tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post4994746180764191167..comments2024-03-26T00:19:08.753-07:00Comments on The World's Ruined: Sanctification “Makes Us Righteous?”Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-16429633722241925922020-07-02T21:46:24.355-07:002020-07-02T21:46:24.355-07:00John Murray on extra rewards:---While it makes voi...John Murray on extra rewards:---While it makes void the gospel to introduce works in connection with justification, nevertheless works done in faith, from the motive of love to God, in obedience to the revealed will of God and to the end of his glory are intrinsically good and acceptable to God. As such they will be the criterion of reward in the life to come.<br /><br />ohn Murray---The reward has reference to the degree of glory bestowed in the state of bliss, that is, the station a person is to occupy in glory and does not have reference to the gift of glory itself.<br /> <br />John Murray --This reward is not administered because good works MERIT reward, but because God is graciously pleased to reward them.<br /><br />Don't use the word "merit". <br /><br />John Murray---In the Romish scheme good works have real merit and constitute the ground of the title to everlasting life. But good works ARE rewarded because they are INTRINSICALLY good. They are not rewarded<br />because they earn reward but as service that is the fruit of God’s grace, conformed to his will and therefore well-pleasing to God. <br /><br />John Murray-- The good works could not even be rewarded of grace if the good works were principally evil.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233995709579822605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-40670916320302281942020-07-02T21:36:00.847-07:002020-07-02T21:36:00.847-07:00We are not justified because we are sanctified?
A...We are not justified because we are sanctified?<br /><br />Are we sanctified because we are justified?<br /><br />Does either statement make any sense if we don't know what<br />justification and sanctification are?<br /><br />If all we know is that justification is not sanctification<br />and that sanctification is not justification<br />what is it that we really know?<br /><br />John Zahl--being both justified and sinners is the LAST WORD for all<br />Christians in this age until they are raised up on the LAST DAY The<br />question of justification (at least in Protestant circles) is often<br />understood to be a non-issue. Melanchthon and others were quick to<br />draw lines of separation between justification and sanctification.<br />While justification was understood to be entirely based upon<br />imputation, they assumed that sanctification was a process<br /><br />https://virtueonline.org/imputation-and-infusion-classic-reformational-distinction-examined<br />Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233995709579822605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422410239991902086.post-80772842024752091692019-10-14T19:12:46.798-07:002019-10-14T19:12:46.798-07:00Perhaps... simply that justification logically pre...Perhaps... simply that justification logically precedes sanctification. They aren't free floating blessings in Christ. Without that connection , gradually welcome to Rome.Jack Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18281378425270530573noreply@blogger.com