Bible Question:
e.g. (Ecclesiastes 12:14) For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. In new testament, there seems have this kind of Scriptures or content. But, I can't find it (them) out at this moment. Am I wrong? I trust Jesus loves and cleaned out my sins, however, the above kind of Scriptures in Bible make me confuse and affect me to ask a question that will God recover my sins and count them when I see HIm in future. If my sins to be judged, how to explain Jesus clean out my sins? |
Bible Answer: Dear ABC, If you are saved, then you have been judged already. Justification cannot have been applied without judgment having taken place. "God freely justifies the persons whom He effectually calls. He does this, not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins and by accounting them, and accepting them, as righteous. This He does for Christ's sake alone, and not for anything wrought in them or done by them. The righteousness which is imputed to them, that is, reckoned to their account, is neither their faith nor the act of believing nor any other obedience to the gospel which they have rendered, but Christ's obedience alone. Christ's one obedience is twofold-His active obedience rendered to the entire divine law, and His passive obedience rendered in His death.Those thus justified receive and rest by faith upon Christ's righteousness; and this faith they have, not of themselves, but as the gift of God. (John 1:12; Romans 3:24; 4:5-8; 5:17-19; 8:30; 1Corinthians 1:30-31; Ephesians 1:7; 2:8-10; Philippians 3:8,9)" --LBCF (chapter 11, paragraph 1) "There is no such thing as merit; but all who are justified are justified for nothing (gratis), and this is credited to no one but to the grace of God . For Christ alone it is proper to help and save others with His merits and works." --Martin Luther "Justification is a judicial act of God, in which He declares, on the basis of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, that all the claims of the law are satisfied with respect to the sinner." --Louis Berkhof "Justification, the cardinal principle of the Reformation... It refers to the divine act whereby God freely makes humans, who are sinful and therefore worthy of condemnation, acceptable before a God who is holy and righteous. 'Justification is forensic (that is, it is courtroom language).' We are declared, counted or reckoned to be righteous when God imputes the righteousness of Christ (an 'alien righteousness') to our account. In other words, the Judge of all the earth declares us 'not guilty' when we believe because Christ was pronounced 'guilty' for us on the cross. We are not first made righteous, then declared righteous; we are declared righteous by grace through faith in Christ, then made righteous! When we believe, God imputes Christ's righteousness to us 'as if' it were our own. However, it is HIS righteousness, that is why Paul says in Romans 1:17 that there is a righteousness that has been revealed from God, a righteousness not of our own, but a righteousness revealed from God and freely given to those who do not work, but to those who believe." --Charles R. Biggs In Him, Doc |
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