Acceptance

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ACCEPTANCE denotes the being in favour with any one. In EV [Note: English Version.] the noun is found only in Isa_60:7, but ‘accept’ and ‘acceptable’ are used frequently both in OT and NT to express the acceptance of one man with another (Gen_32:20, Luk_4:24), but above all the acceptance of man with God. In OT the conditions of acceptance with God are sometimes ceremonial (Exo_28:38, Psa_20:3). But of themselves these are insufficient (Gen_4:5; Gen_4:7, Amo_5:22, Jer_6:20; Jer_14:10; Jer_14:12), and only moral uprightness (Pro_21:3, Job_42:8) and the sacrifices of a sincere heart (Psa_19:14; Psa_119:108; cf. Psa_40:6 ff., Psa_51:15 ff.) are recognized as truly acceptable with God. In NT the grounds of the Divine acceptance are never ceremonial, but always spiritual (Rom_12:1, Php_4:18, 1Pe_2:5). Jesus Christ is the type of perfect acceptance (Mar_1:11 ||, Heb_10:5 ff.). In Him as ‘the Beloved,’ and through Him as the Mediator, men secure their religious standing and fundamental acceptance with God (Eph_1:6). In serving Him (Rom_14:18), and following His example (1Pe_2:20-21), they become morally acceptable in the Father’s sight.
J. C. Lambert.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

ak-sep?tans: A rendering of the Hebrew רצון, recōn, ?delight,? found only in Isa_60:7. It pictures God's delight in His redeemed people in the Messianic era, when their gifts, in joyful and profuse abundance, ?shall come up with acceptance on mine altar.? With ?accepted? and other kindred words it implies redeeming grace as the basis of Divine favor. It is the ?living, holy sacrifice? that is ?acceptable to God? (Rom_12:1; compare Tit_3:4-6).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Acceptance
1. a term which imports the admission of man into the favor of God. As things are best understood by contrast with their opposites, so acceptance is to be understood from its opposite, rejection, the sense of which will be found by reference to Jer_6:30; Jer_7:29. To understand aright the Scriptural idea of acceptance with God, we must keep in mind the fact that sin is highly displeasing to God, and is attended by the hiding of his face or the withholding of his favor. Sin causes God to refuse to hold friendly intercourse with man; but the mediation of the Son of God restores this intercourse. Sinners are said to be “accepted in the Beloved” (Eph_1:6); that is, in Christ. They are no longer held in a state of rejection, but are received with approbation and kindness. It is to be noticed that it is an idea of a positive kind which the word acceptance contains. As the rejection which sin occasioned was express, equally express and positive is the acceptance of which Christ is the author. One who had disgraced himself before his sovereign would be particularly refused any share in the favors of the court. When this breach was repaired, the excluded party would again be favorably received (Eden). SEE ACCEPT.
2. Acceptance (Eph_1:6); in theology, is nearly synonymous with justification. We mistake the terms of acceptance with God when we trust in, 1, the superiority of our virtues to our vices (Rom_3:20; Jam_2:10); 2, in a faith in Christ which does not produce good works (Jam_2:14); 3, in the atonement, without personal repentance from sin (Luk_13:5); 4, in the hope of future repentance, or conversion on a dying bed (Pro_4:1-27; Pro_24:1-34; Pro_25:1-28; Pro_26:1-28; Pro_27:1-27; Pro_28:1-28; Pro_29:1-27; Pro_30:1-33; Pro_31:1-31). SEE ADOPTION; SEE JUSTIFICATION.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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