Justification

The Road:

Let’s figure out how we get to the point of justification

Creation > Sin > Salvation > Justification

Genesis 1:31 ESV

31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

God sat back on the last day of work, and saw that all he had made was “Good”.

Genesis 3: Sin enters the World.

The definition of sin is any thought, deed, or word that does not being glory to God.

Romans 6:23 (ESV)

23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Every single time we sin, there is a payment due to bring us back into right standing with God

In the Old Testament, this took some work:

If you sinned unintentionally, you were to offer a burnt offering. Which symbolized total devotion to God.

If it was a greater sin, you had to perform a sin offering, which depending on your mean, would be the best animal that you had, laid on an alter, and killed.

But enter in Jesus:

John 3:16 ESV

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 8:30 ESV

30 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

But the best part of Jesus sacrifice, is that His righteousness and holiness was credited to our account because our sin is too great a price for us to pay ourselves.

Response

2 Peter 3:9 ESV

9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 John 1:9 ESV

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.