In ourselves none of us stands justified. In Christ we are justified. In the gospel his goodness becomes ours. So along with the article of justification we must include the incredible doctrine of imputation. Justification speaks to our right standing before God. We’ve been forgiven; we’ve been declared righteous. But imputation speaks to our righteousness in God (2 Cor. 5:21). We’ve not just been forgiven and declared righteous; we are in Christ actually made righteous. It’s not just that God wipes our sinful slate clean (justification); he also writes onto the slate of our heart the perfect
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