Redemption accomplished and applied - Murray - IX - Part 2, Chapter 5

Still joining in with the Challies reading group.


Required reading
Redemption Accomplished and Applied by John Murray (available from Amazon) - Part 2, Chapter 5, 'Justification'.

My summary
Murray teaches us that Justification does not mean to make righteous, good, holy or upright.  Rather justification means:
(i) We are declared legally righteous (biblical evidence may be found in both testaments)
(ii) We are constituted righteous (meaning we receive righteousness as a free gift and that righteousness is not our own but the righteousness of Jesus).

Then to close, Murray shows that we are justified by faith and faith is the prerequisite to justification.

What grabbed me

Nice little illustration to show the forensic nature of justification: 'Regeneration is an act of God in us; justification is a judgment of God with respect to us.  The distinction is like that of the distinction between the act of a surgeon and the act of a judge.  The surgeon, when he removes an inward cancer, does something in us.  That is not what a judge does - he gives a verdict regarding our judicial status.  If we are innocent he declares accordingly.'


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