October 20, 2017 Show with C. Matthew McMahon on “Christ’s Righteousness Imputed: The Saint’s Surest Plea for Eternal Life”

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Christ's Righteousness Imputed and the Book by Michael Harrison

I'm so delighted to have back as a returning guest one of my favorite guests on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, founder of A Puritan's Mind, and he's going to be addressing an important book that is also on a very important theme, especially as many of us in Reformed Protestantism are celebrating Reformation Day coming up very soon, and that theme is Christ's Righteousness Imputed, the Saint's, wow, I'm going blind here, the Saint's Surest Plea for Eternal Life, and that is a book by Michael Harrison, an 18th century, well actually a 17th and 18th century Puritan, but it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. C. Matthew McMahon.

Thank you, Chris, happy to be here, especially on this important subject matter, look forward to talking with you about it. Yes, and obviously this is a pillar doctrine of the Reformation, it's a pillar doctrine of the New Testament, it's a pillar doctrine that separates true biblical Christianity from the Church of Rome and all other false religions, and that is about Christ's Righteousness Imputed, and not only is it the Saint's Surest Plea for Eternal Life, it's the Saint's Only Hope for Eternal Life, and before we get into that very important topic, let me just quickly announce our email address for anybody listening who would like to join us with a question of your own, it's chrisarnsen at gmail .com, please give us your first name, your city and state, and your country of residence if you live outside the USA, and please only remain anonymous if it's about a personal and private matter over which you are asking, and the Puritan's mind, or should I say a Puritan's mind, tell us something about that ministry before we go into the subject, Dr. McMahon.

Well, a Puritan's mind began as a desire to see more people read some of the same great books that I was reading. It was just the time when the internet started getting exciting in the late 90s, and so what I wanted to do is take some of the key writings of some of the key Puritans that I was, that I thought were important, Jeremiah Burroughs and a few others, I started posting some of that information, and just since that time, to desire to eat out of a Puritan's mind, I think naturally, after so many, taking many of the Puritans and taking their writings, and not simply take them and make them read not only what I call Michael Harrison, but my wife would enjoy reading him as well, and all of the books had just gone in and saw the need to be able to make what's possible for a Puritan's mind and Puritan publication.

And have you done anything with one of the most difficult Puritans to read, John Owen? We have not done anything with Owen just yet. He's posted all over a Puritan's mind. We have whole books of his original works there.

The Death of Death and the Death of Christ? I mean, that was the first Puritan book I ever read. Introduction to Puritanism, I can distinctly remember where I was when I was reading that book. I was about halfway through it.

I was on campus in the summertime when I didn't have a class, and I was across campus, and I was about halfway through the book, and I said to myself, of course, who would disagree with any of this? I find out in my naive mind at that point that most people would disagree.

Temporary. I think that's one of the most important. Neither of those have had that happen to them yet. We just haven't got that far. Great. Well, before we go into our topic of Michael Harrison's work on Christ's Righteousness Imputed, you have a new book coming out.

It's what's a, should I say, a new publication to Puritan Publications. It's not a new book. It's a Jeremiah Burroughs book, and that book is titled Christ Inviting Sinners to Come to Him for Rest. I love that title.

That is a beautiful title. That is a title that should make the heart of every Christian beat, and hopefully the Lord will use that book as a tool to make the heart of every lost person who reads it beat for the first time as a born-again believer with a new heart.

But if you could, tell us about that book. Well, you know, generally you would be thinking, to me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, that that's their initial conversion. Well, Burroughs waves his finger back and forth and says, no, no, Christian, continually come to Jesus Christ.

Thirty-nine chapters. He says that Christians, he says, no, no, the Christians never get you any kind of merit before God. It demonstrates, commands them to do, to merit something to Christ. Generally, we would be thinking, yes, you can discount that, but it's...

And he does that daily. We have that on the front page right now. Literated, maybe like a case wrap or a paperback, we decided to go with linen-stitched and a dust jacket, all of that good stuff. Because, but to go, the information that he covered...

