<p>4:6<i>&nbsp;</i><i>Even as David pronounces blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness</i><i>&shy;</i>- The Greek idea is of &lsquo;beatification&rsquo;, making a man into a saint. This exalted language, the kind of thing the Rabbis did only for stellar examples of spirituality like Abraham and David, is actually the process which happens to every man who believes in Christ.&nbsp;<br /></p><p>I&rsquo;ve often asked myself&nbsp;<i>how&nbsp;</i>exactly the Mosaic Law led people to Christ. Was it not that they were convicted by it of guilt, and cried out for a Saviour? &ldquo;The law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that&hellip; grace might reign&hellip; unto eternal life by Jesus&rdquo; (Rom. 5:20,21). This was the purpose of the Law. And thus Paul quotes David&rsquo;s rejoicing in the righteousness imputed to him when he had sinned and had no works left to do- and changes the pronoun from &ldquo;he&rdquo; to &ldquo;they&rdquo; (Rom. 4:6-8). David&rsquo;s personal experience became typical of that of each of us. It was&nbsp;<i>through</i>&nbsp;the experience of that wretched and hopeless position that David and all believers come to know the true &lsquo;blessedness&rsquo; of imputed righteousness and sin forgiven by grace. &quot;Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven&quot; (Ps. 32:1), David wrote, after experiencing God's mercy in the matter of Bathsheba. But Paul sees this verse as David describing &quot;the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works&quot; (Rom. 4:6). Each of us are in need of a like justification; therefore we find ourselves in David's position. The Spirit changes Ps. 32:1 (&quot;Blessed is&nbsp;<i>he</i>&nbsp;whose transgression is forgiven&quot;) to &quot;Blessed are&nbsp;<i>they</i>&quot; (Rom. 4:7) to make the same point.</p><p><i>Apart from works, saying</i>- In that there was no defined sacrifice for David to offer to atone for the murder of Uriah and adultery. We stand speechless and defenceless before the judgment seat of God in the same way. Again we see Paul urging us to accept the depth of our sinfulness- the position of a man guilty of adultery and murder is that of each of us.</p>