The Great Exchange - Double Imputation

The Great Exchange TOOK place at the Cross, 
not when you believe the gospel.
The LORD God the Judge executed the Great Exchange
- the Double Imputation

#single_imputation
#double_imputation
#TheGreatExchange

The doctrine of imputation is at the heart of the gospel;
No imputation, no salvation; period.

A few brief notes on the subject:

The word “impute” is a legal and accounting term; it means “to credit to one’s account.” Imputation is the legal act of God the Judge alone.

1. There was a single-imputation in the Garden of Eden
- Adam’s sin was imputed to every single human of the whole human race represented by him; he was appointed as the representative head by the LORD God the Creator.
- The imputation of Adam’s sin brought the condemnation and death and alienation upon the whole human race, EVEN THOUGH none represented by Adam has personal existence yet, except the woman of whom Adam said, “bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh.”

Rom 5:12 “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.”
- how was the sin of one man (Adam) related to “all have sinned”? He was appointed the representative head.
- how was the sin of one man (Adam) related to “so death passed upon all men”? His sin was IMPUTED to all represented by him.

Rom 5:18 KJV
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
- how did the offence of one bring judgment upon all men to condemnation? Adam represented the whole human race; his one offence in the garden of Eden was imputed to all posterity

1Co 15:22 “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
- How in Adam all represented by him die? His sin was imputed to all represented by him, i.e. the whole human race.

2. There was a double-imputation on the Cross of Calvary
- Please note well, the double imputation took place at the cross; the misguided reformed people believe it takes place when a sinner believes in Jesus Christ; when he gives Christ his sins.
- “There WAS” – a past complete legal action executed by the LORD God alone; you did nothing; you did not have personal existence yet even though your name has been in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
- Christ’s righteousness was imputed by the LORD God the Judge to all represented by Christ, and all the sins of all those represented by Him were imputed to Him. Christ’s life of perfect obedience to all the laws of God secured the righteousness needed for the justification of His people, to reverse the condemnation brought about by the imputation of Adam’s sin (this is called “original sin”) and their own actual sins.
- Christ bore the curse of and suffered fully for all the sins of all His people that were perfectly and completely imputed to Him by LORD God. No, no, no, it was not you who give your sins to Christ; you did nothing, absolutely nothing in this GREAT EXCHANGE; you were not even around yet! It was all by the free and sovereign act of the LORD God for all those whom He had given to His Son to redeem.
- This Great Exchange has secured and accomplished the LEGAL justification of God’s elect; the legal justification of all God’s elect took place at the cross by the one legal act of God in imputing the righteousness of Christ to them and imputing all their sins to Christ.
- This is the LEGAL justification, justification accomplished.

2Cor 5:21 "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him."
- The LORD God has made Christ Jesus to be sin for us: "has made" is present perfect, a past completed action with the effect of that action remaining true to the present moment.

3. An elect that is LEGALLY justified is not yet PERSONALLY justified until it is vitally applied to that elect personally; they are NOT, NOT, NOT the same.
- The legal imputation of righteousness to you does not need your personal existence; the personal application of righteousness to you requires your personal existence; without it, the righteousness of Christ cannot be applied to you personally. What has been legally imputed has to be applied to an elect personally.
- The righteousness that was LEGALLY IMPUTED to all the elect (a class action) at the cross event is PERSONALLY APPLIED to each elect at his effectual calling out of his native state of sin, death, and alienation to that state of righteousness (justification), eternal life (regeneration), and sonship (adoption).  This is the VITAL justification - justification applied.
- The effectual call is the free and sovereign act of God alone in bestowing the eternal salvation tha Jesus Christ the Redeemer has secured and accomplished for His people.

The effectually called elect is bestowed with the Spirit of adoption; this Spirit of adoption works in him all the saving graces, including faith; this saving grace of faith enables a child of God to believe the gospel of his salvation. Believing the gospel of his salvation by the righteousness and blood of Jesus Christ, his faith justifies/demonstrates/vindicates that he has been feely justified by God. This is PRACTICAL justification - justification experience.

