Chapter 5. JUSTIFICATION
a.
General. The Bible teaches that sinners are justified
("just as if they had never sinned") in the sight of God only by the
righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to them. There is no other means
and no other condition to the justification of God's children.
b.
Proof Scriptures. The following are a part of the scriptures
that teach that God's children are justified and made to have a standing
before God as if they had never sinned by the sovereign actions of God
alone:
Romans 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners,
so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God
is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and
redemption:
Romans 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned
of grace, but of debt.
Romans 4:25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised
again for our justification.
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we
shall be saved from wrath through him.
Romans 8:30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called:
and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified,
them he also glorified.
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made
heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
c.
Chosen to Justification. It is those that are chosen by
God, though by nature sinners and deserving of God's wrath, that are justified
by God's grace:
i. All
of mankind are sinners my nature and deserve God's wrath
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world,
and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that
all have sinned:
Psalms 53:2-3 God looked down from heaven upon the children
of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did
seek God. Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether
become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
ii. It
is from among those that are dead in trespasses and sins that God
has chosen a people to be justified and saved by Jesus Christ
Ephesians 1:3-5 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in
him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy
and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us
unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will.
Ephesians 2:1-3 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in
trespasses and sins; ... and were by nature the children of
wrath, even as others.
d.
God Just. God is a just God, and does not overlook sin;
but rather justifies his children by making them just as if they had not
sinned by washing them in the shed blood of His Son, Jesus Christ. This
justification is the opposite of the condemnation which all mankind by
nature deserves.
i. Justification
is not by any action on the sinner's part, nor the keeping of any
law or meeting any condition, but rather is solely by the grace or
unmerited favor of God:
Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the
sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works,
lest any man should boast.
Titus 3:5-6 Not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration,
and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no
flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge
of sin.
ii.
Justification and eternal salvation are solely the gift of God and
solely by the work of God:
Romans 4:6-7 Even as David also describeth the blessedness
of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and
whose sins are covered.
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and
that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
e.
Means of Justification. The means by which God's children
are justified is the shed blood of Jesus Christ applied by the Holy Spirit
in the new birth:
Romans 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption
that is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 5:8-9 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the
flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to
feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
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