Amen. Well, I will be repeating this later, but the website to order any book that has been brought back into print by Puritan Publications is PuritanPublications .com, PuritanPublications .com, and also the main website for Dr. C. Matthew McMahon is APuritansMind .com, APuritansMind .com, no apostrophe in that Puritan's, in that website.

Michael Harrison, Puritan Background, and the Doctrine of Imputation

Well, what can you tell us, first of all, about Michael Harrison? I have to admit that I first learned of Michael Harrison through you and through Puritan Publications. I know that, as I mentioned earlier, he was a Puritan in both the 17th and 18th centuries.

He went home to be with the Lord at the age of 89 in 1729. But what can you tell us about him to prepare us for this book that he has written on this most important subject? We deal with a lot of Puritans that are generally unknown, because part of what we want to do is bring out what we know of him, basically comes from little fragments, some of Thomas Coleman and other writers making mention of him in conjunction with historic information on other Puritans.

You're right, he's 29, that's various ways. He began studying, as we know, that. And for a long time after he left there, he began a congregational church which he ministered in for a good amount of time.

And then after he passed that, all we know is that he's not even available on the planet. We get to get our hands on, which I'm actually working to find right now, dealing with the Church. And that's another one.

That's one book on baptism that we've done, and he has one book. You find in the manner in which he dealt with his people. The place where he ministered for the longest time was called Northamptonshire.

He went into this town, crazy doctrine going on, and he began ministering. Most of the time of Tidderminster, we're in the beginning, the craziness of, as he went in, the synopsis of his longer sermon series, actual, just like in this particular book, it's only about what he would want.

And so, you know, he says this kind of explanation, thinking about, we always hear about justification by faith alone, because that's talking about imputation. Imputation is here and by faith. We read that in Romans.

We read that in Habakkuk. But when we think about what that actually means in relationship to the justice of God, the righteousness of God, why the Lord Jesus had to come and die, what's actually going on, this is a doctrine, terrible even just to say it's exceedingly important.

It is everything for the Christian religion in that particular way. And Harrison, what he does is he immediately places it in contradistinction to Rome, which he calls the Romish Antichrist, and he says there's a great deal of a reason to contend earnestly for this doctrine, this one which he sets in the context of Judaism, faith given to the saints, because it's not only important theologically, but it's important salvifically in the sense that the blood of many martyrs dying for this particular doctrine and the reality of the gospel.

He, 24 and 25, which says, Surely shall one say in the Lord, I have come, and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed. In the law, the seed of Israel be justified, and shall go forth. And then is the gospel.

But it's like if I said to you, listen, if I preach a sermon that, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in order to be saved, and that's what I tell you, and I explain that you have to believe on him and have to have faith in him, and he is the Savior, and I say to you, is that the gospel?

Everybody that would be listening would say, well, yes, that's the gospel. But I didn't say anything about repentance there. So I didn't add in the doctrine of repentance. If I don't add in the doctrine of repentance on a sermon talking about faith in Christ and believing on him, is that still the gospel?

Well, yes, still the gospel. Well, what if I give a sermon on repentance, and I say you have to repent and be saved? And I talk about that, but I don't talk about, well, yes, that's the gospel as well.

And what Christians tend to do is they think that this one little piece, this one little historical narrative of the Messiah coming and dying on a wooden cross at a particular time is all of the gospel.

The gospel and everything that God has given as Isaiah, you're talking about Christ, right? Isaiah 52 talks about what the message your God reigned, and all of those other...why God spent three-quarters of the Bible pounding this...

Now, the thing that people don't realize, or many, I should say, don't realize, is what makes...one of the things that makes the Church of Rome so horrific and so heretical when it comes to how one is made right with God.

They take this beautiful scenario, this God-ordained scenario, the Great Exchange, where our sins are imputed to Christ on Calvary, and His righteousness is imputed to us. They diminish both of those things, because even the best of Catholics, unless this person is a saint and is transported directly into heaven, which even according to Rome is a very rare thing, the best of Catholics is still going to be punished for an undetermined amount of time.

The Catholics don't even know, the scholars, the theologians, it could be hundreds of years or millions of years, they don't know. But the person is tormented in purgatory. And also, on the other side of the coin, it's not fully because of the merits of Christ and His righteousness that they are being welcomed into heaven after that period of time in purgatory.

It's their own righteousness, and it's St. Peter's righteousness, it's St. Paul's righteousness, it's Mary's righteousness, it's the righteousness in the treasury of merit of the saints. So this is really a horrible doctrine of Rome that strips Christ of the glory that He deserves, because He deserves indeed 100 of the praise, honor, and glory and thanksgiving for our salvation, and even in particular, our justification, which would be what we were talking about today.

Am I not right? A hundred percent. No, let's talk about why that's the case. If He did that, He would be like God to the garden, out of it, or they could have examined it scientifically, they could have done anything they wanted to do with that tree, but they were not supposed to eat it.

Well, she had already started changing, reading through that narrative, but He takes He is the representative through the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because condemnation and hell, without that and all of His progeny, you and I and everyone else, doing anything to get ourselves there.

His apostasy to us, who did that? At 10, 11, or 12 of the age of accountability, He's a sinner, come together in that He is who He is. The psalmist even says that children come forth from the womb speaking lies.

They had done anything good or evil, and so at that particular point, once we start sinning, we just dig the hole deeper. We add eternal condemnation that these shall receive in a particular manner. What we do aggravates that situation.

At that particular point, different guys in different times, he was a heretic, he said, when ability, just because God tells him he missed a manner, this kind of falls right into Jeremiah Burroughs' work that we talked in trying to already in the hole, you already have reckoned to you a depraved mind.

In fact, let's pick up right where you left off when we return from our first break. And if anybody would like to join us on the air with a question for Dr. C. Matthew McMahon about our topic today, that is the Imputed Righteousness of Christ, give us an email at chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com.

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Active and Passive Obedience, Justification by Faith Alone, and the Great Exchange

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Send me an email to register at chrisarnson at gmail .com. Before the break, we were talking about the fact that all of mankind, unlike what Pelagius had to say, we all had the sin of Adam imputed to us at the moment of our conception, and we all therefore are born with a totally depraved nature.

And if you want to pick up where you left off there. Okay, so the idea behind what Pelagius was saying was that he thought that just because God tells us to do something, that we then have the ability to do it, which was obviously faulty, because he said that Adam's sin had absolutely nothing to do with imputation.

Five Romans fostered before God. We're talking about a reckoning that has to happen, because now, what is the problem? As a result of being hell worse for them under God's just condemnation, because they aren't like him, and Jesus was speaking this way about people, saying to them that you have to be perfect.

You shall be perfect. Men can't do that. They're already in the hole. How could they be perfect? The vase has already fallen off the shelf, and it's smashed all over the floor. What Harrison does is he talks about the good news that God reigns, and that by God's righteousness, they can be justified.

Now, we don't know what either of those two things necessarily mean just yet. Oh, but as you begin to, how do people actualizations that I had with thinking about what it is believers have from Christ.

It's to count it an esteemed righteous at God's judgment. The inherent righteousness of sanctification that he gives us, though the latter is not necessarily intended in Harrison's verse, because he's principally dealing with how the righteousness of sanctification is hinted to with being changed.

And the whole idea, all of this is placed when you had mentioned talking about Rome, how someone would say deviant script. I'm going to use a couple of technical words, or concept is you will learn nothing.

Like if I were to say to you, the tall man, edification, some kind of act tells him that he has to say fathers or the, like the extra righteousness then be applied to you. Use it again. You have to go back and you have to continue to keep doing this.

Now, synthetic justification is the sinner cannot be justified unless Christ, you will learn something in that sentence. That's like, if I could go into that makes her cannot be justified. Unless Christ's righteous, they'll say that.

And then they'll say, Oh, well, this is how it goes. And they'll show you the deviancy of it. It has to be something that's not of themselves. It's what I put together a little children's book called Sophia and the umbrella.

And it was a, it's nothing that covering is always so it does in such and gives her the umbrella and she opens it up. Now, the reason I bring that up is because looking down, imagine God, they're all wet, but then he sees an umbrella covered them.

And so imputation, look at all the fires in the law. And so what God sees in the justified person, the umbrella, so things happen in that transaction. Rather, when Christ fulfills all things, he dies on the, he says, it's finished.

A lot of people don't believe then in there, two things happen. One of the people for whom he died were imputed to him. And to all of his righteousness, all of the things that he did and upholding God's law perfectly every moment since the time that he was conceived to the time that he died were imputed to us.

A double transfer takes place, a double cure. One, our sins are given to him. Virtual justification really happens to individual people in Jesus. He died. He did not die for the fallen angels. He did not save them.

Saves those for whom became guilty before God. And that were elected and chosen of God to be heirs of eternal life. Ephesians one four chosen before the foundation of the world. It's all of this rest inside the ball of covenant, the covenants with the father and the spirit before time began to be the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world.

These people who get justified virtually on the cross, they are elected and chosen of God. They have to be sinners. Whoever is justified has to first be ungodly to be justified. They have to be given to Christ.

John six 37 says, all the father has given me shall come to me. And whoever is justified has to first be accused of something in order to be justified afterwards. Paul says in Roman seven, for I was alive without the law once, but when the commandment came, then revived and I died.

So they, they have to also be a repenting and a returning sinner because their repentance isn't meritorious. Harrison will explain that it's not meritorious as the cause of justification, yet it's absolutely necessary or pardon.

Isaiah 55 seven says, let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man has thought and return to the Lord and he will have mercy on him and to our God and he will abundantly pardon. So it's an, uh, Harrison says that it's an utterly fruitless dispute, whether justification or sanctification is first in the order of nature because they both spring from one and the same root from free grace and they never go alone.

It's a package deal. Harrison can never have the one without having the other. This translates directly into the current intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ, which that in and of itself really demonstrates because what that for and his active obedience and passive justifies them eternally.

We'll talk about that in a moment, but just, I just want obedience in that way. In fact, we have to go to the next break. So pick up on active and passive obedience when we return from our midway break.

And I also forwarded you a question from Daniel in San Jose, California that you can answer after you're finished completing your thought on active and passive obedience. If anybody else would like to join us on the air, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com.

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And it's like Christmas Day for a pastor at the pastor's luncheon that Iron Sharpens Iron Radio orchestrates. So if you want to register, just send me an email to chrisarnson at gmail .com, chrisarnson at gmail .com.

And it's a free registration. This is just so we can have a headcount. Then coming up in November, our friends at the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals are having their annual Quakertown Conference on Reform Theology.

And that's being held in, obviously, Quakertown, Pennsylvania. And that's being held specifically at the Grace Bible Fellowship Church in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The theme is For Still Our Ancient Foe, a reference to Satan from that classic Reformation hymn, A Mighty Fortress, by Martin Luther.

The speakers include Kent Hughes, Peter Jones, Tom Nettles, Dennis Cahill, and Scott Oliphant. That's November 17th through the 18th in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. If you'd like to register, go to alliancenet .org, alliancenet .org, click on events, and then click on Quakertown Conference on Reformed Theology.

And then coming up in January, from the 17th through the 18th, the G3 Conference returns to Atlanta, Georgia, the G3 standing for Grace, Gospel, and Glory. And the 17th is exclusively a Spanish-speaking edition of the conference, and the 18th through the 20th is an English-speaking edition of the conference.

And that includes Stephen Lawson, Votie Balcombe, Phil Johnson, Keith Getty, H .P. Charles Jr., Tim Challies, Josh Bice, James White, Tom Askell, Anthony Mathenia, Michael Kruger, David Miller, Paul Tripp, Todd Friel, Derek Thomas, Martha Peace, and Justin Peters.