Monday, April 10, 2017

Imputing Righteousness to Your Account

Romans 4:4-8 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.”

I read this great little devotional on “righteousness” with God, which is defined in the 1828 as: ‘Purity of heart and rectitude of life; conformity of heart and life to the divine law. Righteousness, as used in Scripture and theology, in which it is chiefly used, is nearly equivalent to holiness, comprehending holy principles and affections of heart, and conformity of life to the divine law. It includes all we call justice, honesty and virtue, with holy affections; in short, it is true religion’.

2 Corinthians 5:21 “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”


God imputes righteousness to you through His Son. What does “impute” mean? The 1828 Webster’s dictionary defines “impute” as: ‘Charge to the account of; attribute to or ascribe to’. So, righteousness put on your account. At the moment you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, God makes you righteous. The sins of the world (including yours and mine) were imputed to Jesus Christ on the cross and our sinless Savior’s righteousness was imputed to the Believer by faith through grace. A woman was asked one day what it felt like to be saved and she replied, “It feels as though I am standing in Jesus’ shoes and He is standing in mine.” A scholar or theologian couldn’t have said it any better. 


Romans 3:21-23 “But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Thank God that though you are a sinner, He doesn’t impute it to you, and though you are not righteous, He imputes—puts into your account— righteousness to you!

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