Fri.-Sabbath, 3/30-4/1/18 Devotion

Wahoo—it almost Sunday—even Easter Sunday! We *get* to go back to church!! In order to help get us ready, here is Thomas Watson, in his "A Body of Divinity" book. . . .

“What is Justification?

"It is an act of God's free grace, whereby He pardons all our sins, and ac-cepts us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ, im-puted to us, and received by faith alone.

"Justification is the very hinge and pillar of Christianity. An error about justi-fication is dangerous, like a defect in a foundation. Justification by Christ is a spring of the water of life. To have the poison of corrupt doctrine cast into this spring is damnable. . . .

"What is meant by Justification?

"It is 'verbum forense,' a word borrowed from law-courts, wherein a person arraigned is pronounced righteous, and is openly absolved. God, in justifying a person, pronounces him to be righteous, and looks upon him as if he had not sinned."