Righteousness Imputed without works !
Rom 4:6
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man,
unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
6 In the same way, David also pronounces a blessing
on the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from actions:CEB
Actions, Acts, Deeds are all works !
6 David said the same thing when he was talking about the blessing people have
when God accepts them as good without looking at what they have done:
Its extremely hard to find any that Truly believes, understands and appreciates this nugget treasure of Truth found in the sacred oracles, and what it does really mean to have Righteousness given, imputed, charged unto one without works !
Now most of us, if not all of us do believe that a work is something we physically do with our hands or just in a physical sense, yet though that is True, a Work is defind as such, however what the devil has caused many of us to fail to realize, is that a work is also done in and with the mind, the heart ! In fact, the greek word ergon defines a work thusly :
I.business, employment, that which any one is occupied
A.that which one undertakes to do, enterprise, undertaking
II.
any product whatever, any thing accomplished by hand, art, industry, or mind
III.
an act, deed, thing done: the idea of working is emphasised in opp. to that which is less than work
You see that ? Any product whatever, accomplished by MIND:
(in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels,
wills, perceives, judges,
Psychology. the totality of conscious and unconscious mental processes and
activities.
intellect or understanding, as distinguished from the faculties of feeling and willing; intelligence.
intellectual power or ability.
The greek word for mind nous:
I.the mind, comprising alike the faculties of perceiving and understanding and those of feeling, judging, determining
A.the intellectual faculty, the understanding
B.reason in the narrower sense, as the capacity for spiritual truth, the higher powers of the soul, the faculty of perceiving divine things, of recognising goodness and of hating evil
C.the power of considering and judging soberly, calmly and impartially
II.a particular mode of thinking and judging, i.e thoughts, feelings, purposes, desires
Hence, if we believe and say that our hearing, understanding, and believing something, with our intellectual abilities is the reason why God imputes to us Righteousness [which is Salvation], then we are contrary and opposed to the sacred and blessed Truth here described in Rom 4:6, and we are in fact advocating that God imputes Righteousness based upon and on account of my works, the works of my mind, the accomplishment of my mind ! Paul once wrote that he served with his mind Rom 7:25
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then
with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
So again, if we believe that we are saved and or receive Righteousness imputed to our charge because of our believing, our faith, any action we have done, we forfeit any claim to the Blessedness of Rom 4:6 !
6 This is what David meant when he spoke of the happiness of the person
whom God accepts as righteous, apart from anything that person does:GNT
