Thursday, May 1, 2008

Fri.-Sabbath, 5/2-4/08 Devotion

Yippee--Sunday is almost here! In order to prepare you for church, here is Thomas Watson, from his book, entitled, "A Body of Divinity":

"What is the means or instrument of our justification?

"Faith. 'Being justified by faith,' (Rom. 5:1). The dignity is not in faith as a grace, but relatively, as it lays hold on Christ's merits.

"What is the efficient cause of our justification?

"The whole Trinity. All the Persons in the blessed Trinity have a hand in the justification of a sinner: 'opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa.' God the Father is said to justify. 'It is God that justifies,' (Rom. 8:33). God the Son is said to justify: 'By Him all that believe are justified,' (Acts 13:39). God the Holy Ghost is said to justify: 'But you are justified by the Spirit of our God,' (1 Cor. 6:2). God the Father justifies, as He pronounces us righteous; God the Son justifies, as He imputes His righteousness to us; and God the Holy Ghost justifies, as He clears up our justification, and seals us up to the day of redemption."