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[1] {righteousness of God}
The righteousness of God is neither an attribute of God, not the
changed character of the believer, but Christ Himself, who fully met
in our stead and behalf every demand of the law, and who is, but the
act of God called imputation
# Le 25:50 Jas 2:23
"made unto us . . .righteousness"
# 1Co 1:30
"The believer in Christ is now, by grace, shrouded under so complete
and blessed a righteousness that the law from Mt. Sinai can find
neither fault nor diminution therein. This is that which is called
the righteousness of God by faith."--Bunyan.
# 2Co 5:21 Ro 4:6 10:4 Php 3:9 Ro 3:26
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[2] {sinned}
Sin, Summary: The literal meanings of the Heb. and Gr. words
variously rendered "sin," "sinner," etc., disclose the true nature of
sin in its manifold manifestations. Sin is \\transgression\\, an
overstepping of the law, the divine boundary between good and evil
# Ps 51:1 Lu 15:29
\\iniquity\\, an act inherently wrong, whether expressly forbidden or
not; \\error\\, a departure from right
# Ps 51:9 Ro 3:23
\\missing the mark\\, a failure to meet the divine standard; \\trespass\\,
the intrusion of self-will into the sphere of divine authority
# Eph 2:1
\\lawlessness\\, or spiritual anarchy
# 1Ti 1:9
\\unbelief\\, or an insult to the divine veracity
# Joh 16:9
Sin originated with Satan
# Isa 14:12-14
entered the world through Adam
# Ro 5:12
was, and is, universal, Christ alone excepted
# Ro 3:23 1Pe 2:22
incurs the penalties of spiritual and physical death
# Ge 2:17 3:19 Eze 18:4,20 Ro 6:23
and has no remedy but in the sacrificial death of Christ
# Heb 9:26 Ac 4:12
availed of by faith
# Ac 13:38,39
Sin may be summarized as threefold: An \\act\\, the violation of, or
want of obedience to the revealed will of God; a \\state\\, absence of
righteousness; a \\nature\\, enmity toward God.
04871
[1] {Redemption}
Redemption, "to deliver by paying a price." The N.T. doctrine. The N.T.
records the fulfilment of the O.T. types and prophecies of redemption
through the sacrifice of Christ. The completed truth is set forth in the
three words which are translated redemption (1) agorazo, "to purchase in
the market." The underlying thought is of a slave-market. The subjects
of redemption are "sold under sin"
# Ro 7:14
but are, moreover, under sentence of death
# Eze 18:4 Joh 3:18,19 Ro 3:19 Ga 3:10
and the purchase price is the blood of the Redeemer who dies in their
stead
# Ga 3:13 2Co 5:21 Mt 20:28 Mr 10:45 1Ti 2:6 1Pe 1:18
(2) exagorazo, "to buy out of the market." The redeemed are never
again to be exposed to sale
(3) lutroo, "to loose," "to set free by paying a price"
# Joh 8:32 Ga 4:4,5,31 5:13 Ro 8:21
Redemption is by sacrifice and by power
See note "Ex 14:30"
Christ paid the price, the Holy Spirit makes deliverance actual in
experience
# Ro 8:2
See also
» See Note "Isa 59:20"
» See Note "Ro 1:16"
04872
[2] {propitiation}
Lit. a propitiatory [sacrifice], through faith by his blood; Gr.
hilasterion, "place of propitiation." The word occurs,
# 1Jo 2:2 4:10
as the trans. of hilasmos, "that which propitiates," "a propitiatory
sacrifice." Hilasterion is used by the Septuagint, and
# Heb 9:5
for "mercy-seat." The mercy-seat was sprinkled with atoning
blood in the day of atonement
# Le 16:14
in token that the righteous sentence of the law had been (typically)
carried out, so that what must else have been a judgment-seat could
righteously be a mercy-seat
# Heb 9:11-15 4:14-16
a place of communion
# Ex 25:21,22
In fulfilment of the type, Christ is Himself the hilasmos, "that which
propitiates," and the hilasterion, "the place of propitiation"--the
mercy-seat sprinkled with His own blood--the token that in our stead
He so honoured the law by enduring its righteous sentence that God,
who ever foresaw the cross, is vindicated in having "passed over"
sins from Adam to Moses
# Ro 5:13
and the sins of believers under the old covenant
» See Note "Ex 29:33"
and just in justifying sinners under the covenant. There is no thought
in propitiation of placating a vengeful God, but of doing right by His
holy law and so making it possible for Him righteously to show mercy.
04873
[3] {righteousness}
"His righteousness" here is God's consistency with His own law and
holiness in freely justifying a sinner who believes in Christ; that is,
one in whose behalf Christ has met every demand of the law
# Ro 10:4
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[4] {Justification}
Justification, Summary: Justification and righteousness are inseparably
united in Scripture by the fact that the same word (dikaios, "righteous";
dikaioo, "to justify") is used for both. The believing sinner is
justified because Christ, having borne his sins on the cross, has been
"made unto him righteousness"
# 1Co 1:30
Justification originates in grace
# Ro 3:24 Tit 3:4,5
is through the redemptive and propitiatory work of Christ, who has
vindicated the law
# Ro 3:24,25 5:9
is by faith, not works
# Ro 3:28-30 4:5 5:1 Ga 2:16 3:8,24
and may be defined as the judicial act of God whereby He justly
declares righteous one who believes on Jesus Christ. It is the Judge
Himself
# Ro 8:31-34
who thus declares. The justified believer has been in court, only to
learn that nothing is laid to his charge.
# Ro 8:1,33,34
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[5] {Do we then}
The sinner establishes the law in its right use and honour by confessing
his guilt, and acknowledging that by it he is justly condemned. Christ,
on the sinner's behalf, establishes the law by enduring its penalty,
death.
Cf.
# Mt 5:17,18
04880
[1] {works}
Cf.
# Jas 2:24
These are two aspects of one truth. Paul speaks of that
which justifies man before God, viz.: faith alone, wholly apart from
works; James of the proof before men, that he who professes to have
justifying faith really has it. Paul speaks of what God sees--faith;
James of what men see--works, as the visible evidence of faith. Paul
draws his illustration from
# Ge 15:6
James from
# Ge 22:1-19
James' key phrase is "ye see"
# Jas 2:24
for men cannot see faith except as manifested through works.