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(1918) [MARC] Author: Nils Forsander
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"God has promised that he who believes in Christ
shall for His sake be accounted righteous. But the
promise of God requires faith, and if we have faith in
it, we have righteousness through Christ, who was
promised; thus righteousness comes from faith, not that
righteousness which we earn by our own works, but
that which we receive through Christ. We are held
devout and good and the friends of God for His sake,
not for our own sake. We receive; we do not give.
We stand without sin before God, because He forgave
all our sins, not because we ourselves have rendered
satisfaction. This Paul proves with the words of
David : Blessed is he whose transgressioa is forgiven, whose
sin is covered, and to whom iniquity is not imputed
(Ps. 32: 1, 2). In these words David clearly says that
salvation and the forgiveness of sins, that is,
righteousness, comes from God’s forgiveness of our
transgressions, not from any reparation on our part, for if we
could propitiate God, no forgiveness would be needed.

"But where there is to be faith, there the Word of
God must go before, as the foundation for faith;
therefore a faith not resting on God’s Word is not acceptable
to Him. It is not possible that faith unto righteousness
could have any other foundation than the Word of
God, through which man receives sure and perfect
knowledge of God’s disposition toward man. Where

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