Sunday, 9 April 2017
Your Assignment in the Kingdom – Part 6
Dr RJ Sing
“Because of this Bretheren, be all the more solicitous, and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.”
Romans 8:30 NKJV “Whom He called, these He also justified.” In God’s Economy, these aspects are eternally established. What does it mean to be justified? It actually involves a succession of meanings: it means to be acquitted of a crime, it is Heavens verdict on your life and mine (Not Guilty) and just as if I have never sinned. You are made Righteous with the Righteousness of God, which has never known sin, which has no shadow of guilt and which has no past to be forgiven.
But we don’t stop at just being reckoned Righteous, because we also have to be made righteous. Righteousness is received as a Gift, but it requires a response from us. Philippians 2:12-13 NIV “Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose.”
Justification includes moving from imputed Righteousness to Outworked Righteousness. We start with a Righteousness that is imputed to us by God on the basis of our Faith for Salvation and after that, we work out what God has worked in.
From the April 2017 issue, themed My Generosity: The Door to Great Destiny.
