Romans 4:6-8 | Women's Rightly Divided Bible Study

Romans 4:6-8

Father God, thank you so much for this time that we can spend reading and studying your word, specifically today in Romans chapter 4. In Jesus's name we pray, amen. 

Romans 4:6 says

6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Now Paul is using King David as an example (King David also has eternal life like Abraham and all believers do). This shows us that King David, who actually lived under the law covenant, also understood that the law doesn't save us, but that we need to trust in God to save us after we have recognized our sin nature and desperate need for a savior. 

The quote is from Psalm 32:1-2 which says, "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

2 Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile."

It's truly a spiritual blessing to have all of your sins -- past, present and future-- completely forgiven and to have Christ's imputed righteousness. Websters 1828 dictionary defines impute as "To charge; to attribute; to set to the account of;". By faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and in His death, burial and resurrection, we have imputed righteousness and God can give us eternal life. 

It also says in verse 8 that God will NOT impute the sin of a believer. This means that ALL of our sins have been completely forgiven. Most of Christendom teaches that once you are saved, it is only your PAST sins that are forgiven (or worse, they might teach that only your past confessed sins are forgiven- if all an unbeliever does is sin, then you would literally spend the rest of your life just trying to confess your whole past and you wouldn't be able to confess them all! Some even teach you must confess all sins that you were "consciously aware of," but that too would be impossible to do! We do need to recognize our sin nature, and understand that we cannot save ourselves, but trying to confess all of your sins to God is actually a work of the flesh. What we need to do is ACKNOWLEDGE our sin nature and that we cannot save ourselves, then we are to simply believe the gospel, how that Christ Jesus died for our sins, was buried and rose again for our justification). We need to put God's word above all of the gospel cliches that are out there in Christendom! Paul is teaching us that all of our sins are forgiven, our past sins and even our present and future sins! Not just that, but as we will learn further on, our very sin nature has been crucified with Christ and it is dead! We have a whole new nature in Christ Jesus and we will learn also how to reckon our old man to be dead (because sin is still in our flesh, but in God's eyes he only sees our new nature in Christ) and to walk in the Spirit instead. 

Let's look at these verses again, 

6 Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,

[King David, even while under the law covenant, understood that it was truly blessed to be COMPLETELY FORGIVEN and have God's imputed righteousness without attaining it through our own works.]

7 Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

[Again, it's a true spiritual blessing to have all of your sins forgiven and covered by God Himself; in fact, we could never do this ourselves!]

8 Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

[Paul tells us in Ephesians 1:3 that believers have ALL SPIRITUAL blessings in Christ Jesus. This first and foremost includes total forgiveness of sin and Christ's righteousness imputed to us. Without this, we would not have ANY spiritual blessings, or eternal life, at all!]

Homework: Consider reading more about Abraham in Genesis as well as about King David in 1 and 2 Samuel. Make this a side study.

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