The above truths have been beautifully summarized by the Old School Baptists in the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith, 1689.11.4

"God did from all eternity decree to justify all the elect,11 and Christ did in the fullness of time die for their sins, and rise again for their justification;12 nevertheless, they are not justified personally, until the Holy Spirit in time does actually apply Christ to them.13"

i. God decreed the justification of all the elect before the foundation of the world. This is the ETERNAL justification - a term often misunderstood as though it says that the elect are already justified personally in eternity. So, to avoid that confusion, I use Decretal justification, i.e justification decreed in eternity.

ii. Christ Jesus secured the legal justification of all the elect at his death and resurrection. They are LEGALLY justified; this is the LEGAL justification.

iii. Though LEGALLY justified, they are not justified PERSONALLY until the Holy Spirit in time does actually apply Christ to each of them personally – this happens at the effectual calling. This is the VITAL justification.

iv. The effectual calling makes believing in Jesus Christ possible, leading to PRACTICAL salvation; justification by faith is practical/experiential justification.

It's the genius of the Baptist's Framers to add that most significant word *personally* in the 1689 COF; it's not in the WCF.

May the LORD God bless you to know these things, and to cherish them.

Ignorance of these vital gospel truths is bad, but representing them wrongly is even worse.  May the LORD save us from this evil. Amen.

Job 42 KJV
7 ¶ And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

Irrational and Contradictory

https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10218480925709901
#irrational_contradictory
#onlyism_soundbyte_only
#protestant_deformation

"The Protestant Reformation" is administered by some Reformed Baptists. What ails these Protestants and the Reformed folks?

THE ONLY METHOD
"Our justification... solely by the sovereign grace of God and not dependent on any action or condition man provides."

THE ONLY MEANS
"Our justification before God is by faith in Christ alone, and not by works."
What ails these Protestant Reformed folks? They pride themselves as rational superiors to their Arminian cousins. The statement on the only means clearly contradicts the one on the only method; the statement on the only method plainly excludes what is stated as the only means.

IF the justification of a condemned man is indeed:
- solely by the sovereign grace of God,
- and not dependent on any action or condition man provides,

THEN the justification of a condemned man by faith is excluded! Believing in Christ is an action performed and provided by a man. (The ability to believe, however, is worked within a child of God - an elect whom God has effectually called out of his native state of death and condemnation to grace and salvation in Jesus Christ - by the Spirit of God, together with other saving graces.)

To say "our justification before God is by faith in Christ alone" is the same as saying "our justification before God is by an action or condition man provides."

Protestant Reformed onlyism says this,

"Our justification before God is by faith in Christ alone, and not by works."

Jesus Christ Himself says that believing in Him is a work that God requires of His children (the elect whom God has effectually called out of his native state of death and condemnation to grace and salvation in Jesus Christ).

John 6:28 "Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Old School Baptists say this:
"Our justification before God by His free and sovereign grace is experienced by the work of believing in Christ alone, and not by works." ("by works"- in the biblical context - is by observing the ceremonial laws of the old covenant).

Both works of faith and righteousness evidence the justified state of a man; they demonstrate the justification by God's free and sovereign grace that has taken place; this is evidential justification.

James 2:24 "Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only" - both the works of righteousness and faith vindicate/demonstrate the justified state of a man.

Thou art blessed if thou knowest the vast difference.

Be saved from the impressive soundbyte of onlyism.

Why the God of love sends people to hell?

 

https://www.facebook.com/sing.f.lau/posts/10218471659878261

##GodisLove_hell_lakeoffire

A Brother inquired:
My former varsity classmate, a Roman Catholic, opined:
since God is love, and Jesus came to save the whole world, why should He punish some of His creatures in hell.

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I will address your classmate thus:

Every person has some opinions of God, i.e. the God of the Bible. To opine that God is love is a good start; He is love indeed. But that’s an acknowledgment and confession with grave and serious implications too. What is hell but  God’s love spurned and slighted; heaven is God’s love embraced and reciprocated.

