A discussion on Phlippians, Chapter 3, Verse 9.

1. PHILIPPIANS
CHAPTER 3
Verse 9
February 12, 2012
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
Announcements!
Young Professionals ages 20-39 Next Generation Leader Lunch:
 Thursday, February 16
 11:45 am-1:00 pm
 CLC Auditorium
 Tickets be may purchased today at the kiosk on the 2nd floor for $10.00/person
or call Patricia Jenkins at 949-1941 or register online at: www.fbcj.org.
 The guest speaker is Martin Willoughby Business Consultant for Butler Snow.
 His topic will be How to Accelerate Your Life.
Hawgs and Horns:
 Friday, February 17
 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
 Fellowship Hall East
 Special Guest: Ralph Vaughn of Barrett Firearms
 Food, Door Prizes, Exhibits
 $10 Adults
 $5 Kids
 Register at www.fbcj.org
WHOLE PERSON CARE CONFERENCE:
 FEBRUARY 24-25
 METS Medical Evangelism Training Seminar
 BROADMOOR BAPTIST
 FEBRUARY 24-25
 Friday 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
 Saturday 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.
 www.GoMETS.org

2. SHINE 2012:
 Saturday, February 25
 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
 WHERE:
Mission First and surrounding homes.
 PROJECTS:
demolition, construction, cleaning, painting, cooking, landscaping.
 WHO:
projects for all ages
 LUNCH:
cookout afterward
 Register at www.fbcj.org or call the Community Missions Office at
(601) 949-1932
BREATH OF LIFE:
 A SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS FOR THOSE WITH A CHRONIC COUGH.
 TIME:
APRIL 15th
8:00 AM
 PLACE:
ROOM E-423
Thank You for Serving:
 A banquet to honor waiters and waitresses.
 PLACE:
The South,
627 East Silas Brown,
Jackson, MS 39201
 When:
Monday
April 23rd
6:00-8:00 pm
Sunday School Lesson!
Today we will again be studying the righteousness of Christ which comes to us on the
basis of faith from: Philippians 3:9
 Imputed righteousness
 Imparted righteousness
Philippians 3:9b
“not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is
through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith”
Philippians 3:9b

3. Hebrews 11:8-10
8 “By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he
was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing where he was
going.
9 By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in
tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; (Hotel Earth)
10 for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder
is God.” Hebrews 11:8-10
 A little faith (even the size of a mustard seed) will take your soul to Heaven.
 Great faith will bring Heaven to your soul!
 Allowing Him to live in you.
Faith involves more than mere intellectual assent to the truth of the Gospel; saving
faith includes trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and surrender to His lordship.
The old T & O:
Trust and Obey (sing)
 It is on the basis of faith alone that righteousness comes from God to repentant
sinners.
Matthew 11:28-29
28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.” Matthew 11:28-29
 Give rest = justification
 Find rest = sanctification
RIGHTEOUSNESS:
 Impute – justification (give rest)
 Impart – sanctification (find rest)
Romans 8:29
we are being “conformed to the image of His Son”
(an ongoing process occurring in the present)
Genesis 15:5-6
5 “ God took Abram outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the
stars, if you are able to count them.” And God said To him, “So shall you descendants
be.”
6 Then Abram believed in the LORD; and He reckoned it to him as righteousness.”
Genesis 15:5-6
 Righteousness is right standing with God and acceptance by Him.
 reckoned it to him…

4.  credited it to his account…
 imputed the righteousness of Christ to Abram…
 Not only did God impute the righteousness of Christ on us,
 He also imputed our sins on Christ.
Paul declared that God "made Him Who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that
we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 2 Corinthians 5:21
1 Peter 2:24
24 “ He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and
live for righteousness”
 That repentant sinners have their sin imputed to Christ and His righteousness
imputed to them is the heart of the Gospel.
This righteousness of Christ and its relationship to the recipient can be likened to legal
adoption and to legal marriage.
Adoption legally constitutes a child to be the son or daughter of a person that is not
that child's birth parent.
Similarly, in marriage the married partners are considered one entity legally.
When a sinner believes in Christ, he or she is spiritually united with Christ, and that
union makes it possible for God to credit believers with the righteousness of Christ.
The imputation of Christ's righteousness is not an alternative to union with Christ, but
the result of it.
 The word “impute” means “to pass to one’s account”.
 It means that Jesus places His righteousness upon our record when we trust
upon Him for salvation.
Romans 4:1-3
1 “What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has
found?
2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not
before God.
3 For what does the Scripture say? “ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED
TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
 What a beautiful truth!
 Abraham was not saved by good works; but rather, he believed God (faith)
and was saved by Christ’s righteousness.

