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PerspectivesinRighteousnessby Faith
 
EdwardHeppenstall
 
DEDICATED To my family:Margit, my wife,Malcolm and Lois,Astrid and Joe,with my deepest wishalways to find Christand to let Him rule ourlives as Saviour andLord.
Copyright 1974 by Review and Herald PublishingAssociationWashington, DC 20012Library of CongressCatalog Card No. 73-91425Editor: Raymond H. Woolsey
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Heppenstall has devoted his life to the study of theScripture and to sharing with others what he has learned.Using pulpit, podium, and press, he has consistentlywitnessed to the centrality of Christ in all the Bible. Born inEngland, most of his ministry has been in the United Statesand in the classroom—as professor of theology at La SierraCollege, chairman of the department of systematic theologyin the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, and professor of theology at Loma Linda University.
CONTENTSForeword1.Man the Problem: Who is he?2.Saving Righteousness Revealed3.God "Acquits the Guilty"4."The Just Shall Live By Faith"5."Repentance Unto Life"6.Christ’s Gift is Life7.Christ Our Sanctification8.Led by the Spirit9.The Obedience of Faith10.One Faith, One MissionAdditional Reading 
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FOREWORD
I always intended to write a book on righteousness by faith. I have been acutelyconscious of the Seventh-day Adventist mission to bring the saving righteousnessof Christ to the world. This has been a great motivating power in my many yearsof teaching and public ministry. With every passing year I have committedmyself all the more to the understanding and teaching of this truth that holds thekey to God’s final message to the world. The conversions to Christ and thecommitment to the gospel commission that have resulted have provided me as ateacher with lasting satisfaction.I have written this book with a solemn feeling of responsibility for those whohave been in my classes. A number of my fellow teachers and former studentsover the years have frequently raised the question: What is it going to take tocarry the everlasting gospel of Revelation 14 to all the world in our generation? Icannot help believing that the answer centers in the saving righteousness of JesusChrist.I confess to a great sense of inadequacy, since each chapter requires a volume byitself to do justice to the subject. This book is not an exhaustive treatise on thesubject. There have been conspicuous other works on the same theme. But thevarious aspects raised in the respective chapters I consider are of realimportance. As for other aspects not dealt with, I can only request of my readersto believe that I do not write in ignorance of them. There is much more that could be written, for the truth of righteousness by faith is inexhaustible.I am certain that no subject has been more often proclaimed from desk and pulpit. We have all listened to numerous presentations on the subject. So there isthe possibility of thinking we are merely going over the same ground. But many professed Christians do not understand righteousness by faith in a practicalsense, especially the doctrine and experience of sanctification and the work of the Holy Spirit.It is hoped that this book may not lack a wide interest and appeal, that it mayhelp quicken the sense of the church’s mission. Of our need to be renewed andfilled with the Holy Spirit it would be superfluous to speak. For are not many of God’s people, and especially the young people, already becoming aware of theneed of a revival based on the whole truth of Christ our Righteousness? In astudy of this kind the pivot is Jesus Christ. Everything centers in Him, theSaviour and Lord who would possess all our hearts. We must never forget thatwe are to live by faith in the One who is "the author and the finisher of our faith."The theological and practical aspects of the subject blend with, or overlap, eachother. In dealing to some degree with the theological aspect, I am not insensibleto
 
the need to involve my readers in this truth. I would like to believe that in the
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