I love reminding people that it is not unreasonable to let God speak for Himself if we are to know Him rightly and to represent Him faithfully; otherwise, we will run afoul of the First and Third Commandments:

First Commandment: “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” – a god of our own imagination is having another god before the God who has spoken in the Bible.

Third Commandment: “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.” Misrepresenting the LORD God is simply taking His thrice holy name in vain, with the solemn warning. Any God-fearing man will be careful in representing the LORD God faithfully.

Surely a good Roman Catholic like you will agree with this basic principle; if you are to be known and represented truly, then you yourself must be the source of information about yourself and not some opinions of others about you. That being so, we ought to let God speak for Himself and His love expressed in His works of creation, providence, and redemption. He has spoken plainly in the Holy Scriptures.

Yes, the LORD God is love, and He so loved…

He gave Adam and his woman - of whom Adam said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called woman because she was taken out of Man” - a paradise, the garden of Eden.

Yes, the LORD God is love, and He so loved…

He not only made Adam and his woman perfect and upright, thus very good, He also put them in the universe that is described as “very good” – “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”

Yes, the LORD God is love, and He so loved…

He did not leave Adam and his wife to themselves after they had chosen to listen to the devil, in broad daylight rebellion against the LORD God’s plain and clear command, and damned themselves. He not only cursed the devil through the promise of the Seed of the Woman, He also provided salvation for them – “Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” The coats of skins were obtained through the blood sacrifices of innocent animals, foreshadowing the promised Lamb of God, the Seed of the Woman who will crush the serpent’s head…

You likely can recite John 3:16 - God so loved that He gave us His only begotten Son. Jesus said that He came to save sinners. Those who end up in hell are those sinners who have spurned and slighted the Savior that God has so lovingly provided; they despised and scorned the love of God.

Yes, the LORD God is love, and He so loved...

You are right in your opinion, God is love. But men are hateful against Him; they spurn and slight His love. And I find it perverse that you would find fault with God that they end up in hell. Put your hand to your heart, and ask yourself, have you represented the LORD God of the Bible fairly. Remember the First and the Third Commandments.

A man who finds faults with the LORD God is a wicked and evil man, especially when he is blind to man’s own wickedness and evil in his rebellion against his Creator and God.

Think about these, and may the LORD GOD give you understanding.

The gospel truth of imputation is soiled

We give Christ our sin? 
Really? When, and how?

"The Protestant Reformation" is administered by some Reformed Baptists. What ails these Protestants and the Reformed folks?

(Reformed Baptists see themselves as Protestants; the Old School Baptists don't since Baptists were never part of the Harlot church!)

For a short period of time a few years ago, I was able to leave comments on their posts but I have since been banned; they hate me for pointing out their errors.  However, their postings still appear on my feed now and then.

Imputation is a wonderful truth; double imputation is even more so. However, these Protestant Reformed folks must pollute and defile nearly every pristine truth they touch. They have soiled the great exchange, a glorious gospel truth of free grace.

Look at the post screenshot below on double imputation.

Liked and loved 36 times and shared 30 times; none of them is aware of a grievous error in the post; none of the 27,430 followers of the page say a thing about the plain but subtle error.

O, the evil inclination and propensity of some sincere folks in subtlely slipping in their own works even as they mouth grace alone. They love usurping God's prerogative, likely unconsciously.

Tell us what's the poison in the post screenshot below.

If any Protestant Reformed folks are reading this, pray tell, when/how did you give Christ your sin? Thank you most kindly.

Did you give Christ your sin? If yes, when, and how?
Did you do an adequate job of giving Christ your sin? Good luck to you! 😉
Where were you when the great exchange took place?
Who imputed to Christ your sin - yourself?
Did you take part in the great exchange?

How orderly is your order of salvation?

(dazzling fruit of a roselle plant.)

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March 6, 2020  ·

#Order_of_salvation

Romans 8
29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

The Scriptures speaks of THE Order of Salvation. Below are two different orders: which do you believe, the first or the second, or a mixture of the two?

Take a look. How are you saved? Tell us the order which you believe is taught in the Scripture about your salvation.

