But For Us Also – by Joseph A. Cortes
I Peter 1: 18 reads, “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers…” [That still applies today, traditions from our fathers, traditions that we make up.] “…but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”
My friends, all of us prior to being saved by the precious blood of Jesus Christ are corrupt. Even where it concerns our sincerest efforts, we are tarnished with the curse of sin, which leads us to rebellion. There is no getting around it. I repeat, we need His righteousness daily, the imputed righteousness that we read about in Romans 4, the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ. We are saved by God’s righteousness by having faith in Christ, period. There is no getting around that, no faith in anything else, except Jesus Christ.
Romans 4:5, “But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” And then we read in verse 8, “Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”
I’ve told you blessed here means fully satisfied, bathed in the blood, blessed. That is what it means. And “will not impute sin” means He will not pass to his account sin. See, Christ’s righteousness was imputed or counted to Abraham’s record. And look at this: Abraham’s sinful record was imputed to Christ. We would look at that as a bad deal. If I were Christ, and I imputed my righteousness to you, which is acceptable to God the Father, (the only way we can be right with God the Father is through Christ’s righteousness) what did I get in return? What did Christ get? Our sins—Abraham’s, mine and your sins—were imputed to Him on that cross. You’ve heard it many times, Jesus became sin for us and died a sinner’s death. That is the message in Second Corinthians 5, “For he hath made him to be sin” for our benefit, for us, and He knew no sin, but He did it for us. For what reason? That we may be righteous, because we are made righteous by His righteousness in God’s presence.
Talk about the most wonderful gift you can receive. It flows through Christ, but the kicker is, once again, you must have trust and confidence in the Gospel, the message of the good news which brings us to the point where Christ died for our sins. He paid the penalty that He didn’t owe but we owed, that made us right with God if we have trust and confidence in Him. You’ve heard, “That is the deal of the century.” Well what Christ did for us is the deal of eternity! It’s a beautiful message that God was willing to impute God’s own son’s righteousness to us as He did to Abraham and all we must do is believe on Jesus.
Romans 4:22, “And therefore it was imputed to him [Abraham] for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe [pisteuo] on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.”
What a wonderful and amazing Scripture that we are the beneficiaries of “but for us also.”
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