Salvation Series: Justifaction

Introduction

Were starting a new series on Salvation and we will be teaching important themes regarding salvation. The word Salvation is a simply concpet it literally means to be delivered from danger.

Today we will unpack the first important theme regarding salvation, who has heard the word Justifaction?

Transition

What is Justifaction

Why do we need Justifaction

How do recieve Justifaction

What is Justifaction

Justifaction simply means the acquittal, or declaration of being righteous, before God as judge.

Imagine your at a court case and your the person being charged with a crime and the judge after review of all the evidence, declares you innocent and righteous.

The Apostle Paul, Makes clear that Justifaction is only made available through the person and work of Jesus the Messiah.

Paul Makes Clear that the only way anyone person could stand beofre God and be delcared righteous is only by put there Faith & hope in Jesus dealth and resurrection. They will recieve justifaction.

Romans 1:17 (NIV)

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”

Romans 5:9 NIV

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

Romans 3:24 NIV

and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

Romans 5:1–2 NIV

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

Transition

Imagine a beautiful and fruitful tree and you were detached branch and a branch cant produce its own fruit and has no source for nutrient but when the branch get connected to the tree it becomes healthy and fruitful. In the same way jesus is the rightous and blameless man and when we put our faith in him God declares us righteous because were in christ its not our own rightoeus but his righteous that we have been unitfied with.

Why do we Need Justifaction

The reason we need Justifaction is because humanity is sinful.

Pauls describes Gods Anger towards humanity who suppress, practice and approve evil.

Romans 1:18–32 NIV

The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

He concludes everybody is Guilt and unrighteous before God without Christ righteousness give to them as a gift.

Romans 3:9–20 NIV

What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The poison of vipers is on their lips.” “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of our sin.

Transition

God send his son who was sinless and became a saciifical offering to take our unrightous and give us his righteous to be recieved by faith and be declared Justifed.

How do we receive Justifaction

Romans 3:21–26 NIV

But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished—he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Pual makes it Clear that the only way God could have declared us righteous or Justified was if christ woud be the sinless lamb who would be shed for the sin of humanity and whoever place there trust in him. They recieve Justifaction or be declared righteous becuase they arent relying on there own righteous but there relying on the gift of righteousness or justifaction.

Transition

Let go into a time of prayer

Application

If you havent accepted Jesus Christ as your righteous and justifaction for your sin i want to give you guys some time to pray towards the Lord.

We will pray together