As I was meditating on the doctrine of imputation tonight, the Holy Spirit reminded me of the faithfulness of God. I thought about the fact that if it were not for imputation then Jesus Christ would have never died, for He was sinless. If it were not for the reckoning of MY sins to Jesus Christ then the Father would have never been able to punish Christ for my sins. He did not deserve to die BUT for the imputation of my sins to His account.

And yet how often I find myself doubting the faithfulness of God in imputing the righteousness of Jesus Christ to my account by faith in His finished work. But instead of doubting we should look to the faithfulness of God in the imputation of our sins to His blessed Son. If God was faithful in that work of imputation, which cost Him the life of His Son, then why would He not be faithful in the work of imputation of His Son's righteousness when by grace through faith He enabled us to rest in the finished work of Jesus Christ?

In other words, the Father was faithful in the difficult work of imputation by bruising His Son so that my sins could be imputed to His account at Calvary. And because of this I can rest assured that He will be faithful in the work of imputation wherein the righteousness of Christ becomes mine by faith alone.

Romans 8:32 says it best, "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?"

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Ryan Barnhart - Pastor of OGBC
Husband to a beautiful wife, Father to two beautiful girls
"But by the grace of God I am what I am." I Corinthians 15:10

"I confess to you, that if I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by Cannibals or by worms. And in the Great Day my Resurrection body will rise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer." - John Paton