Judgement or Justification
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· 97 viewsFor a person to be justified in the eyes of the Lord he must obtain the righteousness of God. God has always been and shall ever be without sin and requires that level of righteousness for justifcation. Obviously this is not something we can attain because we have in fact sinned and fallen short of God righteousness. So how can we as sinnful being every attain the righteousness of God and be justifed from our sinnful actions? This is the greatest question that we need answered in our lives, and we find the answer beginning in Romans 3.
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Introduction:
Road rage because people won’t follow the rules of the road.
When people break the law in a 2000 lb. vehicle they put themselves and others at risk of injury or even death.
We also get mad when people think they can just do whatever they want to the road.
The lines at Six Flags.
It is posted all over the park that if you cut in line you can be thrown out of the park.
I have seen people fight over someone cutting in line because they feel disrespected.
But they have a new thing now where you can be justified to cut in the line. It’s called the flash pass. If someone pays you can skip the entire line and no one can say a thing.
Body:
So far in the book of Romans Paul has expressed several things:
He is burdened for the people of Roman wanting them to be saved from their sin.
The power of salvation only come from the good news of Jesus Christ and is offered to everyone both the Jews and the Greeks.
Salvation is important because God is bringing his judgement and wrath all those that reject the truth of Jesus as their savior.
God has revealed himself to mankind through his creation and the conscience he has placed in every person.
Many have rejected this revelation of God and worship and serve themselves following their own desires and passions.
There is no escape for mankind from this wrath on their own because we are all guilty of the same sin.
As we get to , Paul begins to make a transition for judgement to justification.
It’s no big stretch for us to come to the conclusion that we are all hopelessly guilty in our sin. The question that drives all religion is what must I do to be saved from my sin.
How do sinful people that are hopelessly guilty in their sin ever become justified in the sight of a righteous and holy God?
How does God maintain his level of righteousness and still justify the likes of us?
5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
7 But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
Rom 3:
God’s righteousness is required for justification and He’s not lowering his standard for you.
God’s righteousness is required for justification and He’s not lowering his standard for you.
The magnitude of God’s righteousness is revealed through the abundance of our sin.
The magnitude of God’s righteousness is revealed through the abundance of our sin.
God requires His level of righteousness in order to justify sinner, and He’s not lowering his standard for you.
If our sin magnifies the and bring glory to the righteousness of God, then the more we sin the more he would be glorified.
So why not do evil that God goodness can be seen?
5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world?
This is that old saying, “I’m just a sinner saved by God’s grace.”
10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
We know from experience that a person that has been justified by God and lives like the devil does not bring honor and glory to God but demonstrates a lack of power to change the sinner.
7 But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. Their condemnation is just.
9 What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, 10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
Justification is not the goal of salvation. Justification from God is the doorway to a relationship with God. the goal of your salvation is to be a part of the family of God.
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Justification from sin doesn’t give you the right to continue in your sin but the freedom to walk away from it.
Justification from sin doesn’t give you the right to continue in your sin but the freedom to walk away from it.
Eph
19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
10 as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
God’s righteousness is acquired by faith and not the works of the law.
God’s righteousness is acquired by faith and not the works of the law.
Romans 3:
Faith is believing the facts about your situation and God’s salvation.
Faith is believing the facts about your situation and God’s salvation.
We are unrighteous in need of righteousness!
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:21
The righteousness of Jesus was sacrificed for your unrighteousness!
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 3:24
God now offers you the righteousness of Jesus as a free gifts if you will put your faith and trust in him.
10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.
God now offers you the righteousness of Jesus as a free gifts if you will put your faith and trust in him.
21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Romans 3:
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Gal 2:
God’s righteousness through Christ allows him to be your Justifier, Redeemer, and Savior.
God’s righteousness through Christ allows him to be your Justifier, Redeemer, and Savior.
The only work for our justification is done by Christ. We can’t take from it our add to it.
The only work for our justification is done by Christ. We can’t take from it our add to it.
27 Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Rom 3:
Justification with God is not in what you do but in whom you place your faith.
Justification with God is not in what you do but in whom you place your faith.
If you are trusting in your works to be justified you are trusting in yourself.
If you are trusting in the work of Christ to be justified you are trusting in God.
Emotional Next Steps:
Release the pressure of having to perform for God and put your faith in Him instead of yourself.
Release the pressure of having to perform for God and put your faith in Him instead of yourself.
Live in the joy of justification knowing that God has taken away all your sins through Jesus Christ.
Live in the joy of justification knowing that God has taken away all your sins through Jesus Christ.
Live your life by the law of faith. Let your faith in Christ be your guide for your actions of life.
Live your life by the law of faith. Let your faith in Christ be your guide for your actions of life.