Christ’s obedience and sufferings are a satisfaction so complete to all the demands of the law and justice of God, and a price so full for our eternal redemption, that nothing can be added to it. Such is the infinite dignity of Christ’s person that his fulfillment of the broken law is sufficient to balance [...]
Justification
To be entitled to use another’s name, when my own name is worthless; to be allowed to wear another’s raiment, because my own is torn and filthy; to appear before God in another’s person – the person of the Beloved Son – this is the summit of all blessing. The sin-bearer and I have exchanged [...]
Can Paul and James be reconciled on the matter of Justification? That is the question that was posed by John Samson over at Effectual Grace. To answer that question he provided the following quotes from Dr. R.C. Sproul: If justification is by faith alone, how can we apply James 2:24, which says a person is [...]
The whole concept of hell is so ghastly and difficult even to comprehend that we have a visceral response of denial to it. We cannot imagine any of our loved ones ever being assigned to such a dreadful place. We also find in our culture a rejection of the whole idea of a final judgment. [...]
Among all the realities of the invisible world, mediated to us by the disclosures and promises of God, and to which our faith responds, there is none that more strongly calls into action this faculty for grasping the unseen than the divine pronouncement through the Gospel, that, though sinners, we are righteous in the judgment [...]
If justification is by faith alone, how can we apply James 2:24, which says a person is justified by what he does, not his faith alone? That question is not critical only today, but it was in the eye of the storm we call the Protestant Reformation that swept through and divided the Christian church [...]
This is a wonderful explanation of Justification by Faith Alone from Pastor Allistair Begg, founder of Truth for Life. Via: Tim Phillips
The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals recently posted a video on their Facebook page of Dr. R.C. Sproul responding to a question about justification by faith or by perfect obedience. Here is the audio version of his response which is just terrific. It is vintage Sproul…
I discovered the following quote by John Owen while spending some time tonight reading about justification and imputation. Dr. Owen made the following statement regarding the doctrine of justification in a chapter titled “Imputation, and the Nature of It.” yet is it so fallen out in our days that nothing in religion is more maligned, [...]
No man shall ever behold the glory of Christ by sight in heaven who does not, in some measure, behold it by faith in this world. Grace is a necessary preparation for glory and faith for sight. —John OwenThe Glory of Christ Via: Of First Importance
