234 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 20 - Manifold Results of Salvation

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 20 MANIFOLD RESULTS OF SALVATION We are still dealing with the word `salvation' coming out of Romans 1:16. The "imputed righteousness" of God is involved in the plan of salvation. In other words the moment we believe, God, by an act of imputation, covered us, or gave to our account his righteousness. Romans 3:19 "Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law (now who was under the law? The Jew, Israel, Judaism, Temple worship): that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God." How far out does the Law reach? It was given to the Jew, he practiced it, it was his religion, and his approach to God. But the Law as we understand the Law, primarily the Ten Commandments, didn't stop with the Jew; it reached out to every last human being, not to save them, because the Law couldn't save a Jew either. The Law was on cold tables of stone. Reading on: Romans 3:20 "Therefore by the deeds of the law (in other words, by doing what the law commanded, by doing good) there shall no flesh be justified in his sight (the law can't do anything to justify a person): for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Jesus took the law even further. Romans 3:21 Christ has died and paid the sin debt. That even though the law has nothing to do with our salvation with the imputing of righteousness from God to us, yet everything that you and I enjoy in this Age of Grace rests on what took place back there in the Old Testament. Now verse 22: Romans 3:22 "Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe (do you see that? Paul again is referring to Jew and Gentile. What does it mean to have imputed righteousness? Now remember, that word `imputed' was a bookkeeping term in Paul's day. Genesis 3:21 "Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins (that implies a sacrificial animal. The only way God can receive lost persons is by the shedding of blood. So Adam and Eve have an imputed righteousness that clothed them. An imputed covering clothing of God's righteousness. Isaiah 61:10 "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he (God) hath clothed me with the garments of salvation (Salvation is always used the same way. The imputed righteousness that He has provided. Now reading that verse again: Isaiah 61:10 Now back to Romans Chapter 3. The Scriptures tell us that our righteousness is as filthy rags. Now after we have imputed righteousness as part of our salvation we are `justified.' Romans 3:24 "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:" Why can God justify us? Because we are forgiven. Because we're justified. Which, of course, is prompted by The power of God.Nothing that man can do. Let's read the verse again: Romans 3:24a "Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption..." You have to redeem it. Adam fell, and God lost the human race, so what did He have to do? He had to redeem it. If you don't like the blood, then don't expect to be redeemed. Without the shedding of blood there can be no remission. We have to rest on these basic fundamentals, and one of them is, "Without faith it's impossible to please God" and the second one is, "Without the shedding of blood there can be no remission." Let's go back to the Book of Ephesians Chapter 1. Ephesians 1:7 By faith, and faith alone. I don't have any great plaque on my wall at home from God that tells me I'm forgiven. Colossians 1:14 redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:" So we are a forgiven people. You know I'm always warning people that when we talk about believers coming before the judgment seat of Christ, I imagine there are a lot of believers that think that somehow sin is going to be dealt with at the judgment seat of Christ. The judgment seat is never intended to determine your eternal destiny. Now let's touch on `forgiven.' Well it means that God has wiped the slate clean. Now granted, in our Christian walk we are going to fail, we're going to sin, and fall, but that isn't what God is dealing with in salvation. After we are a child of God, He will deal with our daily sins, and failures by the matter of confession. I have never advocated that. I read a great theologian's book out of London, and he said in that book, "If you really teach and preach the Gospel of Grace as Paul did, then you are going to be accused from time to time of teaching that people who are saved have licenses to sin." "I've been slanderously reported" But we must understand that God's Grace was so great that He forgave past, present, and future based on His Grace, but that's not license. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible