KenH
Well-Known Member
God sent His Son into the world to die on the cross as the Surety and Substitute of His chosen people. The obedience of Jesus Christ unto death was NOT to make salvation a mere possibility for sinners upon condition of their cooperation by faith and repentance. He died to insure and secure the complete salvation of all whom the Father had given Him and to bring them to faith and repentance. He died to establish righteousness for them so that God would be just in saving them by His love, mercy, and grace. The ground of salvation is the righteousness of God which is the merit (value, quality, virtue, excellence) of the obedience unto death of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is HIS righteousness imputed (charged, accounted, credited, reckoned) to His people by which God justifies them forever. It is the death of Christ that insures spiritual life for all His people. They will be born again and brought to faith in Him and repentance of dead works and idolatry. It is the blood of Christ (His righteousness imputed) that brings spiritual and eternal life to all His people. This is why the Gospel is the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ and His righteousness as the only way and ground of salvation. This is why the Gospel commands all who hear it to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, plead His blood (His righteousness) as their only hope and ground of salvation. This is why the Gospel commands sinners to repent as they turn to Christ and forsake themselves and all that they by nature highly esteem in (and from) themselves for salvation.
- excerpt from Bill Parker's Rightly Dividing the Word Rightly_Dividing_the_Word_PDF.pdf (b5z.net)
- excerpt from Bill Parker's Rightly Dividing the Word Rightly_Dividing_the_Word_PDF.pdf (b5z.net)