5.  Christ’s perfection was imputed (placed) on Abraham’s record in Heaven.
 God the Father viewed Abraham thereafter as having the righteousness of
Christ.
 Hallelujah what a Savior!
Romans 4:4-12
4 “Now to the one who works, his wage is not credited as a favor, but as what is due.
5 But to the one who does not work, but believes in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his
faith is credited as righteousness,
6 just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits
righteousness apart from works:
7 “BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND
WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED.
8 “BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.”
9 Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we
say, “FAITH WAS CREDITED TO ABRAHAM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.”
10 How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised?
Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised;
11 and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith
which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe
without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them,
12 and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but
who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while
uncircumcised.” Rom 4:1-12
Romans 4:22-25
22 “Therefore IT WAS ALSO CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
23 Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,
24 but for our sake also, to whom it will be credited, as those who believe in Him Who
raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,
25 He Who was delivered over because of our transgressions, and was raised
because of our justification.” Romans 4:22-25
 So imputed righteousness has to do with our justification.
Commentary Consulted:
 David J. Stewart The Imputed Righteousness of Jesus Christ
 Jesus paid the price for mankind's sins.
 You see, Abraham could not please God in his own self-righteousness, nor can
we.
 No matter how much good we may do here on earth, our sins are still recorded
in Heaven.
 Our sins must be dealt with.
This is why Jesus came to earth to pay the price for our sins with His own precious
blood.

6. 1 Peter 1:18-19
18 “knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold
from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers,
19 but with precious blood, as of a Lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of
Christ.” 1 Peter 1:18-19
Hebrews 9:22
22 “without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.”
 All mankind is corrupt and destitute of God.
 Even in our sincerest efforts (Saul), humanity is tarnished with the curse of sin
and rebellion.
 We need HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ.
 We are saved by Jesus' righteousness through faith.
James 2:23
“And the Scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was
IMPUTED unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God”.
 Don’t you like to be called the friend of God?
 It is not our obedience that makes us righteous, but the obedience of Christ.
 His righteousness and His obedience makes it possible for us to be God’s friend.
 A mysterious transaction takes place the moment we believe.
 The impeccable law-keeping and merit of Christ is transferred to us as if it were
our own.
 And so we hear of being sinful in state but righteous in standing.
 We are the unrighteous in condition but the righteous in position.
Ephesians 2:6
6 “God raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ
Jesus”(our position)
There is a difference between the righteousness that we have by justification (given
rest) and the righteousness that we have by sanctification (find rest).
We can distinguish between the righteousness of the start and the righteousness of
the end, between the ‘righteousness of faith' and the ‘righteousness of life.'
 Justification(spirit) – past
 Sanctification(soul)–present
(soul = mind, will, emotions)
 Glorification(body) - future
Philippians 1:6
6 “For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will
perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.”

7. There are three great imputations in the Bible:
1) Of guilt – Adam’s sin to those Adam represented.
2) Of sin – our sin to Christ Who represented His people.
3) Of righteousness – Christ’s righteousness to all He represented.
 That would be us!
IMPART
1) To give, convey, or grant
2) To communicate the knowledge of: to disclose
3) To bestow, to transmit
4) To cause a transformation
PARTICIPATE
1) To take part or to have a part; to partake
2) To possess some of the attributes of a person, thing, or quality
impart
partake
participate
 Imputed righteousness – you have no participation in the event.
 Imparted righteousness – you do participate in the process.
Romans 1:11
11 “for I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may
be established”