<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3d56a890-8a84-46fa-b98e-76d7be4cf14b/E42D9656-B11C-4FA1-B4CD-5E1832E4CF18/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8449/justify.html" href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8449/justify.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geocities.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8449/justify.html"><P>C. It helps us to understand this better if we see the difference between <I>imputed</I> righteousness and <I>inherent </I>righteousness. </p> <OL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><I>inherent</I> righteousness is: <OL type="a" start="1"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Good moral deeds you do for God. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Good transformations God brings about in your character. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">It is a goodness that resides in you. It is <I>internal </I>to you. </LI> </OL> </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><I>Imputed</I> righteousness is: <OL type="a" start="1"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A righteousness that is <I>external </I>to you. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A righteousness that was achieved by <I>somebody else</I> and given to you. </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">This righteousness consists in Christ's perfect obedience (Romans 5:15-19). </LI> </OL> </LI> </OL> <P>D. Again, in justification God declares us righteous <I>not </I>on the basis of <I>inherent</I> righteousness, but on the basis of <I>imputed</I> righteousness. Your righteousness in justification does not consist of any transformation that God has brought about in your character, or any good works that you do. Rather, it consists of what Christ did in your behalf.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E42D9656-B11C-4FA1-B4CD-5E1832E4CF18/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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