Order 1:
You were dead in trespasses and sins:
The gospel call came to you - bringing the free offer of eternal salvation to you.
a. Effectual call: gospel call made effectual by God, to enable you to respond to the gospel call. (This is call prevenient grace.)
- Conversion: your response of faith in Christ through the gospel ministry.
- Born again: you believe in order to receive eternal life. (You didn't have eternal life; now you do because your of your believing!)
- Justification: you believe in order to be justified, i.e. declared righteous by God. (You were not justified before, i.e. under the just condemnation because of sin; but through your act of believing, God has justified you!)
- Adoption – you believe in order to be received as son by God. (You were alienated but by faith God has adopted you into His family.)
- Sanctification – you become progressively more holy in life.
- Perseverance – you persevere in a life faith and holiness. (if you don't, it means that you were not even a child of God; i.e. you are a fake)
- Glorification - your future glorification based on your perseverance. (I pray and hope that you persevere well enough to qualify a place in heaven!)

Order 2:
You were dead in trespasses and sins (the same starting place as Order 1)
a. God effectually called you when you were dead in trespasses and sins, in active enmity against God.
- God freely, by His sovereign grace alone, called you out of your native state of sin and death to that of grace and eternal salvation in Christ Jesus.

b. This effectual call out of the state of sin and death to that of grace and salvation requires these FREE and sovereign acts of God:
- Justification: God removed your condemnation by declaring you righteous, through the application of the righteousness of Christ to your personally; yes, freely by His grace, Rom 3:24. Not by your faith.
- Regeneration: You are born of God, and receive eternal life. You were quickened from spiritual deadness to eternal life.
- Adoption: God received you as son, and gave His Holy Spirit to dwell in you, who works saving graces, including faith.
- All of the above in the effectual call to grace and salvation is entirely by God's free grace alone. You did nothing. Why? Because it was when you were in a condemned, dead and alienated state that God acted freely to save you by His grace. (EVERY elect of God are effectually called to eternal life, by God's free grace alone, at God's  own appointed time.).
- Eph 2:5 " Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved." Yes, EVEN WHEN WE WERE DEAD... BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED."
- YES, even when we were dead, incapable of faith, are we saved. Have you understood?

c. Gospel ministry is blessed for your further sanctification (temporal salvation) 

- Faith in Jesus Christ through the gospel ministry.  Your faith evidences your justified state by God's free grace.  
- God works in you to will and to do His good pleasure, and you working out your own salvation, through the gospel ministry, with fear and trembling, here and now in this present life.
- Perseverance: you as a child of God immutably remain and continue in the state of grace and salvation in Christ Jesus. (Some of God's children do not experience this further sanctification. Of those who do, they experience it to vastly different degrees.)
- Glorification - based on God’s perseverance alone in keeping His children in the STATE of grace and eternal salvation.

Which order have you been taught?
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Dhong
I have been taught the first order but later came across the second order. I believe that the second order is the biblical one for it brings all the glory to God for the salvation He has freely bestowed upon His people. It further explains why people are negative to spiritual things prior to being made spiritually alive by the sovereign act of God.

Doug Messer
Will agree with Dhong. The Glory must...and will be His alone. He chooses whom He wills, for His purpose and Glory. 

Khaw Eng Sun
Many of us were taught Order 1, believing this Order 1 without blinking of our eyes till the opportune time our Lord Jesus Christ kindly pointed to us our erroneous understanding. My best half and I had many questions unanswered then till that opportune moment where scales dropped from our eyes, wax melted flowing out of our ears (we suddenly hear loud and clear), our hearts melted and felt the love & free grace of our Elder Brother. Yes, yes and yes...Order 2 is all found in the Bible. Praise Him, the Captain of our Salvation.

Matt Jordan
Order 2 is biblical. Not only that, it gives all the glory to God, and it brings the most comfort to a sinner saved by grace. Thank you for sharing!

Reggie Lee
When I read that word (Prevenient) before Grace, I knew order 1 wasn’t for this guy.