Romans 4:8

Romans 4:8 Blessed is the man to whom, the Lord will not reckon sin.

Paul says that verses 7-8,. quotation from Psalms 32:1. is how God makes the sinner to be "right", or how God can justify the man who fails to flawlessly keep the Law. 'In short, imputing righteousness is equivalent to not imputing sin, covering sin and forgiving iniquities'.

POINTS TO NOTE:

1. It is assumed that the 'sinful' man in verses 7-8 (and called 'ungodly' in verse 5), is. repentant man. There is not. single illustration in the Bible where God reckoned righteousness to. person in his impenitence. (Romans 2:4).

2. Man finds himself in only two possible conditions. God either reckons sins to my account or righteousness.

3. Paul says that David is an example of 'justification by faith'. Yet that justification INCLUDES FORGIVENESS OF SIN. Therefore (something we always knew) the faith under consideration in the book of Romans, the faith that results in. right standing with God, is. faith that obeys,. faith that includes repentance, confession and baptism. (Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38; Acts 22:16)

4. God doesn't justify the ungodly (sinners) by ignoring their sins, but by forgiving them in view of the death of Christ.

SUCH JUSTIFICATION IS INDEPENDENT OF CIRCUMCISION: