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Where we began several weeks ago
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Doctrine means what the whole Bible has to say about a particular
topic or subject.
Doctrine of God
Doctrine of Gods word
Doctrine of man
Doctrine of Christ
Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Doctrine of Salvation Doctrine of the church
Doctrine of end times
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The Doctrine of Salvation
The DOCTRINE OF FAITH
The five things we need to learn about "FAITH."
1. Why is it important to understand faith? (mans perspective)2. What is faith?
3. What does savingfaith look like from the Bible?
4. How does this faith work?
5. Why is it important to understand faith (Gods perspective)
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Faith credited as righteousness
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Romans
241 occurrences in the NT
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General Observations for further discussion
Romans 433 verses and 62 ImperativesThis is an epistle about how one gets saved
James 108 verses and 57 imperatives
This is an epistle about how one lives in light of their salvation
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40 Occurrences of the word credited in the NT
Romans
19
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91 occurrences of righteousness in the NT
34
Romans
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Rom. 4:3 For what does the Scripture say? ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND ITWAS
CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Rom. 4:5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his
faith is credited as righteousness,
Rom. 4:6just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits
righteousness apart from works:
Rom. 4:9 Is this blessing then on 1athe circumcised, or on 2the uncircumcised also? For we
say,F
AIT
H WAS CREDITED
TO ABRAHAM AS RIG
HTEOUSNESS.
Rom. 4:11 and he areceived the sign of circumcision,ba seal of the righteousness of the faith
which 1he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be cthe father ofdall who believe without
being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,
Rom. 4:22 Therefore IT WAS ALSO CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Galatians 3:6 1Even so Abraham BELIEVED GOD, AND ITWAS RECKONED TO HIM
AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
James 2:23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says,AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD,
AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS, and he was called the friend of
God.
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Faith is credited as Righteousness
Illustration:
I have a check for $100.
I drive to the bank and fill out a deposit ticket.
I give it to the teller and I receive back a deposit receipt.
I go home and open my banking account online.
And sure enough there it is $100 has been credited to my
account.
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So when we read in Genesis 15:6 - Abraham believed and God
credited it to his account as righteousness. It would be very easy
to form the category as follows:Illustration:
Salvation costs 1 billion dollars and Abraham can only come up
with $100,000 which we will call faith.
And God sees that Abraham has $100,000 and therefore because
of His mercy and grace credits that to his account and makes up
all the rest and therefore now considers Abraham to be righteous.
Abraham is now accepted,forgiven and righteous before Godbecause I credit your faith as the righteousness that I demand.
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Or is getting saved very, very different than that?
It is not God seeing a righteousness in us or something that we doand Him somehow making up the difference.
But rather could it be "faith being reckoned as righteousness"
means there is an alien righteousness namely the righteousness of
God in Christ which is credit to our account THROUGH faith.
And the fact that He credits faith as righteousness DOES NOT
mean the faith is the righteousness.
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Why is this so very important that we come to understand what
the crediting of righteous means to our salvation?
Because it is so subject to misunderstanding today in thechurch
It forms the very basis of HOW we have been justified. And
we know that correct believing is foundational for correct
behaving.
The apostle Paul invests all his writing in Chapter 4 in order to
do an exposition on what faith is credited as righteousness
means.
Does your legal standing before the Judge of the universe as
acquitted, accepted, approved, and not guilty before God, does
that legal standing rest on a righteousness in you or does it rest on
the righteousness of Christ?
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You need to know HOW the doctrine of faith works.
That means it is very important to understand what crediting orimputation means.
Imputation comes from the word IMPUTE.
Impute means to think of a belonging to someone, and therefore tocause it to belong to that person. God thinks of Adams sin as
belonging to us and it therefore belongs to us, and in justification
he thinks of Christs righteousness as belonging to us and so
relates to us on this basis.
There is a difference between imputation and impartation.
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The impartation is when the Holy Spirit works in us to transform us
by His power into the likeness of Christ. And we start to see fruit of
the Spirit in our lives.
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But this impartation has a foundation that it rests on, and it rests
on the foundation of imputation.
You must be reckoned as perfect before God before you can ever
make any progress at becoming good.
Remember a few week ago when I read from Ephesians 4:14
As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and
there by waves andcarried about by every wind of doctrine, by
the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
We need to become trees and not leaves. And the only thing that
keeps you from being blown around in this life is to get your
roots down deep into Biblical truth.
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So, what does Paul mean when he writes faith is credited as
righteousness ?
In Romans 4:6 we see the words "God credits righteousness" apart
from works. And look at Romans 4:11 "that righteousness might be
credited to them."
We have now a new object of the verb. Paul doesn't say that God
credits faith as righteousness.
In verse 6 and 11 we have this thought coming out in Paul's writing.
He is talking about a righteousness that is imputed to you.
The very least that this implies is this:
When you read that "his faith is credited as righteousness" then you
should think,the righteousness of God in Christ is credited to you
through faith apart from works.
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Romans 3:21 - "the righteousness of God" means that God always
cherishes that which is most infinitely valuable. Therefore the
righteousness of God is God's unwavering allegiance to His own
glory. It is always right for God to uphold His glory because the
infinite worth of the universe is bound up in the glory of God.
We have fallen short of His glory and therefore what we need
imputed to our account is the unwavering allegiance to the glory ofGod.
Romans 3:21-22 shows that the righteousness of God is
THROUGH faith, it is not faith itself.
Faith is not the righteousness but it is the faith that joins us to the
righteousness which is Christ.
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Analogy of Butner and his computer party
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When Paul writes; God credits Abraham's faith as righteousness He
doesn't mean that the faith is the righteousness.
He means that Christ performed a righteousness that is outside of
Abraham and it is pure, perfect and undefiled.
And now God looks upon our faith as the unifying element and
says for the sake of faith I will count the righteousness of Christ to
your account in order that you might inherit all
the promises that are in Him.
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How does this truth apply to me this afternoon?
This teaches me that my standing before God is not dependent on
my obedience but rather my standing before God is dependent on
Christ's obedience for me.
This teaches me that our good works do not gain God's favor and our
bad works do not lose God's favor.
This teaches me that the gospel is not rooted in my behavior for God
but rather in Christ's behavior for me.
This teaches me that my standing with God is not based on anything
that I do but in fact is based on everything that Jesus has done for
me.
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For by grace you have been saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves, it is the gift ofGod;
Ephesians 2:8
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For by grace you have been saved through faith;
and that not of yourselves, it is the gift ofGod;
Ephesians 2:8
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Why is justification faith so important from Gods perspective?
1. Exalt the glory of God
2. Give assurance that is eternal (accords with grace)
3. Puts down our Pride (excludes boasting)
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READ ROMANS CHAPTER4
Romans 4:25
Commenting on the words, was raised for our justification,
Denney says: He was delivered up on account of our offences
to make atonement for them; and He was raised on account of our
justificationthat it might become an accomplished fact. Pauldoes ascribe expiatory value to the death or blood of Christ: in
the sense it is true the work of Christ was finished on the Cross.
But Paul never thought of that by itself: he knew Christ only as
the Risen One who had died, and who had the virtue of His
atoning death ever in Him;
Wuest, K. S. (1997). Wuest's word studies from the Greek New
Testament : For the English reader (Ro 4:23). Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans.