The Blessedness of Christ dying for our sins ? 2
All for whom Christ died are the man that is called blessed here in Rom 4:8
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Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.
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Blessed and happy and to be envied is the person of
whose sin the Lord will take no account nor reckon it against him.
John Gill on this verse:
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. As he does not to those whom he justifies in Christ, and by his righteousness; for the sins of such he has imputed to his Son, as their surety; and he has bore them, took them away, having made full satisfaction for them; so that these persons will never be charged with them: they now appear before the throne without fault, and are blameless and irreproveable in the sight of God, and therefore must be eternally happy; for he will never think of their sins any more to their hurt; he will remember them no more; he "will never reckon them to them", but acquit them from them, justify and accept them; wherefore they must be secure from wrath and condemnation, enjoy much peace and comfort now, and be happy hereafter.
Now again, Rom 4:8 is foundational on 1 Cor 15:3
3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
Now this is true because the sins that are not imputed to those of Rom 4:8 as well as 2 Cor 5:19, those sins were by the Justice of God Imputed to Christ, He must die for them, not them, that was the suretyship arrangement before the world began. That means Christ became the principle debtor to God's Law and Justice for them !
Then again we looked at the effects of sin not being imputed to those in Rom 4:8 and 2 Cor 5:19, which #1 is forgiveness of sins Rom 4:7
7 Saying,
Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Barnes quotes calvin here on this vere saying:
Whose sins are covered - Are concealed; or hidden from the view. On which God will no more look, and which he will no more remember. "By these words," says Calvin (in loco), "we are taught that justification with Paul is nothing else but pardon of sin."
And I concur that Forgiveness of sins is Justification / Acquittal before God.
Its what Paul means by Justification here Rom 8:33
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Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
That's the result of God not imputing sin Rom 4:8 !
And #2. Its Righteousness Imputed without works [doings,actions,obeying] Rom 4:6
6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto
whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
To better understand this concept , its just like how adam's sin was imputed to them without their act of actual disobedience, so likewise Christ's Righteousness is imputed to them without their actual act of obedience !
Now understand this Righteousness Imputed to us is the reciprocal exchange for sin Imputed to Christ. 2 Cor 5:21
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he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
He by imputation was made sin [an offering] and we by imputation was made Righteous !
That equates to Our Justification and His Condemnation, for Our sins 1 Cor 15:3; which goes along with 2 Cor 5:21. This Truth is also reflected here Rom 5:18
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon[by imputation] all men to condemnation;
even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon[by Imputation] all men unto justification of life.
This is part of the Blessedness of Christ dying for our sins, if He did die for them, if we were one of His Sheep ! 19