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Of this doctrine Martin Luther writes: ‘This is the truth of the gospel.
It is also the principal article of all Christian doctrine, wherein the knowledge of all godliness consisteth.
Most necessary it is, therefore, that we should know this article well, teach it unto others, and beat it into their heads continually.’
If the doctrine of justification is central to the Christian religion, it is vital that we understand it.
Justification is a legal term that is the opposite of condemned.
To condemn is to declare on guilty.
To justify is to declare some on not guilty, or innocent.
If we could go backwards and understand two basic truths that we know, or should know.
God is righteous, we are not.
When we understand those two truths and apply it to ourselves we immediately run into a problem.
God is righteous and we are not means that we are at odds with God.
We are at war with God.
The Jews in the ancient times really thought they were justified because of the works they did.
They made those sacrifices, those bloody messy sacrifices.
They had the men circumcised, they only ate certain foods and because of those things they thought they were justified.
(Pronounced innocent)
It was really hard work to be in the family of God.
Sheer determination.
That work was difficult, costly, all encompassing which really shows how big of a deal it was that Jesus paid for it.
After Jesus came and died and rose again, he paid for our sin and those things the Jews did were no longer needed.
Man’s sin was taken care of.
That is why we don’t need to sacrifice animals anymore, that is why we don’t follow the Torah, because Jesus finished the law.
We still struggle with this today.
People want to do things to outweigh their bad things hoping that it will be enough.
It’s attractive because you get to feel good about yourself, and we like control.
And we get to win our salvation.
But it is a huge lie.
We may keep some of the law’s requirements outwardly, but no man except Jesus Christ has ever kept them all.
Indeed, if we look into our hearts, read our thoughts and examine our motives, we find that we have broken all God’s laws.
For Jesus said that murderous thoughts make us murderers, and adulterous thoughts make us adulterers.
No wonder the Scripture tells us: ‘by works of the law shall no one be justified’ (verse 16, alluding to Ps. 143:2).
The astonishing thing is that anybody has ever imagined he could get to God and to heaven that way
But we still struggle… even though we know.
Our old life is finished.
Do we really feel this way?
We don’t.
When we try harder we are effectively saying, “Christ’s death and resurrection were not enough.
When we depend on our own efforts and our own living then we are living like salvation from works.
If we could do it on our own then why did Jesus die?
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