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In
the Great Exchange, God executed the Double Imputation |
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[3/15/2021, 7:43 AM]
One Brother commented:
"One Great Exchange" indeed.
It isn't an exchange at all when only one party decides to give as a Gift. When
both parties willingly give then we would consider it as an exchange! The
exchanges may not commensurate the same values; they do not matter as we are
willing & happy in that exchange. In this One Great Exchange, only our God
gives willingly. He imputed Christ's righteousness unto us AND takes all our
sins away willingly on the cross of Calvary.
Yet, can it be an exchange when we
struggle to hold on to the sins of our old self or even serving two masters? Do
we struggle to give our parts when we exchange many things? Examples for
services rendered in servicing our vehicles, paying doctors for consulted
diagnoses or opinions or working for wages. Even with the tender love and care
(TLC) of our parents towards us would they (hopefully) yearned for our love,
obedience & many other positive responses to them.
Yet in the One Great Exchange I would
reckon a hardly exchange at all. God imputed all Christ's righteousness unto us
without waiting for us to give up all our sins willingly or otherwise. As
thoughts run through mind, this is 'One Great Gift or Righteous Imputation'. We
will still be glorified at the final judgement day even at our last breath we are
still holding on to the last of our remnant sins. Our God guarantees! What a
blessed assurance we have indeed!
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[3/16/2021, 1:51 AM]
Sing Lau:
THANK YOU for aptly reminding us that
our activities are indeed involved when we speak of our practical discipleship;
our discipleship requires our ACTIVE participation – working out our own
salvation with fear and trembling.
In this, we are dealing with God our
Father…
Ps 51:1 "Have mercy upon me, O
God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy
tender mercies blot out my transgressions. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall
be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 9 Hide thy face from my
sins, and blot out all mine iniquities."
2Cor 7:1 “Having, therefore, these
promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the
flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
2Ti 2:21 "If a man, therefore,
purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and
meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work."
1 John 1:9 "If we confess our
sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness."
Though none of these passages equates
to us putting our sins to Christ, yet they all exhort us to deal with our sins
as God’s children and Christ’s redeemed.
So, we must guard ourselves against
thinking of the double imputation involving any human activities. That’s where the
Reformed brethren are all messed up; they introduce human roles and activities
in the double imputation. They have no clue about the distinct facets of
salvation - eternal, legal, vital, practical, and final.
Sadly, of those who know the distinct
facets of salvation, few know how to apply them to rightly divide the word of
truth.
Let us rehearse a few things:
1. The double imputation is executed by
the LORD God, the Father of Jesus Christ, at the cross
a. It is termed double-imputation
because it involved God’s free and sovereign acts of LEGALLY
imputing/accounting/reckoning the righteousness of Jesus Christ to all the
elect represented by Him as well as imputing all the sins of all the elect to
Christ. Theologians sometimes called this double imputation the Great Exchange.
b. There is only ONE active party in
this legal transaction, the LORD God the Judge; He alone is the active subject
in executing the Great Exchange, – a legal transaction; He alone, as the Judge,
executed this legal act of exchange. God alone imputed Christ's righteousness to the elect; He alone also imputed all the sins of the elect to Christ. The elect is NOT INVOLVE in giving their sins to Christ; this is a fable, a fiction.
c. In this Great Exchange, though the
whole elect of God is involved, yet none of them played any role whatsoever;
all are completely passive. It was a legal transaction that happened without
any one of them personally involved; many had no personal existence yet.
d. In this Great Exchange, Christ Jesus
is personally involved. It was His righteousness – His life of active and
perfect obedience to all the laws of God, even unto death - therefore, He would
have concurred perfectly with God’s act of imputing His righteousness to His
people. The three Persons of the Godhead are perfectly in harmony with their
purpose of redemption.
I hope this helps to put the double
imputation in its proper legal context.
Check here to read the fable that
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