Introducing a sermon on this passage, Charles Spurgeon noted that in his day even the evangelical pulpit needed to be evangelized! That's also true today. Justification is one of the basic doctrines of our faith, but justification and the words associated with it such as imputation, righteousness and propitiation are words that are largely lost to the church today. It is not the loss of such big words that I lament, but the loss of the big concepts which those words express. The example of Abraham in the OT establishes the truth that justification has ALWAYS been by grace through faith, and not on the basis of works which we can do. Now Paul shows that David agrees...
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Pastor Bruce Ray has been senior pastor of Juanita Community Church in Kirkland, Washington since 1976. He also serves as a Police, Fire & EMS chaplain. Books include Withhold Not Correction and Celebrating the Sabbath (both published by P&R Publishing). He is a member of the...
