How God Can Save Sinners Justly
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How God Can
Save Sinners Justly
Romans 3:21–26
Context
1. Everyone is a sinner (3:10–18)
2. Nobody can earn righteousness (3:19–20)
Preview
1. “Righteousness of God”
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God gives righteousness (21, 22)
God is righteous (25–26)
2. Conclusion: God is a just justifier
3. Locations of salvation
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Courtroom: “justified” (24a)
Slave block: “redemption” (24b)
Temple: “propitiation” (25)
The Courthouse of God
• “Justified”: God’s legal announcement of innocence
• Grace: kindness to those who deserve the opposite
• Freely: without cost to you
The Slave Block of Sin
• “Redemption”: God purchased you and set you free
• At what cost? the life-blood of Jesus
The Temple of Heaven
• “Propitiation”: Jesus bore God’s wrath for you
• The debt is paid in full: Jesus’s divine nature
• It is received by faith alone
Conclusion: God is a Just Justifier
• God shows his own right-ness when looking back
(25b)
• God shows his own right-ness in the present (26)