Authors: Bobby Holmes and Mark Roberts
I. Error
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- 1. Galatians 2:17
2. Romans 4:5-10; 5:1
3. Hebrews 7:22
4. Isaiah 64:6
A. Neo-Calvinists say: “Men are saved by His good works. Jesus is our substitute. We are accounted righteous because Jesus is righteous. The righteousness of Christ clothes the believer with the righteousness the law demands. Man is too corrupt — he can never be righteous on his own.”
B. Passages misused:
II. Truth
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- a) Words – just, justify, justification, right, righteous, righteousness are all from the same Greek word
- a) Acts 10:34-35
b) Matthew 5:20
c) Romans 6:13-16
d) 1 John 3:17
1. An attribute of God – Romans 3:5
2. Salvation, justification – Romans 4:1-8; 10:1-10 3. What God declares right – Psalm119:172; Hebrews 5:13
4. Righteousness is what a man does when he obeys God:- 1. Means to be forgiven, saved, justified
2. That’s all — nothing more!
3. No passage teaches Jesus’ righteousness is given to you, or that your righteousness can be given to anyone else! -
A. Righteousness used in different ways B. What does “imputed righteousness” mean?
