JUSTIFICATION



Peace With God




     Suppose you were guilty of murder, a crime punishable by
death, and someone took your place in the gas chamber?  Now that the
penalty was paid, would you still be a murderer?? How about your
conscience?  What cannot be done, humanly speaking, God can do. 



      2Cor5:21  "For He made Him
who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become
the righteousness of God in Him."



     Jesus didn't just take our penalty but He
became sin, because of this we are able to receive the gift of
righteousness and the  requirements of the law are still met. When we
are justified, we are declared "not guilty", but more than that, we
are declared righteous, having now been justified by Christ's
blood. Rom5:9



     We can remember what justified means by the
phrase "Just if I'd never sinned"  I am going to look at a few terms
that relate to justification.



THE LAW 



 Rom3:19-20  "Now we know that
whatever the law says, it says



                 to those who are
under the law, that every mouth



                 may be stopped,
and all the world may become



                 guilty before
God.



                 Therefore by the
deeds of the law, no flesh will



                 be justified in
His sight, for by the law is the



                 knowledge of
sin."



God's law reads us and brings to light
   our sin, showing us we are guilty of transgressing God's law and,
   therefore, in need of a Savior.  The law will not show us how to
   be right before God, but will condemn us.



GRACE



 



    
Rom3:23-24  "for all have
sinned and fall short of the glory



                   of
God,



                   being justified
freely by His grace through the 



                   redemption that
is in Christ Jesus."



 



     We are justified as a gift by His unmerited
favor, for while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God. Rom5:10 
We didn't do anything to cause God to be merciful, but is was
according to His purpose, who works all things after the counsel of
His will. Eph1:1



 



FAITH



 



    
Rom3:28  "Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by




                    faith apart
from the deeds of the law."



Faith isn't something we find in ourselves
apart from God, but it is a gift of God. 




   Eph 2:8  "For by grace you
   have been 
   
   
saved through faith,
      and that not of yourselves; it is a gift of God."



Faith causes a response: 



Heb 11.1  "Now faith is
   the substance of
   
   
things hoped for, the
      evidence of things not seen." 

   
   
Rom 4:20-21 "He did not waver
   at the promise of God through unbelief, but was 

   
   
strengthened in faith,
      giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that 
      
      
what He had promised, He was
      also able to perform"



: and by faith we gain approval.Heb11



Rom 4:22  "And therefore
   it was accounted to him for righteousness."  
   
   
Rom. 10:17 "Faith comes from
   hearing, and hearing, by the word of God." 



So you must keep studying and going to a church
faithful to The Word.



For man does not live by bread alone, but by
every word which proceeds



out of the mouth of God.



 



RIGHTEOUSNESS



 



     Rom4:3
 "For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God,



                and it was
accounted to him for righteousness."



 



     We who believe are declared righteous as
viewed in Christ as if



we had kept Gods law perfectly.   



Rom5:21 "so that as sin
   reigned in death,
   
   
even so grace might
      reign through righteousness to eternal life through 
      
      
Jesus Christ our
      Lord."



     Before we were declared righteous, we were
dead in Adam and at God's 



appointed time we received the Gift of
righteousness.  



Rom5:17 "For if by
   the
   
   
one man's offense
      death reigned through the one, much more those who receive
      
      
      
abundance of grace and of
      the gift of righteousness will reign in life through

      
      
the One, Jesus
      Christ"



 



CONSCIENCE



 



     
Heb10:22-23   "Let us draw
near with a true heart in full assurance of



                       faith,
having our hearts sprinkled from an evil 



                       conscience
and our bodies washed with pure water.



                       Let us hold
fast the confession of our hope without



                       wavering,
for He who promised is faithful."



 



     Justification is our position in Christ which
is eternally secure. 



Sometimes we don't feel saved; maybe we think we
didn't serve enough or



behave properly befitting a Christian, or God
seems distant.  As we have seen



in this study the work is all Christ's and not
ours.  Justification does not 



depend on us!



      
Rom8:33-39    "Who shall bring
a charge against God's elect?  It is 



                        God who
justifies.



                        Who is he
who condemns? It is Christ who died, and 



                       
furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right



                        hand of
God, who also makes intercession for us.



                        Who shall
separate us from the love of Christ?  Shall



                       
tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, 



                        or
nakedness, or peril or sword?



                        As it is
written:



                                  
      "For your sake we are killed



                                  
         all day long;



                                  
       We are accounted as sheep



                                  
         for the slaughter.



                      
 Yet in all these things we
are more than conquerors



                        through
Him who loved us.



                        For I am
persuaded that neither death nor life, nor



                        angels nor
principalities nor powers, nor things to



                       
come,



                        nor height
nor depth, nor any other created thing, 



                        shall be
able to separate us from the love of God which is 



                        in Christ
Jesus our Lord."



 



 



Thank you for sharing with me and God Bless until the
next study!