The point of the gospel is that the imputation is real, that God really laid my sins on Christ.

And not only that, God really transferred the righteousness of Christ to me and that there is a real union for

those who are in Christ that I really possess the righteousness of Jesus Christ

by imputation.

Christ is my righteousness.

That's why he is my Savior, not merely because he died,

but because he lived. We don't study the atonement of Christ so that we can merely debate or defend a theological position. We want to

clearly articulate the good news of the gospel so that we can know and experience the

joy of salvation and by the joy of salvation.

And by the grace of God, others can too,

as we faithfully proclaim that good news.

This is the Thursday edition of Renewing Her Mind, and with tomorrow being Good Friday and

Resurrection Sunday quickly approaching, we're spending this week in R.C. Sproll's series, The Cross of Christ. Today, Dr Sproll really underlines what

makes the good news so good and how the objective reality of what Christ has accomplished is applied to sinners like you

and me.

This is a message you'll likely want to listen to again and again and perhaps even share with

others. So here's Dr. Sprawl with a message titled

Justification by Faith.

In this session on our study of the atonement, I want to look at the function of the

atonement with respect to the theme of justification by faith. You recall that during the great

controversy of the Protestant reformation, Luther insisted that the doctrine of

justification by faith alone was the article upon which the church

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