God. The righteousness that is consistent with promise (Grace).
5. He also called that righteousness, the righteousness of faith. In other words, the righteousness that is apart from Law (human obedience). Our faith is not the righteousness, but looks to the righteousness of the faithful Christ.
6. The righteousness of faith is the righteousness of DOING NOTHING, but of RESTING in the ONE WHO ACCOMPLISHED.
7. And central to this transaction is the doctrine of IMPUTATION. Imputation is a reckoning or crediting of something to another person.
8. It does not involve a material change, but rather a legal accounting, such that our sins were legally reckoned to Christ and His righteousness freely accounted to us. So, Christians are still sinful people, even the best of them are sinners, but all possess the same righteousness IMPUTED.
9. Apart from IMPUTATION there is no legal grounds to justify a sinner, because they could never attain to that righteousness by which God is pleased or satisfied (propitiated).
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