SPECIMENS OF SKETCHES ON ROM. 4:4-8 - Robert Murray Mcchene

“Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justified the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also described the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputed righteousness without works, saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”

I. The way in which the natural man seeks salvation. — “Worketh,” ver. 4. Wishes it to be of desert.
II. The better way. —The old way. David’s, Abel’s. “Worketh not.”
III. The blessedness. —David speaks of this. At a later period, he took the same text, dividing it thus: —. The working plan II The believing plan.